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A Chicago police officer suffered a stab wound to the leg, Sunday, and three others were injured during a day of protests around the NATO summit. Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy did not know what was used to stab the officer and became emotional when discussing the crowd with which his officers dealt. "If you think it's easy to ask people to do what they did, it's not," he said, pausing to gain his composure. "Asking people to put themselves in harm's way, knowing that they're going to get assaulted, and to be able to stand there and take it,...

Every time windows are smashed and clashes erupt with police at Occupy protests in Oakland and San Francisco, one group is in the thick of it: masked, black-clad anarchists known as the Black Bloc. Police say they are pure trouble and point to conflicts at last week's May Day rallies as the most recent example. Most pacifist protesters wish they would go away. Hard-core Occupiers say they like having them around to diversify their movement's tactics. Exactly who makes up the Black Bloc is, by design, a bit of a mystery. Adherents rarely reveal their identity and say they aren't...

In a sign of what may be coming, residents of a Chicago condo building located near the site of next month’s NATO summit have been asked to leave for the event or risk being caught in a storm of rioters. WND first reported in August 2011 that radicals, some with ties to President Obama, were planning to riot during the NATO summit. FOX Chicago News reported the people living in the 17-floor Library Tower building at 520 South State Street were warned in a letter from condo management that “we are STRONGLY recommending that all residents find places to stay...

Radicals Smash Windows at NYC Business in Chilling Display of Violent ‘Black Bloc’ TacticsBy Madeleine Morgenstern | The Blaze – 2 hrs 24 mins ago Two people were arrested in New York City Saturday night after Occupy Wall Street-linked protesters vandalized storefronts in what was described as “black bloc” tactics, the New York Times reported. A black bloc is a protest tactic where protesters wear black clothing and mask their faces to make it harder for police to pick out individuals. **SNIP** The East Village blog EV Grieve reported people around the park said protesters smashed windows at Starbucks and...

Hi, I'm Ben, a 25-year-old white guy from rural Virginia. I used to be a directory assistance operator, but now I work at the Wal Mart in Waynesboro. I still live with my parents. Sometimes, I like to go it the big city and play in the streets. My favorite game is to dress up in black, and run around town with my friends. We block traffic, yell at shoppers, and call the cops "pigs." They don't seem to like it very much, but they're powerless to stop us, because we're protected by the First Amendment! Oh, did I mention...

Hey Freepers, (Caution: Not for the faint of heart) I thought you might like to know about Sunday’s anti-immigration rally in downtown Portland. Here’s a lengthy-but-true debriefing: About 12 of us showed up for the anti-illegal immigration rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland this afternoon. We were greeted by about 30 of the Portland Anarchist Welcoming Committee (PAWC) and were not at all disappointed with their hospitality. We were very impressed with their open mindedness and passion for their cause. We experienced their usual, screaming-in-your-face maneuvers. Eventually we were able to get some help from the Portland Police (PoPo),...

RALEIGH (AP) — Vandals damaged three military recruiting centers in the Triangle this week in what appeared to be a war protest. Authorities said someone spray-painted windows at two Durham centers and hurled a rock through the window at a center in Raleigh on Tuesday night. The vandals also defaced doors and sidewalks at the locations. The incidents were discovered on Wednesday morning when employees arrived for work, officials said. An e-mail message sent to media outlets Wednesday called the actions a protest against U.S. involvement in Iraq. "The poverty and exploitation of the economy at home fuels the brutality...

The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee. Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), arrived at her suburban Virginia home after work Wednesday about 6:30 p.m. As she was unloading belongings from her car, a 6-foot-1-inch white man dressed in black struck her repeatedly with an unidentified object believed to be a baseball bat. After she screamed to her family inside the house, the assailant fled. DiSanto was transported...

A farm is to stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research after years of intimidation by animal rights activists. The family-run Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, has been at the centre of a campaign of abuse. Owners and staff have received death threats during the six-year onslaught. The family said they hoped the decision would prompt the return of the body of their relative Gladys Hammond, whose remains were stolen from a churchyard. The remains were taken from her grave in nearby Yoxall in October. Mrs Hammond, who was buried in St Peter's churchyard seven years ago, was the...

Just leaving the movies in downtown Palo Alto. Cops are all over, sealing off the two main streets. Gang of black dressed punks just tore thru breaking stuff up. Still on the rampage. Every cop in Palo alto and Menlo seems to be on the streets. All traffic diverted. Developing.

Local Joint Terrorist Task Force investigators are keeping close tabs on a group of anarchists hellbent on creating a classless society - using armed resistance if necessary, the Herald has learned. Anarchist Black Cross Federation, an organization that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller calls an ``emerging revolutionary group,'' has active members in Boston who have distributed fliers against the war in Iraq, including one that reads: ``Synchronized bombing is a lie. But we can be more precise.'' The flier, released by Anarchist Black Cross Boston, goes on to list the address of Boston Police Headquarters in Roxbury, FBI headquarters in...

