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The Obamas in LA: See no evil, hear no evil

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California Streaming (A Travel Guide for Goofballs)

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Mark Berndt, L.A. teacher charged with lewd acts on 23 children including spoon feeding semen | Thump

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VIDEO: Military Helicopters Conduct Covert Exercises Over Los Angeles 1/26/12

Video was captured last night of five military helicopters buzzing over downtown LA,... more

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JUST OCCUPY: Ted Soqui & Christopher Felver in mostra negli States

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L.A. deputy punches special needs woman

By David Edwards Thursday, January 12, 2012 The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s... more

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'The Love Project' - How To Love Flash Mob on the Subway (VIDEO)

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The ACE Hotel goes to Los Angeles...

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December 22, 1999 - Terrorists, Hubble And Brush Fires.

What this day sounded like in 1999.

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Occupy LA Hip Hop Benefit Concert

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O Night Divine

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My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”

As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family’s dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.

When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.

It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.

My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm.
I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing.

At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day.

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http://www.infowars.com/my-occupy-la-arrest/My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox... more

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Comedian Patrice O'neal Dies at 41

Story by HWM CEO-Atlanta November 30, 2011 Comedian Patrice O'Neal, who made... more

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Occupy L.A. protesters remain mostly peaceful in faceoff with police

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Occupy L.A. Offered Office Space, Farmland, Housing Assistance, To Go Away

After 52 days of Occupy L.A., City Hall is ready to make a deal. According to Jim Lafferty, an attorney working with the Occupy movement, the city has offered to lease space in the L.A. Mall for $1 a year to the Occupy movement.

The city -- which won't confirm any of this -- apparently offered the old B. Dalton Bookstore, now vacant, to the Occupy L.A. group. Because that space worked so well for B. Dalton...

So: temperature check?

From the looks of last night's G.A., the Occupiers are pretty frosty toward the idea. There were allegations that the "city liaisons" were negotiating behind the backs of the Occupy movement.

There was also resistance to the idea of leaving the City Hall encampment behind. The City Hall site is much more visible than the underground mall. Also, "Occupy B. Dalton!" just doesn't have the same ring to it. On the plus side, however, the Occupiers would have a roof over their heads, and a sustainable home base from which to conduct their operations.

If it were accepted, the city's offer would represent a substantial public subsidy to the Occupy movement. Other merchants in the L.A. Mall rent their space for $1.50 per square foot per month. The B. Dalton space, by that math, would be worth $180,000 a year. (Though it's obviously worth nothing as long as it's empty.)

According to Lafferty, the city has also offered a plot of land for farming, and some housing assistance for the homeless Occupiers.

At this point, though, it seems unlikely that Occupy L.A. will reach a consensus. Too many hard blocks.

Update: Jared Iorio, who was moderating the discussion last night, on the chances that Occupy L.A. will accept the city's offer: "I don't think that's a real possibility based on what I saw last night."

"An offer to appease us as a group of protesters only is a lowball offer that doesn't address the concerns that brought us to City Hall in the first place," Iorio continued. "It's a bit offensive to me personally that City Hall would think we would go away without serious change coming to those who are oppressed in the system."

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/11/occupy_la_offered_office_space.php#CommentsAfter 52 days of Occupy L.A., City Hall is ready to make a deal. According to Jim... more

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L.A. Venice Beach - How The American Dream become a nightmare

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Let There Be Light!

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Obama Administration War on Cannabis

By Bill Boyarsky One of the most striking inconsistencies of President... more

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Herman Cain answers sexual harassment allegations

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Tons of Los Angeles River Trash to Be Captured Before Reaching Pacific Ocean

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