Anti-war demonstrators attacked with pepper spray for protesting at tax payer funded air and space museum

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Anti-war demonstrators attacked with pepper spray for protesting at tax payer funded air and space museum 4 videos
http://endthelie.com/2011/10/08/anti-war-demonstrators-attacked-with-pepper-spray-for-protesting-at-tax-payer-funded-air-and-space-museum/#axzz1aMJl1wwh  (Notice Medea Benjamin in 1st video dressed in pink.......  I attended meeting where she was a speaker.)  ...cal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray
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Pepper spray is banned for use in war by Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention which bans the use of all riot control agents in warfare whether lethal or non-lethal. In the US, when pepper spray is used in the workplace, OSHA requires a pepper spray MSDS be available to all employees .^{[citation needed]}


http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/19/us/aclu-report-calls-pepper-spray-potentially-deadly.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
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A.C.L.U. Report Calls Pepper Spray Potentially Deadly

Published: June 19, 1995

 

A type of tear gas made from cayenne peppers is not a benign police tool but a potential killer, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said today in a report on pepper spray.
The report said that as of the end of May, 26 people who had been sprayed with the liquid had died in police custody in California. These deaths had occurred since October 1992 when the Attorney General, Dan Lungren, allowed law-enforcement officers to use pepper spray. That three-year approval expires in August, and can be renewed by Mr. Lungren.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin
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Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with her husband, activist and author Kevin Danaher, fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin also was a Green Party candidate in 2000 for the United States Senate.
The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders" of the peace movement and in 1999, San Francisco Magazine included her on its "power list" of the "60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area."

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/22/shurat-hadin-flotilla/
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Meet the Legal Wonks Who Brought Down the Flotilla

Alana Goodman | @alanagoodman 08.22.2011 - 7:00 PM

At a radical left-wing coffee shop in Washington, D.C. last month, Code Pink founder and “Freedom Flotilla II” passenger Medea Benjamin​ woefully recounted the moment she realized her boat, the Audacity of Hope, wouldn’t be legally permitted to leave a port in Greece to sail to Gaza.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/04/18692148.php
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The Oakland General Assembly decided today that the people of Oakland will occupy Frank Ogawa Plaza at the corner of 14th & Broadway on Monday, October 10 starting at 4:00pm in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, the many occupations underway across the country and Indigenous Resistance Day. Below are bilingual graphics to pass around to help get the word out about the occupation. There is also a PDF with a black and white bilingual flyer formatted for printing 4 up on an 8.5x11". They flyer also includes the announcement about the next planning meeting this coming Thursday at 5:00pm at Mosswood park. We expect to have workshops, food, music, childcare, a library and much more. Come ready to spend the night or just swing by to say hello. Let's do this Oakland style!