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Detroit Police on Strike?
They are the 99% too:
DETROIT—Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. says the department has suspended some of the 17 officers he says left work early in what may have been an illegal strike.
The incident happened during an afternoon shift in the department’s Northeastern District on Friday, two days after Mayor Dave Bing proposed a 10 percent pay cut for police and firefighters.
(Source: chicagotribune.com)
Wall Street bull survives attack by matador; clowns arrested
How do agent provocateurs disrupt legitimate protest? Find out in this video.
Video of police provocateurs at G20 a few years ago. It was reported on Inside Edition that Quebec police eventually admitted that these 3 were officers.
#Chile - Violence erupts in the streets of Santiago as Chilean workers stage a 48-hour strike demanding reforms..
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It’s not just the London police and Middle East dictators who try to curb unrest by clamping down on communications networks. According to reports, police in San Francisco are jamming cell phones to head off protesters.
Protesters had planned to gather at a San Francisco BART station during rush hour to protest the fatal July shooting of Charles Hill by a BART police officer. But the protest never materialized. One reason, possibly, is the extreme lengths police went to make sure potential protesters couldn’t communicate. From CBS San Francisco:
As an added precaution, the agency shut off cellphone service on the station’s platform. While Alkire said the tactic was an unusual measure, he said it was “a great tool to utilize for this specific purpose” given that the agency was expecting a potentially volatile situation.
“This group seems to want to challenge BART, challenge the police department,” Alkire said.This has caused a twitter firestorm, under the hashtag #muBARTek, a reference to Internet-killing former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. The hacktivist collective Anonymous has already started planning Operation BART.
Some are saying that was illegal, because only federal agencies are allowed to block communications and BART isn’t one. Even it if it is legal: Does San Francisco really want to be Johnny-come-lately to the hot new trend set by brutal Middle East dictators?
Update: According to a BART statement, police didn’t technically “jam” cell phones. They asked wireless providers to turn off their signal in the station.
Vancouver “Kissing Couple” video shows what really happened. Welcome to Canada!
Youth without a future.
Protesters clash with policemen during a demonstration responding to an initiative launched by the group dubbed “Youth Without a Future” on the Internet, in Madrid on May 15, 2011, to protest against professional and social conditions of the youth in Spain. Spain’s unemployment rate for those under 25 stood at 43.5 percent in February, more than twice the average for the country and the highest youth unemployment rate in the 27-nation European Union.
AFP PHOTO / PEDRO ARMESTRE
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My country Spain is going through a social revolution, many people from all kind of social groups are joining together a revolution for a change in the politics. We’re tired of our politicians only doing things to please the banks and corporations and not the common people. We demand a new system for all of us and we have started to do pacific marchs and sit-down protests to show our fellows we can do an Island revolution here in Spain.
We need support and media coverage, we are not just a bunch of young punks as police and corporate media are telling, but people from all kind of ages and social statuses.
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General Strike in Greece
