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AGGRESSION AGAINST ACTIVISTS AND WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SPEAK TO POLICE

Houston PD Preparing to Deploy Unmanned Surveillance Drones

Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission

Insider: Republican Dirty Tricks Machine Targeting Grass Roots Constitutionalists

New Surveillance Drones With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Tasers

Mercedes 10,000 Gallon Water Cannon

Every minute, up to 925 gallons can be dispensed at high pressure to clear the road and put protests to a swift end. German police seem to expect more than a few riots over the next few years, as 78 of these vehicles will be put into service over the next ten years (at total cost of €75 million or $107.6 million).

Documents show DHS improperly spied on National of Islam in 2007

Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes

Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens

Duty to Warn: Lessons for Americans

At one of the darkest moments of human history – in the heart of Nazi Germany – three idealistic German college students began publishing and distributing leaflets urging their countrymen to resist the barbaric depredations of Adolf Hitler’s war-making regime.

The three, known as The White Rose, were ultimately captured, tried and executed, but their inspirational pleas for resistance to an intolerable war machine and its propaganda apparatus inspire people to this day and offer lessons to Americans who face far less personal danger in resisting the dangers of militarism, Gary G. Kohls notes in this guest essay on The White Rose Society.

Scalp the Zazous

Similar to the Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids of Germany and the Schlurfs of Austria, Les Zazous protested Nazi ‘culture’ through their dress, dance, and other acts of nonconformism.

“When the yellow star was forced on Jews, non-Jews who objected began to wear yellow stars with ‘Buddhist’, ‘Goy’ (Gentile) or ‘Victory’. Some Zazous took this up, with ‘Zazou’ written below the star. When the French Jews were removed from the scene, the Vichy regime and their Nazi masters turned on the Zazous.”

“Soon, round-ups began in bars and Zazous were beaten on the street. They became Enemy Number One of the fascist youth organisations, Jeunesse Populaire Française. ‘Scalp the Zazous!’ became their slogan. Squads of young JPF fascists armed with hairclippers attacked Zazous. Many were arrested and sent to the countryside to work on the harvest.”

Don’t Talk To Cops – Google Video, via Survival Acres 5/24/09

Law professor lecture on the 5th Amendment and why he will never speak to a cop

Why Fearing the Police Is Not Irrational - Lew Rockwell 4/3/09

Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters – FlexYourRights

Cops and citizens – Guardian, UK 4/16/09

We need to be on the same side as the police, and they need to be on the same side as the law.

Never Talk to the Police – Lew Rockwell via WRH 9/9/09

Never Ever Ever Ever Ever EVER Talk To Cops!!!! (VIDEO)  - YouTube 11/7/09

 

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Police Versus Citizens: Oppression and Brutality as Police State Marches In

How the State Handles Dissent: Spying, Intimidation, Brutality and More

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MORE ON POLICE BRUTALITY



On Creating Local Food Economies

Food-backed Local Money

Creative Food Economy Emerges in Ontario

Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness

Exploring Permaculture in the Big City

Limits to Living Off the Land

Permablitz UK: Neighbors Reinvent Backyards (Video)

An Edible Schoolyard in Durham: How Kids Grow (Video)

Is Decentralized Urban Farming the Future of food?

Store or Starve A beginner’s guide to food storage

San Franciscans Turn Abandoned Lot Into Full-Fledged Farm

The Localization of Agriculture: A Predetermined Future

Think small on farming to help poor

Mother Jones Debates the Future of Our Food Systems

A debate is going on over at Mother Jones about our food systems, sparked by a piece written Paul Roberts pointing out that sustainable food systems aren’t all that easy to obtain when it comes to feeding billions of people.

Whence Nutrition

Where does the food in your bodega — or the corner grocer, the local minimart — come from? [...] How come it’s easier to find fresh fruits and vegetables in Brooklyn Heights than in the South Bronx? What’s the connection between the incidence of diabetes and the food market supply chain?

The Center for Urban Pedagogy and Designer Observer‘s 30-minute video Bodega Down Bronx looks into the urban grocery gap, and is freely available to stream.
The food justice movement is a broader response to this well-known discrepancy. In the past decade, a few organizations have started up in places such as Seattle, West Oakland, New York City (including parts of the Bronx), amongst others.

