Riot police evicted Occupation camps from public parks in Portland, Ore., and Denver, arresting scores, while rifle-wielding officers were sent in to remove protesters from an abandoned property they had taken over in downtown Chapel Hill, NC.
Thousands of protesters blocked the Port of Oakland Nov. 2, bringing work there to a halt, as the city’s teachers and nurses and many businesses honored a general strike call. Protesters also blocked downtown streets, and seized an abandoned building near City Hall. Police only intervened in the wee hours of the next morning, evicting the occupied building, using tear-gas and rubber bullets and arresting some 80.
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Police fired tear gas into a crowd of several hundred protesters backing the Occupy movement who attempted to retake an encampment outside Oakland City Hall that officers had cleared 12 hours earlier using smoke grenades and arresting 75.
In a podcast from Death Row at a “super-max” prison in Pennsylvania, Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Supporters are demanding he be transferred from Death Row after a favorable Supreme Court ruling.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked portions of Alabama’s controversial immigration law in response to a motion filed by the Justice Department and a coalition of immigrants rights groups after a lower court twice refused to block the law.
The Justice Department filed a motion in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt enforcement of a controversial Alabama law that imposes harsh restrictions on access to public services and employment for undocumented immigrants.
Xenophobes and Christian fundamentalists are behind the anti-sharia measures now passed or pending in more than a dozen states—but secular progressives resist efforts to impose sharia on the unwilling in the Muslim world. Can we avoid confusion?
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released a status report concluding that California is unlikely to meet the US Supreme Court’s two-year deadline to reduce the state’s prison population by 34,000 inmates.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is under fire for recent brutal raids against immigrant families from California to Virginia. Obama has called off the ICE workplace raids, but continued so-called “anti-gang” sweeps.
The California Department of Corrections reports that at least 6,600 prisoners in at least 11 of the state’s 33 prisons have joined the hunger strike initiated by some 400 inmates at the Pelican Bay facility on July 1.
Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens pledged to appeal the recent federal injunction of the state’s new immigration bill, modeled on the controversial legislation in Arizona, which is also currently enjoined.
The US Border Patrol shot dead a Mexican national who was among three men allegedly attempting to cross the frontier at San Ysidro—almost exactly a year after a similar incident at El Paso.
