Occupy: The LA Eviction (PART THREE)
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
“They’ll have to carry me out”, says J.R., the proud war veteran who has been here since day one. Like so many of the nice people I have interviewed today, J.R. echoes a familiar theme. No one I have met or talked to wants violence or will perpetrate violence. And no one will voluntarily leave. They want to be carried out. Arrested or not, in the last four hours very few have broken camp.
Far from it. Every night the OCCUPY L.A. numbers hold a general assembly at 7:30 p.m.. Tonight it is packed. The crowd is well over 2,500 and as I walk towards the camp in preparation for the General Assembly I talk with more protestors who are just now arriving.
This is the 99%. Everywhere there are veterans (lots of veterans), families, students, teachers, pensioners, out of work stock brokers, white collar workers, blue collar workers, the unemployed,...
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State Bankruptcy- Just in time… to steal your savings!
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
The probability of the federal government allowing State bankruptcy protections has recently been out of the news since it first surfaced six months ago. This is an ominous silence. The fiscal crises most states are experiencing will necessitate their need for bankruptcy protection. All State employees or employees whose jobs exist per contracts with the State should be very wary because State bankruptcy protections will suddenly, if not overnight, take away your contractual rights. This will mean the reduction of any expected pension benefits for current employees and retired former employees.Contracts with current employees and with sub-contractors to the States will also be under the control of the court and likely dramatically reduced.
It has been for quiet four months since the idea of allowing the States to declare bankruptcy surfaced. Spawned by David Skeel in an op-ed...
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Ass Whipping for Darrell Issa: Dems. support OCCUPY DC.
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
The plan, by Darrell Issa (R – CA), to remove the face of the Occupy camp at McPherson Park did not go as he planned. In an effort to embarrass the National Park Service for their decisions in allowing the Occupy protests to flourish in Washington DC Issa, Rep Trey Gowdy (R – SC), and Rep. Joe Walsh (R – IL) called for a hearing of the House Committee for Oversight and Reform. The hearing was titled “Who Made the Decision to Allow Indefinite Camping?” The cards, however, quickly turned on these three GOP champions.
Instead of eliciting responses helpful to their quest for new legislation requiring the National Park Service to ban all camping Director Jonathan Jarvis offered articulate First Amendment obligations of his position. He noted that the National Park Police handle more protests than in any place in the country and they take a...
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D.H.S. Buys 750,000,000 Rounds of Hollow Point Ammo to Shoot…YOU?
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
The “terror,” that is the US Gov’t, continues to blanket America. Using its protective Big Brother, the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, its authoritarian power grows in strength daily. It was reported this week that DHS is finishing the purchase of 750 million rounds of ammo. Since DHS intends to distribute this ammo, “at [DHS] facilities in the states of Georgia, New Mexico, Maryland and South Carolina, as well as other unnamed DHS offices across the country”, it demands the question, which Americans are to be shot first?
Jason Reed, of Reuters, reports ( see this link ) that this new, additional arsenal, includes “ ammunition [of] types, including 209,000 rounds of #00 buckshot 8-pellet bullets for 12 gauge guns, and more than 2 million shots for a .357 Sig...
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Two Weeks Until DNC/Charlotte- The Smell of “Victory” in the Air.
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
As the first cautionary hues of a new dawn pulled themselves over the horizon east of the streets of Los Angeles the air was still, humid, and pleasantly warm for this late November morning. Hanging in that air was the smell of the recently trampled grass, in front of Los Angeles City Hall, mixing with the smell of the slowly warming asphalt. At that moment there was also another smell, as pleasant as the smiles on the faces of the 5000 Occupiers still standing on their ground in the growing morning illumination. This smell will be remembered by all who were there. So will the chill up the spin, the goose bumps on the skin, and the immense sense of pride. Everyone remembers that smell.
It was the smell of Victory.
Moments before the cops had taken their first step backwards. Protesters, at the Occupy LA eviction, all those 5000 plus who responded to the call,...
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DNC Charlotte,NC 2012 (PART ONE)
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
With less than 30 days to go until the broken half of American democracy showcases itself in Charlotte North Carolina. The DNC will be here from September 2 26 2012. Already, America’s disenfranchised, underrepresented, and oppressed opposition groups are mobilizing. What once was hope at the 08 DNC is now collective discussed. Discussed. There is much to be said about the current US administration. Thousands are coming to Charlotte to say it.
Pro-democracy groups from across the eastern seaboard and from as far away as Washington DC, Los Angeles California, and Miami Florida, will be converging on the DNC. All persons and groups who want to express their outrage with many non-Democratic amendment American issues, are invited to attend.
Announce their participation daily. Occupy camps from Baltimore and Johnson City Tennessee just call them. Occupiers from LA San...
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Parks Service Issues Eviction Notice to DC Occupy Camps
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
It took just 72 hours for the National Park Service and their Director, Jonathan Jarvis, to cave-in to Republican pressure to remove the Occupy protesters who are camping at Freedom Plaza and McPherson Park. Despite glowing praise from Democrats for a job well done in the handling of the protesters at a congressional hearing held this past Tuesday, January 24, 2012, leaflets were passed out Friday PM by National Park Service police. These require the removal of all tents by Monday, January 30 at 12 PM.
The link to this notice is as follows.
http://www.nps.gov/nama/parkmgmt/upload/Enforcement-Notification-Notice-McPherson-Freedom-Plaza-1272012-Green.pdf.
Despite Director Jarvis’ statements to Congress that there had been no less than two previous long-term encampments on Washington DC property the National Park Service...
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World!!…Finally, We Have a Leader!
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley
Finally, we have a leader. His message is the strength of truth, and the power of the people. WE are listening.
Ecuador and eleven South, and Latin, American nations have advanced the call for world freedom, and propagated, for us, a world leader. Julian Assange is safe. Baring an international incident of historic proportions, America has been stopped from cutting the head off another rising populist snake stirring from the people’s quest for change through non-violent protest opposition. Considering that these nations are just a generation, or less, removed from their own suffering at the hands of the last spate of American Empire building, it is not surprising these same nations would well understand Assange’s plight. It is also not surprising that they would wish to preserve for the world their own, long term, populist figurehead in order to fight back, once...
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