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Fire Walk With Me's JournalJuly 2012: Cuts to Mental Health Services Could Lead to More Spree Killings
July 2012: Cuts to Mental Health Services Could Lead to More Spree Killings
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/news/2012/07/31/11871/cuts-to-mental-health-services-could-lead-to-more-spree-killings/ …
"In 2010, Governor Schwarzenegger announced a 60% cut in funding for community mental health programs..."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298229/ …
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It has been proven over the years that preventative services (food, shelter, housing, medical) for the homeless and mentally ill reduces overall costs to the city so doing, including in the form of crime control. Project 50 is such an example in Los Angeles, where the most hardcore homeless were taken from Skid Row and placed into long-term housing. A big success. When general services are denied those who badly need them, it is logical that problems will increase. I worry about republicans and the lobbyists behind them purposely socially engineering problems through kicking around the weak and using the resulting issues as a basis of pushing the policies and development they'd wanted all along (private, for-profit prisons, drug war, militarized police, drones in our skies, it goes on and on...)
OCCUPY HARTFORD: We are asking the Occupy community to help us surround and block Westboro BC
Courtney Harrop ?@CourtneyPFB
FROM OCCUPY HARTFORD: We are asking the Occupy community to help us surround and block these people, so that the parents (1/2)
and families of the victims do not need to suffer them. http://www.examiner.com/article/connecticut-school-shooting-westboro-baptist-church-planning-to-picket … from Occupy Hartford re :WBC (2/2)
OCCUPY HARTFORD: We are asking the Occupy community to help us surround and block Westboro BC
Courtney Harrop ?@CourtneyPFB
FROM OCCUPY HARTFORD: We are asking the Occupy community to help us surround and block these people, so that the parents (1/2)
and families of the victims do not need to suffer them. http://www.examiner.com/article/connecticut-school-shooting-westboro-baptist-church-planning-to-picket … from Occupy Hartford re :WBC (2/2)
Courtney Harrop ?@CourtneyPFB
Event page to help shield families at Sandy Hook from the evils of Westboro Baptist Church. From Occupy Hartford.
https://www.facebook.com/events/303841059732404/ …
John Kerry has ties to the Keystone XL Pipeline / TransCanada corp. The Tar Sands.
TransCanada, Company Behind Keystone XL Pipeline, Hires Lobbyists Linked To ObamaFirst Posted: 09/07/11 03:20 PM ET Updated: 11/07/11 05:12 AM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/07/canadian-oil-company-hire_n_952506.html
OTTAWA - Some lobbyists for a controversial pipeline project stretching from the Alberta oilsands to the Gulf of Mexico need no introduction to confidantes of U.S. President Barack Obama.
TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) has recruited heavyweights from the presidential campaigns of Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to lobby for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The effort is part of the Calgary company's full-court press behind closed doors to get Keystone XL approved.
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"What we're doing in Washington is no different than what many other groups are doing," company spokesman Terry Cunha said in an interview.
(More at the link.)
Protesters now outside NYC Mayor Bloomberg's home demanding Sandy aid to hard-hit communities
which of course, his buddies on Wall Street desperately wish to gentrify.
Links to livestreams:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1252&pid=4604
Occupy Directory community conversation call
OWSdirectory ?@OWSdirectory
@punkboyinsf #OccupyDirectory can assist all participating members of #occupy active groups, campaigns or initiatives
http://bit.ly/RqbRGT
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http://interoccupy.net/owsdirectory/ai1ec_event/occupy-directory-community-conversation-call/?instance_id=4192
When: December 19, 2012 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
HOST: Occupy Directory (directory.occupy.net)
FOR WHOM: Participating members of active groups, campaigns or initiatives within the movement who can provide feedback on organizational challenges they face and ways the Directory has the potential to address them.
PURPOSE: The Occupy Directory went live in February 2012, and currently lists 1494 Occupations. We started with the intent to list occupied physical space, but nearly a year after launch, “Occupations” are no less relevant, but in some places less prominent, or even non existent. We look to evolve with the movement, and invite you to a community conversation to shape our project in the next phase. How can a directory best support and activate physical spaces, idea spaces, and the movement as a whole?
Scott Olsen Suing Oakland PD For Causing Permanent Brain Damage During Occupy Protest Update: Video
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/14/scott-olsen-suing-oakland-pd-for-causing-permanent-brain-damage-during-occupy-protest/Most of us remember this image from last year’s Occupy Oakland during which the police instigated a riot and then used excessive force.
On October 25, 2011, Olsen was shot while standing still, facing forward and only twenty feet away from a line of police in riot gear. Even with tensions running high that night, there was no way to interpret Olsen’s actions, or lack thereof, as hostile or threatening. Rather, an unknown officer apparently took offense at his defiance (he was not cowering, you see) and simply shot him in the head with ammunition specifically prohibited from being used for crowd control due to its potential for serious injury. This, of course, begs the question of why the police, preparing for a riot, had it with them in the first place.
According to Court House News:
“The impact fractured Mr. Olsen’s skull and caused severe hemorrhaging of his brain. As a result of his injuries, Mr. Olsen lost his ability to speak and perform basic mental and physical functions. Although he has recovered much of his speech and functions through intensive therapy, he still frequently has difficulty speaking, concentrating, and remembering things.”
All that just for passively standing up to police? It’s a wonder that Oakland has a reputation for police brutality with such restraint on the part of law enforcement.
(More at the link.)
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Scott Olsen ?@OlsenVet
Yesterday I filed a federal suit v. City of #Oakland, #OPD #RobertRoche and 50 J. Does (unknown officers). Read here:
http://www.scottolsen.org/Olsen%20v.%20City%20of%20Oakland%20Complaint.pdf …
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Political Fail Blog ?@PFailBlog
VIDEO: Scott Olsen (vet shot by OPD during protest) Speaks on his Lawsuit Against the Oakland Police Department
http://bit.ly/T70lgE | #YAN
Grand jury resister Maddy Pfeiffer will be sent to prison on 12/26 for civil contempt.
