Occupy Los Angeles: THIS IS A POLICE STATE: 06/21/12 CCA RAID DEBRIEF (now with extra links)

[Fire Walk With Me]

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Twitter: @occupyLA or @OWSLosAngeles

THIS IS A POLICE STATE: 06/21/12 CCA RAID DEBRIEF

#DEBRIEF

Tonight at 626Wilshire the police assaulted the camp because one lone participant was chalking. They surrounded him, wrestling him to the ground, unable to site the code they were enforcing. We reminded them that chalk is not vandalism, that it is not graffiti, it washes off, and at bare minimum it is free political speech.

We stood there, six peaceful protesters, standing our ground observing this injustice- filming the police. Questioning their authority. One pig tells us:

“Move to the corner of the sidewalk”
“If you don’t do what i tell you, i will make you”

We had not moved any closer, we were not any threat to the police officers. We were peaceful protesters. The police called back up. Squad car after squad car pulled up.

They took out their batons. They took out their pepper spray. They began screaming in our face. They incited violence and began beating us. They dragged away three of our comrades. They were laughing. We stood our ground. They are the terrorists of the police state. Any fucking pig with a badge, baton and gun is a coward. LAPD is a fully funded, militarized gang.

ON A MORE PERSONAL NOTE:

These are my comrades. We work together, we love each other, we learn with each other, we are inspired, and choose to be deliberately free. They are targeting us, it is almost unbearable. We are a threat to no one other than the status quo and those who choose to make themselves enemies of rebirth and revolution.

We liberate space in front of the lobbyists, the financial and political elite, the bankers to protest the targeting of the homeless, the herding and purge of the poor on behalf of the private property owning class. This is what we get, this is the price of resistance. Constant brutality and repression, the court sytem, the prison industrial complex, monitoring and fucking fascism. The same factors that work to keep the poor and working class oppressed everyday since the dawn of time.

It gets worse for those in the struggle, before it gets better for anyone else. Both borders of the United States are experiencing mass social unrest, and this country is teetering on the edge of an awakening so brutal it can only go one of two ways. We all have power, how will you play into the history that is unfolding? They will come for your neighbor, and then they will come for you. We must unify. We must resist tyranny.

I ask you to question the meaning of your life.
I ask you to consider the centuries of oppression that have characterized humanity and to make a choice.
Will you enable it?
Will you be complicit?

When you see the world for what it is- famine, disease, oppression, greed, violence and torture- what will you do?

Will you continue swimming in the status quo, keeping it afloat because your compelled? Do you realize they have you chasing ever elusive ‘stability’ determined by your oppressors? Do you realize your television is brainwashing you?

Will you despair? Will you revolt?

We are all capable of revolting. It is in our nature as humyns to seek for a better world together, cooperatively. But you must ask yourself what it will take. And you must ask yourself.. what is the meaning of your life?

There is a solution, we work together, we strengthen the hive mind. We build collective will and energy to smash the oppressive institutions that own our bodies. The tide of human history is changing. We can employ a dual strategy: discredit and dismantle the oppressive system that stands, while simultaneously building the alternative we imagine. WE CAN AND WILL TRANSITION OUT OF CAPITALISM. Whether you are in the streets or in a cubicle, is your decision. Our life is meant to be more than production, conditioning and wage slavery. Take control over your life for the first time since you were born into this capitalist system.

Every time they beat us, our resolve is deepened. Every time they arrest us, they know not the demons they create. We are in solidarity with prisoners and resistors everywhere. Our actions, our inspirations, our resistance is more than our bodies and mind can bear. The human spirit guides us, the energies of all humyns who have fallen at the hands of the bloodthirsty monarchs and capitalists flows through our hearts.

There will be no peace, until there is justice. There will be no justice, without revolt. I don’t think you understand.

The bureaucracy is dead. Long live the revolution!

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At Wilshire and Hope, a lesson in escalation

http://www.laactivist.com/2012/06/10/at-wilshire-and-hope-a-lesson-in-escalation/

Arrests & Terror at #626Wilshire
State Violence Increases as Occupiers Lay Siege to Perfect Villain

http://ryanricela.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/arrests-and-terror-at-626wilshire/

Harsh Skid Row policies driven by business lobby, say advocates

http://www.laactivist.com/2012/06/24/harsh-skid-row-policies-driven-by-business-lobby-say-advocates/

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Gonna be a long, hot summer.

Let these fascists keep showing their hand. It aides in the awakening.

[90-percent]

2. OWS tactical suggestion

Dress up like tea partiers with those yellow "dont tread on me" signs. Also those "we didn't come armed - THIS TIME" signs.

