Occupy Wall Street under siege

11:15pm "Zucotti Park, NYC is getting evicted. Spread the news. Tweet, FB. Whole world needs to know it RIGHT NOW. They are attacking heart of our movement."

1)http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution - mayhem

11:28pm 2)http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews view from above - looks live - police walking around in park

11:29pm Zuccatti Park surrounded - eviction soon?

11:37pm Cops in small groups arresting individuals and marching them away.

11:43pm site#2 has two camera. One woman screaming "don't touch me".

11:46pm site@2 - NYPD white shirts in evidence. Banjo music playing. Site#2 showing picture of US Capitol.

11:53pm New site - http://www.livestream.com/occupywallstnyc. Site #2 reportedly refueling helicopter.

11:56pm - Site#2 has helicopter back in the air - but no picture.

12:03am - Site#1 - Cops destroying camps - arresting individuals without take down.

12:05am - News helicopters reportedly ordered out of airspace.

12:06am - Large dump trucks pulling up.

12:19am - Loud bangs - smoke/teargas?

12:24am - Radio on the ground - trying to get to park but press not allowed. http://www.wbai.org/

12:31am - People massing at Wall Street Bull.

12:34am - Police reportedly denying credentialed press access.

12:51am - 300 people at Broadway and Pine pushing back against police - blocking trash trucks from leaving.

1:20am - If only the people running the live stream knew how to operate a camera. Over and out.

ACTION ALERT: Board of Health Patient Rulemaking Hearing (11/16)

The Colorado Board of Health will hold a rulemaking hearing on Wed., Nov. 16, concerning changes to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's rules and regulations regarding medical marijuana. One of the main topics is a proposal to lower the patient Registry fee from $90 to $35. The Board will also discuss modifying the patient indigence standard and clarifying the definition of "in good standing" for physicians, in accordance with House Bill 11-1043

FULL DETAILS HERE:
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/op/bh/

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1) ATTEND HEARING
Board of Health Public Rulemaking Hearing
Wed., Nov. 16, 2011
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Sabin Conference Room, Building A - 1st Floor
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, CO
Time: Approx. 10:30am. The agenda says the MMJ rulemaking hearing will commence at 10:30am, but this is only an estimate, so if you want to testify in person, please show up early.

2) EMAIL COMMENTS
1) Cut and paste the CTI's Sample Comments, or write comments of your own.
2) Email it before Nov. 16, 2011 at 9:00am to: cdphe.edobohcomments_IndigenceFeesDoctorLic@state.co.us

SAMPLE COMMENTS
To: cdphe.edobohcomments_IndigenceFeesDoctorLic@state.co.us
Subject: MMJ Rulemaking Hearing (Nov. 16, 2011)

Dear Colorado Board of Health:
I support lowering the fees for medical marijuana patients from $90/year to $35/year. However, I am concerned about the security of the Registry and its confidentiality. I understand CDPHE is currently working to make parts of the Registry accessible online to the DOR Medical Marijuana Criminal Enforcement Division and other law enforcement agencies. Once any portion of the Registry is available online to other agencies, it opens the Registry up to possible compromise. Given that there have been several unexplained breaches of the Registry security in the past, I would like to know how you will prevent hackers from going online and stealing the Registry or parts of it? What portion of the patient's fees currently goes to making sure the Registry remains confidential? Patients will only use the optional state Registry if they are certain their identity will remain private and secure.

Sincerely,

Your Name

3) COPY AND REDISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT


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Paul M. Levitt: Homage to Adrienne Anderson

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Camera staff

Anderson teaching at CU. Picture from DenverDirect files.

In 1952, the university of Colorado fired Morris Judd, an instructor in the Department of Philosophy, for failing to answer President Robert Stearns’s question, “Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” On November 7, 2002, in the old Fleming Law building, an SRO crowd heard the university, in the person of Philip DiStefano, honorably apologize for the injustice and establish a scholarship in the name of Morris Judd.

Will it take another fifty years for the university to acknowledge the shame of firing Adrienne Anderson, an instructor in Environmental Studies, for exposing toxic waste dumps and the perpetrators, some of whom were patrons of the university? Adrienne had taught at C.U. for twelve years, had been an instructor in good standing, and had offered classes that were always over-subscribed; but when she and her students went public with their research findings, she was suddenly persona non grata.

