LaborPartyPraxis

November 1 2011

Introduction:

City Mayors of Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Denver and its state governer, the administors of city and state government, and the chiefs of police directing violence against citizens are not Republican men, but are Asian, Black, Jewish and Hispanic, male and female, and gay. They are a very diverse group. What they all have in common, is that, they are all members of the Democratic Party. They are Democratic Party heads of State and municipalities that are directing the violence against workers in the streets.

Not the proverbial 'white man', nor the 'conservative Repbulicans' can alone be blamed for brutality against workers...but members of the Democratic Party. This puts an end to the illusions of bourgeois 'identity politics' that emerged from ethnic and gender fragmentations that rejected the working class as 'white racists' and 'middle class' 'white skin priviledged'. What moreover ending delusions of grandeur of ethnic chauvanism and genderism is not just that the State's administrators of violence are 'people of color' and both gender and sexual orientations, but more importantly that it is the working class and the unions that are thoroughly diverse and united on common class interests that are the content of the present revival of social rebellion in response to the war on the working class.

Re: Pre-dawn raids, beating, tear-gas, tazing and/or arrests of "Occupy "

--- In laborpartypraxis@yahoogroups.com,, nwaakwukwo wrote:

The Democratic Party, once again, proves to be no "friend" to labor. On the contrary, this incident, the pre-dawn raid on Occupy Oakland, and in every other Occupy movement around the country where there were arrests and violence shows that the Democratic Party ordered police to attack workers. Ed Lee, is a the Democratic Party interim Mayor for San Francisco.

Trumka, who sits on Obama's Jobs Council with capitalist CEO of GE has not come out to condemn the orders of the Democratic mayors against the Occupy Movement. Obama has not come out to condemn these Democratic Party mayors.

Trumka has however, followed in behind President Obama to endorse his "Jobs Bill" that butchers workers of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits to enable capitalists with more revenues to invest in their businesses. Capitalists claim that they need 'certainty' in order to hire workers. Yet, capitalists are certain about their mega-profits. Capitalsts are certain about their income being tripled and about the monopoly of their wealth.

It is the poor and working class that remain uncertain....uncertain about housing, uncertain about jobs, uncertain about heathcare, uncertain about education, uncertain about sustaining life for the elderly and for their grandchildren.

Yes, workers must continue to be vigilant against the violence of the Democratic Party police raids.

Adaoma

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Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor
Oct 14, 2011 ... 'The Colorado State Patrol said 23 people were arrested as police in riot gear moved into the Occupy Denver camp in front of the Colorado ...
readersupportednews.org/.../7892-police-raid-occupy-denver-after-order-by-governor

Live Coverage: Occupy America
Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor. By Sara Burnett, Weston ...
readersupportednews.org/news.../7737-live-coverage-occupy-america

Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor | Progressive ...

Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor. October 15, 2011 | By Sara Burnett, Weston Gentry and Kieran Nicholson | Denver Post ShareThis. After 23 ... www.pdamerica.org/.../police-raid-occupy-denver-after-order-by-governor/

Daily Kos: Occupy:This is who the Denver Police raided?
2 days ago ... Occupy:This is who the Denver Police raided? ... Friendly advice to the Denver Mayor, our Governor, and the Police - watch what's happening ...
www.dailykos.com/.../-Occupy:This-is-who-the-Denver-Police-raided

Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor | 2012: What's ...
Oct 15, 2011 ... Two others were arrested by Denver police, Goodwin said. One of whom was arrested for simple assault, the other was arrested for impeding ...
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Evicts Occupy Denver With ...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Evicts Occupy Denver With Heavy-Handed Riot Police Raid. By Zaid Jilani on Oct 14, 2011 at 11:15 am. Hickenlooper ... thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/.../governor-evicts-occupy-denver/

ColoradoPols.com - Occupy:This is who the Denver Police raided?
2 days ago ... Occupy:This is who the Denver Police raided? ... Friendly advice to the Denver Mayor, our Governor, and the Police - watch what's happening ... www.coloradopols.com/.../occupythis-is-who-the-denver-police-raided

Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor | WHAT REALLY ...
Oct 14, 2011 ... Police Raid Occupy Denver After Order by Governor ... Occupy Wall Street Will Be to Prevent Police Infiltrators From Provoking Violence, 3 ...
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Democrat gay mayor provides harmony for massive Occupy Portland">
Oct 14, 2011 ... In a peaceful show of solidarity for Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Portland is the largest and most compliant demonstrations to date of a global ...
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Name That Party: Gay Portland Mayor Lied About Sex With Teen ...
Jan 20, 2009 ... Free Publicity for Democratic Challengers to Tea Party on CBS ... party-ID test on Portland's brand-new openly gay Democratic mayor having a ...
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Sam Adams (Oregon politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was elected to a four-year term as Mayor of Portland in the May 2008 primary, ... In 1987, Adams went to work for the Oregon House Democratic Campaign ...
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Occupy Portland threatened by Oregon's leading newspaper
2 days ago ... An editorial in Friday's Oregonian made no effort to conceal the choice that is being prepared by Portland's Democratic mayor if Occupy ...
www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/port-o29.shtml

Forum Post: WSWS: Occupy Portland threatened by Oregon's ...
1 day ago ... An editorial in Friday's Oregonian made no effort to conceal the choice that is being prepared by Portland's Democratic mayor if Occupy ...
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Daily Kos: Occupy Portland Oregon Our Heros
1 day ago ... Members of Occupy Portland Arrested in Police Raid Early Sunday Morning in ... Mayor Sam Adams arrived on scene during the arrests and ...
www.dailykos.com/story/.../-Occupy-Portland-Oregon-Our-Heros

Police erase Occupy Richmond tent site
CBS News - 14 hours ago
At about 1 am Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, police began a raid to evict Occupy Richmond ... A protester in Portland, Ore., carries a sign supporting Scott Olsen, ...

Arrests Made In Early Morning Police Raid On Occupy Portland
DOOM! (press release) (blog) - 18 hours ago
Portland, Oregon – Before 3:30am Sunday morning, 25 peaceful protesters from Occupy Portland were arrested by the Portland police at Jamison Square. ...

--- In laborpartypraxis@yahoogroups.com,, nwaakwukwo wrote:

A pre-dawn raid refers to a military tactic that involves a group of people, usually military personnel, raiding a location in order to gain an upper hand in combat, retrieve an important document or file, or capture a specific person. The hostage is usually of high political influence or a leader of an opposing military institution.

Pre-dawn raids usually occur during the early morning (usually between one and four o'clock), when most civilians and military personnel are asleep. The force raiding then makes a covert entry across enemy lines into a civilian area or military encampment.

It is then the raiding army or force's goal to carry out the mission of capturing the person, file, or to kill some of the opposing army while they are left defenseless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-dawn_raid

One example of pre-dawn raid:
In Chicago in December 1969, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/17_panthers.html

Oakland police rampage through the occupiers' encampment.

http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/26/police-attack-occupy-oakland

The Occupy Oakland (which suffered a pre-dawn raid by police in riot gear) was one of many cities that have faced violence and arrests in the last few days. City Mayors of Boston, Atlanta, Chicago and Oakland are not all, Republican, men but Asian, Black, Jewish and Hispanic, male and female, and all members of the Democratic Party . Using the argument of public safety, these rainbow colored face of the State have attacked and pummelled the peace of these unarmed , non-violent protests with tazers, flash grenades, billy clubs and batons, tear gas and rubber bullets. Contrast that with police protection of public assembly of armed Tea Partiers openly brandishing weapons.

See for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9IXTcEh10

Inspired by protests in Egypt and Tunisia, the Occupy Movement continues. It has not yet reached the level of the protests that have taken place in France, Germany and Greece where workers are occupying factories and other means of production. The viciousness and escalation of militarism of the police, the war against collective barganing, trillions of dollars in cuts to vital programs for the poor, namely Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security only emphasize the class war that is being waged against the poor and working class.

50 years ago in his message, Martin Luther King, in his writing "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, proposed an annual wage based on median income. The issues go far beyond mere occupation of a park. Issues of the huge disparities in wealth, lack of health care, eviction and homelessness, education and war and the devaluation of labor are at hand.

In the mean time, as King said in this speech to workers regarding the strike of sanitation workers: "But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on."
http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/ivebeentothemountaintop.htm

The Occupy Movement is going on. It shall continue.
Adaoma

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