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SWAT raid on organizers of Occupy Seattle & Everything For Everyone Festival
Early morning, July 10, SWAT police forced their way into the Seattle apartment of organizers from the Occupy movement. Police kicked down the front door and threw flash-bang grenades into the house.
This action targets well known activists from Occupy Seattle and the Red Spark Collective (part of the national Kasama network).
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August - to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
This action targets well known activists from Occupy Seattle and the Red Spark Collective (part of the national Kasama network).
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August - to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/07/416761.shtml
This from Everything4Everyone.org:
Early morning, July 10, SWAT police forced their way into the Seattle apartment of organizers from the Occupy movement. The sleeping residents scrambled to put on clothes as they were confronted automatic weapons.
The neighbor Natalio Perez heard the attack from downstairs: "Suddenly we heard the bang of their grenade, and the crashing as police entered the apartment. The crashing and stomping continued for a long time as they tore the place apart."
After the raid, the residents pored over the papers handed them by a detective. One explained: "This warrant says that they were specifically looking for 'anarchist materials' — which lays out the political police state nature of this right there. In addition they were looking for specific pieces of clothing supposedly connected with a May First incident.
This action targets well known activists from Occupy Seattle and the Red Spark Collective (part of the national Kasama network).
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August - to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
Room ransacked by police searching for "anarchist materials" and specific clothing.
The raid is a heavy-handed threat delivered by armed police aimed at intimidating specific people - but also st suppressing the work to continue the Occupy movement in Seattle, and create E4E as a space for radical gathering.
The E4E site will update this with more as we receive it, including hopefully statement from those involved. http://www.everythingforeveryone.org/
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More at http://kasamaproject.org/
Show your solidarity by mobilizing for and attending the Everything4Everyone Festival in Seattle on August 11 and 12.
This from Everything4Everyone.org:
Early morning, July 10, SWAT police forced their way into the Seattle apartment of organizers from the Occupy movement. The sleeping residents scrambled to put on clothes as they were confronted automatic weapons.
The neighbor Natalio Perez heard the attack from downstairs: "Suddenly we heard the bang of their grenade, and the crashing as police entered the apartment. The crashing and stomping continued for a long time as they tore the place apart."
After the raid, the residents pored over the papers handed them by a detective. One explained: "This warrant says that they were specifically looking for 'anarchist materials' — which lays out the political police state nature of this right there. In addition they were looking for specific pieces of clothing supposedly connected with a May First incident.
This action targets well known activists from Occupy Seattle and the Red Spark Collective (part of the national Kasama network).
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August - to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
Room ransacked by police searching for "anarchist materials" and specific clothing.
The raid is a heavy-handed threat delivered by armed police aimed at intimidating specific people - but also st suppressing the work to continue the Occupy movement in Seattle, and create E4E as a space for radical gathering.
The E4E site will update this with more as we receive it, including hopefully statement from those involved. http://www.everythingforeveryone.org/
--
More at http://kasamaproject.org/
Show your solidarity by mobilizing for and attending the Everything4Everyone Festival in Seattle on August 11 and 12.
For more information:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/07/4...
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This is just ridiclous Flash Grenades? what was the hub bub about anyway this means were having our freedoms of not just speech but our freedoms to cower away from the big pig coporations
Within hours, support and outrage has been expressed from a number of different corners:
From Greece:
Dear friends,
We have been informed about the SWAT raid on organizers of Occupy Seattle & E4E, which we strongly condemn. We are confident that such intimidation attempts will only strengthen your resolution to continue your struggle. Your courageous movement in the USA is an inspiration for us all. Our hearts and minds are with you! We will soon send you an official statement of solidarity from Greece
.Yiorgos Anastasiou
Member of KOE (Communist Organization of Greece) and of SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left)
Occupywallst.org
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
“We condemn this act of political repression and send our solidarity to all those who were targeted in this raid.”
The Cahokian
Democracy and Class Struggle (Britain)
New City Collegian (Seattle Central Community College unofficial student newspaper)
Revolutionary Unity
“Revolutionary Unity proudly stands beside our comrades of the Red Spark Collective and condemns the police raid, carried out for no other reason than to engage in the suppression of dissent. This raid was carried out in a city with a Democratic Mayor, in a state with a Democratic Governor, in a country run by a Democratic president.”
