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SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California, Davis is facing a federal lawsuit filed by students who were pepper-sprayed during a campus crackdown on Occupy protests last fall.
Nineteen students and alumni represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on Wednesday.
The [...]
Last updated:
February 22, 2012 5:50 pm
By Tom Burgis and Jane Croft in London
Article source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b30a7556-5d3b-11e1-889d-00144feabdc0.html
A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 “delegates” from around the country and hold a national “general assembly” in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality.
The group, dubbed the [...]
After being held in custody for an unprecedentedly long period of 19 months, Bradley Manning now faces trial. Accusations include aiding the enemy and giving out US military secrets to Wikileaks.
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee is finally on trial after 19 months of being held in custody. Accused of providing Wikileaks with [...]
A poster created by a WikiLeaks volunteer to promote its leak of Bank of America’s files. Note the Bank of America logo on the body of the spider. (Click to enlarge. )
Julian Assange’s promise in 2010 of a trove of scandalous leaks from a major U.S. bank generated equal [...]
Updated: 04:04, Thursday February 23, 2012
WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy, as part of a ‘smear campaign’ to stop Sweden from extraditing founder Julian Assange to the United States, a Swedish daily reports.
The whistleblower website has threatened in an internal memo [...]
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Article source: http://www.localnews8.com/politics/30509946/detail.html
Over President’s Day weekend, Olympia, Washington became the first city in the nation to host a major national occupy movement conference. Activists from all across the country gathered to participate in three days of organizing activities, including dozens of workshops, training sessions and meetings. The Occupy Solidarity Social Forum was sponsored by the Alliance For [...]
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Feb. 21 (UPI) — Occupy demonstrators rallied outside California’s San Quentin State Prison to show support for hunger strikers protesting solitary confinement and other issues.
Many of the 700 demonstrators in the “day of solidarity” Monday with inmates were from Occupy Oakland, the Marin Independent Journal of Novato, Calif., reported.
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