Tacoma SDS

Three women who were arrested during anti-Iraq War protests at the Port of Olympia in November 2007 have sued the city of Olympia, because they were told to disrobe to their underwear during searches at the city jail, exposing their breasts to men.

A very good ref 2008 RNC demonstrations can be found here.

Notice the use of social networking charts and associative analysis used to determine nodes and persons of interest. Also, the extensive monitoring and exploitation of open-source web-pages and email lists.

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee - The City of Tacoma has confirmed that the Tacoma PD and Port of Tacoma Police have collected and shared intelligence data on various local and regional activist groups such as Hate Free Zone (Seattle), Community-to-Community (Bellingham), People for Peace Justice and Healing (Tacoma), the Pierce County ACLU, BORDC-Tacoma, and the Tacoma Students for a Democratic Society (Tacoma SDS) since at least 2006.

HOW IS THE BORDER PATROL AFFECTING OLYMPIC PENINSULA RESIDENTS?
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The number of Border Patrol agents on the Olympic Peninsula has recently
increased from 4 to 25, with a proposed force of over 125. What does it
mean to have a growing Homeland Security force conducting random
checkpoints on our highways, patrolling our neighborhoods, and
surveilling local public
gathering places? Stories abound of harrassment & surveillance, the
targeting of immigrants and farm workers, interrogations and
detentions of long time Latino residents and community members who

On Saturday November 15, 2008, 3 members of the Olympia Police Department shot in the back and killed 24-year-old Jose Ramirez Jimenez.

On Saturday November 15, 2008, 3 members of the Olympia Police Department shot in the back and killed 24-year-old Jose Ramirez Jimenez. Many of the details have been withheld by the OPD, however we do know that the 3 officers who fired the shots were Paul Bakala, Mike Hovda, and Chuck Gassett. These officers have been given time off in the form of paid vacation. It is the convictions of the Olympia community that this is insufficient.

PRESS RELEASE -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Repeated attacks on the civil liberties of independent press and activists before and during the election process emerge as a pattern. Video after the break...

The evening of Friday, 19 August 2008, saw police--with guns drawn--busting down doors and detaining all those present in the St. Paul RNC Convergence Center. This raid marked the beginning of a series of actions against journalists and activists in the area, including harassment, detainment, arrest, theft of video and photographic equipment, and raids on other structures. It is clear that intimidation and violence will be "The St. Paul Standard" for the next week in the Twin Cities.

2008/08/31 13:32 PST: In addition to the multiple raids against homes throughout the area, union members and sympathizers are now being targeted. Be sure to check out the ridiculous amount of information linked below...
2008/08/31 14:20 PST: Acumensch provides an excellent summary of raids and raid-related issues to-date at his blog, Hyperborea.

Lots more coverage is available. update: Illegal Police Raid on Anti-RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul; Police break down doors in night-time raid on anarchist meeting ; Rumors circulating of possible police sweeps in Minneapolis this weekend another update: More police raids on Saturday morning - same warrants used as last night; preRNC Raids on Activist Houses; and special coverage in an episode of It's the END of the World AS we KNOW it and I feel FINE yet another update: Twin Cities Indymedia public space was not raided; other police raids are unfolding; Convergence Space Re-Opens, Moving forward with organizing for Sept 1; More journalist detainments - IMC & Democracy Now! taken into custody in St. Paul - mysterious raid against CUAPB; Anti-RNC Activists Respond to Police Raids even more updates: TC-IMC Exclusive: Complete search warrant from Minneapolis raid today; RNC Welcoming Committee Organizers Seek Sanctuary From Illegal Arrests; We stop for no one - a LOLCATS moment; PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY: Motion for Emergency Restraining Order Against Police; Train with reinstated union starbuck barista returning to work today stopped, surrounded by cops update update update (and lots of video): Homes Raided by St. Paul Police; National Lawyers Guild: Police Raid "Preventive Detention"; Police Bust Thru Attic to Detain "Democracy Now" Producer; Police Swarm & Seize Earth Justice Bus in St. Paul; Police Detain Journalists-Amy Goodman Jumps Fence To Question Cops; Activists Laugh At Sheriff's "Criminal Enterprise" Accusation;
"No Knock" Raid Of House Supplying Food To RNC Protesters

*Berkeley, CA* — At 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 27th, the UC Berkeley police, plainclothes FBI agents, and an Alameda County sheriff raided at gunpoint the Long Haul, a long-standing community library and info shop. Police spent at least an hour and a half searching the premises without allowing Long Haul members entry to their building. More than a dozen computers and other equipment were seized in the morning raid. Having made no attempt to contact Long Haul members, agents forced their way into the building by entering a neighboring non-profit office with guns drawn. Police refused to provide a search warrant until after the raid was over and property was seized.

more from The Long Haul website
additional coverage at The Berkeley Daily Planet and Indybay

A police report claimed that the reason they attacked people last night and arrested others was because "[the protestors] were carrying rocks and other items that could be used to threaten public safety".

But a trained observer on the scene disputes that:

I was a Legal Observer working with the People's Law Project and the National Lawyer's Guild and as such i was right in the middle of all the action last night.

First, in regard to the reports from authorities that protesters were carrying or throwing rocks, I observed no one carrying or throwing rocks, that isn't to say that it didn't occur but as a trained observer who was every bit as well positioned as the police I saw no such activity.

Second, in the very first instance where pepper spray was used against the activists there was considerable distance between the protesters and police and the protesters were complying with the chants that were being shouted by the police to "Move Back".