Protesters tear-gassed several times in Tacoma while opposing shipments of military equipm
Protesters tear-gassed several times in Tacoma while opposing shipments of military equipment to Iraq. Confrontations had happened all night long between protesters and riot police. As you can see here, the police decided to gas everyone while they sung Give Peace A Chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mode=related&sear ch=
That video shows what police had said after a protest in Miami. It might help explain totalitarian police mentality and why they shot at protesters in Tacoma.
No barricades were thrown, as police claim. A response video was made to police, in fact: watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z-w7g_8ZCYU
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Episode on the G8 Summit in Hokkaido on Indymedia Presents.
1) Introduction to the G8.
Episode on the G8 Summit in Hokkaido on Indymedia Presents.
1) Introduction to the G8.
2) 1:00 Video submitted by Anticapitalistas.net.
3) 5:25 Brief history of the G8's promises and trends.
4) 8:57 Advertisement for the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, with summaries of G8 military spending and summit spending.
5) 11:30 G8-tv alternative media.
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The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tid
The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security, Though owners have changed over time, the facility is now owned by the GEO Group Which operates prison facilities in Australia, The UK, South Africa, the US and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the largest and primary investigative branch of Homeland Security, expanded the facility's housing capacity 1,000 detainees, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast of the United States.
In 2003 the ICE launched Operation End Game, the largest police operation in US history, to remove all undocumented migrants from the US by the year 2012. The project's predecessor, Operation Wetback in 1954, removed 1.2 million Mexicans from the American Southwest.
ICE does not need warrants to make arrests or to conduct raids. Since July 2007, raids have increased the number of detained migrants from 18,000 to 26,000 nationwide. Homeland Security relocates 700 detainees a week in the United States.
Migrants in the facility are mostly from the Northwest regions of Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Washington. Due to the increase in raids they've recently come from places like New York, Puerto Rico and Guam. ICE agents move the detainees to the facility under the cover of night.
Nationwide tens of thousands of children every year lose a parent to deportation. 85% percent of those detained don't have legal counsel, since they do not have a right to due process or protections against unlawful searches or seizures.
After raids in the Northwest rounded up hundreds of migrant workers at a time from places like Auburn, Washington and Portland, Oregon, a protest in solidarity with the No Borders Camp actions in Arizona took place at the same time in Tacoma.
The march was focused not at the facility itself, which is tucked away unnoticed amongst shipping terminals and superfund sites, but at the Wells Fargo Bank building, which invests in the GEO Group's operations worldwide. The march was labeled a homeland security threat, and policed heavily. Police with cameras and less than lethal weapons intimidated protesters, and suggested that local landlords evict the protest organizers from their homes. The march occupied an intersection for more than ten minutes, circling from crosswalk to crosswalk until police used force. One woman taking pictures was arrested for spitting on the ground, and then intimidated by police and bystanders. Another was arrested for disarming an officer, though that charge was later dropped. In front of the Wells Fargo Bank, another arrest occurred.
As raids at jobs sites increased over the last years, members in the community seemed to have noticed little. As purges in accordance with End Game increase, the Tacoma activist community is attempting to increase awareness about the facility's proximity and what it stands for.
samples:
1) Plaid & Bob Jaroc "EMR"
2) Freq Nasty "Creator"
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What would you do if your community was a "revolving door" for military shipments and weap
What would you do if your community was a "revolving door" for military shipments and weapon supplies to the American military bases of Iraq and Afghanistan?
This dramatic montage is from Friday, November 9th and Saturday, November 10th in Olympia, WA. Two separate physical/human blockades were erected on Friday afternoon and the port was blocked from military access for 12-14 hours. After this, the road to the interstate highway was blocked at three or four separate locations.
Actions like this at the Port of Olympia had took place through that entire week. Tuesday the 13th was the largest day of action (which there is little footage of) when hundreds of people turned out to create physical and human blockades to throw a wrench in the operation of the military machine.
