#job #union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Occupy Oakland Protesters Sue; Claim Arrests Violated Civil Rights http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/01/16/occupy-oakland-protesters-sue-claim-arrests-violated-civil-rights/ Occupy Oakland protesters are suing the city and Alameda County, saying arrests last year violated their civil rights. The federal lawsuit filed Monday in San Francisco says 409 people were unlawfully arrested them outside the YMCA. The suit, seeking class-action status, claims civil rights were violated when they were held in jail for hours but were never charged with a crime. The suit says protesters weren’t given a dispersal order by law enforcement. The mass arrest occurred hours after protesters tried to take over the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center several blocks away. The suit s…http://www.twitpic.com/bw36ck
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot [VIDEO] Iraq war vet sues Oakland over Occupy police brutality injury http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/339430 Oakland – An Iraq war veteran seriously injured by police during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Oakland, California is suing the city. Scott Olsen has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Oakland over the October 25, 2011 incident. Olsen was hospitalized after being shot in the head with a “high velocity round made of metal pellets,” commonly called a beanbag round, fired from the shotgun of an Oakland Police Department officer after Occupy protesters failed to heed warnings to disperse. Olsen was critically injured by the head shot. “The impact fractured Mr. Olsen's skull…http://www.twitpic.com/bnh6qr
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot College of Marin professor sues Oakland police over Occupy violence http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy/ci_22223887/college-marin-professor-sues-oakland-police-over-occupy A College of Marin instructor is suing the city of Oakland over treatment he says he received from police during a Jan. 28 protest. In a lawsuit filed this month in federal court in San Francisco, Robert Ovetz, a 45-year-old Woodacre resident, said he was observing an Occupy Oakland protest downtown when he became trapped between two lines of advancing police officers. Without provocation, Ovetz claimed, officers struck him in the face, slammed his head into the ground and beat him with a baton, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Ovetz suf…http://www.twitpic.com/bnhrrt
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Oakland police sued in Occupy beating http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-police-sued-in-Occupy-beating-4102321.php A college instructor and activist from Marin County who was thrown to the ground by police and struck twice with a baton during an Occupy protest in Oakland – an incident captured on video and posted to YouTube – has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. Video footage of the Jan. 28 incident does not show what happened before Robert Ovetz was pulled from a crowd of demonstrators outside the YMCA on Broadway. But it does show that Ovetz was not resisting when an officer – identified in the lawsuit as Ercivan Martin – hit him in the abdomen and back with a baton. Ovetz, a 35-year-old Woodacre resident who has taught sociology an…http://www.twitpic.com/bknx1a
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Q&A: The Coup's Boots Riley on Occupying Minds With Music http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-the-coups-boots-riley-on-occupying-minds-with-music-20121129 Activist band on tour behind new album 'Sorry to Bother You' The Coup's Boots Riley knows the power of a dire warning. His group's second album, Genocide and Juice, first came to life as backing tracks for the late provocateur Gil Scott-Heron. Yet the deeply committed activist, a leading voice of the Occupy Oakland movement, says he'd rather make music that reflects his own optimism. There's a cheerleader vibe to “The Magic Clap,” the first single from the Coup's sixth album, Sorry to Bother You, and the band (led by co-producer Damion Gallegos) strays far outside the currently accepted notion of hip-hop. Ho…http://www.twitpic.com/bhmfph
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Oakland officials sued by war veteran who alleges neglect after Occupy arrest http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/28/occupy-oakland-occupy-movement Kayvan Sabeghi says he was left in a jail cell with a ruptured spleen for 18 hours after being beaten by police at Occupy rally A war veteran who claims he was falsely arrested, beaten, and almost died due to neglect in an Oakland prison has launched legal action against the jail, claiming his pleas for help were ignored. Kayvan Sabeghi, 33, was arrested during an Occupy rally in Oakland, California, in November last year. Video footage shows him being beaten with batons and he suffered a lacerated spleen which his attorney Dan Siegel says almost killed him after he was left without trea…http://www.twitpic.com/bhddij
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot San Francisco area drivers 1st with algae biofuel http://www.mercurynews.com/cars/ci_21997210/san-francisco-area-drivers-1st-algae-biofuel Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area have become the first motorists in the nation to fill up their gas tanks with an algae-based biofuel. The fuel, known as Biodiesel B20, went on sale Tuesday at gas stations in Berkeley, Oakland, Redwood City and San Jose as part of a month-long pilot program. Biodiesel B20 is made from 20 percent algae and 80 percent petroleum, and can be used by any vehicle that runs on diesel. Advocates say it is the first in a wave of clean fuel to hit the marketplace. “We are putting a stake in the ground,” said Matt Horton, chief executive officer of Propel Fuels, as he prepared to fill t…http://www.twitpic.com/bdak5e
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Occupy Oakland plans to retake Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy/ci_21847526/occupy-oakland-retake-frank-ogawa-plaza-thursday Occupy supporters plan to retake Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the initial eviction of the Oakland encampment and the ensuing protests. Demonstrators are planning to converge on the plaza outside City Hall at 3 p.m., march through downtown at 7 p.m. before returning to re-establish the plaza encampment, according to an announcement posted online. The announcement urged supporters to bring “tents, warm clothes, shields, a defensive attitude and hella friends.” A few hundred protesters are expected to participate. The city released a statement Tuesday pledging to protect f…http://www.twitpic.com/b75a4v
Sigh, Uptown Oakland prepares for another #Occupy protest. What a waste of productivity.http://www.twitpic.com/b2yppb
Fences are back around OG/FO Plaza for #OWS 1 year anniversary #OO #OSF #Occupy #Oaklandhttp://www.twitpic.com/aukduk