An Ohio police officer has been put on paid administrative leave after his own police cruiser's dash camera captured him using a stun gun to subdue a handcuffed woman, an attorney for the city of Warren, Ohio, told CNN on Thursday.
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Warren City, Ohio, police officer Rich Kovach said he used his stun gun seven times on Heidi Gill.

Warren City police are investigating a September 2 incident in which the officer repeatedly used a Taser to control the woman, who police allege was wildly out of control after being forced from a bar.

According to Officer Rich Kovach's own police report, he shocked Heidi Gill, 38, seven times -- twice after she had been handcuffed.

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The Warren Police Department is under fire for another accusation of abuse of force.

The latest incident happened during a September second arrest in the parking lot of a popular nightclub.

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We warn you some sequences of this video are graphic and very disturbing.

It's this shocking video that has warren city officials in an uproar.

It shows a woman being tasered numerous times by warren police officer Rich Kovach.

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As she is walking out of the frame, she is tasered again, the horrified expressions of onlookers can be seen on the tape.

Kovach in his report claims the woman fell after being tasered again.

This time falling to the ground and being knocked unconscious.

Read more at WYTV.com

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Anthony Arnove is the author of "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal" and the co-editor, with Howard Zinn, of "Voices of a People's History of the United States"



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Amy Goodman, author, award winning journalist, humanitarian and co-anchor of the best show on TV, Democracy Now! speaking at Socialism 2007.

Filmed by Paul Hubbard.

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Part 2:




You can watch her show, Democracy Now! streaming live on weekdays at 8am EST from their website:

www.democracynow.org

www.socialismconference.org

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Presumably from the victim:

You can contact me at stgeorgeoutofcontrol@yahoo.com

BTW, the officer's patrol video and audio is no where to be found. His tape is GONE. Anyone surprised?

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/19/1961.asp

This happened just outside of a speed trap town in Missouri called St. George with only a few officers that think they have more power than they really do. This happened outside of their actual town.

The commuter lot is open 24 hours a day and can be confirmed by calling 1-888-Ask-MoDOT.

You can see me pass the officer at :08 seconds as he nearly blocks the road as he sits waiting for the next car without license plate lights to come by.

You'll hear this officer tell me he'll make up "9 different charges" including resisting arrest before he has even tried to arrest me. You'll hear him say how I didn't use my turn signal and I was weaving when the video clearly proves him wrong.

I truly thought if I didn't suck up, I would be beaten and maybe killed.

The officer's name is Sgt. James Kuehnlein.

Please excuse the clicking in the video.

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From Democracy Now!:


Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed eighty years ago on August 23, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian-American anarchists who were arrested and accused of murder at the height of the post-Bolshevik Revolution Red Scare and debates over immigration quotas.

After a highly controversial trial in 1920 they were sentenced to death by a judge who called them "anarchistic bastards."

Their execution is infamous around the world and came to symbolize the intolerance of the American establishment towards immigrants and radical dissenters. Protests against their execution rocked every major city across the world in the days leading up to their execution.

"Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind" is a detailed new book that explores the lives and ideas of these two men and the enduring relevance of their trial. Bruce Watson is the author of this definitive new history of Sacco and Vanzetti. We spoke to Bruce yesterday from Boston, where Sacco and Vanzetti were executed 80 years ago.

* Bruce Watson, author of "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind."

For a transcript, click "Read More," below.

Transcripts, audio and video also available from here.

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From wikipedia:

The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists is a 1980 documentary by Steve Fischler and Joel Sucher of Pacific Street Films. It memorializes the story of the Fraye Arbeter Shtime, and the Jewish anarchist movement of the early 20th century.

Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich, the story is mostly told by the newspaper's now elderly, but decidedly unbowed staff. It's the story of one of the largest radical movements among Jewish immigrant workers in the 19th and 20th centuries, the conditions that led them to band together, their fight to build trade unions, their huge differences with the communists, their attitudes towards violence, Yiddish culture, and their loyalty to one another.



Comment in the forum thread.

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Indymedia.org interviews 3 prominent anarchists on the topic of anarchism: what is it? what does it mean? and how does it manifest itself within the global justice movement?

Guests include:

David Graeber, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and author of "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology." Wikipedia Article

Evan, an activist/organizer in Indymedia Network. Indymedia.org

Ramsey, a founder and collective member of AK Press. AK Press



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Source: Free Speech TV

Embattled Professor Ward Churchill speaks on the controversy over his essay, his treatment by the media and the people calling for his firing, and even execution, for 'treason'. In this hour-long program, Prof. Churchill invites FSTV into his home to tell the side of the story told nowhere else on American television: his side.

Producer: Source Code
Length: 61m 53s

When They Came for Ward Churchill

Watch at FreeSpeech TV

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a 2006 documentary film about British musician John Lennon's transformation from a member of The Beatles to a rallying anti-war activist striving for world peace during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film also details the attempts by the United States government under President Richard Nixon to silence him. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. It was released in New York City and Los Angeles, California on 15 September 2006, and had a nationwide release on 29 September. A soundtrack composed of John Lennon tracks was released by Capitol Records and EMI on 26 September 2006.