The university immediately distanced itself from her research without asking its myriad scientists to check her findings, although repeated requests were made to do so. Her department suddenly decided “to go in a new direction,” cancelled her classes, and discontinued her contract. One can only hope that the newly formed committee to protect the rights of instructors will have the power to prevent further injustices.

To this day in the United States, we do not know where all the bodies are buried. Dumping sites holding toxins turn up periodically. Adrienne, part historian, part archeologist, part geographer, part epidemiologist, part sleuth, unearthed and studied federal and state documents to discover the location of the toxins. She instructed her students in the fine art of detection and imbued them with a sense of civic responsibility.

Adrienne’s students thought that the training they received from her was first-rate, and the New York Times thought enough of her work to run an article on it. Thanks to her research and that of her students, we know, for example, that several Denver locations are cancer hot spots because homes were built in areas where aquifers and water pipelines were contaminated, a fact that the usual suspects have gone to inordinate lengths to hide.

Adrienne died a few weeks ago from a brain tumor, whether caused by the nature of her work or for some other reason we will never know. But let us not wait fifty years to remember the debt that we owe her and to make amends. A scholarship in her name is the least we can do.

Paul M. Levitt
Boulder

DPD war on tents (and tables)

Occupy Denver reponds to ongoing police brutality and state oppression against all occupies

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

It is clear that the occupation movement has the government terrified of the emerging "people power" in America and is willing to suppress this movement by any means. In the past 24 hours, major Occupies across America were attacked and forcibly evicted. Word is that the newly emerging class consciousness in America is bad for business and must be stopped. Last night, once again, public safety and health was evoked by legal officials as a mob of Riot Police marched into Civic Center Park. In the past weeks Occupy Denver members were legally sleeping on the sidewalk without tents. A warning notice was given to the protesters late Friday night by police officials stating that "encumbrances" must be removed from public sidewalks, though no official notice of enforcement, or a time, was given. Again the government decided to change the rules and enforce its most belligerent action to date, to remove everyone from the sidewalk that in prior notices from the state were approved. When asked if ample time would be given to remove personal property, the officers responded in the affirmative. Moments later, the police moved in.

Once again, the DPD reaffirms its position as the most violent police force in the United States. Officers assaulted demonstrators who were just standing on the sidelines. An officer waited until a protester turned around and hit him in the back three times. They assaulted people verbally, including threats to "break the teeth" of protesters. One officer told another officer to "SHOOT EM!! SHOOT EM NOW!" One protester was struck by an officer on a motorcycle and was hospitalized. Protesters were kettled and shot with pepper-balls, according to Colorado Street Medics, who found pepper-ball shells at the scene of last night's incident. The shooting took place at 14th and Speer, eventually forcing the group to move to 16th St. Mall, where diners and theater-goers were present. The police action resulted in the closing of the 16th St. Mall bus system for civilian safety. Police actions put the general public in harms way, for no reason. All of this dangerous mayhem, completely instigated by police under the orders of our Mayor, was directed at peaceful protesters. Protestors were followed, intimidated and hunted by the police for hours after the eviction, proving that this was not about Civic Center park, but an attempt to aggressively confront the Occupy movement. These are certainly the kind of actions one might expect from the Egyptian Police in the last days of the Arab Spring, but not in Denver....

Our calls for the state to respect our first amendment rights have apparently fallen on deaf ears. Our attempts to negotiate through the city council, the mayor, and the governor have turned up nothing concrete. The first amendment states that it is illegal for the state to make any laws "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." For the Occupy Movement, the ability to assemble in tents is a form of free speech, and our constitutional rights have clearly been violated. The state and local governments are both in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as they are also in violation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We call on the Department of Justice and the UN Human Rights Commission to look into these allegations as we assert our right to freely assemble peacefully.

So far almost 4,000 folks have been arrested at Occupy demonstrations around the country, yet not a single one of the Wall Street criminals responsible for the financial ruin we find ourselves in has. We have mobilized against the greatest concentration of power known to man, and like all empires of the past, we know this one will not go down without a fight. It's been little over a month, and we can already see the tremendous positive impact the Occupy movement has had. For the fourth time in a month, they may have blocked off our park from us, but we are not going anywhere.

-Occupy Denver General Assembly
11/13/2011

Occupy Portland - Live streaming

2:18pm - Go here http://www.kgw.com/live-stream and here http://www.livestream.com/occupyptown.