A Capitol HatefestBy Ben JohnsonFrontPageMagazine.com | January 20, 2005 Although President George W. Bush received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, not everyone will be celebrating his second inauguration in the nation’s capital today. Pro-terrorist socialists and violent extremists pledge “direct action” – including initiating physical confrontations with police officers – that could divert critical attention from a terrorist attack. Among those who will take part in today’s protests is a group known as Anarchist Resistance, but is more commonly called “the Black Bloc” for the black ski masks its members wear. Its history of violent rioting...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A graduate student was convicted Friday of setting fire to dozens of sport utility vehicles and causing more than $2 million in damage, but was cleared of the most serious charge against him. William Jensen Cottrell, 24, was found guilty in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to commit arson and seven counts of arson. But the jury acquitted him of attempting to use a destructive device in a crime of violence - Molotov cocktails - a charge that carried a sentence of at least 30 years in prison. He will be sentenced March 12, and faces...

All the Nudes That's Fit to Print Radicals planning to cause mayhem at the GOP convention should accept this sad fact: Murdoch’s minions are waiting.The last time a major party held its nominating convention in New York City, I was among the tribe of protesters clamoring outside. I had hitchhiked from Oakland to Manhattan and, after adventures with a guy in Barstow who claimed he was jumping parole and barked, "I swear by my white skin!" after each beer, or the gentleman in southern Missouri who loaded the shotgun in his rifle rack and declared his intention to shoot the...

OutFront Beware Of People Heidi Brown, 07.26.04 Animal-rights activists are getting more violent. Late on the night of May 30 an off-duty police officer was guarding the Monrovia, Calif. house of Mitchell Lardner.... The guard was there because Lardner, his wife and two small children have been under siege for weeks by animal-rights activists. They had spray-painted his home with words like "Puppy Killer" and "You Can't Hide" and paraded by in frightening masks and black robes, announcing with bullhorns "Mitchell Lardner kills 500 puppies a day!" Animal-rights activists are no longer content to set up picket lines. Groups such...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More than 2,000 protesters arrested for clogging city streets to demonstrate against the war in Iraq could see all charges against them dropped.</p> <p>San Francisco court commissioner Paul Slavit signaled Thursday he would dismiss charges against 2,300 people arrested in protests the day after the war started - unless the district attorney's office files new charges.</p>

<p>San Francisco -- More than 600 journalists are embedded with the U.S. military forces in the Middle East. But no journalists are believed to have been embedded in the peace movement.</p> <p>Until now.</p> <p>The invitation to attend an activist training session came from organizers with Direct Action to Stop the War, the umbrella group that coordinated the civil disobedience protests that knotted up downtown San Francisco last week and have led to 2,300 arrests. While activists aren't planning any more large- scale civil disobedience, they will aim protests at corporations they deem to be "war profiteers."</p>

The outrageous disruptions launched by alleged "antiwar" protesters in San Francisco had nothing to do with opposition to the war, nothing to do with changing the foreign policy of this country, and no rational person could possibly endorse them.Masked thugs stopped cars, and tried to drag people out. These "peaceful" protesters had quite an array of weapons: stun guns, crowbars, brass knuckles, and other instruments of mayhem were confiscated from arrested demonstrators. They deliberately blocked streets, tied up the entire city for 8 hours, broke windows, threw rocks, and wreaked havoc, acting like the hooligans they are. Some of them...

After witnessing the "peace" protests in San Francisco that began on Wednesday and continued through Thursday, you would think the mainstream media would finally understand that these people have nothing whatsoever to do with peace. But while our country went to war, many of the local TV networks spent the day providing PR for protesters. Time after time, reporters labeled the violent protesters "splinter groups" and kept announcing that "thousands" of people had gathered or that "huge" rallies were taking place, without any real evidence. The hysteria began on Wednesday night, after the first U.S. military strikes in Baghdad, and...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of protesters have gathered at Powell and Market streets in San Francisco for an emergency anti-war rally and march in anticipation of Saddam Hussein's refusal of President Bush's 5 p.m. deadline to either take exile or suffer war.</p>

<p>12:10 p.m. -- Organizers say thousands of people are expected to turn out for tonight's emergency anti-war rally and march in San Francisco slated for 5 p.m., when time runs out for Saddam Hussein to exit Iraq.</p> <p>International A.N.S.W.E.R. spokesman Bill Hackwell said today that the group has spent the past two days planning the demonstration after President Bush issued the leader of Iraq a 48-hour ultimatum.</p>

