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Posts Tagged: protests

Photographs from the November 17th Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York.

More photographs and text … 

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Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis being arrested for an act of civil disobedience at Pine and Nassau, New York.

Video by Angus McIntyre

Captain Ray Lewis at OWS

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“Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis was in Zuccotti Park last night with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Mr. Lewis showed up in uniform …
The New York Observer, “Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins With Occupy Wall Street Protesters.”

I suddenly love Philadelphia, for giving us this person.

Captain Lewis was arrested by the NYPD about four feet away from me this morning. Everybody in the crowd cheered him as the police led him away.

Definitely a class act.

Source: inothernews

If it walks like a duck ...

And if it sends soldiers to shoot unarmed protesters, fires on civilians from helicopters, and attacks journalists and ambulances, then it’s probably a dictatorship.

Old man get some soldiers, keep them close at hand.
The seeds that were sown yesterday now flower in the land.
Guard yourself most carefully with military might.
Plants that cannot bloom by day must flower in the night.
[“Flowers of the Night”, Freiberg/Slick/Kantner]