3:14pm - Park cleared - street to be cleared next. Police announcement "...you may be subject to the use of force, including chemical weapons and blunt-force weapons." Crowd chanting "we are peaceful people".

3:21pm - People locking arms in the street. KGW has the best stream.

3:40pm - Another source - http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/OR/Portland6.html

same as KGW but a few seconds earlier. Looks like about 300 people standing in the street defying police order. If they are waiting to be arrested, they should sit down and lock arms.

3:57pm - Additional riot police joining. http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/OR/Portland6.html has 2 cameras running.

4:47pm - Police seem content to play the waiting game. The park has been cleared using front-end loader and dump trucks and is being fenced off. Occupiers set up tent in front line.

4:53pm - Police numbers suddenly double - now 4 deep at front line. Cops have not put on their gas-masks yet. 

Occupy Denver Live Stream

Go here for live streaming from State Capitol now

Update: 3:35pm - Police said to be gathering for their weekly "war on tents" at Civic Center Park with a 5:00pm launch time. Streaming is somewhat spotty, but hey, it's the best we've got, and thanks to those responsible.

Update 4:27pm - 14th and Broadway is an armed camp of Denver Police preparing for ....?

Update 4:43pm - Bobby of Scoop303 needs a charged laptop. Police are said to be ready to "permanently evict" Occupy Denver. Every time Bobby goes off the air, another ad is shown to the viewers. That's because they are using the free version of Ustream. Time to upgrade.

Update 5:21pm - Bobby operating from his car with a camera that is not low-light.

Update 5:24pm - Chanting in background. Police moving in right now.

Update 5:31pm - Bobby gives up - try this http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupy-denver1

Update 5:40pm - Sound only.

Update 5:55pm - Cops surround park. People headed towards mall.

Update 6:00pm - Better stream here http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Update 6:29pm - Over and out.

Adrienne Anderson's Memorial - Nov. 6, 2011

A memorial was held to commemorate the life of environmental activist Adrienne Anderson. Over 100 friends gathered at the Altona Grange Hall in Boulder County. A last-minute failure of our camera was rescued in part by Juliette Mondot who recorded what she could with her flip camera. Apologies to those we were not able to record. If you want to review clips of Adrienne in action, type her name in the search box on this blog.

Godspeed to Adrienne. May she rest in peace.

Developers are targeting open land on the north end of Golden

Developers are targeting open land on the north end of Golden that will bring more traffic on SH93. If you care about Golden and Jefferson County, please come to this important community meeting tonight!

Tonight (Wed, Nov. 9 at 6:15 pm) is a Jeffco planning commission meeting at the Taj where the planning commission will make a decision on the Draft North Plains Area Plan. This plan affects open space lands from Golden north to the county boundary and especially those critical open space lands on the west side of Highway 93. It is very important that a lot of people show up in person to communicate the importance of leaving our last open space lands undeveloped and to not commit the Hwy 93 corridor to an urban sprawl future. If you cannot make it, please send an email today to rclark@co.jefferson.co.us. He is the Jeffco planner and will forward your email to the planning commission. Some points for your consideration are below. If you attend, the hope is there would be a lot of people testifying so all you would have to do is say you agree with the other guy. When big crowds show up, it really makes an impact on the planning commission members, five of whom I am told are new and are in that learning phase. - Vera Smith

Please pass this on to your friends and neighbors who might be interested. Thanks!
Nov. 9, 2011, 6:15 p.m.
Jefferson County Courts and Administration Bldg. (the Taj)
100 Jefferson County Parkway
Golden, CO

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OCCUPY DENVER ELECTS LEADER

In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver's General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year old Border Collie. "Shelby is closer to a person than any corporation: She can bleed, she can breed, and she can show emotion. Either Shelby is a person, or corporations aren't people," said a Shelby supporter at the time of her election.

Occupy Denver reserves the right to alter leadership status, but for now, Shelby exhibits heart, warmth, and an appreciation for the group over personal ambition that Occupy Denver members feel are sorely lacking in the leaders some of them have voted for on national, state, and local levels. Accordingly, Occupy Denver looks forward to communication with Mayor Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sometime this week to introduce their leadership.

Newly-elected leader Shelby will be leading this Saturday's Occupy Denver march against Corporate Personhood, and invites all other civic minded dogs (and their leash-holders) to join.