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September 17, 2011: Occupy Wall Street: Day Of Rage

Activist History – September 17, 2011: Occupy Wall Street: Day Of Rage (Video Montage)

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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was the start of a progressive protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.

This video contains nearly five minutes of raw slow-motion clips that celebrate and document the faces and feelings of September 17th.

And it ain’t over yet!

Many thanks to embrown23 @ Youtube for the video below.

SURPRISE! Pepper Spraying Cop At Occupy UC Davis Also A HOMOPHOBE!

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Lt. John Pike, that sad excuse for a policeman and a human being who walked the line and pepper sprayed at point blank range the tho defenseless and peaceful protesters at Occupy UC Davis also seems to have SANTORUM flowing through his veins and has a record of being a homophobe.

An alleged anti-gay slur by Pike also figured in a racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit a former police officer filed against the department, which ended in a $240,000 settlement in 2008. Officer Calvin Chang’s 2003 discrimination complaint against the university’s police chief and the UC Board of Regents alleged he was systematically marginalized as the result of anti-gay and racist attitudes on the force, and he specifically claimed Pike described him using a profane anti-gay epithet.

Katehi identified Pike as one of the officers involved in the pepper-spray incident in an interview with the campus television station Sunday, and university communications staff confirmed his role Tuesday.

So tell me are we REALLY surprised at this?  NOT!

“Soooooooooooo-ee!”

Source: AmericaBlogGay

Oakland Police Injure Another War Veteran During Occupy Oakland Protests

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While Back2Stonewall is primarily a LGBT blog, the Occupy movement is a cause that the LGBT community should be a part of. That being said, do the police understand that their negative actions only drive more and more people to the Occupy cause? Apparently not. From The Guardian:

From the Facebook Group "We are all Kayvan Sabeghi"
A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland.

Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.

Sabehgi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October.

On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.

Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland – away from the main area of clashes – when he was injured.

“There was a group of police in front of me,” he told the Guardian from his hospital bed. “They told me to move, but I was like: ‘Move to where?’ There was nowhere to move.

“Then they lined up in front of me. I was talking to one of them, saying ‘Why are you doing this?’ when one moved forward and hit me in my arm and legs and back with his baton. Then three or four cops tackled me and arrested me.”