Media Using Suspected Police Informants to Smear Tampa FNB & Occupy Activists

As the days move closer to the Food Not Bombs World Gathering and the March on the Republican National Convention, mainstream media attention on the planning for these events in Tampa has significantly increased. 

 However rather than focus on people who are facilitating the sharing of food for thousands of people or peaceful demonstrations, or speaking to those that can tell the public at large why resistance to the GOP agenda is so important, the media seems only capable of speaking to known agent saboteurs.

In particular, the press has carried ink on more than one occasion in just the past couple of weeks from one Thomas Parisi, described in the press as a “spokesperson” for the Occupy movement, and described by fellow Occupiers as a violent drug addict and police informant. Many articles go as far as describing the arguments and conflicts that Parisi has been known for months for creating in Miami and Tampa as reasons why protestors are “struggling to maintain momentum.”