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EFerrari

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Tue Dec 27, 2011, 03:57 PM Dec 2011

Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy San Francisco [View all]

December 27, 2011

Low Friends in High Places
Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy
by CARL FINAMORE

A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” was launched to influence police and politicians to aggressively demobilize Occupy SF and to dismantle their encampments. And, there are documents to prove it.

Things did not start out this way.

When the Occupy movement first took root on Saturday, September 17, 2011 in New York’s famously renamed Liberty Square, it took the country and the whole world by surprise.

None more shocked than the now notoriously renamed one per cent. They were embarrassed by the spotlight on their secretive, self-serving, and sometimes illegal transactions.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/27/triad-of-business-cops-politicians-attack-occupy/

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