dvtv live broadcast 11.17.11: NO SELLOUT

"...Long before New York became the financial capitol of the world, New York was the staging ground for world-famous, world-class public protests.

There's been demonstrations going on in Manhattan since the nineteenth century. Like any other public event - accommodations must be made for the masses of people who attend these public demonstrations.

This simple fact of life-in-the-big-city seems to be somehow lost on the current city administration. Over the years the Bloomberg administration's response to mass demonstrations: unwarranted surveillance, harassment, impediment, random arrests, mass arrests, random violence, pepper spray and ear-pain-guns.

When a city and a police department refuse to make accommodations for a mass public event - things happen - like pepper spraying women for holding a sign -- or unknown liquids getting thrown on cops. The absolute insistence that all demonstrations take place on a small part of the sidewalk - and the absurd notion that no one can be inconvenienced by a demonstration - results in scuffles over barricades and arrests for blocking traffic and endless lawsuits and injuries to both cops and passers-by.

Then there are more deliberate forms if civil disobedience - like the ninety-nine union members - who sat down in the middle of chambers street earlier this evening -- in front of many news cameras police-on their-best-behavior immediately arrested those ninety-nine union members. Among those ninety-nine - not an accidental number -- City Council member Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn.

About those ear pain guns -- lets run the slideshow -- downtown earlier today - this is the LRAD high-pitched sound blaster designed to deter pirate boats and terrorists at least a quarter mile away -- its called a distance-hailing-and-crowd-control-device, originally developed to warn incoming vessels approaching without permission. The LRAD 100X can be cranked up to an incredible 172 decibels. Human hearing is immediately damaged at 140 decibels.

Here is a picture that needs to be seen more -- this is eighty-four-year-old Dorli Rainey. She's a retired school teacher pepper sprayed over the weekend at occupy Seattle -- this is the result of an increasingly militarized police culture in the United States and a militarized culture needs an enemy to fight -- that enemy is the public.

The police were once considered part of the community -- now its an occupying army.

From Warsaw, one clever activist outfoxed the riot police - this video from latajacakamera on YouTube -- this is a flying drone, a Polish-built Robokopter -- police don't even seem to notice it. But if used here it would be dubbed a terror device.

Just like Bloomberg did today at an afternoon press conference where he described metal-tube like devices protesters planned to use to chain themselves to the doors of the stock exchange. This was the best you could come up with? Metal tubes? No dirty bombs or anti-capitalism nerve gas?"

WE'RE ALL DOOMED SO LETS FUCK SHIT UP

starting with like Macy's?

THAT'S the message from THOUSANDS OF ENRAGED PEACEFUL PROTESTERS downtown today, who are not rioting in the streets demanding the release of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez.

after all congress is about to declare pizza a vegetable and approve unlimited internet censorsh










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NOW IT GETS MESSY...

as it should whenever you deny americans their first amendment rights.

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clearly Bloomberg feared the huge demonstration planned for thursday, which would have marked the two month anniversary of the movement. the NYPD - and Bloomberg - appear to be defying a Supreme Court order to let the occupiers and their tents back into Zuccotti Park.

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dvtv live broadcast 11.10.11: LONG COLD WINTER

"...the occupiers down in Zuccotti Park were wise not to hone a clear message because we are dealing with a moving target – the economic system is a morphing shape-shifting beast and a nervous one at that.
...to my friends at Zuccotti park - and hundreds of other occupations nationwide – some unsolicited advice. your prime target – and the one thing that causes us so much pain – is the obscene amounts of raw cash that flows from corporate intrests into elected officials pockets. best-selling author Herman Cain (you don’t really believe he’s running for president) - Herman Cain suggested that the occupiers should target the White House instead of Wall Street. Horn-Dog Herman is half-right. until the lobbiests are outlawed – as they are in many other governments – until the cash stops flowing into the accounts of the president – congress – and other elected officials – the system is rigged to favor the very rich and screw the working man. changing the status quo is always a long and arduous process. Revolutions don’t happen overnight – witness what’s happened in Egypt and Libya. true change isn’t easy – especially when you are fighting the largest and most powerful government on the planet. With a full moon over manhattan you are watching the last bastion of the first amendment..."

SHOOT THE MESSINGER

or in this case the Oakland PD shoots the camera person:


this description from antiprocon via YouTube:

While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident.

you can even hear a voice, probably that of the cameraperson, asking the cops: "here? is this OK?"
sure, pal. jus' stand riiiiight there...

dvtv live broadcast 11.03.11: RESISTANCE

Michael Bloomberg - America's twelfth-richest man -- blames congress for the financial collapse and claims that the protesters have chosen a totally inappropriate target in wall street - as if the banks were ever forced to do anything. The banks rushed into a loan market because of greed -- plain and simple. Congress merely laid the groundwork; besides mister mayor -- you know damn well that there is a mechanism to hold congress accountable -- it's called an election. You might remember your last one -- you stole it.

As the occupy movements fight colder weather and police harassment and violence -- they are also fighting elements within their own. Violent demonstrators willing to provoke police and destroy property provide an excuse for authorities to attack a demonstration. Up till now the American public largely supports the aims of the demonstrators -- and largely supports the non-violent movement. Many in power who wish to see the movement fail know all-too-well: images of masked or helmeted youths throwing Molotov Cocktails or smashing storefronts on American television screens would derail the movement in a media minute.