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"Sleep Now in the Fire" is the fifth track from the 1999 album The Battle of Los Angeles by the band Rage Against the Machine. It was released as a single in 2000. The song contains lyrics about greed, such as the conquest of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus' voyage by Nina, the Pinta, and Santa Maria and U.S. slavery in the 1800s as well as criticism of actions taken by the US government in wartime, including the bombing of Hiroshima and the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War

Guitarist Tom Morello's solo is also notable as he simply uses feedback from the amp, along with using his whammy bar to adjust the pitch of the feedback. By flicking his toggle switch on and off, he is able to create the high-pitched solo. At the end of the song, there is some sound from a Korean radio station that Morello picked up on his amp.

A Dystopia (from Ancient Greek: δυσ-, "bad, ill", and Ancient Greek: τόπος, "place, landscape"; alternatively cacotopia,[1] or anti-utopia) is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity's spiritual evolution. Dystopian societies are often imagined as police states, with unlimited power over the citizens.

fief·dom
[feef-duhm] noun
1.the estate or domain of a feudal lord.
2. Informal . anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group

Iraq War Veteran Confronts NYPD About Brutality At Occupy Wall St.

Written by Casey Gane-McCalla

NEW YORK — A Black Iraq war veteran Iraq war veteran confronted NYPD officers for violent tactics against Occupy Wall Street protesters this past weekend near the site of the protests.

Police did not attempt to quiet Sergeant Shemar Thomas as he gave an impassioned speech about protests in Iraq and New York.

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department.
An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement.

Thomas comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country: Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II).

To contact Sgt. Thomas directly: sgtshamarthomasusmc@yahoo.com

Rachel Maddow: New weapons used against Occupy Protestors

Pepper-sprayed woman gets mayor's apology

Mayor Mike McGinn said he's sorry police pepper-sprayed peaceful Occupy Seattle demonstrators, after a photo of 84-year-old demonstrator Dorli Rainey's dripping face went viral. But the apology didn't satisfy protesters who say the police response has been "excessive."

By Mike Lindblom and Lynn Thompson
Seattle Times staff reporters

Dorli Rainey, 84, talks with fellow demonstrators Caleb Walez, left, Shaine (no last name given) and Thomas Patton, all from Seattle, after police pepper-sprayed them Tuesday evening during an Occupy Seattle protest downtown that blocked rush-hour traffic.

"The last time we were "subjects," and not citizens, was when King George the III was ruling america" Dorli Rainey

"To those engaged in peaceful protest, I am sorry that you were pepper-sprayed," McGinn said in a statement Wednesday. The mayor said he has spoken with Rainey.

The confrontations began Tuesday afternoon after demonstrators blocked downtown intersections, delaying commuters. As far back as Oct. 8, police have followed a policy of keeping streets clear, by arrest if necessary.McGinn said he and Police Chief John Diaz are reviewing two pepper-spray incidents from Tuesday and developing procedures to ensure "appropriate commanders" are on hand at future protests.

Diaz couldn't be reached Wednesday, and police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb declined to comment, saying, "We'll defer to the mayor." Sgt. Rich O'Neill, head of the police union, did not return calls for comment.
Police said they used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in Belltown, while arresting a 17-year-old girl who swung a stick at officers. Protesters regrouped on Fifth Avenue at Pine Street. "Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in assaultive behavior toward officers," said the department's online statement.

In an interview Wednesday night, McGinn said the city is "walking a fine line between protecting public safety without allowing the actions of the police themselves to become a flash point for others."
He said he understood that some protesters in the crowd Tuesday, as well as during previous clashes with police, used the cover of the crowd to provoke violence.
"We're well aware that there are individuals who have been extraordinarily provocative to police over the last six weeks. That was my point in apologizing to peaceful protesters."

But he added it was important he and the police command "critically review what's gone on in order to do the best job we can. We need to have the appropriate police presence, and they need to have the support they need."
Occupy Seattle activists issued a statement Wednesday night saying McGinn's apology did not go far enough. The statement described the group's actions as "nonviolent civil disobedience" and was critical of police response throughout the protests.
"The sheer quantity of officers, vehicles, weapons, hostilities and pepper spray was and is excessive and absolutely unnecessary," said the statement.
The city last week said the protests had cost the city more than $500,000, most of that for police overtime.

Change maker
Dorli Rainey is a longtime activist who recently collected signatures and spoke against the $2 billion Highway 99 tunnel. In a blog called An Old Lady in Combat Boots, she mentions, "I believe change begins in the streets."
The photo, by Seattlepi.com photographer Josh Trujillo, shows her face soaked in pepper spray, along with a liquid applied by fellow protesters to treat it. She told The Associated Press she joined the crowd after hearing helicopters over downtown Seattle, and will participate again in Occupy events.

"I'm pretty tough, I guess," she said.

A pregnant woman and a clergyman also reportedly were among those sprayed. Wednesday night, Rainey appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

Iraq Veterans Who Join Occupy Wall Street Protest By The World ⋅ October 27, 2011

An ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester who was injured earlier this week in California is hospitalized in critical condition. Scott Olsen’s skull was fractured as protesters in Oakland clashed with police.

Olsen is a veteran of the Iraq War. Other veterans have been turning out for the Occupy Wall Street protests, too. Joseph Carter is one: he’s been going to the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests in New York. Both he and Olsen are also members of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Some in the group have raised the idea that veterans could advise the protesters on tactics to protect themselves from projectiles or tear-gas attacks. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks with Joseph Carter.

