This video was posted to CopBlock.org on June 30th, 2012. It details a project FreeKeene.com blogger Meg McLain has brainstormed and will soon make a reality with Nate Cox, founder of Virgina Cop Block, in Richmond, VA.
Since the post went live they’ve expressed interest at having a capstone know-your-rights summit at the conclusion of their outreach similar to that which the Peaceful Streets Project just held in Austin, TX.
Visit Virginia Cop Block to learn more about the Liberty Empowerment Project and to donate or advertise to help make it a reality!
Riot police responded to the scene of a Chalk Walk celebration in Los Angeles last evening and forcibly disbursed a crowd. Unfortunately, some in the crowd responded to the police’s violence in kind, escalating the situation, and motivating the better armed aggressors to deploy rubber bullets and batons on civilians. Seventeen people were arrested in total, nine for chalking (including a juvenile), two for failure to disperse, one for receiving stolen property, two for simply resisting arrest, and three for assaulting a police officer. Two of those charged with assaulting the police also received the subtitle ‘with a deadly weapon’. One officer was reportedly given a minor concussion by a bottle smashing against her helmet.
The chalking protest itself was a response to the arrest of twelve Occupy LA chalkers over the past four weeks in the United States’ second largest city. Organizers of the Chalk Walk scheduled the event to coincide with the annual Art Walk occurring simultaneously nearby. Free chalk was made available to those who cared to participate.
Journalist Nancy Casanova tweeted this picture of the night’s violence kicking off. (more…)
At best, it was a clerical error that sent Ademo Freeman’s notice of jury selection from Manchester superior court to 47 Schultz Street, an address that does not exist in Keene. At worst, it was a deliberate attempt to deny his right to a jury trial in the Chalking 8 case. Though the post office informed the court that the notification was not delivered, no further attempt was made to contact Ademo about the hearing that he had requested. As a result, on Wednesday, Judge Lyons ordered him caged for 60 days without consideration of the court’s error. He passed the buck to the supreme court, advising that the only challenge to the imposition of the sentence could be made through the third, and highest layer of NH judiciary.
Unless the supreme court intervenes, Ademo will serve sixty days, possibly forty if afforded all of his good time. Video of the scene in the courtroom is embedded below.
This Wednesday at 1pm I’ll walk into district court in Manchester, New Hampshire so a judge can decide when I’ll go to jail. Why? Well the start of all this was June 4th, 2011 when I used children’s chalk on a police station. Since then I have been found guilty at a trial by judge. Wanting to speak to a jury, I appealed.
Dave Ridley reports on the heroic Rich Paul who refused to wear a wire into the Keene Activity Center, despite being under duress. They threatened him with felony drug dealing charges if he didn’t do as he was told. He will be arraigned on the morning of 7/11:
Local code enforcer and former Keene police detective (yes, he is collecting his pension and still working for the city – sweet deal!) Fred Parsells appears to have taken me and the Keene Activity Center on as his pet project. Fred’s told me on more than one occasion that he thinks I’m going to leave Keene and it seems like he’s trying his best to ensure that happens.
Sorry Fred, it’s not happening. First, your case is pretty weak to begin with. You’re attempting to prove that the KAC is a “lodginghouse” by relying on old evidence collected from posts made online by former tenants, who are not currently living at the KAC. Even if the former tenants were running a “lodginghouse”, that’s not evidence that the current tenants are. Local robed man Ed Burke signed your permission slip to come raid the KAC, but that merely resulted in you finding some bunk beds – that’s not proof of anything.
There are more reasons why the KAC is not a “lodginghouse”, as I understand it, but that’s not the point of this piece. The point is, whether or not it’s a “lodginghouse” doesn’t matter. The Keene Activity Center is a project protected by Article Ten of the Bill of Rights in the NH Constitution to which Fred Parsells swore an oath. What is Article Ten? Here it is:
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Is the New Hampshire Supreme Court ready to take this issue on over a “lodging house” issue? Is the Attorney General ready to invest tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars over this?
At best, it was a 
