Not much change to our list of full time encampments this week. We go from 67 to 66 as Occupy Bellingham moves to the “threatened with eviction” list, but since the rash of raids on the 23rd, there hasn’t been much action. (Homeland Security must be giving staff the week off for the holidays.)

Watching the massive late night raids on the occupations at places like Oakland and New York City I’m left thinking, who is paying for all this? These massive late night raids can’t be cheap. They involve dozens, perhaps hundreds of police officers, often brought in from other nearby jurisdictions. There just aren’t that many police [...]

A nation wide pattern, possibly coordinated among officials from many states, has emerged for how political officials are trying to deal with the occupy protest. In the Northern locations the pattern has been to wait until the cold winter freezes them out. In the warmer climates, where the cold can’t be counted on to crush [...]

Reading the coverage and watching the horrifying footage of the police breaking up the occupy Oakland protest, it is an important time to remind everyone, especially the media, that there is no such thing as “non-lethal” weapons. There are only weapons that tend to be less deadly. The weapons often used by police for crowd [...]