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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 4, 2011 18:11:54 GMT 10
JP Morgan Chase Donates $4.6 Million To NYPD On Eve Of ProtestsWondering how much it costs to buy off the police department? JP Morgan Chase just gave the New York City Police Foundation the largest donation in its history. How the police show their gratitude will presumably determine whether they receive similar donations from companies in the future. Via Naked Capitalism: No matter how you look at this development, it does not smell right. From JP Morgan’s website, hat tip Lisa Epstein: JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD’s main data center. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing “profound gratitude” for the company’s donation. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Dimon said. “We’re incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work.” Now readers can point out that this gift is bupkis relative to the budget of the police department, which is close to $4 billion. But looking at it on a mathematical basis likely misses the incentives at work. Dimon is one of the most powerful and connected corporate leaders in Gotham City. If he thinks the police donation was worthwhile, he might encourage other bank and big company CEOs to make large donations. And what sort of benefits might JPM get? The police might be extra protective of your interests. Today, OccupyWallStreet decided to march across the Brooklyn Bridge (a proud New York tradition) to Chase Manhattan Plaza in Brooklyn. Reports in the media indicate that the police at first seemed to be encouraging the protestors not only to cross the bridge, but were walking in front of the crowd, seemingly escorting them across. Over 700 of the marchers were arrested, and the media has a rather amusing “he said, she said” account, with OccupyWallStreet claiming entrapment and the cops batting their baby blues and trying to look innocent. We simply don’t know whether the police would have behaved one iota differently in the absence of the JP Morgan donation. But it raises the troubling perspective that they might have. www.disinfo.com/2011/10/jp-morgan-chase-donates-4-6-million-to-nypd-on-eve-of-protests/
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 4, 2011 18:20:45 GMT 10
New York Times Alters Its Lead Story About ProtestsTweaking the language to subtly provide a less accurate, more pro-police spin. The Occupy Wall Street protesters in fact did not force their way onto the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday — they were allowed, even encouraged, by police to enter, and then were arrested en masse. Who is this mysterious Al Baker who edits the news on behalf of the NYPD? www.disinfo.com/2011/10/new-york-times-alters-its-lead-story-about-protests/
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 4, 2011 18:27:14 GMT 10
NYPD accused of heavy-handed tacticsThe New York police department has come under criticism for heavy-handed tactics during the Occupy Wall Street march over Brooklyn bridge, after more than 700 protesters were held for several hours. Activists, as well as commentators following the protest against inequality and corporate excess, claim the response of the city's police force to the peaceful event was vastly out of proportion. Almost 1,000 people have been arrested in two weeks – substantially more than the number of financiers who led the world into the 2008 economic meltdown. As Salman Rushdie put it in a tweet: "The world's economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed." The march began on Saturday afternoon in Zuccotti Park, the Manhattan the base of the core of 200 or so OWS demonstrators. By the time it reached Brooklyn bridge it had swollen to several thousand. Accounts vary as to how about 500 protesters ended up on one lane of the road across the bridge, where they were all penned in with orange netting and arrested. Some accused the police of leading them on to the road as a sort of trap. Video clips posted on YouTube, showing a small body of officers marching on to the road ahead of the mass of demonstrators, appeared to support this view. But the NYPD rejected those claims, saying that many warnings were given by police to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway that runs across the bridge at a level above the road. Paul Browne, the deputy commissioner, said protesters were clearly told that if they went on to the road they would be arrested. "Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were," he said. The police version of events was supported by some protesters. Malcolm Harris, a blogger who took part in the march, tweeted that the police were wrong-footed. "The police didn't lead us on to the bridge. They were backing the fuck up." Other participants suggested the confluence of so many on the road was a misunderstanding. Robert Cammiso, 48, told the Associated Press: "We were supposed to go up the pedestrian roadway. There was a huge funnel, a bottleneck, and we couldn't fit. People jumped from the walkway on to the roadway. We thought the roadway was open to us." The NYPD was accused of over-weening behaviour towards the protesters once they were "kettled" on the bridge. Video footage showed police grappling with protesters and strong-arming them away, despite no apparent signs of violence. The same footage shows the arrest of a young woman or girl wearing a cloth hat. Her age is