Veteran injured by police at Occupy Oakland

Video is posted online that appears to show a member of Veterans for Peace being wounded by what was reportedly a non-lethal round fired by police during the Occupy Oakland protest in California.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8851218/Veteran-injured-by-police-at-Occupy-Oakland.html
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Alastair Good

5:45PM BST 26 Oct 2011

Protesters from Occupy Oakland who posted video of Mr Scott Olsen online after he was injured said that the shooting happened at 4th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland during a march to reclaim a plaza which the group had been using as a base for two weeks until it was cleared by police.

Witness Jay Finneburgh said that Mr Olsen “was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. he went down hard and did not get up.”

In the video Mr Olsen is unresponsive and bleeding from an apparent head wound as he is carried away by protesters, one of whom is screaming for a medic.

In another video, filmed from a different angle protesters who go to the aid of Mr Olsen as he lays unconscious on the ground also become a target for police tear gas canisters

Reports online suggest Mr Olsen was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland where he has serious injuries but is in a stable condition.

Police, protesters clash in Atlanta, Oakland

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-26/occupy-wall-street-oakland/50922286/1

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Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., a third protest inspired by Occupy Wall Street sprang up Wednesday . The demonstration, known as Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue, will be different from two encampments that have been in place since early October in that participants will not be camping out.

They plan to leave at night and return every day until "we get change in DC at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue," organizer Patrick Schneider said in a statement. He said the demonstration had appropriate permits and that the goal was to communicate its message without breaking the law.

Plan to break up Occupy Oakland camp took a week

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19198879?source=rss
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Live Blog: Library Director refused to close Oakland library during protest

Oakland Tribune

Posted: 10/26/2011 01:26:54 PM PDT

Updated: 10/26/2011 03:08:47 PM PDT

On Wednesday, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland was partially fenced off, and by morning calm and returned to downtown. The previous night, 1,000 protesters clashed with police after two Occupy Oakland encampments were dismantled earlier in the day.

10:35 a.m. Library director kept main library open during protests

During the Tuesday afternoon rally, as about 500 people gathered outside the city's main library at 14th and Madison streets, organizers announced that police "called the library in anticipation of our gathering and asked them to shut it down. They said, 'No,' because they know what side they are on."
The crowd exploded into cheers. On Wednesday morning, library Director Carmen Martinez said the
City had supported her decision to keep the library open.
In the early afternoon Tuesday, hours before the protest arrived at the library steps, City Administrator Deanna Santana called Martinez and asked how she wanted to handle the situation, Martinez said.
"I said that we are a symbol of civil society for a lot of groups, including this one, and the folks who protested against the libraries budget cuts, and we will remain open as along as service can be continued without disruption," Martinez said. "Deanna said she understood and respected that."
Police also called to ask if the library needed any help or
backup, Martinez said, but she declined.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/BA1V1LM4N1.DTL
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Oakland began preparing to dismantle the Occupy camp in front of City Hall a week ago, when interim Police Chief Howard Jordan and City Administrator Deanna Santana put out the call for neighboring jurisdictions to provide some of the hundreds of cops who wound up being mustered early Tuesday.
On Friday, two days after those two had set the process in motion, Mayor Jean Quan abandoned her initial support for the protest and came to the same conclusion as they had: The camp was a hazard to public safety and health, and had to go.
The questions were how, and when.
First up, timing. It would take at least five days to arrange the influx of police from other jurisdictions, and anyway, Occupy forces were planning a big march Saturday. That meant Monday at the earliest.
In the meantime, the plan was to try to thin the crowd by sending in social workers to lure away some of the hard-core homeless who had joined the campers.
On Monday, fire officials went through removing propane tanks that could serve as weapons against police.
By then, Quan had gotten out of Dodge - flying to Washington for long-scheduled meetings designed to raise money for developing the old Oakland Army Base.

Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue - Rally For Change

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-694331
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The Plan, is to hit DC end of October and stay there till we get Change in DC at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. I am bringing a few thousand of my friends from my facebook group http://www.facebook.com/groups/occupypennave/ to come and help me make Change Happen. Ok well most Occupy camps are shutting down how does this plan work? OPA.org has done its job to be in DC on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Differences: These are day rallies, no camping out by Occupy we will Occupy by being there everyday til we get Change. We went through the right channels to be there and use our 1st Amendment rights in DC where we think the Biggest Change can take place. We are planning to make this function forward with progress, we are preparing areas to be used safely to do this. The police will be watching out for us as being on our side. To get Peppered Sprayed at our Rallies you would have to be breaking the law 1st and be resisting arrest 2nd for something silly you decided to do. There is a productive way to get our message to the leaders and in DC these are essentially the biggest leaders in the world and they are going to know we are “Taking it to the House”

Summary: Founder Patrick will land in DC on Monday, meet with officials in DC then plan larger press announcements with paper proof he can be there in hand.

Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue.org
Rally For Change
Washington DC - Capitol & White House

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/npr-host-fired-after-serving-as-occupy-dc-spokeswoman/
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NPR-affiliated music host Lisa Simeone was fired for serving as a spokeswoman for the Occupy DC movement. (Media credit: NPR)

http://townhall.com/news/entertainment/2011/10/20/freelancer_heard_on_npr_stations_fired_for_protest
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Freelancer heard on NPR stations fired for protest

APNews

Oct 20, 2011

A freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program that airs on NPR affiliates because she helped organize a Washington protest, the host said Thursday, while the producers of another show defended her work and said she hasn't violated their policies.

Lisa Simeone said she was fired Wednesday evening from "Soundprint," a documentary show that isn't produced by NPR but airs on about 35 affiliate stations across the country. The head of Soundprint Media Center Inc. cited NPR's code of ethics before she was fired.

Heavens Task Force

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Steve Olsen (Iraqi Vet) hurt in Occupy Oakland protest