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40 police cars, two paddy wagons, two csi vehicles, and officers in full riot gear with nightsticks and pellet rifles
- surrounding 17 peaceful protestors in Sacramento.

Followed it from eight protestors, remaining, on down - God, what heart these people have - from Karen, who was doing this to show her daughter that she has a voice - to Cindy, who lost her husband in combat - down to Russell. The last. A 'student with cerebral palsy - one of the 99%' - who they escorted out, the very last, in his wheelchair.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Chicago, you also rock! All'a ya'll do, really - WORLD-WIDE. Man.

Date: 2011-10-21 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] indiwise.livejournal.com
Holy shit. You've outdone us, once again.

And I hate to burst their fuckin' bubble, but I'd wager that most of the Occupiers WERE Melbournites..

Things are escalating in Philadelphia, according to the lame LocalBlurb News that I missed this morning. Have to check that out.

Date: 2011-10-21 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffarff.livejournal.com
this is our city square:
<img src="http://www.cathyparry.com/images/com/sitefllane.jpg</> yeah, its usually full of that amount of people too. Its the most depressing place no one likes to go to. i think when he meant 'citizens of melbourne', he meant the pigeons and seagulls. protesters arent citizens...hmmm... im reading a few blogs right now and watching the news. im glad i didnt see the shit that went down all caught by the god-knows-how-many people with cameras and phones at every angle. police all over the world must be absolutely pissed off that about EVERYONE filming/photographing EVERYTHING and it being immediately put up on youtube. but the positive is more people are supporting the protesters here. bound to happen when you try to march people down the main street (so dumb!) and bash people right infront of passerbys. and i hear that Occupy Brisbane, local businesses are donating tents and food etc to them. i felt a bit gutless standing at the sidelines clapping when prompted while watching police move the protesters down the street and but i have to admit i was wearing my good trousers and um...just looking at the riot police stand there just a few short metres away me made want to soil them. at one stage, if you wanted to cross the street you had to walk through two or three metres of no mans land between horses / riot police and the protesters. and people, heads down, pretending nothing was fucking happening, were just doing it! insane amount of balls. why the police werent stopping people i have no idea. im going to go read up on occupyPhiladelphia.

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