100+ law enforcement officers, most in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Santa Cruz’s encampment early this morning. Five Occupiers were arrested for resisting “evacuation”, plus one arrest on an unrelated outstanding warrant. Scores of county workers stuffed tents, bicycles and other personal property into a garbage truck. The public was blocked from getting close enough to the activity to take pictures.
One Occupier said, “I lost my tent because I was trying to help that old lady over there. They were going to gas her because she couldn’t get out of her tent fast enough.”
A flier was passed out at camp Wednesday that included this call to action: “We will rally at the courthouse and march to the office of Dannettee Shoemaker on Thursday December 8th at 12:00pm – 323 Church Street. If you have further questions concerning the Evacuation, please feel free to call her at 831-420-5270.”
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If anyone is interested in the state of jail/prison strikes, I am too.
Police Misconduct: Law And Litigation
by David Rudovsky, Karen Blum, Michael Aver
http://peacecamp2010insider.blogspot.com/2011/10/sleep-is-not-crime.html
As the inventor of the United States of America,
Thomas Paine, put it:
“There could be no such thing as landed property originally. Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity any part of it; neither did the Creator of the earth open a land-office, from whence the first title-deeds should issue.” -Agrarian Justice.
Today we saw the criminal police use the threat of violence to deny the poor their NATURAL RIGHT to OCCUPY the Commons.
It’s time for this movement to evolve, but can it here in SC? The movement tapped into a global movement of people seeking redress from government, but here in SC the camp quickly devolved into a joke. I honestly think the vast majority of good ol’ left leaning SC folks ‘get’ the movement, but having Robert Norse, RazerRay, & “commander x” & the like, inject themselves into the local occupy made a lot of people abandon their support. Taking over private property was the last straw. How about some plans that simply support the national movement more? Like, what can we do here/now in SC to bring corporate overlords, bankers and their politicians in line???
Inject myself? You mean like the Lyndon LaRouche and MoveOn people were in the process of doing.
I’m one of the ones who believe FROM THE START, that a devolution was inevitable.
Considering… It’s MUCH better that it did devolve, and I look forward to a new year of raising hell with like-minded acquaintances aimed directly at the City of Santa Cruz.
…and you can go sign WSWA letters.
Please hear me. Recently OSC in GA endorsed a letter of the Western Service Workers Association in support of in home service workers. The intent of most of the letter was against funding cuts by the State Of CA due to the economy…I have no problem with that..I do have a serious problem with a part of the letter that alerted my radar to a softening of attitude about background checks and elder a…buse. I immediately contacted my CA state senator’s office to express my individual concerns about the possibility.
Someone suggested and alleged that the sponsoring organization was not compatable with our core values and beliefs. Our affiliations are important.. For your consideration below is a link about the latter to the blog of Bruce Bratton, who has been a local Santa Cruz columnist for many years. From what I know and have read of him,I think he is not a person of inflammatory unfounded accusation, but one of reasoned commentary based on good sources and facts …
This is a serious issue of afiliation as minimal to me as any to me as possible. One day’s casual considering of a letter from an unvested sponsor by only those in Occupy Santa Cruz who knew about it to me is sad, ridiculous, dangerous and maddening. The subject deserves to be revisted and clarified in the interests of the vulnerable. The elders in our community are important. We are human. We matter.
http://politicalcults.blogspot.com/2007/02/bratton-on-line-comes-around-on-western.html
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Political Cults: Bratton On-Line Comes Around on Western Service Workers Association
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Heh. About that Call To Action march and rally at City on Thursday 12 /8/11, there wasn’t much of a “march” of all five of us to go to City Hall, chat and maybe even go out for coffee with the Parks and Rec chief.
Other than our motley selves, I’d like to think it was the authorities called for a police riot and nobody came! The Fearless Few, we were the most well protected bunch on a bench in Santa Cruz County, yes we were!
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