Archive for ‘Violence’

5 results.
May05

Independent Report on May Day Critical of Seattle Police

by MarkTC on May 5th, 2013 at 2:01 am
Posted In: Activism, Activism, Occupy Movement, Activism, Occupy Movement, Violence, Politics, Washington State Politics

Youtube video of news report here: MTC FSRN Report_0001 Originally broadcast April 4, 2013 @ Free Speech Radio News on the Pacifica Network. FSRN broadcasts on 110 stations globally! Link to news report @ FSRN: News Report For Free Speech Radio News on the Pacifica Network fsrn.org pacifica.org Reporter: Mark Taylor-Canfield “Seattle’s city council questioned […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
 Comment 
Feb02

Rep. Adam Smith and military spending

by Don Smith on February 2nd, 2013 at 9:49 am
Posted In: Politics, Accountability, Justice, Economic Justice, Military Force, Politics, Conservativism, Regressives, Activism, Occupy Movement, Violence

Washington’s Rep. Adam Smith of the 9th Congressional District is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.  Smith figures prominently in the Jan 28 issue of the The New Yorker, in the article “The Force” about the power and cost of the military-industrial complex and about America’s obsession with violence and militarism. At […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

1 Comment
Aug09

Republicans censored report warning of threat from right wing extremists

by Don Smith on August 9th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: Politics, Accountability, Politics, GOP Crimes, Justice, Politics, Conservativism, Regressives, Activism, Occupy Movement, Violence

Former DHS Analyst Daryl Johnson on How He Was Silenced for Warning of Far-Right Militants in U.S

 Comment 
Jul02

Violcence-lovers taking over some Occupy groups

by Don Smith on July 2nd, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Posted In: Activism, Occupy Movement, Activism, Occupy Movement, Violence

The Occupy Wall Street facebook page http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt1 seems to have been hijacked by violence-loving Black Bloc members (or by infiltrators pretending to be such). I often see postings glorifying violence: images of protesters breaking windows or fighting police, with captions like “USA, GET SOME GREEK SPIRIT!” (See this image, for example.) This is bad news […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

 Comment 
Jun01

“The poison must be smashed, each and every way”: Trouble on Occupy Facebook pages

by Don Smith on June 1st, 2012 at 7:45 am
Posted In: Activism, Occupy Movement, Peace, Activism, Protests, Activism, Occupy Movement, Violence

Today on the Occupy Wall Street facebook page, I saw a posting with the following ugly image and the caption “(H) The poison must be smashed, each and every way.” Thankfully, most of the comments were critical of the violence: … Occupy beware of infiltrators and figures of lesser inteligence 2 hours ago · Like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

 Comment