"Yesterday a judge ruled that Jeff Olson, a 40 year old man from San Diego, California will face thirteen years for using washable children's chalk outside three Bank of America branches to promote credit unions over large banks."

Mo and Nadia were on a 90-day temporary duty undercover assignment as part of CPD Field Intelligence Team 7150 (FIT 7150). The team was tasked with "attend[ing] Occupy Chicago and anarchist movement events for the purpose of observing and listening to reports of any planned criminal activity"

"This grand jury, like the ongoing targeting of anarchists in the Pacific Northwest, is part of a new, escalating wave of repression against anarchists nationwide, who are being persecuted specifically for their political beliefs and practices. It is no coincidence that the government would try to silence Jerry, as he has been an effective and tireless legal advocate for anarchists, Occupy Wall Street protesters, and others expressing political dissent."

‘The key move in Judge Jacobs’ opinion is concluding that sexual orientation is a “quasi-suspect” class justifying intermediate scrutiny. This requires the federal government to show that its policy is substantially related to an important governmental interest.’

I can see no point in this except to disrupt the activist groups who use the service.

Don’t you just hate it when homeless people are always existing somewhere?

The city of Clearwater, FL, is set to criminalize homelessness. They’re looking at both a daytime ban on sitting and a nighttime ban on sleeping.

I was there. I wrote about it! (http://americancynic.net/log/2012/5/6/my_may_day_2012.html)

Although the charges and disputed facts in his case are different than mine, this is encouraging!

Give us this day our daily bread Ⓐnd forgive us our trespasses

Some photos and a first-hand account of being arrested at the 888 Turk squat in San Francisco yesterday.

This is disturbing. Some in the OWS movement think the focus should be on corporate influence over politics (instead of police misconduct). But here Graeber reports the NYPD being violent, targeting women, and doing it for the sake of the banks. They’re not separate issues.

This is a protest I went to back in November. State troopers under Governor Hickenlooper and Denver police under Mayor Hancock had just arrested dozens of people at the Occupy Denver camps and confiscated food and supplies from the kitchen, and then they were made the “guests of honor” at a Denver homeless shelter’s Thanksgiving dinner. It was pathetic.

I’m the thumbnail image for this article!