Socialist Alternative
“We need to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who suffered this raid and build massive movements of working people to defend our democratic rights and fight for our interests. We urge as many people as possible will attend the protest tonight at 7 pm beginning at Westlake park, Tuesday, July 10.”
Puget Sound ISO
“The Seattle International Socialist Organization stands in solidarity with Seattle activists raided by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) Tuesday morning, July 10, 2012. Police attacks on the physical safety and civil liberties of political activists are shameful and indefensible.”
Anarchist News
The Dissenter (Firedoglake)
Grey coast Anarchist News
Initial breaks into mainstream press:
Seattle Times (Wednesday, July 11): “SPD seizes suspected evidence from Occupy members’ apartment”
“Occupy Seattle activists said they were outraged by what was on the search warrant and started organizing a Tuesday night march to SPD’s East Precinct to publicize the incident. About 50 people showed up at Westlake Park Tuesday night for a protest that looped around SPD’s East Precinct and ended at Cal Anderson Park. Seattle Times photographer Bettina Hansen live-Tweeted from the gathering. Though plenty of insults were aired toward law enforcement, the event ended peacefully.”
CBS Radio Network 97.3 KIRO FM reports that communists, revolutionaries and Kasama were involved in the Seattle SWAT raid.
Seattle Weekly: “Differing Accounts Emerge of This Morning’s May Day-Related Raid by SPD”
From Greece:
Dear friends,
We have been informed about the SWAT raid on organizers of Occupy Seattle & E4E, which we strongly condemn. We are confident that such intimidation attempts will only strengthen your resolution to continue your struggle. Your courageous movement in the USA is an inspiration for us all. Our hearts and minds are with you! We will soon send you an official statement of solidarity from Greece
.Yiorgos Anastasiou
Member of KOE (Communist Organization of Greece) and of SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left)
Occupywallst.org
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
“We condemn this act of political repression and send our solidarity to all those who were targeted in this raid.”
The Cahokian
Democracy and Class Struggle (Britain)
New City Collegian (Seattle Central Community College unofficial student newspaper)
Revolutionary Unity
“Revolutionary Unity proudly stands beside our comrades of the Red Spark Collective and condemns the police raid, carried out for no other reason than to engage in the suppression of dissent. This raid was carried out in a city with a Democratic Mayor, in a state with a Democratic Governor, in a country run by a Democratic president.”
Socialist Alternative
“We need to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who suffered this raid and build massive movements of working people to defend our democratic rights and fight for our interests. We urge as many people as possible will attend the protest tonight at 7 pm beginning at Westlake park, Tuesday, July 10.”
Puget Sound ISO
“The Seattle International Socialist Organization stands in solidarity with Seattle activists raided by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) Tuesday morning, July 10, 2012. Police attacks on the physical safety and civil liberties of political activists are shameful and indefensible.”
Anarchist News
The Dissenter (Firedoglake)
Grey coast Anarchist News
Initial breaks into mainstream press:
Seattle Times (Wednesday, July 11): “SPD seizes suspected evidence from Occupy members’ apartment”
“Occupy Seattle activists said they were outraged by what was on the search warrant and started organizing a Tuesday night march to SPD’s East Precinct to publicize the incident. About 50 people showed up at Westlake Park Tuesday night for a protest that looped around SPD’s East Precinct and ended at Cal Anderson Park. Seattle Times photographer Bettina Hansen live-Tweeted from the gathering. Though plenty of insults were aired toward law enforcement, the event ended peacefully.”
CBS Radio Network 97.3 KIRO FM reports that communists, revolutionaries and Kasama were involved in the Seattle SWAT raid.
Seattle Weekly: “Differing Accounts Emerge of This Morning’s May Day-Related Raid by SPD”
For more information:
http://kasamaproject.org/2012/07/10/covera...
DOJ has been investigating and censoring the Seattle police department for some time now.
DOJ says the SPD violates civil rights, uses excessive force, lacks proper training, etc.
The Mayor and the police union refuse to act on the DOJ requirements.
The SPD will soon be under federal control, if the Mayor continues to stonewall the DOJ,
DOJ says the SPD violates civil rights, uses excessive force, lacks proper training, etc.
The Mayor and the police union refuse to act on the DOJ requirements.
The SPD will soon be under federal control, if the Mayor continues to stonewall the DOJ,
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