The $40 SD cam in the glove box can’t make phone calls but it can (and has) come in handy as a credible witness. In a tight spot, the cam could be sacrificed and the SD card concealed.
Post-Mavi Marmara, the IOF’s supremacist thugs seem to have traded Schadenfreude for SD inspired caution.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 19 2011 15:01 utc | 3

I am really astonished that the people around in that video haven’t hit back at the police.
With due respect, b, if they hit back they would no longer qualify as non-violent protesters. That’s what makes n-vp so effing difficult – and heroic in a quietly persistent way.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 19 2011 18:15 utc | 5

Well, Morocco, yes…. However it all hinges on what a movement like OWS and it’s offshoots or joiners can achieve, in the eyes of various beholders. My posts if a bit confused at times, all go in the direction of fighting and acting, at least somewhat, or almost entirely, within the frame of the present system, e.g. I mentioned a Third Party, setting up own TV station, etc. Because I don’t see OWS and co. as a revolutionary force of any kind whatsoever – not in aims, demands, in ideology, in cohesion, in strategy, in potential, etc. Therefore, the best that can be done is accept at least part of the present arrangements, while refusing or transforming others. Old story.
Second, no matter what, whatever channels can be used for communication or propaganda, should be so, self-imposed handicaps are absurd. The only exception is maintaining secrecy, but to do that you need knowledge of all the rest…and need to exploit the existing in a new way or invent something different.
The Tea Party has thrown the Repubs in disarray and pushed the agenda in confused directions to the ‘right’: of course it is not comparable as they have powerful support from behind the scenes. Which is another reason for taking over power where one can.

Posted by: Noirette | Nov 19 2011 19:45 utc | 7

Fotos statt Vopos.
That’s some graffiti I remember being on the Berlin Wall, near the Brandenburg Gate, back in the day. I have the picture somewhere.
Yes, the camera is a good friend.

Posted by: nobodee | Nov 20 2011 0:53 utc | 9

BTW: There is another huge battle over Tahrir right now.
here’s a good new video fresh, just posted about an hr ago.

Posted by: annie | Nov 20 2011 3:15 utc | 11

YouTube Video Prompts Calls for UC Davis Chancellor’s Resignation
Vid and story…
Never saw it from this angle, (until now) it is so much more emotional from this view than the other I saw.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 20 2011 3:50 utc | 13

Perp Walk? the silence is eerie..
Also, Pepper Sprayed Davis Undergrad Speaks Out, Says Chancellor Ignored Her, Hasn’t Reached Out At All

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 20 2011 7:48 utc | 15

Following on Monolycus post above…
6 Burning Questions About the Violent Crackdowns on Occupations Around the Country In the aftermath of a city-by-city crackdown featuring hundreds of arrests and evictions of Occupy encampments, plenty of questions demand answers.

