Newswires: Seattle 1999

North America | Insurrection

Updated daily: In November 1999 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle, USA, was confronted by tens of thousands of people. Black blocs took to the streets (and windows) as the the city police fired all the gas they had. Hundreds were gassed, pepper sprayed, injured or arrested. But thousands more were radicalised and continue the struggle today...
Articles from the external newswires filtered for keywords like 'Seattle', 'N30'...

Seattle: Cops kill another person

Source: Denver Anarchist Black Cross

From The Arctic Circle Collective: At 4:15 PM today, a Seattle cop shot to death a man whose identity has not yet been released. According to mainstream media, the cop claims he confronted a man who was sitting and whittling with a knife on the corner of Howell and Boren. The cop claims the man [...] more >>

Seattle Cops Kill; Fuck the Police, and Fuck Calming Down

Source: Anarchist News Dot Org

From the Arctic Circle Collective. At 4:15 PM today, a Seattle cop shot to death a man whose identity has not yet been released. According to mainstream media, the cop claims he confronted a man who was sitting and whittling with a knife on the corner of Howell and Boren. The cop claims the man stood up and refused to drop the knife; the cop then fired three to five shots, killing the man. The only witness quoted other than the killer cop says the victim had no knife. Cops are liars and do plant evidence—we see no reason to believe the cops’ claim that the victim was holding a knife. But we would be missing the point to focus so narrowly. After all, we know all know well that cops are experts at using violence to escalate simple situations—like whittling or jaywalking. Cops believe, often correctly, that they will ultimately get away with any attack—even murder. And so they pepper spray, taser, beat, stomp, and shoot, wielding violence to maintain the systematic order of misery in which we find ourselves—to keep us under control. But as their attacks become more apparent to more people, even mainstream news internet comments (typically rather conservative) have begun to question their authority to do so. Here is a selection of comments from the PI coverage: read more more >>

Seattle Times: Military roles in Iraq being replaced by civilians

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Call it Phase One. The last U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq. American forces are out of harm's way, and headed home. Good news. Remember, the operative description is Phase One. The departure of all U.S. military is supposed to come at the end of 2011. more >>

And We’re Off!

Source: Beneath the Snow

We're packing up now to hop on the plane and we thought we'd send a quick note before we took off! We'll be landing in Seattle tonight and will cross the border tomorrow morning into Vancouver. Speaking of borders, the repression in Vancouver seems to have already started as a reporter has been denied access [...] more >>

Bookmark/Search this post with:

delicious | digg

digg |

reddit |

newsvine | furl

furl |

google |

yahoo |

technorati

Most recent articles

more headlines
with summaries
feedback

Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009

from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more

Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"

from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more