I vaguely remember when “You’re Welcome” went out of fashion and was replaced by “No problem” (ick) or “My pleasure” But… what’s this “Of course?” When did that start, and where? Why is it suddenly ubiquitous?
I know that a very small number of people are closely following the NY campaign & business fraud trial. Something is really standing out to me.
The prosecutor is taking advantage of the defendant’s worst instincts to obliterate the defense case.
Time and again, against his attorney’s advice, he floats excuses. The prosecutor is presenting the case to pre-refute them; he knows what’s coming. It’s absolutely brutal.
A good article from the LA Times (republished here on AOL) about the background, process, and culmination of the Cal Poly Humboldt anti-genocide protest.
One thing that astounds me is that one student organizer, who didn’t even take part in the occupation, is being held on $10,000 bail. That’s.. a lot.
Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund is supporting arrestees at Cal Poly Humboldt and other local instutions, through the Center for Protest Law and Litigation (CPLL), Legal Solidarity Bay Area (LSBA), and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco Chapter
Police yet again play the pre-recorded order to disperse from the Cal Poly Humboldt chief of police saying that impact munitions and chemical agents will be used.
Clearly audible response: “YOU SAID THAT LAST TIME MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU AINT DONE SHIT!”
Police moved on the demonstrators at 3:00 AM PDT, and concluded at 3:15. Details are sketchy, police say there were “no injuries.” Reports vary, but between 25 and 35 people were arrested (of the 300+ people who were on campus at 1 am) The campus will remain closed for the remainder of the school year, with the remaining classes and finals all remote. No word about graduation. A donor fund-raising event for May 8 has also been cancelled
The president and chief of staff of Cal Poly Humboldt have assembled a police force from as far south as San Francisco, and they are currently announcing a “leave or be arrested” throughout the closed campus. Follow live at http://KFRH.net
Reporters are saying the illegal assembly order is directed at the occupants of Siemens Hall (named for the 1973 campus president who wrote to Nixon supporting student protests against the Vietnam War)
According to reporters on the ground, there are about 200 people in the quad, another hundred outside the police lines, and an unknown number gathering on the streets around campus.
The protestors in the quad are not surrendering, nor are they taking up defensive or attack postures.
Reporters saying the police who apprehended them ignored their press passes, vests, cameras, and equipment and said they looked suspicious and “could have a bomb.” They let them go saying that they “liked good media”
There’s a cat and mouse between the cops and the crowd. Even drawing reinforcements from all over Northern California and a small, bounded campus, the police lines are not broad enough to contain that many people. They keep squirting among three quads.
Observers at the Blue Lake Casino, a half hour from Cal Poly Humboldt campus, report that a 22 SFPD in riot gear and another dozen in uniform have boarded buses