6 Burning Questions About the Violent Crackdowns on Occupations Around the Country
By Lynn Parramore, AlterNet
Occurring without provocation, the Occupy crackdown gives the appearance of an orchestrated effort to thwart an emerging protest movement. Early morning Tuesday, in New York City, hundreds of police officers, many in riot gear, swept down on Zuccotti Park, throwing away private property, restricting press and using aggressive tactics to remove protesters and supporters. Here are some things we’d really like to know.
1. Who convened the mayors call? In an interview with the BBC, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan alluded to her participation in a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities just prior to the raids on encampments across the country. Mayors’ associations do exist, but they do not typically organize police interventions or local decision-making in such detail. Given the abuses of the past, such as the notorious COINTELPRO and other intervention programs that the U.S. government organized during the Vietnam protests, the public has a right to know the details of who organized that call.
2. Was there an attempt to control press coverage? New Yorkers awoke to front-page stories and photographs in both the New York Post and the New York Daily News. Coverage by the two papers was supportive of the mayor and the police actions but disparaging toward the protesters. An AlterNet reporter, arriving on the scene at 1:30am, shortly after the raid began, could get nowhere near Zuccotti Park due to police barricades (and was subjected to pepper spray while attempting to report on events). How did the friendly reporters gain their access? Was there advance coordination to allow certain media outlets access and block the rest? Why was press access restricted? Were some reporters’ credentials confiscated? How will reports of unwarranted force on the part of police toward the press be addressed?
3. What, if any, was the role of the White House? Who was in charge of following the nationwide Occupy crackdown at the White House? What does President Obama, the man who celebrated the uprisings in Egypt (and who is currently out of the US, in Asia), think about the raids and the encroachments on the civil liberties of peacefully protesting Americans? As a constitutional scholar, what is his view of the restrictions of the press and the arrests of journalists?
4. Was the Department of Homeland Security involved in the raids? Filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted this question, asking if the Department may have given the green-light to the raid. The DHS has been reportedly following Occupy Wall Street Twitter feeds and other social media networks. Did it play any role in the crackdown?
5. What, if any, was the role of the FBI? Suggestions are circulating that the FBI and other federal agencies may have advised local law enforcement agencies on how to conduct the raids and even how to handle press relations. Did this happen? Was there any coordinating of arrests across the country on the part of the FBI?
6. Where are the libertarians? In the face of all the clamor about “states’ rights,” local government and the Constitution, we want to know where all the libertarians have suddenly gone. It’s enough to drive you to drink an emergency cup of tea.
Lynn Parramore is an AlterNet contributing editor.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 20 2011 9:38 utc | 17

The motherless bastard…I know who the brave ones are in that photo, and it’s not the guy in the police outfit.
A disgrace to his profession…and the OWS people are a credit to the human spirit.
GO OWS!

Posted by: don | Nov 20 2011 10:35 utc | 19

yes, the students are really good:
“XJ: What do you want from Katehi, and the UC system?
W: I can’t speak on behalf of the movement, I can only speak on behalf of myself. But I personally request that Chancellor Katehi and Lt. John Pike resign. We have a petition out there already. I request that a mechanism be set up for the impeachment of chancellors, and a system for democratic election of our chancellors. There is no good reason why students and faculty don’t make that decision. Even when a chancellor makes a decision likes this, they feel safe, because they’ve been appointed by the regents, and the goal of the regents is to make more money. They sit on the boards of big institutions like Bank of America, they are the richest of the 1%, and they’re using this institution to fatten their pockets and they’re putting students into debt to do that.”
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/20/ucdeyetwitness.html#more-130524

Posted by: somebody | Nov 20 2011 11:39 utc | 21

b,
I was speaking this morning to relatives of mine in Egypt and they are saying the Army is now using Israeli teargas that is resistant to vinegar, etc. Do you know of any countermeasure that can be used. Lidia, a regular commenter on Arnold’s site suggested onions. Any info would be much appreciated.

Posted by: Lysander | Nov 20 2011 21:41 utc | 23

Another practical flyer/guide here:
Note instead of ‘Maalox’:

Baking soda and water works just as well (as maalox and water) and a $1 boxof soda would probably mix up 4 or 5 gallons of solution, and it is not sticky and probably not near as messy. In fact it could be carried in a water bottle and poured on the face immediately stopping much of the effect. Might try it in a nose spray bottle too.

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 20 2011 22:40 utc | 25

Street Medic Wikia (beta), the online resource for street medics that anyone can edit

🙂

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 20 2011 23:10 utc | 27

This is how the algae in DC feels about you. You think you’re going to clean up this scum by holding up signs and pitching tents?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/20/rep-joe-walsh-veterans-at-occupy-wall-street-protests-are-anti-american/
Rep. Joe Walsh: Veterans at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests are anti-American
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) on Saturday blasted the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and suggested it was a ploy to help re-elect Barack Obama in 2012.
“They don’t at all represent America and I think that the president and the White House and the Democrats kind of want to encourage it and now they’re scared because these folks are doing some pretty ugly things and now our Democratic politicians are conflicted,” he continued. “But its an anti-American, well funded left wing effort that may disrupt a lot of things next year, but they are clueless when it comes to what this country is all about and the rest of the country ought to educate them.”

