““When you protect the things you believe in with your body, it changes you for good. It radicalizes you for good.”

Says one of the pepper-sprayed UC Davis students The whole article – including the video of the “perp walk” the UCD chancellor did the next day – is amazing. If she had had any brains or spine (or heart?) she would have tried to engage them. As it is, she…

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Victory in Oakland

“The sixth week of the international occupation movement closed with a decisive victory for economic justice in Oakland, California. After enduring several days of brutal police assaults that left the 24-year-old Scott Olsen–a former member of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines and a veteran of two tours in Iraq—hospitalized with…

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