Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper
on militarization of US police/society
http://www.democracynow.org/Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
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The following notes are from my friend,Pia,who has send this mail to me~PayMaN PieDaR
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A"system that is rotten - a paramilitary bureaucracy"
while Chuck Wexler - Former Dir of Police Executive Research Forum - spews institutional, party-line garbage - not a word about cointelpro, police agent-provocateurs.
Also: Karen Smith - retired NY Supreme Court Justice - addresses media lies, among other things
Ydanis Rodriguez - NY city councilor, recently out of jail - talks about his assault by police, and encourages #Occupy participation
other discussion of US police violence, surveillance, use of drones.
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Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the "New Military Urbanism"
After a wave of raids across the country in which police in riot gear broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments and arrested protesters, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan acknowledged in an interview with the BBC that she participated in a conference call with officials from 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy movement. As police forces violently crack down on protests across the United States and Europe, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces. Stephen Graham is professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K. His book is "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism." "What the Occupy movement is so powerful at is demonstrating that by occupying public spaces around the world, and particularly these extremely symbolic public spaces, it’s reasserting that the city is the foundation space for democracy," Graham says.
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