Occupy camps under attack by Police
Nearly 60 days after the Occupy Wall Street movement began, cops across the country cracked down on encampments in Oakland, Albany and cities in-between over the weekend, in a series of events perhaps the most detrimental to the movement so far. After weeks of standoffs between protesters and police, law enforcement in Oakland, California moved in on More...
OWS Destroyed: Cops clear Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street protesters have clashed with police in Zuccotti Park after being ordered to leave their longtime encampment in New York. At least 70 people have been arrested, with the police said to have used More...
Cops clear Occupy Oakland
Hundreds of police officers converged on the Occupy Oakland camp early on Monday, dismantling the protesters’ tents and arresting at least 20 Occupy Oakland demonstrators who had gathered overnight in the town More...
UK loads rubber bullets for students
Police in London are preparing for war as students prepare to march on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has authorized firing rubber bullets on the 10,000 students expected to march with the National More...
Students march in London
Students took to the streets of London en masse on Wednesday to fight funding cuts and a massive hike in tuition fees. At least 20 arrests have been made, though police abstained from using plastic bullets, which More...
The US Police State
Review of Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy (2011), New York: St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp. Many readers may have thought the U.S. is “like a police state” – - think of the security More...
Fahrenheit 11/11/11
Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice More...