#occupyOakland is nasty and getting worse:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry)
10/25/11 8:22 AM
oh god “@heratylaw: @MHarrisPerry Ah, ok. The ppl watching the livestreams are describing a lot of violence. #occupyoakland”

Tracey ! (@LaydeeTraceY)
10/25/11 8:18 AM
@MHarrisPerry there's a live feed livestream.com/globalrevoluti…

[LWolf]

1. What kind of violence? On whose part? nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. The police are using rubber bullets and such.

Somebody posted that they are using flash bang grenades. Those are some serious shite. Unless the protestors were violent, this is waaaaaay over the top.
I think they are using these protestors as guinea pigs to try their 'toys' and methods on.
Gotta practice.....

[EFerrari]

6. I've only seen one poster reporting rubber bullets and flash bang

grenades and no images. I hope that is just panic and not real. :(

Did see an image of tear gas from someone I follow:

http://twitter.com/#!/alyssa011968/status/128801261721108480/photo/1

[LWolf]

22. I'm concerned with them holding observers and reporters

at a distance. There needs to be some documentation about how this went down.

The U.S. using violence to disturb a peacefully assembled crowd needs to be transparent.

[EFerrari]

4. Police have used tear gas and sound weapon.

Still trying to get info from people there.

[LWolf]

23. I hope they can get some out. nt

[eShirl]

2. following the chat at globalrevolution's livestream... sonic weapon being used

LRAD, they're saying it can cause hearing loss, brain damage if used too close

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. I'll bet they have had little training and

have no idea what they are doing. Even if they do know, they probably don't care. That is a serious weapon!
This is just WRONG!!!!!

[EFerrari]

9. The Oakland PD have a terrible rep and earned, afaik. nt

[mod mom]

10. thanks. The issue is out the front door as someone exits/enters.

[Matariki]

29. ASSHOLES

bringing out the 'crowd control' weapons. F#*kers. :grr:

I hope this brings out thousands and thousands more people.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. I hope people are not being hurt

The City will really get smacked down hard with lawsuits if so.. This is never a good thing..

[Robb]

8. SJMN link, FWIW:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19188125

[fasttense]

11. The neofascists have issued their orders.

Weapons will be used and beatings will now begin because the idle rich and corporate aristocracy are afraid of the people they have been abusing daily. The protesters have done nothing and yet the show of force from our supposedly democratic country is so overblown. Where was the force and weapons when the teabaggers marched, beat up people, spit on congressmen and brought weapons to presidential rallies?

Yet these nonviolent peaceful protesters are attacked as a major threat.

Stay strong occupiers, you/we are the 99%. There are more of us than there are of them.

[coalition_unwilling]

12. I live in Los Angeles. Just woke up and on 1st cup of joe this a.m.

Already thinking of driving up to Bay Area to resist. May check in with my colleagues at Occupy Los Angeles to see if there's any way to organize a group effort to reinforce Oakland.

[EFerrari]

15. One of my twitter friends is on the way to jail.

It feels really bad to just be reading about it. :(

[coalition_unwilling]

16. Please tell him or her that Occupy Los Angeles stands in solidarity - n/t

[EFerrari]

18. alyssa011968 posts about Haiti. The last tweet of hers I saw

said she was on her way to jail.

[coalition_unwilling]

19. I don't know how to Twitter yet. Sigh! I guess I'm going to have to

learn or teach myself in order to keep up. :)

[EFerrari]

24. It's very simple and intuitive, nothing like facebook.

It requires no upkeep at all, nothing to delete like a mailbox.

You just set up your account and choose whose tweets you'd like to get in your stream. You can adjust that easily at any time to add or subtract choices.

Once you're there, it's a matter of reading as much or as little as you like, of passing alone tweets you think others might like and replying to people with your own tweets when you want to. Very low stress. :)

[coalition_unwilling]

32. I think I had signed up at one point and then never followed through, so

I'll give it a look-see again later today or tomorrow.

Thanks for the advice and info - much appreciated.

[EFerrari]

27. Turns out, she has MS and got shoved by one cop

because she didn't understand directions and couldn't move fast enough. Also, when she tried to alert re her condition and meds in her bag, they said "too bad" and ignored her.

[coalition_unwilling]

31. Hope she got badge numbers and knows the name of a good

civil rights' attorney, so she can sue their asses off.

[lunatica]

13. They have police from all over the East Bay

Hayward, Vacaville, Fremont, Union City, Emeryville, San Leandro, all special forces police with what looks like riot vehicles.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[EFerrari]

14. To handle 200 people?

What a waste of resources. If anything, this overkill is just going to muster people out to the camp.

[occupyeverywhere]

21. Isn't the East Bay largely conservative

except for Berkeley?

[EFerrari]

25. Berkeley and Oakland. nt

[mmonk]

17. Bring in #occupyMarines.

That will bring an end to that sh*t.

[coalition_unwilling]

20. Hah! I was going to suggest it is way past time that OWS start

trying to infiltrate and occupy the various police forces arrayed against us. Half the people working for those security services secretly sympathize with the movement already. They can be turned against the other half.

[robdogbucky]

26. I predict this violence will only spawn more Occupations

Police arrest defiant ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters

Posted: 5:50 am PDT October 25, 2011Updated: 6:04 am PDT October 25, 2011

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Under the cover of darkness early Tuesday, riot-geared Oakland police began arresting and clearing out ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters who had defied an order to abandon a makeshift encampment set up at city hall.
Sources told KTVU that '30-40' protesters had been arrested...

..."I'm committed to protecting our First Amendment rights and not let us be pushed around," Reyko Kikage, 31, who described himself as a member of the camp's security committee, said over the weekend...

..."What we're trying to do is nip this problem in the bud," said Sgt. Jason Dwyer. "If they keep setting up shop, we're going to keep taking them to jail."

Arrests have also been made in Sacramento and San Francisco.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/29579021/detail.html




Was ginned up with help from compliant fascist owned media organizations for a raid at 4:30AM so no one would notice. Smear pieces, then media blackout, then attack/suppression.

Welcome back to the Police State.

So much for freedom of speech and assembly, example set by our fierce advocates in D.C. ala SOS and McGovern's arrest last year.



Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!


rdb

[JuniperLea]

28. I believe you are correct...

They are really bad at math... 99% is greater than...

[DFab420]

30. Oakland Mayor's email address is disabled??

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/index.htm

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/

??