The Urban Nutrition Initiative (more here) is addressing this same problem via projects like the Corner Store Project which aims to incentivize healthy eating habits.  More background on this can be found in Amanda Shaffer’s 107-page [PDF] The Persistence of L.A.’s Grocery Gap. There are more academic studies, so if you’re on a university campus, check out papers by Wekerie and Giang et al.

Do kids need to learn gardening or more algebra?

“The suicidal dietary choices of so many poor people are the result of a problem, not the problem itself. The solution lies in an education that will propel students into a higher economic class, where they will live better and therefore eat better.” So argues Caitlin Flanagan in the pages of The Atlantic against Alice Waters’ idea that school curricula ought to teach children where food comes from and how to grow it (see The Edible Schoolyard).

The school gardener strikes back

Shunning Wal-Mart: A DIY general store

The residents of this windswept basin 100 miles from anywhere know that if they want something done, they have to do it themselves. Whether it’s repairing a tractor or rejuvenating Main Street, the people here fix their own problems.

[news] 184 Communes Currently in Formation in Venezuela

The Water Crisis: A Practical Solution

One practical solution to the water shortage is to replace our centralized water based sewer system with on site, waterless toilets and recycle grey water. Grey water is the water from the kitchen and shower and can be recycled, on site and reused for landscaping. This will reduce our demand on the water source by 80 percent while simultaneously creating a sustainable, renewable, agricultural resource, namely, organic nitrogen.

How to treat and store emergency water: Part 1, 2 and 3 – via There Are No Sunglasses

Scavenger’s Manifesto: HOWTO be an urban scavenger

What can Burning Man teach cities?

Hello local, goodbye global: Relocalization movement gains momentum

Grassroots Heroes: Tell Us What YOU’RE Doing to Spread the Message!

Open Green Map – Real-Time Mapping of Growing Green Communities



ADVANCES IN THE US POLICE STATE

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power

President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

Executive Orders: The Hallmarks of Fascistic Tyranny

Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret

Troops Randomly Patrol Streets In Pittsburgh, Respond To “Domestic Disputes”

De Facto Military Occupation of Pennsylvania

WPXI in Pittsburgh reported on February 9 that the Army National Guard will remain in the city “indefinitely” in response to the weather. “The guardsmen are paired up with police and medics across town, turning dozens of humvees into welcome wagons,” the news channel reported.

Bill O’Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies

Internet Censorship Alert! Alex Jones exposes agenda to ‘blacklist’ dissenting sites and license users

Houston PD Preparing to Deploy Unmanned Surveillance Drones

Obama attorneys argue for warrantless cell phone tracking

Police Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Searches

Insider: Republican Dirty Tricks Machine Targeting Grass Roots Constitutionalists

Surveillance Society: Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights

Nice highlighting of Obama’s hypocrisy.

Spying for Dollars: Military Contractors and Security Firms Reap Huge Profits

MK-ULTRA: The CIA’s Mind Control Program

The frightening history of MK-ULTRA and examples of its’ dangerous use against humans, including US citizens.

Hillary’s eligibility challenged in Supreme Court

“The Supreme Court has an obligation to settle the Ineligibility Clause issue once and for all,” said Fitton. “If our government and courts will not observe even the plain and unambiguous provisions of the Constitution, then we are cut adrift from the anchor of law and liberty and the rule of law is in jeopardy. We hope the Supreme Court takes this opportunity to vindicate the Constitution.”

First they came for the Air traveler : Homeland Security targets bus traffic in Tampa – News video

Please note how the gov propaganda arm, your local TV news, starts this piece with Tampa police and feds “are keeping your family safe”. And of course they pick one guy for an on-air interview who says he likes the plan, to keep him safe.

TSA ‘Behavior detection’ officers covertly watch travelers’ conduct

School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

Arkansas Cops: Completely Untrained, but Licensed to Kill

While Arkansas strictly regulates those who cut hair or paint nails in private, voluntary transactions, it imposes no training or licensing standards whatsoever on armed people clothed in government-issued costumes and the supposed authority to inflict lethal violence on others.

Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation : Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola




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