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Retweeted by Occupy Boston 4 mins ago: "Heads up!! RT @zackyoungren Very large police meeting going on inside south station. @Occupy_Boston" ~RL http://twitpic.com/6ymyia
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If we are all arrested tonight, it will be the biggest mass arrest in Massachusetts since a huge 1968 Vietnam protest. #occupyboston
3 hours ago
Matthew Filipowicz
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Police surround entire park at #occupyboston. More cops just keep coming. twitpic.com/6yn9pb
5 minutes ago
Anonymous
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Hey everyone in Boston, pictures and video, take and know your rights... #OccupyBoston
6 minutes ago
Anonymous
YourAnonNews Anonymous
19 white vans and riot police walking in formation to kettle the park from all sides #occupyboston cc @AyeshaKazmi
6 minutes ago
Occupy Boston
Occupy_Boston Occupy Boston
Veterans For Peace beat down to the ground, flags falling all over, people being dragged away. #occupyboston
7 minutes ago
Nadeem Mazen
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10 paddy wagons and 10 paddy vans, 25 cops in front of 530 atlantic, 75 at purchase and pearl. Riot gear and plastic cuffs. #occupyboston
15 minutes ago
Matthew Filipowicz
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Police have surrounded the park at #occupyboston twitpic.com/6yn5xm
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Occupy Boston
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Atlanta won, they stood their ground and won. Stand strong. #occupyboston
18 minutes ago
Dig Boston
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"We have a permit, it's called the constitution." #occupyboston
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Well this is in Contrast to LA where the LAPD dropped off supplies to Occupy LA today!

Occupy Los Angeles
Heard some of the LAPD dropped off 3 crates of supplies: hygienic products, snacks, sunscreen,etc. for Occupiers! -M.K.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/10/ne... /

As if this has never happened before in New York City, a man allegedly defecated on a cop car. What makes this specific incident different from any other day in Manhattan is that there also happens to be a pretty big protest going on. The target of the protest? Wall Street.




Whether or not the defecating man is actually a protester is up for discussion. It’s possible. It’s also possible that he’s one of New York’s 40,000 homeless people. The third possibility is that the man was a right-wing media plant. What would make me think that? Well, first off, the picture was taken by professional photographer, Stephen Jeremiah. Behind the story, are known right-wing fabricator, Andrew Breitbart and the right-wing British rag, The Daily Mail. What are the odds that a photographer-for-hire would happen to be in the right place at the right time for an “incriminating” picture? Your guess is as good as mine.


They also have some pictures of trash (again, not an unusual sight for NYC). Perhaps it is difficult to pick up after the thousands of protesters, but a writer for Gawker and one for the New York Times saw things differently.

So, yeah, people are gross sometimes, and local businesses are justifiably pissed—AHEM—that protesters are clogging their toilets without buying anything. But when I was there last week, the park was cleaner than the majority of New York’s public spaces, with about 1/2 fewer obvious drug users. Volunteers constantly sweep and remove trash, and they’re reportedly boosting the number of sanitation workers to a full-time staff of 50. New York Times reporter Brian Stelter was down there yesterday and tweeted ”It is remarkably clean here.”

This ‘poop’ story is not the first of the mainstream media *um* smear jobs. The media really doesn’t like the protesters. They call them dirty. they call them rich kids. They call them lazy. They call them hippies. Think Progress put together a montage:Why does the mainstream media have such a problem with the protesters? A quick look at their ownership will tell you why. The mainstream media is owned by just six major, multinational corporations. Between their ownership and their advertisers, the mainstream media is Wall Street and vice versa.

They are afraid. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), had this to say:

“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets. I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets, and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”

The protests are going national and are gaining attention, even from the Democratic leadership

Occupy Los Angeles https://www.facebook.com/occupyLA
Heard some of the LAPD dropped off 3 crates of supplies: hygienic products, snacks, sunscreen,etc. for Occupiers! -M.K.
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Chris Rosario wow............we dont get that from NYPD at Occupy Wall St......
23 minutes ago · Like · 1 person
Dawn Wirth i noticed when I was in the area - my cell phone was dropping a lot of calls and Homeland Security was everywhere.
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Sebastian Zelepin fantastico!!!
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Danny Sosa thats cool but odd
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Laura Bgp That's fucking awesome.

LAPD is supporting the occupation.

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Ser He O I took a community course the LAPD offers (for free) and I can tell you first hand, they are actually very community involved and oriented.
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Chrissie Clark rad!
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Tobias Deml whoa, so cool! So nice of them!
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Murrderface Matt Sounds fishy to me..
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Murrderface Matt I wouldn't eat the snacks...
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Jerry Wizman Sounds to good to be true ) is it tainted? Lol...
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Tory Davis Hey, they're in the 99% too.
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Henrik Andersson They belong to us so why shouldnt they...
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Joey Otero fuck cops..they can kep there snacks and sunscreen
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David Squires Most angelenos know LAPD can be awesome when it really matters and we would be screwed without em.

