Re: <nettime> Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

On a follow-up to a long-dead thread here from January 2012
(found at: http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1201/msg00001.html)

this NYT article illustrates the further over-militarization of local 
communities in the US -- if you thought that Occupy movements have any chance, 
guess again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html

JH

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