Inludes a little commentary by Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Angela Davis, Ron Kovic, and many others.

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Michael Moore's new movie, "SiCKO", is out, and CNN, like the fat little piggies suckling at the collective corporate teat that they are, jumps to the defense of the health care industry. They have been running an obviously biased political hit piece that appears designed, for the most part, simply to scare people and raise doubts about the idea of socialized medicine. Immediately after the piece they go to a live interview with Michael Moore, where he gives CNN, Wolf Blitzer, and Sanjay Gupta, a piece of his mind. For lieing to people about SiCKO and health care, as well as Fahrenheit 911 and the war on Iraq.

Round 1:



Round 2:



More at Michael Moore's website.

Click Read More to view my response that was submitted to Dr. Sanjay Gupta's blog (but probably won't be posted)

* Update: There seems to be a rather large public backlash to Gupta's defense of our immoral health care industry that allows 18,000 people a year to die without treatment. It's being covered on Michael Moore's site, but here is a direct link: Sanjay Gupta's Blog Comments

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1. I do not consent to ANY searches.
2. Am I free to go?
3. I have nothing to say until I speak with my lawyer.

Be courteous. Do not lie. Do not violently resist.

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Pirates and emperors - really the same thing. Here is a short, "School House Rock-esque" introduction to the idea.



This video has an introduction to Noam Chomsky's life and career, followed by an interview on his book, "Pirates and Emperors".

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Ward Churchill- Perpetual War: State Sponsored Terrorism & the Limites of Academic Dissent.

Churchill is a Professor of American Indian Studies and former Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was worked since 1978, and is on the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. He has authored, co-authored or edited more than 20 books, including A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present; Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader; and Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. He has received numerous writing and teaching awards and, as of 2001, was the most cited scholar in his field. In 2004 Professor Churchill was named runner-up for the Gustavus Myers Award of Best Writing on Human Rights for On the Justice of Roosting of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality and was inducted into the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars.

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Prominent anarchist, anti-globalization activist, and Yale associate anthropology Professor David Graeber speaks with Charlie Rose about anarchy, anthropology, globalization, and why Yale has decided not to renew his contract.

Thanks to Pillzbury, for passing this along.

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How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman interviews author (and former economic hit man) John Perkins.

From Democracy Now! (Transcripts and audio available at the link.)

"The protests this week in Bolivia come as Latin America is seeing significant success among popular progressive movements. From Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Lula da Silva of Brazil to the changes of government in Uruguay and now Ecuador, there is a continent-wide trend that has Washington concerned. The US has long exploited countries throughout Central and Latin America for the natural resources, labor and land. Over the decades, this exploitation has been backed up by force and through devastating policies dictated to puppet regimes. Our next guest says he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries in Latin America and around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. From 1971 to 1981, John Perkins worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main. He described himself as an "economic hit man." He"s written a memoir called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. When he joined us in our fire house studio, we asked him to begin with how he came to be recruited first by the National Security Agency - far larger than the C.I.A. - and then this so-called international consulting firm of Chas T. Main."

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I was able to find a 1 hour speech from John Perkins, talking about "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," in Free Speech TV's video archive.

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John Perkins was on Democracy Now! today for a full hour to discuss his new book, "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption." (Transcripts, audio and video available at the link.)

"Hundreds of thousands of protesters are gathering in Germany ahead of tomorrow's G8 meeting of the world's richest nations. The three-day summit is being held in the coastal resort of Heiligendamm. German police have spent $18 million dollars to erect an eight-mile-long, two-meter-high fence around the meeting site. Global warming will be high on the agenda. Going into the meeting, President Bush has proposed to sideline the UN-backed Kyoto Accords and set voluntary targets on reducing emissions of greenhouse gas. Other top issues will include foreign aid and new trade deals.

Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations -- what he calls the "corporatocracy." Perkins says he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies."

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Embracing Humanity: Truth in a Time of War by Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is the influential historian who wrote "A People's History of the United States" and "Voices of a People's History..."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJv_wf91W8

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This aired on a recent showing of Democracy Now!

"Today we spend the hour with readings from a Voices of a People's History of the United States edited by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. It is the companion volume to Zinn’s legendary People’s History of the United States – which has sold over a million copies.

We will hear dramatic readings of speeches, letters, poems, songs, petitions, and manifestos. These are the voices of people throughout U.S. history who struggled against slavery, racism, and war, against oppression and exploitation, and who articulated a vision for a better world.

Performances include Danny Glover as Frederick Douglass, Marisa Tomei as Cindy Sheehan, Floyd Red Crow Westerman as Tecumseh and Chief Joseph, Sandra Oh as Emma Goldman and Yuri Kochiyama, and Viggo Mortensen as Bartolomeo de Las Casas and Mark Twain."

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If you'd like to learn more, consider getting "A People's History of the United States" and/or "Voices of a People's History..." through our amazon store.

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