There is nothing for me to add: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/news_detail.php?idx=123
Please share widely!
Press release from Veterans for Peace regarding the injury to their member, Scott Olsen
Reality-based commentary on politics.
OccupyOakland tweets – “Egyptians revolutionaries announced they will march in #Tahrir on Oct 28th in solidarity with #OccupyOakland. Cairo and Oakland are 1 hand!”
After a veteran who spent 2 tours in Middle East to bring democracy is critically injured by his own government, while practicing that democracy at home.
One of the factors often reported as indicative of success was whether the country’s armed forces would back the regime or the people. It got me wondering, from which “Occupied” city will we first hear reports that the police force refused to try to clear them out, but rather sided with the occupiers, contrary to orders?
See: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/26/police-defy-orders-to-arrest-occupyalbany-protesters/ see also http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/24/1029620/-BREAKING:-Police-REFUSE-to-arrest-protesters!-OccupyAlbany-OccupyWallSt-
Problem is last I read a count, there were 951 occupy sites in this country and other countries so I can’t keep up with it all.
Oakland’s mayor appears to have done a 180 http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/quan-shunned-reverses-occupy-ban/
No one seems to have a complete tally of all that is happening; if you find a website that does I would be grateful to know about it. The 951 sites came from Daily Kos a while ago.