Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent

The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves. 

THE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY

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Pakistan now. A public protest against Corrupt Electoral System upon arrival of Dr Tahirul Qadri.

Delhi gang rape protests
 

Dominican Republic
 

Idle No More supporters take over Portage and Main

Rome, Italy - Riot against Berlusconi's government

14/12/2010 Rome, Italy - Riot between protesters and police erupted in the streets of Rome during a national demonstration against Berlusconi's government and the privatization of public school. 

 
23 people get arrested and more than 120 injured

Why the Anti-Corruption Movement Is the New Human Rights Movement

It’s about justice, fairness, and the rule of law—and it’s universal.

Corruption is hardly a new issue, in China, Russia, India, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, or anywhere else. Why has it come to the forefront of so many political struggles right now? As the Economist argues this week, the internationalization of the anti-corruption movement might explain some of the change.

Riots across Tunisia, December 2010. Demonstrations in Moscow, December 2011. Fasts and street marches in New Delhi, March 2012—plus street movements in Slovenia, Quebec, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Wukan in southern China, among others, throughout the past two years. What do they all have in common?

The answer is corruption, or rather the desire to end corruption, which is now the primary motivating factor for dozens of political movements around the world.

Workers demonstration in front of the parliament in Athens, Greece.

Students took the streets of Budapest, Hungary

Students took the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to protest against the government’s decision to heavily cut state subsidies of university tuition.

Right now. MADRID, SPAIN. Students against politics and cuts.

FEMA hides up to a thousand trailers from displaced Sandy victims

Thousands of displaced families in New York and New Jersey have no homes to go to, but FEMA has not provided the housing it promised, even though it has up to 1000 winterized mobile homes sitting in a parking lot at a storage site in Maryland.

It has been more than a month since Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, but 11,000 families are still waiting to have their homes repaired. With freezing temperatures approaching, a lot of these families are facing the cold with no heat or electricity.

Many of these displaced families have requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supply them with temporary mobile homes to endure the winter.

The agency provided trailers to families most recently in North California after Hurricane Irene destroyed coastal homes.

The post-storm devastation remains so dire in some parts of New York that displaced communities have made please for donated RV’s once they heard FEMA was denying their request for mobile homes

“We know they’re out there. They’re sitting in a lot somewhere and people need to have them,” Brooklyn resident Scott McGowan told ABC.

ABC’s Eyewitness News flew over the FEMA lot in Cumberland, Maryland with a helicopter and discovered the hundreds of unused trailers.

Morsi Defends Wide Authority as Turmoil Rises in Egypt

From New York Times - Middle East

CAIRO — Egypt descended deeper into political turmoil on Thursday as the embattled president, Mohamed Morsi, blamed an outbreak of violence on a “fifth column” and vowed to proceed with a referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution that has prompted deadly street battles between his supporters and their opponents.

As the tanks and armored vehicles of the elite presidential guard ringed the palace, Mr. Morsi gave a nationally televised address offering only a hint of compromise, while standing firmly by his plan for a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum. His opponents quickly rejected, even mocked, his speech and called for new protests on Friday. 

Greece Riots: Fierce street battles erupt in Athens (December 6, 2012)

Walmart at center of federal wage fraud lawsuit

Four warehouses in Mira Loma are being singled out in the lawsuit. The warehouses are owned by Schneider logistics. 



But according to the lawsuit, the warehouses are leased and operated for the sole use of Walmart. Attorneys for warehouse workers say up to 1800 Walmart employees are victims of millions of dollars in wage fraud.

"We allege that Walmart has deliberately turned a blind eye to the systemic violation of worker rights taking place in the warehouses in order to increase its profits on the backs of those workers," said attorney Michael Rubin.

David Acosta has worked at the warehouses for three years and is one of the workers named in the lawsuit.

"We would work from 12 to 16 hours a day just with a lunch break, we didn't get any additional rest breaks," Acosta said through a translator.

NYC Threatens to Shut Down Occupy Sandy Relief Sites

While the history of relief efforts for Sandy victims in places such as Staten Island and Red Hook is still being written, a move on Friday by New York City will probably go down as one of the stupidest moves any governmental authority EVER made.

 This Friday morning Staten Island police representing the mayor’s office have threatened eviction action against the crucial Staten Island hub at 489 Midland Avenue, in the heavily hit Midland Beach area. Aiman Youssef, a 42-year-old Syrian-American Staten Islander whose house was destroyed in the hurricane, has been running a 24/7 community pop up hub outside his property at 489 Midland Avenue since the day after the storm.

He and a coalition of neighbors, friends and community members are serving hot food and offering cleaning supplies, non-perishables, medical supplies, and clothing to the thousands of residents who are still without heat, power, or safe housing. 

This popular hub is well-run, well-staffed, and has a constant hum of discussion, support, and advice as well as donations and pick ups and volunteer dispatch through another pop-up group, volunteers who call themselves “The Yellow Team.”

Cold And Mold In The Rockaways: Bloomberg's Stealth Visit

New York City's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, stepped out of a helicopter midday Thursday in St. Camillus' parking lot, ironically an Occupy Sandy relief distribution hub in the Rockaways, Queens. 



The visit had been kept under wraps and not listed on his official schedule.

Bloomberg and a small party accompanying him were whisked off in black cars. He missed a greeting from community members in an area still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, with quickly-lettered signs: "Rockaways in Health Crisis," "We Need Safer Housing."

Bloomberg made his way to the still-shuttered offices of The Wave, the Rockaways weekly newspaper.

As word spread about the stealth visit, a crowd gathered outside hoping to explain those signs to the mayor: a month after Sandy hit, swamping homes with seawater, many residents -- homeowners and tenants -- are still living without electricity, without heat, without working appliances, with black mold taking hold of walls and other surfaces. Temporary housing is desperately needed, absentee landlords must fix their properties.

The mayor emerged behind a row of police, thanked the group, and was quickly driven away -- avoiding a repeat of his November 4 visit when residents lambasted him for ignoring them.
A more detailed statement is available at Occupy Sandy Recovery

Mexico Rising: “Peña Nieto is not my President!”

The mass protests against Mexico’s new President are part of a global movement against the power of business and the farce of representative democracy.

Livorno 2.12.12 Assault to the Prefecture - Italy

Three days of social mobilization in the city opposed against arbitrariness and the police provocation culminated this afternoon in Livorno in a procession of one thousand people, mostly young, who, starting from Piazza Cavour, headed toward the police station and then the assault on the Palace of the Prefecture.

Riots in Slovenia

From Occupy Mainstream Media

Riots in Ljubljana, Slovenia during the week-end ahead of presidential elections. Some banners read: "We're neither left nor right, we're cheated!"