> >PEP > > >Subscribe Forward this email Donate >Please circulate this email widely among your friends, family and co-workers >via email and social media. >Occupy Protesters Evicted, Arrested, >Assaulted in Los Angeles & Philly >A report from ANSWER Coalition organizers on last night's raids >Help us raise $10,000 to get Mike Prysner and Doug Kauffman, ANSWER Coalition >and March Forward! organizers out of jail! > >Dear Ian, > >Los Angeles police officers move in, guns drawn. > >Police attacked and arrested members of the Occupy Philly movement last night. >The nationally coordinated police assault against the Occupy Movement took a >dramatic turn in the early hours of this morning with the nearly simultaneous >police assaults against Occupy LA and Occupy Philadelphia. >Hundreds were arrested at Occupy LA in the early hours of the morning. More >than 1,200 riot-clad police carried out the assault on the encampment. >Mike Prysner, ANSWER Coalition organizer who is an Iraq war veteran and >coordinator of March Forward!, told us moments before his arrest: “Police are >just ripping up the tents now but we are standing strong. The only times I've >felt proud wearing my army uniform is when I've worn it fighting the 1%. This >movement against the system isn't ending!” >Prysner, ANSWER activist Douglass Kaufman and others are still in jail and >their bail has been set at $5,000 each. >We ask you to please donate today. We urgently need to raise $10,000 to get >our ANSWER organizers out of jail. > >ANSWER LA had put out an emergency mobilization alert yesterday to bring >people to the Occupy LA in advance of the anticipated assault. On Sunday >night, more than 3,000 people answered the call from ANSWER and others to come >to defend Occupy LA, and the police backed off at the time from their >threatened eviction. >In Philadelphia, police arrested approximately 50 people following the >eviction of Occupy Philly. At least one person was hospitalized with injuries >after police on horseback charged into peaceful demonstrators. Others were >assaulted by the police, who slammed people to the ground and carried out >other acts of brutality. >The police attack against the Occupy Movement is a coordinated assault by law >enforcement agencies against a new, growing movement for social and economic >justice. >We are convinced that police repression will not end this new movement. People >want change. Society requires change. Record profits for banks and >corporations coincide with massive unemployment, growing poverty and endless >war. That is the basic problem. And that’s why the movement of the 99% is >becoming an irresistible political force. >Organize, Occupy, Rise Up! >ANSWER Coalition, Los Angeles > >We are urgently raising funds to help pay for bail for our organizers who are >in jail as well to pay for banners, signs, literature and other expenses >associated with our grassroots mobilizing work. We can’t do this work without >you help. Please make a tax-deductible donation today. >A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition >http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=4CV13jo6d8PhhPSFcrcGfg >[email protected] >213-251-1025 >137 N. Virgil Avenue, #201 >Los Angeles, CA 90004 >Get involved in ANSWER's work today! >If this message was forwarded to you and you'd like to receive future ANSWER >updates, >Click here to subscribe. >Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. >Having trouble viewing this message? 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