Occupy Movement

Stop Grand Jury Repression in the Northwest- Take Action

Posted by copwatch | Wed, 08/01/2012 - 10:44am story

Stop Grand Jury Repression in the Northwest: Take Action 

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is circulating a statement from the Portland-based Committee Against Political Repression on how you can help the political activists who have been subpoenaed to appear before a Seattle Grand Jury August 2. If your group has not yet signed the solidarity statement, reprinted below, please do so. We know that repression us growing in this country. It is vital that all progressive people unite and defeat this attack on the people’s movement.
  • Call In Day- Wednesday, August 1st
  • Thursday, August 2. Come to Seattle
  • Plan another event or demonstration in solidarity!
  • Please donate!

Killer Cops Aren't Heroes

Posted by copwatch | Sat, 02/11/2012 - 11:00pm story

Killer Cops Aren't Heroes: We Need Police Who Think Like Firefighters, Not Like Soldiers in a War Zone

By Dave Lindorff  Created 01/07/2012

The tragic slaying of troubled eighth-grader Jaime Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas by trigger-happy local police illustrates the sad an dangerous state we have arrived at as we turn our local police forces into SWAT team soldiers up-armed with assault rifles, black facemasks and stun grenades.

Repressive H.R. 347 Criminalizes Dissent

Posted by copwatch | Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:13pm story

"The global elite have repeatedly demonstrated their animosity toward the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Taking down the First Amendment – in addition to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and most importantly the Second – under the bogus and contrived aegis of a manufactured war on terror amply reveals what they have in mind: a gulag panopticon where resistance is not only futile, but illegal, and where the slaves are disarmed and powerless to effectuate change."