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The FBI coordinated the crackdown of Occupy with big banks | Seattle Education

The FBI coordinated the crackdown of Occupy with big banks | Seattle Education:


The FBI coordinated the crackdown of Occupy with big banks

From the Guardian:
There is a new twist: the merger of the private sector, DHS and the FBI means that any of us can become WikiLeaks, a point that Julian Assange was trying to make in explaining the argument behind his recent book. The fusion of the tracking of money and the suppression of dissent means that a huge area of vulnerability in civil society – people’s income streams and financial records – is now firmly in the hands of the banks, which are, in turn, now in the business of tracking your dissent.
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Police used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just