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Lisa Mullins: An Occupy Wall Street protestor who was earlier this week in California is still in the hospital today. Scott Olsen’s skull was fractured as protestors in Oakland clashed with police. Olsen is a veteran of the Iraq war. Other veterans have been turning out for the Occupy Wall Street protests too. Joseph Carter is one of them. He’s been going to the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. Both he and Olsen are members of the group, Iraq Veterans Against the War, IVAW. A few in the group have raised the idea that veterans could advise the protestors on tactics to protect themselves from projectiles or tear gas attacks. Joseph Carter says that the veterans group doesn’t necessarily endorse that, but he says that there are things that protestors can learn from those with military experience and from people involved in protests in other countries.

Joseph Carter: One of the things I thought was really interesting from Egypt was that because of the rock throwing wars that had sort of broken out during the revolution there, there were folks who were wearing plastic bottles on their heads as sort of helmets, and there was a lot of really interesting images that came out of that. So yeah, if we can provide any sort of advice on that I think that most of us are willing to do so.

Mullins: Like what? I mean what kind of advice would you give?

Carter: One thing that, actually it’s funny that you brought this up. Last night I was at a solidarity rally for Oakland at Occupy Wall Street and I ran into somebody who was a Marine. And he and I were speaking about how some of his friends who are former marines had seen some of the techniques that had come out of Egypt and how to fashion homemade, homemade gas masks. And so they got really interested based on their training in the military to see how well these things work. So they took the models that they’d seen from Egypt and they fashioned their own masks, and they tested them out with tear gas themselves to see if they worked. And they turned out to work, so now they’re trying to share this information with other folks just in case folks get tear gassed.

Mullins: Joseph, you’ve been out at the Occupy Wall Street protests yourself. Do you feel as if veterans are kindred spirits with those people who are out protesting, and I wonder if you know if a lot of your members are out there?

Carter: Absolutely, I feel like veterans are very much kindred spirits with a lot of the protestors. And veterans for the most part are part of the 99%, we’re affected by the fact that our autonomy has been devastated by this recession. And you know, whenever I go onto the internet, when I check Facebook, when I check Twitter, when I check all sorts of different websites I see lots of veterans and people who are still in the military supporting this movement.

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Posted at 04:07 PM ET, 11/22/2011
UC Davis pepper spray & the power of nonviolent witness

By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

University of California Davis students covered in pepper spray sit during an "Occupy UCD" demonstration in Davis, California November 18, 2011. (BRIAN NGUYEN - REUTERS) Millions of Americans have now viewed the YouTube videos of a University
of California Davis police officer callously pepper-spraying a seated line of non-violent students. The video has now gone viral.

This is chemical warfare against American citizens simply for exercising the right to dissent in a peaceful fashion. This is what we have reaped as a nation from the militarization of our police forces in the so-called “war on terror.”

Police officers, in the many military-type operations conducted against #occupywallstreet protests, dress in full battle gear, use chemical weapons, conduct stealth operations in the dead of night, and systematically keep the press away, even with the threat of violence. This was, indeed, the kind of military operation that was conducted to “clear” Zuccotti park, the home of #occupywallstreet.

It is not necessary to go down this road of responding with excessive force to American citizens. Indeed, what has happened on the UC Davis campus following the pepper spraying of students provides a lesson in how to peacefully deal with deep conflict without violence, and indeed a lesson perhaps in how faith leaders can end a hand in this effort.

Following the pepper-spraying of the students, the chancellor of UC Davis, Linda Katehi, called a press conference. Upset students gathered outside, feeling shut out. The students eventually pushed into the room where the press conference was
being held; though they left peacefully, the chancellor retreated into another room.

The campus chaplain, Rev. Kristen Stoneking, was called to mediate between the administration and the students. The outcome was this extraordinary witness of students standing or seated in non-violent and mute witness as the chancellor passes among them, walking safely to her car with Rev. Stoneking.
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi walks with Rev. Stoneking past silent protesters as she leaves her office at the campus in Davis, California November 19, 2011.

(BRIAN NGUYEN - REUTERS) Rev. Stoneking writes on her own blog about this moment and I believe there are crucial lessons in this for our way forward as a nation.

“What was clear to me was that once again, the students’ willingness to show restraint kept us from spiraling into a cycle of violence upon violence. There wasno credible threat to the Chancellor, only a perceived one.

The situation was not hostile. And what was also clear to me is that whether they admit it or not, the administrators that were inside the building are afraid. And exhausted. And human.

And the suffering that has been inflicted is real. The pain present as the three of us watched the video of students being pepper sprayed was palpable. A society is only truly free when all persons take responsibility for their actions; it is only upon taking responsibility that healing can come.”

There are so many important themes in this campus chaplain’s blog post that we need to take with profound seriousness as a society: The willingness to refrain from violence interrupts the spiral of violence.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi leaves an "Occupy UCD" rally on campus in Davis, Califonia November 21, 2011. Katehi apologized to jeering students on Monday for police use of pepper spray against campus protesters in a standoff captured by video and widely replayed on television and the Internet. (MAX WHITTAKER - REUTERS)

Fear is an accelerant for violence. Deal with the fear and you reduce the threat of violence.The pain of those treated violently by police is real and must be kept in the forefront of any attempt to “move forward.”

All persons in this society must take responsibility for us to turn from this disastrous course we seem set upon.

Religious leaders can be a resource for this work, though the students themselves had to act in the way that they did in order for this remarkably inspiring moment of mute witness to unjust suffering caused against UC Davis students to occur.

If the United States military can now be considering talking to the Taliban in Afghanistan as a way to find a peaceful exit from that dreadful war, surely American police departments can find ways to demilitarize their approach to #occupywallstreet, find ways to talk to demonstrators and use respect and negotiation as a way forward. We can do that.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | 04:07 PM ET, 11/22/2011