The killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old Black man, was a cold-blooded murder. It was a towering crime. This verdict is a slap on the wrist. It is another crime of the system.

Under the law, 2nd degree murder is the unjustified, intentional killing of a human being. Involuntary manslaughter is a much lesser offense, and carries a much lighter sentence. We saw the videos. From the beginning, the cops were the ones driving the action. Detained, lying face down, putting his hands behind his back while one cop kneeled on his neck, Oscar was shot in the back. Cold-blooded murder, a totally unjustified and brutal act.

Think about it: If this case did not involve police, the situation would be completely different.

Read more: INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER: UNACCEPTABLE!

Canadian police have arrested over 600 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city’s history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center. The security price tag for the summit is estimated at around $1 billion. Franklin Lopez of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report from the streets of Toronto.

For more information on the events that took place in Toronto visit:

G/8 G/20 Mobilization information: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

The Toronto Media Cooperative: http://2010.mediacoop.ca/

Democracy Now recap the event: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/toronto_police_arrest_over_600_in

Detainee information: http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/conditions-g20-dentention-centre-are-illegal-immoral-and-dangerous/3918

Youtube hip hop video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninV5yx7FW4

What do we honestly have to say about Wednesday’s events?

What do the events of Wednesday (5/5) honestly mean for the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement? How do we stand in the face of the deaths of these three people – regardless of who caused them? Where do we stand as humans and as people in struggle? Us, who do not accept that there are such things as “isolated incidents” (of police or state brutality) and who point the finger, on a daily basis, at the violence exercised by the state and the capitalist system. Us, who have the courage to call things by their name; us who expose those who torture migrants in police stations or those who play around with our lives from inside glamorous offices and TV studios. So, what do we have to say now?

Read more: After The Greek Riots. A report from Occupied London

Some information we have at this time on the comrades arrested in Asheville follows.  Solidarity to the accused!

All but one of the 11 suspects arrested were each charged with seven counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property and three counts of injury to real property. Each was being held under $10,000 bond. One man was charged with 11 counts and had an $11,000 bond. All are scheduled to appear in court on the charges Monday morning.

Read more: Saga of the Asheville 11

Just after six in the morning, Friday May 7, Wood County sheriffs descended on the squatted home of Stony Ridge resident Keith Sadler, and took a battering ram to the barricaded door. A half dozen supporters with the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League were rousted from their tents and quickly removed from the property, though it took police between ten and twenty minutes to get into the house itself.

Keith had called for help to occupy his home after the bank reneged on earlier assurances, foreclosed on his mortgage, and filed to have Keith kicked out. When cops finally broke in through a side window, they found Keith and six other supporters locked down inside. The SWAT team threw one person to the ground and put a gun to his head, though it took nearly two hours to break through the lock boxes and haul all ten into the waiting paddy wagons. The occupants were video streaming from the inside, and a part of the eviction was caught on tape.

"Cops are the dogs of the ruling class! Banks are the pain in our collective ass!"

http://www.anarchistnews.org/

Bialystok, Poland — Organized by Antifa Wildeast, Saturday’s demonstration was meant to be a peaceful march against the continuing fascism and racism in Bialystok. Instead the day turned into violence and a mass arrest of the participants. Before the legal demonstration even began the participants were violently attacked by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads.

The antifascists held their ground and were able to repel the neo-Nazi attack. As the beat-up fascists gave turn and started running away the police decided to finally intervene and stop the antifascists from giving chase.

The police surrounded the participants and made around 130 arrests, of those between 90 and 100 are estimated to be antifascists. Once in jail, individual police officers took photographs of antifascists using their private telephones and openly expressed their sympathies to the neo-Nazi group.

Video of police arresting participants of the legally sanctioned demonstration can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU6SOGWU6WA

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/11135

At the first tea bagger convention this weekend in Nashville Tom Tancredo – noted white supremacist and former Congressional architect of scads of anti-immigrant legislature – opened with a speech that would have made David Duke or Bull Connor proud. He called for a return to segregationist policies using all of the thinly-veiled white-supremacist rhetoric that he and his ilk are known for, letting the tea baggers know that “because we don’t have a civics literacy test to vote, people who couldn’t even spell vote, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House named Barack Hussein Obama”. This, of course, can be read as “because we let people of color vote, we ended up with Obama” and the ‘therefore’ is “we should not let people of color vote”, but the subtext is so obvious that I need not point it out.

Read more: Bring The Ruckus, Finding the words for "White Supremacy" in the Tea Party

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