Its just a few bad apples that really screw up their image.
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Pete Kalmus I've been talking to the cops... they've all been awesome.
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Obsolete Existence lol
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David Squires Remember the mayor and city council handed out rain coats
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Matthew Kenneth Sears That's the kind of protection we need. Sorry Joey, but I prefer to have cops around when there are murderers and rapists and THIEVES around...
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Aamu Tähden congrats OLA!
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Brandon Michael Maguire a kind act or subversive tactical move?
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Frisco Aldana Please continue to show respect and appreciation for our Los Angeles Police Officers; they must have loved ones who are unemployed or loosing their incomes, benefits and pensions just like the rest of us...
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Matthew Kenneth Sears There job is to protect and serve the public and our majority interests, and while some may not seem to, the majority do and they deserve our respect. The bottom line is that they put their lives on the line everyday to keep us safe.
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Matthew Kenneth Sears Their*
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Johnathen David Duran Way too much excitement over this. You realize they drop supplies all over the middle east to bolster support for the US presence. A war for hearts and minds. etc. etc. This is not support, this is not love or appreciation. This is strictly propaganda of the highest oerder. Don't fall for it.
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George Gonzalez Good to hear!
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Smart Kandy Of cours tgey did idiots! There not Only getting paid Double time .. Its all govt backed ShILL for martial law! So go
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Smart Kandy Tye fuck HOME an do somethong productove like PULL your $ from
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Tu Da He ‎"do ya'll know the racist violence history of the LAPD!?"
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Smart Kandy The system! Before they take it all anyeaus
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Leslie Burrows Geez can't people be glad they are getting support. I don't see anyone else giving them supplies. This is great news.
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John Archuleta Woo Hoo LAPD!
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Sue Basko This is so nice! That's so generous and kind of them.
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Juan Cho Say what bitch?! SAY WHAT!? OMG that, is something that's hard for me to believe.
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Max Hoiland At some point we've got to bite off the hand that feeds us so that we can learn to feed ourselves.
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Shaudi Pishvaie Love it!!
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Nikki Cross the LAPD i've come into contact with at City Hall have been friendly, and even heard some chatting with occupiers as fellow Americans. I think we're lucky to not be arrested and beaten as in NYC. Hopefully this good-will continues
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Julio Marquez The cops are on our side that's why they terrorize us in our neighborhoods and profile us walking down the street while upholding the state and capitalism all together. Yup how mighty kind of them

http://www.dickshovel.com/colum.html



Why Autonomous AIM Opposes Columbus Day
and Columbus Day Parades ©
by Glenn Morris and Russell Means

See also, Transform Columbus Day

When Taino Indians saved Christopher Columbus from certain death on the fateful morning of Oct. 12, 1492, a glorious opportunity presented itself. The cultures Europe of and the Americas could have merged and the beauty of both races could have flourished.

Unfortunately, what occurred was neither beautiful nor heroic. Just as Columbus could not, and did not, "discover" a hemisphere that was already inhabited by nearly 100 million people, his arrival cannot, and will not, be recognized as a heroic and celebratory event by indigenous peoples.

Unlike the Western tradition, which presumes some absolute concept of objective truth, and consequently, one "factual" depiction of history, the indigenous view recognizes that there exist many truths in the world and many legitimate recollections of any given historical event, depending on one's perspective and experiences.

From an indigenous vantage point, Columbus' arrival was a disaster from the beginning. Although his own diaries indicated that he was greeted by the Taino Indians with the most generous hospitality he had ever known, he immediately began the enslavement and slaughter of the Indian peoples of the Caribbean islands. As the eminent Columbus biographer Samuel Eliot Morison admits in his book, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Columbus was personally responsible for enslavement and murder of indigenous peoples. He was personally responsible for the design and operation of the encomienda system that tied Indians as slaves to the lands stolen from them by the European invaders.

As detailed in the American Heritage Magazine (October,1976), Columbus personally oversaw the genocide of the Taino Indian nation of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Consequently, this murderer, despite his historical notoriety, deserves no recognition or accolades as a hero; he deserves no respect as a visionary; and he is not worthy of a state or national holiday in his honor.

Defenders of Columbus and his holiday argue that indigenous peoples unfairly judge Columbus, a 15th century actor, by the moral and legal standards of the late 20th century. Such a defense implies that no moral or legal constraints applied to individuals such as Columbus, or countries, in 1492. As Roger Williams details in his book, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought, not only were there European moral and legal principles in 1492, but they largely favored the rights of indigenous peoples to be free from unjustified invasion and pillage by Europeans.

