Here's the Occupy LA link: occupylosangeles.org/
And the Citizen Action Wisconsin: citizenactionwi.org/
Uncle Fucker
The Senate is poised to vote on the National Defense Appropriations Act and in it there are a couple of alarming little morsels of police state policy: sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:
1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;
(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
More on the Police State to be Created by Congress Next Week: author: Wright Yer SenatorNow published on Portland Indymedia, as interpreted by Chris Andreae
In response to the Occupy Movement and its perceived threat to the status quo, Congress will vote next week on Senate Bill 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, to explicitly create a police state. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will "basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield" and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial "American citizen or not." Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), also declared that the bill is needed because "America is part of the battlefield." Write your Senator NOW!
10,000 marching in Oakland and the next day 100,000 shutting down the Port of Oakland. Yes, the Occupy Movement has been successful!!! Too successful! The Occupy Movement has scared the shit out of the powers that be. Homeland Security organized the mayors of over 13 occupied cities to successfully coordinate police operations to violently remove occupiers from their settlements. Congress will vote next week on Senate Bill 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, to explicitly create a police state. Stop Senate Bill 1867 in its tracks now!
The following information is ‘reconstituted’ from BlacklistedNews.com: The ACLU's Washington legislative office explains:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote today or tomorrow that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president — and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.
The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday.
The senators pushing the indefinite detention proposal have made their goals very clear that they want an okay for a worldwide military battlefield that even extends to your hometown.
Is Congress really proposing handing permanent, world-wide war-making powers to the president - including the ability to make war within the United States?
An article in the Army Times reveals that the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team will be redeployed from Iraq to domestic operations within the United States.
The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with "civil unrest" and "crowd control".The soldiers are learning to use so-called "nonlethal weapons" designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.This violates Posse Comitatus and the Constitution. But, hey, we're in a "national emergency", so who cares, right?Everyone knows that deploying 20,000 troops on U.S. soil violates Posse Comitatus and the Constitution.And everyone understands that staging troops within the U.S. to "help out with civil unrest and crowd control" increases the danger of overt martial law.But no one is asking an obvious question: Does the government's own excuse for deploying the troops make any sense?
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In Ottawa, Canada, At dawn Greenpeace activists marked the opening day of the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, by going to Parliament Hill with hundreds of LED lights to spell out the word “CLIMATE FAIL,” while a photographer in a airplane overhead snapped a photo.
Greenpeace says that The Harper government is failing Canadians and the world on the most urgent issue of our time. We need to turn away from the tar sands and make Canada a win on climate change.
The organization points out that Canada has failed to meet its Kyoto commitments and opposes an extension of the agreement.- KBOO