[Peace-discuss] Seven Lessons From How Police Crushed Occupy

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Seven Lessons From How Police Crushed Occupy

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February 4th, 2015

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FBI Treated Occupy Movement Like a Terrorist Threat

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), via the Freedom of
Information Act, obtained FBI documents revealing that the FBI considered
the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began Sept. 17, 2011, a terrorist
threat - even as they pointed out that the organizers called for peaceful
protests and did "not condone the use of violence." According to Mara
Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, "These documents show
that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security treated protests
against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal
and terrorist activity."

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Big Brother Watched and Watched

The perception of Occupy Wall Street as "terrorism" engineered extreme
measures taken to undermine the group's peaceful protests, including
constant spying. FBI agents had OWS in their crosshairs as early as a month
before the protesters took up camp at New York's Zuccotti Park. "This
production, which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window
into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance, monitoring and
reporting on peaceful protesters organizing with the Occupy movement,"
stated Verheyden-Hilliard. She expressed how the documents also reveal how
the federal agencies function as a de facto intelligence arm for Wall Street
and Corporate America.

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Government, Banks, Corporations All Partnered to Squash Movement

According to a December 2012 article in the Guardian, the Federal Reserve of
Richmond, Virginia, hired a private security company to spy on Occupy Tampa
and Tampa Veterans for Peace and passed privately collected information on
activists back to the Richmond FBI.

The Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), which is "a strategic
partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the
private sector," gave corporate clients several tips on "civil unrest"
ranging from "small, organized rallies to large-scale demonstrations and
rioting." It also advised workers to dress conservatively, avoid political
discussions and "avoid all large gatherings related to civil issues .
Bystanders may be arrested or harmed by security forces using water cannons,
tear gas or other measures to control crowds."

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Infiltrated Colleges to Sabotage

The FBI was found to have committed spying abuses through its "Campus
Liaison Program" in which the FBI in Albany and the Syracuse Joint Terrorism
Task Force disseminated information to 22 different campuses' police
officials, who reported information to the FBI on OWS encampments made up of
students and professors in an attempt to sabotage them. At least six
American universities were reported to have facilitated this kind of
partnership.

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In a move that caught protesters completely by surprise, New York City
police in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park around 1 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2011,
using bullhorns to announce that any protesters who did not leave faced
arrest. Dozens of people were arrested, and dozens more were arrested when
they tried to reoccupy their former camps in later months. The movement was
founded on the idea of physical occupation representing a piece of land. And
once the camps were broken up, they were unable to rebuild momentum, even
though some tried and were arrested.

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Even the U.S. Military Was Involved

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which assisted with the
transport of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, kept its eyes on Occupy Wall
Street and reported on OWS and organized labor for the port actions. This is
the same NCIS that describes itself as "an elite worldwide federal law
enforcement organization" whose "mission is to investigate and defeat
criminal, terrorist and foreign intelligence threats to the United States
Navy and Marine Corps ashore, afloat and in cyberspace."

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y-wall-streetAgents Everywhere, Including Alaska

In over 100 pages the PCJF acquired, documents uncovered a clandestine and
sophisticated city-by-city plot, some violent, to crack down on the peaceful
protest of American citizens.

An Anchorage, Alaska, port facility security officer coordinated with the
FBI to infiltrate OWS meetings to gain intelligence and report what he heard
to the Joint Terrorism Task Force - another case of spies infiltrating from
all angles.

In Jackson, Mississippi, the FBI and the Bank Security Group - made up of
multiple private banks - met to coordinate a response to the  "National Bad
Bank Sit-in Day," which eventually was violently squashed.

In Florida, the Jacksonville FBI dispensed a Domestic Terrorism briefing on
the "spread of the Occupy Wall Street Movement" to officials at the Daytona,
Gainesville and Ocala Resident Agency territories, which maintain some of
the highest unemployment rates in the state. Tampa also had an FBI "Domestic
Terrorism" liaison who met with officials and briefed corporations.

Members of private financial institutions and law enforcement in Denver met
with the FBI and its Bank Fraud Working Group in November 2011 to discuss
OWS and how to make sure it does not damage its bottom line.

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