Occupy 11/4/2011 Second Iraq-Afghanistan war vet attacked -Kayvan Sabehgi

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/occupy-oakland-second-veteran-injureduardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/occupy-oakland-second-veteran-injured
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Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes

Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons

• Adam Gabbatt

 Friday 4 November 2011 15.26 EDT

Police used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP

A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland.

Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.

Sabehgi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October.
On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.
Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland – away from the main area of clashes – when he was injured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/occupy-protesters-disavow-oakland-violence_n_1074242.html#s452867
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Occupy Oakland Children's Village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZKd-q5cnaw



http://tonerdeeski.blogspot.com/
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World Revolution Update

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/04/1033218/-Tulsa-Occupier:-I-Was-Not-Read-My-Rights,-Tulsa-Councilor:-1st-Amendment-Only-Exists-In-Your-Home
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According to the protesters, none of the people arrested or pepper sprayed have been read their Miranda rights. Additionally, no one who was arrested has been charged with a crime. They've been cited for violating city ordinances, and detained. That's like being arrested for getting a parking ticket.
I just spoke to Daniel Lee, a protester with the Tulsa occupation. He gave me his account of the arrests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning/
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The Miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights) is a warning that is required to be given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to inform them about their constitutional rights. In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court of the United States held that an elicited incriminating statement by a suspect will not constitute admissible evidence unless the suspect was informed of the right to decline to make self-incriminatory statements and the right to legal counsel (hence the so-called "Miranda rights"), and makes a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver of those rights.^{[Note 1]} The Miranda warning is not a condition of detention, but rather a safeguard against self-incrimination; as a result, if law enforcement officials decline to offer a Miranda warning to an individual in their custody, they may still interrogate that person and act upon the knowledge gained, but may not use that person's statements to incriminate him or her in a criminal trial.

Thousands Riot over Land Seizures in Southern China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeAyChpX3fs

http://tonerdeeski.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-oakland-lives_28.html
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Occupy Oakland Lives!

Wow, I don't really know where to begin.
This was a crazy fuckin week.
On Sunday, my wife performed her music at the Occupy Oakland Children's Village, and my son decided to take home a piece of lego home with him. When I saw it, I said that I'd have to return it to the camp on Monday.
Unfortunately, I was feeling sick on Monday, and worked from home. By the time I woke up on Tuesday morning, it was already too late to return the piece of lego.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19265553
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Moms and kids 'occupy' Oakland Wells Fargo branch, close accounts

By Doug Oakley
Oakland Tribune

Posted: 11/04/2011 12:31:58 PM PDT

Updated: 11/04/2011 05:02:08 PM PDT

Angry that Wells Fargo took federal bailout money and is now posting record profits, a group of moms and their children rallied at an Oakland branch Friday and closed their accounts.
The "Colorful Mamas of the 99 Percent" tried to enter the bank, but the doors were shuttered soon after the protest began about noon at the branch on Franklin street.
The group of 40 marched from Snow Park nearby with about 10 strollers and kids in their arms and carried a banner that said: "Teach Big Banks to Share: We're Moving Our Money."
The first mom to close her account, Mimi Ho of Oakland, brought one of her two children into the bank strapped to her chest and was surrounded by television and newspaper photographers as she filled out the paperwork.
At least three moms closed their accounts before the bank locked its doors.
Wells Fargo, which took federal bailout money during the economic crisis, posted a profit of $15.18 billion for the 12 months ending in September, its highest number for any one-year period.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Merced-High/262937017076308
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Report/Mark as Spam

Occupy Merced High

This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves (not the movement as a whole), we bring this call for revolution.

We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.
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Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.

We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinations of the wealthy well before its founding.

We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.

We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
1.
If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us.

2.
If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.

3.
If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us.

4.
If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us.

5.
If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.


And so we call on people to act
1.
We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.

2.
We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically.

3.
We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.

4.
We call for the organization of people's assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.

5.
We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.

And, which specifically applies to this page:
We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.

We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic.

Somewhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BQMgCy-n6U
Somewhere lyrics
TONY
There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere
MARIA
There's a time for us
Some day a time for us
Time together
With time to spare
Time to learn
Time to care
Someday
TONY
Somewhere
We'll find a new way of living
MARIA
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere
TONY & MARIA
There's a place for us
A time and place for us
Hold my hand
And we're halfway there
Hold my hand
And I'll take you there
Somehow
Someday
Somewhere