Occupied Chicago: The NATO Summit Protest Tapes, Day Zero

by | Jan 11, 2013 | 0 comments

occapy_tripPresenting Day Zero of Free Concord’s Occupied Chicago series. The series features limited commentary over the raw video taken while traveling to and attending the NATO summit protests last May. This segment takes place in Boston, and begins with the group returning to its starting point eight hours after departure. After finding out that our bus trip would be replaced with a flight from Logan airport, some consumed their goods that were not approved by the TSA. This attracted South Station’s police, who in decriminalized Massachusetts chose not to act against the smokers. Once bus transport for the two or three among us who couldn’t fly is secured, an activist from Acton reads the subway guidelines for the week of the summit in Chicago. The video ends with a preview of Day One’s footage, to be released in the next week.

For previous coverage from this day’s police encounters, see Acton Cop Investigates Young People. For previous coverage of the NATO summit protests, see Pending: Coverage from the NATO Protests in Chicago, NATO 2012 Chicago: Initial Reports and Profiles from Occupy NATO.

Trailer for Unreleased NATO Summit Videos

by | Dec 31, 2012 | 0 comments

Chicago-policepunch-natoI’ve been working on a project to release my raw videos from the NATO Summit protests in Chicago and recently created an introduction segment. The videos will be released first as single videos featuring an entire day’s footage to Fr33manTVraw. From the single large video, a trimmed cut will be produced with audio commentary and released on the FreeConcordTV youtube channel. After creating the intro, I found that it worked very well as a trailer for the footage to come. It features video from both myself and other videographers, with channels cited in the video description.

Previous coverage from the weekend of protests:
Pending: Coverage from the NATO Protests
NATO 2012 Chicago: Initial Reports
Profiles from Occupy NATO
War on Cannabis – Boston: ‘It’s legal, but you still get a fine’
Acton Cop Investigates Young People

Jan 11 2013: Occupied Chicago: Day Zero – Getting There

Ridley Reports on KPD’s Ken Meola’s Rude Behavior & BEARCAT Positions

by | Dec 29, 2012 | 4 comments

Still more footage of KPD’s Ken Meola behaving poorly towards Dave Ridley. Ridley also suggests I am “passive aggressive” and that I’ve wasted my time having breakfast with people like Ken. I disagree that it’s time wasted conversing in a humane manner with government workers and politicians. Ridley may be angry, but I am generally not. If I find myself angry, I’ll do my best to admit it, and work on shifting to better feelings. As usual, when someone accuses me of being “passive aggressive”, I think that’s just projection on their part. Ridley wants me to be angry for him, because he feels, perhaps, as though he would be angry in the situations in question.

I’m long past being angry at the government guys. They are just humans doing the wrong thing by aggressing against their peaceful neighbors. Everyone can change – I know I have. Here’s Ridley’s report:

Independent Review Scolds AG, DTF on Fatal Raid

by | Dec 25, 2012 | 2 comments

greenlandnh_patchThe Union Leader’s Sunday News edition published an above-the-fold article on the findings of an independent law enforcement review panel investigating the April 12 no-knock raid in Greenland. The article indicates Attorney General Michael Delany had suspended the Drug Task Force commander James Norris, who happened to be on vacation on the evening of the raid that resulted in three deaths and four wounded police officers.

See also: Seacoast Print Publishes Anti-Prohibition Editorial

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