Sunday, January 22, 2012

The gas canisters fired at protesters with LEGITIMATE problems and LEGITIMATE rights caused more than smoke and eye irritation.




  • Ex-Marine Scott Olsen, 24, (click title to entry - thank you) suffered fractured skull after he was hit during California protests




  • Surgeons waiting to see if swelling in his brain has eased before they decide to operate





  • Veterans for Peace activist has a good job and home but opted to sleep at protest camp after work




  • 'Nobody goes to work, nobody goes to school, we shut the city down,' vows protest organizer Cat Brooks





  • Anger over Oakland police ‘brutality’ fans across America as protesters march in solidarity with Olsen




  • Conditions in the Oakland camp were thought to have become unsavoury as tented town became semi-permanent