The authorities will roll out the red carpet and give you the key to the city!

-90% Jimmy

"I will love everybody. I will love the cops as they kick the shit out of me on the street" - lyrics to Who Needs The Peace Corps?, F. Zappa, 1967

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. that's a good experiment!

[GReedDiamond]

25. Great suggestion! One point of detail, to complete the Teabagger Illusion...

...the speeling on teh sines must be all fucked up.

Examples:

"Do'nt Tredd On Me"

"I speek Englesh, NOT Spinach"

"Keap yer Gubmint pause off my Meddicar"

"Obama is a Soshulist Kenyun Facist Muslin"

etc etc.

[sulphurdunn]

3. The rightwingers

can show up at their demonstration armed to the teeth, threatening violence if they don't get their way. I never see ranks of riot cops at these demonstration, beating and spraying them down. I wonder why?

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. These cops/teabaggers in solidarity. That's why.

[sulphurdunn]

9. Of course, but

the cops beat-up whomever they're sent to beat-up. The question then becomes who sent them? In any municipal government those people are the mayor, the town or county council and the sheriff or chief of police. Most of the cops are anonymous and hence unaccountable. Elected representatives are known and should be held accountable. Protests should be held wherever these people are.

[backscatter712]

11. Exactly. Most cops ARE teabaggers. n/t

[zappaman]

15. Really?

I don't suppose you could back that up with any kind of study or link?

[chervilant]

4. + a gazillion

WE CAN AND WILL TRANSITION OUT OF CAPITALISM.

This is what the Corporate Megalomaniacs fear the most.

[slackmaster]

5. 8/10 - Good use of misspelled words, sloppy punctuation, and personal attacks

A well-written rant. I would have used more bona fide swear words and a bit more SHOUTING.

Referring to police officers as "pigs" is certainly classical, but IMO would be stronger if emphasized by intensifiers, e.g. "Fascist pigs and their media lap-dogs."

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. One of those arrested is a young lady facing $50,000.00 bail.

Thank you for your kind words and support.

[Meiko]

20. What did she do

that's a pretty stiff bond.

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. I'm sure for nothing, as is usual.

One of our people just got out of court. When they'd earlier refused a plea deal, the prosecutor immediately added five sub-charges. The next morning before her court appearance, cops swarmed her apartment hallway (I was there, it was two carloads with another waiting outside). Of course none of this is pressure or intimidation or made up on the spot when they don't get what they want, which is Occupy going away, which it will not.

This is how cops make up charges. Use your mouse to highlight their comments on a man who had by the time of their comments, been proven innocent and the cop a liar:

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/05/policeone-comments-on-man-police-lied.html

And how a city lies about Occupy:

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/oakland-officials-caught-in-lies-about.html

[clang1]

7. So you begin a new thread on the same topic

The language you all (OWS) use=fail.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. One of those arrested is a young lady facing $50,000.00 bail.

Thank you for your kind words and support.

[raouldukelives]

8. It might be more true now than at any time since our nations founding.

I wish that were hyperbole and it must change if we are going to cling to things like liberty & justice for all. However I'm afraid capitalism is still going to be the driver. I just can't imagine any scenario where we would break from it.
Of course as far as regulations on that capitalism goes it should make things the corporations scream and holler about now seem like minor inconveniences. We have to change. Apparently pretty soon from all the climate research I've seen posted here. And they ain't gonna do it. We probably can't make them do it. The money is too vast and of much more importance than an ecosystem or the future lives of children and critters. Saying we must do the right thing is so easy but so very hard to do. Especially when you feel alone. As I think many people in the US and the world do now. They have to see friends & neighbors doing it. It has to become a point of pride, to actually want to create a better world for those to come. I think that is a way cooler goal than the polluting, strip mining and deforestation of our country and planet for a few bucks. I think quite a few people agree. Making it a safe position to champion in public is the last thing the Wall St wants and the beatings will continue. We just have to decide if we want to be the ones giving them or the ones taking them.

[randome]

10. Someone needs to be reading more porn threads.

[Zorra]

14. How about an Occupy porn video?

[deaniac21]

12. First, they take the chalk away.....

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Actually, there was recently a Federal ruling that chalking isn't harmful.

It hasn't slowed down the cops one bit.

[deaniac21]

19. Well, it's probably not that harmful

when the cops outline a corpse with it...

[Phhhtttt]

21. Revolution isn't easy.

I have been on 8 occupy marches in Idaho.No one has been arrested so far.

I commend you on your courage.The pigs in L.A. sound bloodthirsty.Maybe it is universal.

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. Thank you for marching, may you always have a peaceful result!

[lonestarnot]

24. K & R!