not clear – she could be as young as 13 or as old as 20 – but the crowd clearly thought she was a child and chanted: "Shame, shame, shame." Others chanted: "You can't arrest an idea" and "Let us out, let us out." The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge, as some dubbed it, came as protests begun in Manhattan spread across America. There were smaller but substantial demonstrations over the weekend in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Washington and several other cities. In New York, most of those arrested were released early on Sunday with a citation for disorderly conduct. Brooklyn bridge was reopened by late evening, but the dramatic scenes there and the prevailing feeling that the police action was excessive are only likely to fuel the demonstrations as they www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-nypd-tactics
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Post by brillbilly on Oct 6, 2011 3:48:08 GMT 10
New York Times Alters Its Lead Story About ProtestsTweaking the language to subtly provide a less accurate, more pro-police spin. The Occupy Wall Street protesters in fact did not force their way onto the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday — they were allowed, even encouraged, by police to enter, and then were arrested en masse. Who is this mysterious Al Baker who edits the news on behalf of the NYPD? www.disinfo.com/2011/10/new-york-times-alters-its-lead-story-about-protests/ lol,so in ya face
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 6, 2011 14:19:13 GMT 10
Thousands of anti-corporate demonstrators poured into New York's financial district on Wednesday, backed for the first time in large numbers by trade unions and raising the stakes in a more than two-week long street revolt. At least 5000 people, with streams of reinforcements arriving all the time, crammed into Foley Square in lower Manhattan, where the city's courts and government buildings are located. They then marched toward Wall Street. Union officials estimated the number at 8000 to 12,000 and it was clearly the biggest protest yet for the fledgling movement. The mood was festive, with some even bringing babies, but there was also defiance as the crowd chanted: "This is what democracy looks like!" What started last month as a ragtag sit-in protest against corporate influence and social inequality was transformed into a bigger, more serious event with the arrival of major unions including the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, Transit Workers, and teachers' union. Unions brought numbers and organisational skills to the rally, which, unlike others staged throughout the Occupy Wall Street protest, was authorised by the police. And in another sign that the initial, youth-led campaign of civil disobedience had gained momentum, Democratic politicians for the first time voiced support for what some analysts are starting to herald as a potential left-wing rival to the conservative Tea Party movement. A similar demonstration, with a focus on protesting the US war to subdue the Taliban in Afghanistan, was planned for Thursday in Washington. In New York, crowds banging drums and carrying signs like "Save our Republic" and "Equality, democracy, revolution," crammed into the narrow, teeming streets around the financial district, symbolic headquarters of the US financial system. Chanting "we are 99 per cent," the loosely woven coalition of protesters flooded through lower Manhattan, watched by large numbers of police, who did nothing to intervene, other than to keep traffic flowing. However, police made clear that Wall Street itself was off limits, barricading the famous thoroughfare leading to the New York Stock Exchange to all but residents and local employees. Protesters have a huge list of grievances, ranging from the mountain of US student debt to shrinking retirement benefits for the elderly, as the United States struggles to regain its once powerful economic stride. "Something is wrong in America," said Charles Jenkins, director of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, who spoke to the crowd from a makeshift podium. "When students went out of college and they can't find a job, something is wrong." au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/10408325/anti-wall-street-march-shakes-up-new-york/
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Post by brillbilly on Oct 6, 2011 19:30:53 GMT 10
quote, Something is wrong in America," said Charles Jenkins, director of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, who spoke to the crowd from a makeshift podium. "When students went out of college and they can't find a job, something is wrong."
And its not confined to USA,its just the same in UK!
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Post by boxfree on Oct 6, 2011 21:43:27 GMT 10
Woke up the kids we did.
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Post by brillbilly on Oct 7, 2011 0:27:18 GMT 10
waking them up is one thing,but getting them to move in the right direction is the hard bit,lol
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Post by Rareclan on Oct 12, 2011 3:15:49 GMT 10
Hopefully more donations will be required ;D ! ! !
But seriously, Data base policing coming to a peaceful protest movement near you soon.
This is the start of Banks owning Police and Military to protect their interests openly.
Who pays your guaranteed wage ?
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