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Nov 21 2011 0:19 utc | 29

Here is the reality of what we are becoming, have become. Walsah has it wrong. It is SCUM like himself, and the traitors to our Constitution and the rule of law, like Levin and McCain, that are the true “anti-americans”. You will not stop these slobbering fascists with signs and tents.
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/9892/blog/2011/11/17/senators-levin-and-mccain-target-american-citizens-even-american-soil-v
There’s been a lot of controversy around two specific sections of Senate Bill S. 1253 “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)” that was rushed to the Senate floor today. They are sections 1031 and 1032, which are both related to the detention of terror suspects. Section 1031 would apparently give the President the power to order the military to subject United States Citizens and other persons present in the United States to indefinite detention without trial or charge. The standards do not even require an allegation or proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the detained person caused harm to the United States. The minimal standards are mere membership or support of a recognized terrorist group. That means a Christian relief worker could end up in indefinite military detention without charge or trial for giving food or medical assistance to someone who turns out to have been a Taliban member or supporter. The new powers are not limited to threats to the United States either but to unspecific ‘coalition partners’. Section 1032 another very problematic section would put citizens and others detained in the United States under military control.

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Nov 21 2011 1:26 utc | 31

@ 31.
“You will not stop these slobbering fascists with signs and tents.”
Walsh’s public display of feeble-minded idiocy, in accusing Vets of being anti-American, is encouraging evidence that the right-wing cranks defending the interests of the 1% have lost the plot.
It should strike everyone with a functioning brain as oddly dissonant that right-wingers who not so long ago were demanding unqualified respect and reverence for “our troops” have now stooped to smearing them in the interests of temporary convenience.
If #OWS sticks to the principles off non-violent protest and is successfully and publicly crushed by violence, what rises from the wreckage will make the 1% wish they had listened to the warnings inherent in the message of #OWS.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 21 2011 2:33 utc | 33

http://www.redhotpepperspray.com/pepper-spray-antidote.html

Posted by: Uncle | Nov 21 2011 4:02 utc | 35

@POA #26:
Katehi is ‘little people’ too. She is cooked. It may be just an empty gesture, like prosecuting B. Madoff or Martha Stewart, but she is done. I’m a bit shocked that you don’t see it that way. You seem sharp, but you must know that anyone in public office is disposable.

Posted by: Dr. Wellington Yueh | Nov 21 2011 5:40 utc | 37

Great idea – Pepper spray art

Posted by: b | Nov 21 2011 10:53 utc | 39

“Katehi is ‘little people’ too. She is cooked”
Well, she sure is equivicating. I’m not so sure she’s as “innocent” as you imply. Its not like she didn’t have the Berkelely model of what might happen if the jackboots got sent in. The whole pepper spray thing was predictable, and the Badge Bastards shoulda been briefed beforehand about not getting too heavy handed.

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Nov 22 2011 0:34 utc | 41

An ambulance attendant friend tells me that they treat pepper spray victims with Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. The pepper spray is “quite greasy” and the shampoo is safe to use on the face and eyes, so they wash the victim’s entire face and then rinse with saline solution.

Posted by: jonku | Nov 22 2011 21:22 utc | 43

The best defense against pepper spray is a Masonic ring. Make sure the cop sees it. Moving along.
“The policies they advocate … range from the silly to the disastrous. They are inconsistent, foolish and hypocritical. Many of them are lazy freeloaders.”
http://lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut67.1.html
“Enlighten us: What will a ‘genuine’ people’s movement look like, if not just like this?…It will avoid the Communist symbolism and focus on the Fed and not capitalism.”
http://www.savethemales.ca/occupy_wall_street_is_cointelp.html
More government ops.
http://blueotter.powweb.com/nativeamericanprophecy.com/controversies-black-science-black-operations.htm

Posted by: YRB | Nov 24 2011 20:57 utc | 45