#OccupySeattle ?@OccupySeattle
Grand jury resister Maddy Pfeiffer will be sent to prison on 12/26 for civil contempt. #OccupySeattle
http://nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/another-grand-jury-resister-sent-to-prison/#comments …
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My internet isn't working tonight; can't load the above story to past a few bits here. Sorry.
New Yorkers hard-hit by Sandy will take to the streets in Rockaways, Staten Island, Manhattan Update
Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallStNYC
This Saturday, New Yorkers hard-hit by #Sandy will take to the streets in Rockaways, Staten Island, Manhattan http://ow.ly/g5HsM
http://press.nycga.net/2012/12/13/new-yorkers-hard-hit-by-sandy-will-take-to-the-streets-in-rockaways-staten-island-manhattan/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Occupy Wall Street Press Relations Team, 347-292-1444, [email protected]
For Rockaways action only: Virginia Deer 347-733-8887, Gayle Grantham 917-701-5337
For Staten Island action only: Amin Husain 917-407-1226, Matthew Hillyer 847-738-0274
For Manhattan action only: Bill Dobbs 917-822-5422
New York—With winter closing in and anger rising at Mayor Bloomberg’s foot-dragging, New Yorkers hard hit by Hurricane Sandy will be on the streets on Saturday, Dec. 15 in the Rockaways and Staten Island, with many converging Saturday PM outside the mayor’s Manhattan home. Thousands of New Yorkers are still without power or heat and are fighting for survival against black mold and bureaucracy.
Saturday will be a first – New Yorkers taking collective action to protest the government’s glaringly inadequate response to the storm, and to demand: emergency local housing, immediate mold remediation and an end to red tape and delays in deploying critical resources. Community residents and activists from groups including Occupy will raise the question, how, in this great city, can thousands still be without electricity, living with mold creeping up walls and getting sicker in an emerging public health crisis.
As the weeks have gone by, many of those hit by Sandy’s fury sense betrayal and are now raising their voices, leafleting and standing together; hundreds are expected to join the protests.
Rockaways 12pm
Community members gather at Mott Ave. and Beach 21st St. (Thriftway parking lot), and in a show of solidarity, will “March for Health, Housing and Just Recovery” to Beach 29th St. (bet. Seagirt and Boardwalk) while getting a close-up view of homes devastated in the storm including those contaminated by black mold and still without utilities.
Staten Island 12pm
Residents will gather outside 1128 Olympia (across from St. Margaret Mary’s Church) for a community speakout, and then depart as a group for a ‘Tour of Destruction” of damaged and mold-plagued houses in the area with a public health expert from Hunter College. A statement from Staten Islanders is online at: http://pastebin.com/Q3gBV2ja .
Manhattan 5pm
Rally at Bloomberg’s townhouse, 17 E. 79th St (bet. Madison and Fifth Ave.) – those still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane will gather, taking their plight to the door of the mayor’s private residence. Staten Islanders, Rockaways residents, community allies will join together for an action in the darkness, emblematic of thousands who are still without power.
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Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallStNYC
Video from tonight's @OccupySandy rally at Bloomberg's private mansion:
http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2012/12/Occupy-Sandy-Protest-Near-Mayor-Mike-Bloomberg-s-Mansion.html?m=1 …
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Jaisal Noor ?@jaisalnoor
video of voices, stories and songs from @OccupySandy #rockaways march
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Walmart Workers Will Rally in Ten Countries Tomorrow (Updated)
#WalmartElves LOL ?@WalmartElvesLOL
+ #WalmartElves RT @OccupyLA: #Walmart workers in 10 countries will strike tomorrow. #OurWalmart ~ TD http://po.st/YLHTEV
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/171738/walmart-workers-will-rally-10-countries-tomorrow
The labor campaign confronting Walmart in the United States is planning an international escalation for tomorrow. In partnership with the global union federation UNI, the union-affiliated group Making Change at Walmart is supporting a “Global Day of Action,” with participation expected from Walmart workers in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, Nicaragua, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Zambia. The day’s main US protest will be a Miami demonstration featuring a street theater performance in the tradition of the United Farm Workers’ teatro campesino.
“When other countries and other states come together and help Miami, it’s louder,” said Hileah, Florida, Walmart worker Marie-Ann Roberty, a member of the union-backed group OUR Walmart. While “in the beginning, Walmart thought it was not a threat…,” said Roberty. “Now that it’s growing, and people are coming together, Walmart has to listen, Walmart has to come and sit with us as a group and say, …What do you need us to do?”
Friday’s planned actions make good on a promise made two months ago. As I reported for Salon, as Southern California workers launched the first-ever coordinated US Walmart retail strikes on October 4, UNI staff and Walmart workers from abroad were in town to kick off a new Walmart Global Union Alliance. Workers from the UNI delegation rallied with strikers and escorted them back into work after the strike, carrying their countries’ flags into Walmart stores. They also pledged coordinated global actions in the months ahead.
(More at the link. Search twitter for #WalmartStrikers for more information.)
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RT America ?@RT_America
Walmart Workers Protest Goes Worldwide [VIDEO]
http://on.rt.com/6m14rx
@Thom_Hartmann & @JoshEidelson #Walmart
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Making Change @ WMT ?@ChangeWalmart
Brazil knows how to throw a solidarity march! #walmartstrikers
http://changewalmart.tumblr.com/ @benjapnz
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RESPECT D.C. ?@RESPECT_DC
Crowd outside Walmart federal lobbying offices demanding an end to.factory death traps. #walmartstrikers
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