For more information about this action and its impact read the article on CounterPunch, "10 Days That Shook Olympia" by Peter Bohmer.
http://www.counterpunch.org/bohmer11152007.html
Samples:
1) Rascal "Galactic Jam"
2) Total Science "Squash"
3) Soundtrack "Unbreakable"
4) Zinc/MC GQ "Bring the Danger"
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The Port of Olympia Statement:
"We oppose Olympia's complicity in a war whose disastrou
The Port of Olympia Statement:
"We oppose Olympia's complicity in a war whose disastrous effects have been felt worldwide and we will actively resist the use of Olympia's port to further that war.... Through nonviolent actions we intend to stop the Port of Olympia from becoming a revolving door of military machinery furthering illegal war. This war has taken the lives of 3,845 US soldiers, over one million Iraqis, and has displaced millions more. These weapons are returning to be repaired and refitted for further combat. We see this as a continuation of the war despite our nation's and the Iraqi people's overwhelming opposition to the war."
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Another angle of the "Give Peace a Chance" police riot.
Another angle of the "Give Peace a Chance" police riot.
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A protest for President Bush as he arrives in Bellevue, WA to raise money for Republican D
A protest for President Bush as he arrives in Bellevue, WA to raise money for Republican Dave Reichert.
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Praxis Imago & Pepperspray Productions has the scoop in Tacoma.
Praxis Imago & Pepperspray Productions has the scoop in Tacoma.
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Recent article (Dec. 2007) in the Tacoma News Tribune:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news
Recent article (Dec. 2007) in the Tacoma News Tribune:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/239875.html
Officers at the Port of Tacoma didn't understand the rights of photographers or journalists. A group of six officers accosted me while I began filming the Port of Tacoma for coverage of the Stryker Brigade Protests in March of 2007.
I did not cross any barricades to reach the point I was at in the video. I had parked in a public parking lot and walked toward the gate where I began setting my video camera up. Several officers were standing at a gate seventy meters away: one officer told me that I needed to cross to the 'other side' of a barricade (and then another told me 'the other side of the light') which was further down the street in the opposite direction from the parking lot. So this had confused me, and I was not allowed to explain where I was coming from, nor allowed to get back to my vehicle.
Komo 4 and/or King 5, mobile television news networks with crew vans, were standing near or in the exact same location earlier. But seeing that I was not a member of the professional media class, the police decided to arrest me, and then they detained me for an hour in the back of a squad car. I was not read the Miranda rights, nor shown respect for any of the rights pertaining to a free and open press. As the officer who is shown in the video told me later, he doesn't care about "judges sitting in courtrooms with their black robes." He told me "I don't want to hear you complaining about your constitutional rights, son. You're lucky we're letting you go." They took my car keys and presumably searched my car. I was told they then had a trespass warrant for me, in which case I would be arrested for trespassing on public property if I went back to the Port of Tacoma later that week.
There was never a trespass warrant. I had not violated any ad hoc 'protest rules' (which were poorly marked by the way). And I was never in fact arrested. I was told to leave and that I was in fact "lucky" I was not being arrested. Five months later I received a letter of apology from the Tacoma Police Department.
Why had there been all this fuss?
The Port of Tacoma is frequently being used for shipments of Stryker vehicles, projectile weapons, and other heavy military equipment bound for Iraq. At the time of this incident, the area had already been surveyed by several other news organizations, which included aerial shots, because of growing protests at the port. Yet it appeared that depending on whose camera that information was captured on the police shifted policies and became more confusing and angry.
Even if you know your rights and have legitimate interests in filming or taking pictures around sensitive issues, you are still subject to police misconduct and ideological mistreatment from the police. The only advice I can give for people in similar situations is to stay calm and explain that you have a right to be where you are, explain the path you took to arrive at your location, and continue filming or taking pictures. The police have no right to interfere with your work and discriminate against you for not being a member of the professional media class. If they decide to arrest you, as they did here, they may detain you for up to an hour without actually arresting you. This is called a "terry stop". But you are technically not "under arrest" and saying this is false and misleading. You are only being held for an definite amount of time. Remember what they tell you, write down what happened later, and speak to legal counsel afterwards.
Please read more about your rights as a photographer or citizen journalist. Freedom of the press in our society does not pertain only to those who are branded with the insignia of mainstream media networks. Anyone with the ability to publish possesses all the rights pertaining to a free and independent press. These are not secret rights that are confounded upon those who graduate from prestigious schools of journalism, but the right of every citizen. When the police and the society as a whole do not understand this, nor have respect for this, consider whether you are living in a policed state.
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
http://rcfp.org/photoguide/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-12- 29-camera-laws_x.htm
http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal_rights_of_photograp hers.shtml
http://www.splc.org/report_detail.asp?id=1185&edition=34
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