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Pittsburgh mayor endorses public negligence

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new age hip hop goddess

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Who is Kellee Maize?

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New Age Hip Hop Goddess Takes on the Music Industry

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Spreading Art and Love in Pittsburgh

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Kellee Maize Live- Changing the world with her powerful words!

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Teen beat by police over Mountain Dew bottle

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January 14 is Joni Rabinowitz Day in Pittsburgh

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Rep. Joe Sestak campaigns for U.S. Senate in Allegheny County

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on August 4,... more

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Roethlisberger Wins With 2 Games Worth Of Stats

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Burmese Karen refugees seek human rights in Pittsburgh

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Cops Sexually Assaulted and Harrassed Arestees during G20 Summits in Pittsburgh

BY MARTY LEVINE The large G-20 police presence has brought a number of complaints,... more

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City council and the Pittsburgh college tuition tax

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G20 Pittsburgh Sept. 24th, 2009 - Bash Back! Demonstration

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How to prevent police misconduct

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A curious property evident in the discussion of insurrection in the United States is that it gets more respect the further it occurs from home. Anarchists who would never dream of complaining that the Thessaloniki Food not Bombs is being neglected while its members amuse themselves burning banks, who could never conceive of suggesting that the Somali pirates stop seizing ships for ransom in order to start a bike repair collective, have no problem criticizing their own friends and comrades for shortchanging local projects to attend semi-annual mass mobilizations. This is a shame, because a look at the broader picture reveals that summit demos are taking an ongoing toll on the ruling class, even when they are tactically unsuccessful.

Just for starters, any city hosting a summit has to impose de facto martial law for the duration of the meetings. Miles-long steel security fences, bag searches on the subway, black helicopters in the sky, armor-clad riot cops on every corner, among other measures, make a mockery of the myth of "civil rights." By employing such repressive tactics just to keep a few summit delegates from being confronted by those they claim to be helping, authority reveals its true nature, undisguised by the usual lies and propaganda. People who claim that we should abandon summit protests because we can never replicate the WTO (World Trade Organization) riots in Seattle are missing this point. While it's true that the cops will never again allow themselves to be defeated on the street the way they were in Seattle, the things they have to do to win in the short term erode the perceived legitimacy of the entire ruling system in the medium term. If all they had to do was stop the protests they could just shoot the protesters. But since they must also maintain the illusion of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, their problem is complicated immensely. They have no good options, so it's not a matter of whether we will win, only of how.

Their situation becomes all the worse when, after turning the host city into a militarized encampment for a week, the cops can't even stop a few kids in black from breaking windows. The resulting frustration often leads them to attack and arrest defenseless groups and individuals who have minimal connection to the protests, further compounding their problems when the videos hit Youtube. Then to justify their own brutality, the cops make an example of a handful of protest organizers by hitting them with ridiculously inflated charges, usually for actions that most people would consider perfectly innocuous. As an added bonus, the lawsuits generated by blatantly unconstitutional arrests and searches strain city budgets, consume prosecutors' time, and extend their PR nightmare. For authoritarians, the only thing worse than appearing brutal and repressive is appearing brutal and repressive and ineffectual. Cops, by their nature, will fall into this trap every time, as long as we show up and set it for them.
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Arrest at G20 Demonstrations, Pittsburgh, September 24, 2009

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Pittsburgh police, G-20 arrests, and the US Constitution

We must punish police who violate the constitution.

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2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission Rock Point, AZ: Volunteers from Pittsburgh area churches paint murals

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Protestors Show Up At Onorato's Rally to Speak Out Against Police Brutality at the G20

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