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Entertainer Seriously Injured at Occupy Portland Blames Riot Police

"I said, 'I have a broken back, I need medical attention.' The cops grabbed me by my legs and drug me through the mud..."

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Justin James Bridges, a local musician and American Sign Language translator for Occupy Portland, was assaulted in a police raid Sunday afternoon.

See How Police Treat the Poor and Disenfranchised in England

Brutality just barely begins to describe what happened at Dale Farm, it is the military industrial complex at work crushing the poor, casting families into homelessness, only working for the powerful controlling interests.

(CRAYS HILL, Essex UK) - As relayed in previous reports, the residents of Dale Farm are Irish Travelers, many identify them as Gypsies.

Regardless of what one calls them, they are a people who do not fit neatly into the brainwashed consumer culture. To the contrary, they are a sort of people that are impossible to tame.

A County`s Worsening Vendetta Against Occupy` Eureka?

This raid, striking before sunup, was meant to arrest all involved and confiscate everything...

(EUREKA, Calif.) - In this long night before the dawn of America's awakening, cops again raided the 'Occupy' Eureka encampment, arresting some 20 people and tearing apart their newest Action Encampment, rebuilt only 3 days ago before a crowd on Veterans Day in honoring Scott Olsen, Iraq vet, a victim of cop brutality in Oakland's Occupation.

This had been a great collective effort in also establishing an outreach center and library as part of its ongoing demonstrations after the first camp had been destroyed days earlier.

Occupy Birthright, Unoccupy Palestine

A vision of collective identity, purpose and values written by and for young Jews committed to justice in Israel and Palestine...

(NEW YORK) - We call for young Jews and allies nationwide to join in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and with our Palestinian siblings living under their own form of occupation.

Let us stand up to the 1% in our own community -- the powerful institutions that support Israel 's corporate-backed military control of the Palestinian people and act as the gatekeepers for our community."

Two Protestors Injured Near `Occupy` Eureka

A noon rally will be held at the courthouse Monday in solidarity with Verbena Lea, a local community activist arrested while lawfully taping police.

(EUREKA, Calif.) - One woman was injured near Occupy Eureka this evening when allegedly her head was smashed through the window of a local business by two outside agitators.

During this incident Officer Sanchez continued to demand protest signs be removed as he sat in his cruiser.

Are Police Pushing Occupy Portland Toward Violence?

So far more than 50 people have been arrested in Portland.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - "Impact weapons, Tear gas, pepper spray, less than lethal rounds, (A wives tale - the bullets kill and have center metal cores) police appear to be growing more threatening by the moment right now in Oregon's City of Roses. The black clad cops with their 'hard gear' are vastly outnumbered.

At least one demonstrator has received injuries from police, the number is probably much higher.

Police Square off with Demonstrators at Occupy Portland

One police officer injured and one demonstrator arrested by 3:00 a.m. Police are outnumbered, the crowd with Occupy Portland is still several thousand strong.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Police say they are authorized to use "chemical weapons" against a crowd of Occupy Portland protestors numbering somewhere between four and six thousand people.

One officer was hurt by a tossed firework; however the demonstrators themselves handed the man over to be arrested.

Police Threaten Public Assembly at Occupy Portland

The crowd gathered in Portland was estimated to be six thousand at midnight.

(PORTLAND, ORE.) - The Portland media is creating an environment that aids the city in its ambition to shut down the Occupy Movement. Police say they will do it at midnight, protestors say they aren't going to vacate.

Even though public officials are crying out about costs associated with the grass roots movement, donors in the city of Portland have offered to cover any costs incurred by the movement, which was self supporting and legal.

Occupy Protests and Homelessness

It would do Americans well to set aside their biases for a moment and visit the protest camps.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - People, Occupy Protests and The Face of Homeless People, including mainstream news reporters, tend to play down the significance of the protests because so many of the "protesters" are homeless, often involved with alcohol and drug abuse, used to relieve the pain.

At first, I was discouraged by this scene, but kept going back to try to understand the root causes and dynamics of the protests.

Occupy Tijuana Tests Rights

“We are students, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, workers; we are the 99 percent" - Occupy Tijuana

(TIJUANA, B.C.) - Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a protest in Tijuana is shaping up to be a test between the right of citizens to assemble peacefully and the desire of authorities to maintain public order.

In the wee hours of the morning of Tuesday, October 18, dozens of state, municipal and possibly federal police officers raided Occupy Tijuana’s encampment in the border city’s Plaza Rio zone and arrested 27 people, mostly young professionals and students, for violating city ordinances.