BREAKING: Chemical Bomb Detonated At Occupy Maine Camp

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/24/breaking-chemical-bomb-detonated-at-occupy-maine-camp/

At approximately 4 AM Monday morning, a small chemical bomb was thrown into the kitchen area of Occupy Maine encampment located in Lincoln Park in the city of Portland. Sgt. Glen McGary has stated that the device was a homemade bomb consisting of several chemicals mixed into a Gatorade bottle. There are few details and no suspects as yet.

There were no casualiteis but Sgt. McGary said the explosion could have caused serious injury.

Chemical bombs do not a have a separate detonation mechanism but rather rely on the build up of gas pressure inside the sealed bottle after the chemicals are mixed. Once the pressure ruptures the container the chemicals are dispersed. The fact that the kitchen was targeted suggests an attempt at sabotage. This is pure speculation until further information is released.

Via Press Herald:

Portland police are looking for the person who threw a chemical bomb at the Occupy Maine encampment in Portland during the early morning hours today.

More at the link --

[robdogbucky]

1. My personal observation this weekend is that tactics have changed

TPTB are tired of the Occupiers and I think the new strategies include media blackouts as much as possible (no print media news stories on Occupy SF for example on SFGate since the middle of last week) and the arrests (mostly in the middle of the night) and other techniques to avoid the news cameras, etc.

I looked last night at the amount of raids/arrests across the dozens of cities that have occupations and it seemed a stunning turnaround in tactics. It was patience the week before now it's silence the media as far as possible and police pressure, pressure, pressure.

I believe this is coordinated and calculated to put extreme heat on the movement following as many negative stories about various occupations as they can gin up.

I am happy to be corrected if anyone can prove these observations incorrect.





Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!



robdogbucky

[coalition_unwilling]

13. On a more humorous note, I learned at the General Assembly for

Occupy Los Angeles last night that students at the University of Southern California plan to launch "Occupy USC" today. The student making the announcement was skeptical that "Occupy USC" would last longer than an hour or two :)

On a serious note, once even the children of the ruling class turn against their parents, we will have won.

[tavalon]

2. Well, we knew this shit was coming

I was kind of hoping it would hold off until the spring.

[Bragi]

12. It points to a problem with the OccupyEverywhere strategy

The weakness of the Occupy Everywhere strategy is that it creates a diffused protest where small numbers of protesters in numerous locations are a) easily dismissed as inconsequential by media, and b) easily busted up by security operations owned by the 1%.

If instead of setting up Occupy locations everywhere that everyone who could went to OWS, then OWS would be huge and largely unassailable.

This all will pass. I believe "the 99% movement" will continue and grow, but that the OccupyEverywhere tactic will evolve into something more sustainable.

[robdogbucky]

3. Nurses condemn Chicago mayor for arrest of nurses, et al

Nurses condemn Chicago mayor for arrest of nurses, medical aid volunteers at Occupy Chicago

By Staff

October 23, 2011

Chicago, IL - Registered nurses from across the U.S. today condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown, Oct. 22 at the Occupy Chicago protest.

National Nurses United is asking supporters to call Mayor Emmanuel’s office at 312-744-5000 and demand they immediately drop all charges against the nurses and other protesters and stop the harassment and arrests of the nurses and others peacefully exercising their free speech rights. Nurses will also picket the mayor’s office at 10 a.m. on Oct. 24 at City Hall at the LaSalle entrance.

Nurse leaders of National Nurses United who set up a nurses’ station to provide basic first aid to Chicago protesters – as NNU as done in five other cities across the U.S. – were among the some 130 people arrested by Chicago police. The police also tore down the first aid station and arrested scores of others who had peacefully assembled to support the station.

“Even in wartime, combatants respect the work of nurses and other first responders. Yet Mayor Emmanuel and Chicago seem to care as little about that tradition as they do in protecting the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.” said NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro. “These arrests are disgraceful and unconscionable and will not deter our nurses from continuing this mission, setting up the station again, and continuing to support the protests...”

Emmanuel has been perhaps the most aggressive mayor in the nation in repression of the occupy Wall Street movement, with mass arrests on at least two occasions now. The Chicago Tribune reported on Oct. 22 that city officials are trying to send a message to world leaders of being ‘tough’ on demonstrators in advance of upcoming meetings of G-8 and NATO leaders in May 2012.

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2011/10/23/nurses-condemn-chicago-mayor-arrest-nurses-medical-aid-volunteers-occupy-chicago

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Multpile prior similar threads in LBN and GD

[robdogbucky]

5. Mayor's office denies Occupy Atlanta ordered to leave

Police patrol Woodruff Park perimeter; Mayor's office denies Occupy Atlanta ordered to leave

Occupy Atlanta remained encamped at Woodruff Park Sunday evening despite fears Saturday night that protesters would be ousted.

Late Saturday evening, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s office denied an Occupy Atlanta leader’s assertion that protesters who have been camped at Woodruff Park had to leave Saturday or face arrest.

