But suits over the coordinated crackdown of this movement have already started, beginning in Oakland, where the ACLU of Northern California and the National Lawyers Guild have filed a federal lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department (OPD) over their use of excessive force against protesters. [read post]

  See also the kitchen, the large and well catalogued library, the water treatment and recycling facility, the art department, the inter-denominational worship space, and all manner of additional development that has gone into making the Park a sort of borough in the making – a borough that functions much more effectively than many towns we now find, and that does so for all of its members, irrespective of age or ethnicity or familial… [read post]