From our Climate SOS colleague Duff Badgley in Seattle:
For four nights in the gloom and rain we have occupied Westlake Park, the highly used public park in Seattle’s commercial core. Occupy Seattle, like Occupy Wall Street, sprang into being outside other organizations. The speed and intensity of our birthing has been magical for an old-timer like I am. We became, literally overnight, an embracing and necessary Tent City feeding and tending to medical needs for 80-150 people.
On Wednesday, Seattle police raided us with more cops than I had seen in years. Cops used horses and violence against us. 32 of us went to jail. Some of us were injured.
We are vowing to re-occupy. Stay tuned.
See more details at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016411868_westlake06m.html and a news video at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/video/mediacenterbc3.html?bctid=1203000677001.
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We must all be asking why it is that the police in Seattle, and elsewhere, are determined to treat the demonstrators, members of the 99%, as if they were terrorists! Horses and truncheons against peaceful marchers and campers? Why don’t the police join you? They have been as effected by the impacts of financial gambling in terms of redundancy, loss of resources, as every one else. It is clearly necessary for the ‘Occupy’ campaign to devise ways of keeping the police ‘calm’, to work with them![It is worth remembering that members of the police may be trying to provoke you so as to justify police brutality. In the UK they 'kettle' the demonstrators so as to beat them.]