“There has been no such order,” Reed spokeswoman Sonji Dade told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “That is not true.”

Occupy Atlanta leader Tim Franzen emerged from a meeting with the mayor several hours earlier Saturday and said a livid Reed had demanded that protesters who have occupied the park for several weeks clear out.

“He was very angry, very upset,” said Franzen, who added that the mayor began “yelling right away” after they entered the mobile unit.

Franzen said Occupy Atlanta was given no specific time to clear the park. “He’s not being specific.” He said the mayor warned that protesters remaining will “get their wish” to be arrested...

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/police-patrol-woodruff-park-1207805.html

[robdogbucky]

6. Police break up "Occupy Sydney" protest in raid

Police break up "Occupy Sydney" protest in raid

Sat, Oct 22 21:52 PM EDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police broke up a Sydney protest camp inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in an early morning raid on Sunday, making dozens of arrests, police and protesters said.

The 'Occupy Sydney' protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the Martin Place business district had been going on for a week, with a small group sleeping out in the square despite seizure of camping equipment, setting up solar panels to charge mobile phones.

The raid by about 100 officers came two days after police in Melbourne broke up a parallel protest there in violent scenes. New South Wales state police said they had made 40 arrests in Sydney on Sunday. Some protesters were expected to be charged with crimes, including assaulting police.

Video shot by protesters and posted on their website (www.occupysydney.org.au) showed a rubbish-strewn patch of ground, with police moving through in the dark...

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE79M04620111023?irpc=932

[robdogbucky]

7. Occupy protester: 'It's going to happen no matter what'

Occupy protester: 'It's going to happen no matter what'

LEE COUNTY -
From Wall Street in New York, Asia and even Antarctica, the Occupy movement has swept the world. And even after police crackdowns in Fort Myers, protesters we spoke to say it's just getting started.

People have already been on the streets of Fort Myers for two weeks, protesting what they call corrupt government and corporate greed.

Protesters say there is no end in sight and that Occupy's message will be heard on First Street until there is change.

"They started this movement and if we didn't agree with what those people are doing and saying we wouldn't be here ourselves," said protester Matthew McDowell.

"There's so many people behind this movement, it is going to happen no matter what," added Cane Ford.

In recent weeks, both Lee and Collier counties have seen the Occupy movement grow. And Saturday, the Occupy protesters spread into Lehigh Acres...

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/15785498/2011/10/22/occupy-protester-its-going-to-happen-no-matter-what

[robdogbucky]

8. Police Brutality Protest In Union Square Draws ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Support

Police Brutality Protest In Union Square Draws ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Support

October 22, 2011 9:12 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Dozens of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters marched in support of an annual protest against police violence Saturday.

The 16th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality was bigger than it has been in years past, according to its co-founder Carl Dix.

“Look, when we talk about the police brutality and repression, the people that comes down on primarily are part of the 99 percent, so we see it as a companion issue,” he told WCBS 880′s Monica Miller.


“If we go down there and talk with them about it, they’re shocked, they’re horrified, but they also have been given a taste of that by the police down at Wall Street. The way people got pepper sprayed for nothing,” he added.

Christina Gonzalez from Far Rockaway says she was rounded up while participating in a protest four weeks ago at Union Square. She joined the protest to express her anger, saying she still doesn’t have feeling in her thumbs after being handcuffed...

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/22/police-brutality-protest-in-union-square-draws-occupy-wall-street-support/?utm_source=home&utm_medium=dl&utm_campaign=occupy-aid

[gratuitous]

9. This is the "then they fight you" part

But if you hang together, and don't let the domestic terrorists break you up, you'll win. What I mean to say is, take it easy, but take it.

[Remember Me]

11. Yes -- and the rest of it (for those who may not have heard it) goes

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win.
-- Gandhi

[robdogbucky]

10. 15 Occupy Philadelphia protesters arrested after blocking Eighth Street

15 Occupy Philadelphia protesters arrested after blocking Eighth Street

By Susan Snyder

Inquirer Staff Writer


Updated at 8 a.m. Monday

Philadelphia police arrested 15 people associated with Occupy Philadelphia on Sunday after blocking Eighth Street near Race Street just outside Police Headquarters.

The sit-in began about 17 hours earlier as a protest march against police brutality nationwide.

They were the first arrests since the movement began in the first week of October. Occupy Philadelphia, part of a larger national protest, is a grassroots demonstration against Wall Street and corporate greed that has taken on other issues, such as police brutality.

The arrests were made peacefully, and the Police Department's handling of the matter even brought praise from an Occupy Philadelphia organizer.

"This went off really well. The Police Department really showed the rest of the world, specifically New York, how to handle protesters," said Julia Alford-Fowler, an Occupy Philadelphia organizer in its legal working group. "And I think they should be commended for being peaceful..."

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/132418543.html

[WillyT]

14. Oh HELL NO !!!

:mad:

:nuke:

:kick: & Rec !!!