Unfortunately, the issue of Columbus and Columbus Day is not easily resolvable with a disposition of Columbus, the man. Columbus Day as a national, and international, phenomenon reflects a much larger dynamic that promotes myriad myths and historical lies that have been used through the ages to dehumanize Indians, justifying the theft of our lands, the attempted destruction of our nations, and the genocide against our people. Since the 15th Century, the myth of Columbus' discovery has been used in the development of laws and policies that reek of Orwell's doublespeak: theft equals the righteous spread of civilization, genocide is God's deliverance of the wilderness from the savages, and the destruction of Indian societies implies the superiority of European values and institutions over indigenous ones.

Columbus Day is a perpetuation of racist assumptions that the Western Hemisphere was a wasteland cluttered with savages awaiting the blessings of Western "civilization." Throughout the hemisphere, educational systems perpetuate these myths - suggesting that indigenous peoples have contributed nothing to the world, and, consequently, should be grateful for their colonization and their microwave ovens.

As Alfred Crosby, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Jack Weatherford have illustrated in their books, not only was the Western Hemisphere a virtual ecological and health paradise prior to 1492, but the Indians of the Americas have been responsible for such revolutionary global contributions as the model for U.S. constitutional government, agricultural advances that currently provide 60 percent of the world's daily diet, and hundreds of medical and medicinal techniques still in use today.

If you find it difficult to believe that Indians had developed highly complex and sophisticated societies, then you have been victimized by an educational and social system that has given you a retarded, distorted view of history. The operation of this view has also enabled every country in this hemisphere, including the U.S., to continue its destruction of Indian peoples. From the jungles of Brazil to the highlands of Guatemala, from the Chaco of Paraguay to the Supreme Court of the United States, Indian people remain in a perpetual state of danger from the systems that Christopher Columbus began in 1492.

Throughout the Americas, Indian people remain at the bottom of every socioeconomic indicator, we are under continuing physical attack, and are afforded the least access to economic, political, or legal redress. Despite these constant and unbridled assaults, we have resisted, we have survived, and we refuse to surrender any more of our homeland or to disappear into the romantic sunset.

To dignify Columbus and his legacy with parades, holidays and other celebrations is intolerable to us. As the original peoples of this land, we cannot, and will not, countenance social and political festivities that celebrate our genocide. We are embarking on a two- pronged campaign in the quincentenary year to confront the continuing racism against Indian people.

First, we are advocating that the divisive Columbus Day holiday should be replaced by a celebration that is much more inclusive and more accurately reflective of the cultural and racial richness of the Americas. Such a holiday will provide respect and acknowledgement to every group and individual of the importance and value of their heritage, and will allow a more honest and accurate portrayal of the evolution of the hemisphere. It will also provide an opportunity for greater understanding and respect as our societies move ahead into the next 500 years. Opponents to this suggestion react as though this proposal is an attack on ancient time-honored holiday, but Columbus Day has been a national holiday only since 1971 - and in 1991, hopefully, we can correct the errors of the past, moving forward in an atmosphere of mutual respect and inclusiveness.

Second, and related to the first, is the advancement of an active militant campaign to demand that federal, state, and local authorities begin the removal of anti-Indian icons throughout the country. Beginning with Columbus, we are insisting on the removal of statues, street names, public parks, and any other public object that seeks to celebrate or honor devastators of Indian peoples. We will take an active role of opposition to public displays, parades, and celebrations that champion Indian haters. We encourage others, in every community in the land, to educate themselves and to take responsibility for the removal of anti-Indian vestiges among them.

For people of goodwill, there is no better time for the re-examination of the past, and a rectification of the historical record for future generations, than the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival. There is no better place for this re-examination to begin than in Colorado, the birthplace of the Columbus Day holiday.

Russell Means and Glenn Morris wrote this position statement
in 1991 on behalf of the American Indian Movement of Colorado,
1574 South Pennsylvania St., Denver, CO



For a modern day look at how Columbus acted towards the Natives see EVEN THE RAIN a movie
http://www.eventherainmovie.com /
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/even_the_r... /



TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of the members of a film crew headed by director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis Tosar) who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of Latin America. Set in February and March of 2000 when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in what Variety calls "a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America's dispossessed." Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as a local who is cast as a 15th century native in the film, but when the make-up and loin cloth come off, he sails into action protesting his community's deprivation of water at the hands of the government. Meanwhile, Gael Garcia Bernal's Idealist film director is as relentless as Werner Herzog infamously was in making FITZCARALDO, pushing ahead against all odds, ignoring the prevailing danger about to disrupt at any moment. Despite the devastation emerging around him, Sebastian seems unable to engage with any emotion over than a dogmatic desire to get his film done. And of course, the film also recalls themes in Herzog's AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and the film-within-a-film scenes are as brutal as any in APOCALYPTO

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/...

It says to leave a comment but I did not see a comment button I suppose you would have to log in to do that and I could not find the comments.

This is strange despite not being scientific it has about the same spread of votes as did the numbers of people that liked Shrub 33% disagree with the OWS Movement and 63%support the movement!