Evidence: non-profit policing organization orchestrating nationwide anti-occupy crackdown

Demonstrators and press nationwide have been speculating for weeks about federal involvement in police crackdowns nationwide.

UC Davis police violent crackdown on peaceful protesters last night

Many of you have likely seen this first video showing a truly horrifying spectacle: a row of students, heads tucked into their chests, sitting down on the ground, are sprayed in the face by a man protesters have identified as UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike. He sprays the students as if he is watering his garden, moving up and down the row spraying directly at them from only a few feet away.

Militarized police aiming sophisticated tools at non-violent #occupy movement

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#OccupyMap enables #ows participants to surveil police actions, communicate rapid developments

Some pretty creative coders created a program enabling smartphone users to text updates about police movements, break away demonstrations, medical crises and more to a constantly-updated map: #OccupyMap. 

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Thursday technology links round-up

This week's technology round-up is a doozy. You've been warned.

• First, a video on third party tracking. It's pretty cool and involves zombies. Watch it if you have 45 min.

BREAKING: ACLUm, NLG file suit to protect Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square

The ACLU of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild, together with cooperating attorney Howard Cooper from the law firm Todd & Weld, have filed suit to preemptively prevent the kind of police raid that we've witnessed in Portland, OR, Oakland, CA, and New York City this week from happening at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square. 

Brookfield properties issues confusing statement re: Liberty Plaza raid

Brookfield properties has issued a statement which suggests that their lawyers did not read the order from the Supreme Court of NY state, issued early this morning. That order, available here, said explicitly that the park must be reopened to protesters and that the police could not prevent people from assembling there. In a bizarre twist, Brookfield has responded thusly:

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NYC Public Advocate condemns Bloomberg’s raid on OWS

“Protecting public safety and quality of life for downtown residents, and guaranteeing free expression are not exclusive of one another. Mayor Bloomberg made a needlessly provocative and legally questionable decision to clear Zuccotti Park in the dead of night. That some media and observers were prevented from monitoring the action is deeply troubling.

Read his full statement here.