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Raw Video: Police Drag Occupy DC Activists to Break Home Eviction Blockade
An effort to prevent a home eviction in Washington, DC, today turned ugly when US Marshals and local police officers armed with guns and riot shields forcefully removed members …
NYC Cops Successfully Enforce Regime of Intimidating Dissidents and Press; Dozens Notice
Roughly two hundred protesters gathered in Washington Square Park with pots, pans, whisks, ladles, and other forms of kitchenware for a nightly protest in solidarity with the students of …
Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Reflections on Chicago
When the NATO summit began, the presence of the police force felt as substantial as the massive crowd they were there to control.
Latest Batch of DHS Occupy Documents Contains New Details About Monitoring of Protest Movement
(Photo: Alex Wellerstein / Flickr)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining …
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The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure
(Photo: Mark Karlin) The Official Story From the US State Department On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics …