Much like the NATO summit, the system is set up not to spread wealth but to preserve and protect it, not to relieve chaos but to contain and punish it.
Lawyers for three protesters arrested on terrorist-related charges ahead of the Nato summit accused police of entrapping them and encouraging an alleged bomb-making effort.
National Nurses United and other labor and community groups will continue with plans to protest economic injustice and call for a financial transaction tax.
Journalist Paul Mason covered the uprisings of 2011 as they occurred. His new book "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere," explains why they all happened at once.
Ian Traynor, Helena Smith, The Guardian. February 12, 2012.
Under a sea of banners denouncing further wage, pension and job cuts, tens of thousands of protesters chanted against "the occupation" of the country by foreign lenders.
Why is the armed might of the state, (necessary in waging war against foreign enemies) being applied to domestic policing of local communities and peaceful protests?
Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now!. November 21, 2011.
Going into a third day of mass protests in Egypt, the unarmed citizens calling for an end to military rule face a vicious crackdown from security forces.
Thousands of protesters demanding that the ruling military cede power to a civilian authority were brutally cleared by the military and security forces Sunday.
As footage of cops pepper-spraying UC Davis students gets more views by the minute, a plan to smear OWS is uncovered. Clearly, these protests aren't over yet.
Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.
Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence. September 7, 2011.
Although "Seize DC" was postponed, September and October will bring an occupation of Wall Street, more tar sands protests, and the October 2011 action in DC.