<p>8:14 a.m. -- Police have begun arresting some of the more than 100 protesters blocking the intersection at Market and Sansome streets in San Francisco.</p> <p>About 60 officers dressed in riot gear are lifting and carrying handcuffed protesters who are lying in the intersections to police vans.</p>

<p>San Francisco -- San Francisco police arrested 157 members of an anti-war splinter group for blocking traffic on Mission Street and detained about 65 more a few blocks away on Saturday.</p> <p>The splinter group, whose members tend to wear black clothing with black bandannas over their faces, split away from the main peace march in Jefferson Park about 2:20 p.m.</p>

<p>Almost 25 anti-war protesters are being held in San Francisco jail tonight after police arrested members of splinter protest groups that broke off from a large peace rally in Jefferson Square Park today, said sheriff's spokeswoman Eileen Hirst.</p> <p>Hirst said she expects 30 to 40 more arrested protesters to arrive at the jail shortly. She said protesters arrested on misdemeanor charges will likely be cited and released.</p>

<p>10:19 a.m. -- In a protest aimed at shutting down the Pacific Stock Exchange, hundreds of anti-war protesters gathered in downtown San Francisco this morning, blocking streets and snarling traffic.</p> <p>The demonstrators failed to close the exchange. "We had absolutely no disruptions to trading," said stock exchange spokesman John Werts.</p>

<p>San Francisco -- Saturday's anti-war demonstration in San Francisco will send protesters on a different route from the one followed in past peace events, organizers said Monday.</p> <p>Activists are asking people to meet at 11 a.m. in Civic Center, then march to Jefferson Square Park near the corner of Turk and Gough streets, said Bill Hackwell, an organizer with International Answer, one of the main coordinators of the event.</p>

<p>San Francisco -- As organizers rest up after Sunday's enormous, peaceful anti-war protest, they face a troublesome issue: how to ensure that their message isn't stained by bottle throwers and window smashers.</p> <p>The diverse coalition behind the peace rally took pains Monday to distance itself from a breakaway demonstration of about 1,000 people who chucked rocks, paint balls and broken bottles at police Sunday.</p>

<p>A group of demonstrators broke away from the huge crowd at San Francisco's Civic Center area at the end of Sunday's anti-war march and clashed later with police on Market Street during a 4-hour confrontation marked by hit-and-run vandalism.</p> <p>Members of the group broke windows at several businesses and on a pair of police cars during their rampage. They spray-painted buildings and other objects with graffiti. They burned trash, climbed onto a cable car, and later tossed bottles and other objects at mounted police who were trying to control them.</p>

With Monday's ruling against an orderly, nonviolent protest march anywhere on the streets of Manhattan this Saturday, U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones has steered the City of New York towards chaos. Though event organizer United for Peace and Justice states its willingness to follow any route the New York Police Department designates, the only legal option at hand is for anti-war demonstrators to be massed in tightly controlled police pens stretching far up First Avenue north of the United Nations. Of the perhaps 100,000 people corralled there - stationary, cold, unable to hear or see the program directly, unable...

The Chronicle reported on an Anarchist group known as the black bloc, whose members rampaged and vandalized their way through San Francisco’s Financial District after the 1/18 anti-war rally, but they didn’t tell the whole story. Bill Hackwell, the spokesman for International Answer, the group that organized the rally, claims that they ''hadn’t known about the break-away marchers in advance and had no connection to them.'' That’s puzzling, because the black bloc had advertised its intentions prior to the rally, on the well-known web site and leftist organizing tool, www.sfindymedia.org. While the pre-rally information is now gone from the site,...

<p>A splinter group of more than 200 black-clad protesters broke off from Saturday's peaceful rally and went on a brief romp through the Financial District, smashing windows and news racks before melting away before the eyes of frustrated police.</p> <p>A police spokesman said officers made two arrests.</p>

<p>San Francisco's Market Street couldn't hold the tens of thousands of peace demonstrators who marched through downtown Saturday before converging at the Civic Center in a unified call against war in Iraq.</p> <p>They came from the East Bay on BART, from Los Angeles on buses and from as far as Idaho and Canada on airplanes. Warehouse workers marched alongside students, Silicon Valley executives alongside grandmothers, attorneys alongside peaceniks and Jewish activists alongside Palestinian sympathizers.</p>

MTV Decides to Censor Public Enemy Monday - September 16, 2002 Deniece Mason When Public Enemy released their new video for “Gotta Give The People What they Need”, they didn’t expect it to cause a huge uproar. Chuck D says that MTV says they will not play the video until audio and visual references to Mumia Abu-Jamal are taken out of the video. In a statement to Daveyd.com Chuck D says, “The new power elite in America the selection board of MTV. The new power breed of selectors who govern images to feed to the world youth, invisibly anonymous...