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>BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan arrested in Manhattan
>by Five of Diamonds
>Mon Sep 19th, 2005 at 12:42:39 PDT
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>I witnessed this with my own eyes. Here is my account.
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>Cindy Sheehan was arrested moments ago in Union Square, Manhattan for
>allegedly speaking in the square without the proper permit.
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Now they're saying that they just pushed her over and arrested the permit
nonholder next to her. I did see a very similar thing when I visited
Manhattan. A small ineffectual group held a rally at Union Square, around
July 2003 and were doing things like reading the bill of rights and a bunch
of police took their megaphone away. We got bored, but when they started
marching down the street, they got a block or two when the police told them
to disperse, but there was nowhere to disperse to on the sidewalk that was
blocked by police, then they just arrested a number of them and threw an old
man through a window.
I'm personally wondering where to station myself on the 24th in San Francisco. The A.A. group that protested the G8 two weeks ago where an officer was hit on the head by someone he had been chasing, have been leading most 'breakaway' marches lately. Instead of having a march after the ANSWEr march, they are meeting at the same time 11am, four blocks away, at the 16th and Mission BART station. And this is the site where all the answer marchers will be coming from, and it is also a effectively allowed drug dealing zone. Christian Parenti once lived here and was badly beaten up by crazy drivers. A.A. has been pushing this secondary event for two months now, and the police have vowed a preemptive arrest at their next unpermitted event... and this department is well known to have large mass arrests: http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/03/1588649.php The police chief who replaced a decrepit older chief called in the FBI, and launched an investigation into why the crowd control sargeant Suhr had taken his 150 officers back to the station suddenly in the middle of it, leaving a random patrol officer to run into the group, drive the car aggressively into the crowd, and get into trouble. It was pretty weird because almost all the police were gone, yet I definitely saw 6 uniformed police standing across the street by the subway station plus the dept. of public works were there on the scene cleaning up 60 seconds after people threw newspapers in the street. Suhr was reassigned and the story snowballed so they are under pressure to defeat A.A. in a grudge match. http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1751734_comment.php http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1753231.php
Also, what do you think of this. Are the farmlabor contractors bluffing... or how could such a large labor deficit be so underreported in the press, and wages also ahven't risen even $1 or $2. They never consider the possibility of increasing wages as though the only result could be farmers running out of business and this is a category that is exempt from the invisible rational hand of the market. In other categories, someone might think hotels are all way overpriced or wish for cheaper rental cars, electronics, tuition, rent etc. but there is no gov't intervention to bring in citizens from other countries willing to provide these items that americans aren't willing to do. Wouldn't this suggest that when combined with high diesel prices (which also affect California and the west with their labor intensive vegetable crops more than Illinois and Kansas with corn and wheat) that food will have as much inflation as gas costs once Krogers finally coughs up more money for the farms. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/18/BUGLUEP7UD1.DTL
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