The actions of the UC police are designed to terrorize the on-site supporters of the tree-sitters.
When the arrests are made, the officers make certain to be as disrepectful of the safety of the arrestees as they can without leaving visible marks.
It's sad the way the media accepts the cover story that the university is concerned for the safety of the tree sitters.
I wonder if anyone really buys it. Surely the judge doesn't buy it. It's simply a legal fiction for the purposes of justification to dismantle the right of assembly.
original article
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_7850553
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
trained to abuse suspects
Check out this video of cops narrating a fiction, it gets interesting about halfway through
http://openyourmindseye.blogspot.com/2007/12/police-narrate-fiction-for-cameras.html
It's so frustrating that police are trained to abuse suspects without any empathy or compassion. The cops who narrate this fiction in the video, basically falsifying evidence picked up the trick from sit in / go limp protesters. When the cops try to remove you physically, you are supposed to scream, "YOU'RE HURTING ME" as loud and calmly as possible. SO the cops have countered that strategy by screaming as loud as they can, "STOP FIGHTING"
Of course the 2 situations are completely without real commonalities. The only time cops have ever touched me - it was with the intention of hurting me.
I was at a protest that was planned to bring media attention to a plant that had bought off the EPA to stay open and poisoning a largely residential (previously industrial) low-income neighborhood. The company that owned the plant had ordered the cops not to arrest anyone so that they could slip the action into the back pages. We had planned for at least ten of us to engage in civil disobedience by stopping the trucks from entering or leaving the plant. So, true to their orders, the police made no arrests, but they almost broke my arm when I tried to go limp.
I was willing to get arrested spend a few days in Santa Rita, even, but I wouldn't have been able to work with a broken arm.
http://openyourmindseye.blogspot.com/2007/12/police-narrate-fiction-for-cameras.html
It's so frustrating that police are trained to abuse suspects without any empathy or compassion. The cops who narrate this fiction in the video, basically falsifying evidence picked up the trick from sit in / go limp protesters. When the cops try to remove you physically, you are supposed to scream, "YOU'RE HURTING ME" as loud and calmly as possible. SO the cops have countered that strategy by screaming as loud as they can, "STOP FIGHTING"
Of course the 2 situations are completely without real commonalities. The only time cops have ever touched me - it was with the intention of hurting me.
I was at a protest that was planned to bring media attention to a plant that had bought off the EPA to stay open and poisoning a largely residential (previously industrial) low-income neighborhood. The company that owned the plant had ordered the cops not to arrest anyone so that they could slip the action into the back pages. We had planned for at least ten of us to engage in civil disobedience by stopping the trucks from entering or leaving the plant. So, true to their orders, the police made no arrests, but they almost broke my arm when I tried to go limp.
I was willing to get arrested spend a few days in Santa Rita, even, but I wouldn't have been able to work with a broken arm.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Growing Old
The generation which raised me now finds itself in power. But just as they predicted when they were my age, getting old is proving to be corrupting influence on their ideals.
The men and women I remember from my childhood sent their kids to the same public schools as every other parent in Berkeley. They believed they could prevent the next generation from being raised to become soldiers. They battled classism and racism through bussing. They have now given up on integration. They have become the establishment. They send their grand kids to private school.
Most of the time I was growing up, Berkeley was a kind of free zone for homelessness. All the churches near the university would share the responsibility of feeding the transient population which waxed and waned with the weather or dead tour or sweeps. Somehow the generation that takes the credit for civil rights movement and ending the war in Vietnam has turned on itself and become the very destructive force that their parents were.
There's a difference. This generation made conscious choices to become an oppressive authority.
My mother finally had occasion to hear that many of the jails and prisons here in California and nationwide do not have libraries. She tells me I should do something about this. I agree. Words cannot express what a frightening sign of the times it is that so many incarcerated are not provided with a library.
The Copley decision is having a disastrous effect on police brutality and civil liberties. The decision was based on the police officers bill of rights which grants special confidentiality protections for police. This is supposedly designed to protect the privacy and security of police who fear retribution from the communities they pretend to serve.
I still have trouble understanding how the same young people who got kicked and beat by pigs during their movement, grew up to be these sad and naive capitulators to might. My own parents protect the police who brutalize me.
original article http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=12-28-07&storyID=28825
The men and women I remember from my childhood sent their kids to the same public schools as every other parent in Berkeley. They believed they could prevent the next generation from being raised to become soldiers. They battled classism and racism through bussing. They have now given up on integration. They have become the establishment. They send their grand kids to private school.
Most of the time I was growing up, Berkeley was a kind of free zone for homelessness. All the churches near the university would share the responsibility of feeding the transient population which waxed and waned with the weather or dead tour or sweeps. Somehow the generation that takes the credit for civil rights movement and ending the war in Vietnam has turned on itself and become the very destructive force that their parents were.
There's a difference. This generation made conscious choices to become an oppressive authority.
My mother finally had occasion to hear that many of the jails and prisons here in California and nationwide do not have libraries. She tells me I should do something about this. I agree. Words cannot express what a frightening sign of the times it is that so many incarcerated are not provided with a library.
The Copley decision is having a disastrous effect on police brutality and civil liberties. The decision was based on the police officers bill of rights which grants special confidentiality protections for police. This is supposedly designed to protect the privacy and security of police who fear retribution from the communities they pretend to serve.
I still have trouble understanding how the same young people who got kicked and beat by pigs during their movement, grew up to be these sad and naive capitulators to might. My own parents protect the police who brutalize me.
original article http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=12-28-07&storyID=28825
Dec 3 show
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01 - MCR - opening
02 - Chappelle - Law and Order
03 - Special Forces - Make Leaders Fight
04 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
05 - Bad Company - Crazy Circles
06 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
07 - Immortal Technique - Creation and Destruction
08 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
09 - Kottonmouth Kings - Legalize Freedom
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10 - OPD launch - Aug 12
11 - Unseen - So This Is Freedom
12 - BART extra security - Nov 20
13 - Immortal Technique - Fuck Tha Government
14 - NipTuck - G spot
15 - Deterrent - Death Penalty Protest
16 - Superbad - Description
17 - STFU - Right Wing Dead Wrong
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18 - Crisis for men of color - Nov 20
19 - Rogue Wave - Screw California
20 - Sublime - April 29
21 - OPD grads - Aug 17
22 - Angelic Upstarts - I Won't Pay For Liberty
23 - Vets Suicide - Nov 13
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24 - Be Cool - I am Cool
25 - Kottonmouth Kings - Who's the Criminal
26 - Waitress - Love Pie
27 - Thousands March DC Jena - Nov 16
28 - Kermit - Rainbow Connection
29 - Firefly - Serenity
30 - SF shootings - Nov 18
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31 - BLR - Mission Statement
32 - Immortal Technique - Freedom of speech
33 - McD Shootings - Oct 30
34 - Rebecca Riots - Bolrom
35 - Two Cities Most Dangerous - Nov 20
36 - Immortal Technique - Poverty of Philosophy
37 - Daily Show - Torture
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38 - Kottonmouth Kings - Leave Us Alone
39 - Daily Show - You Don’t Know Dick
40 - Sweet Honey in the Rock - Ella’s Song
41 - Daily Show - Dick
42 - Maniax - Off To War
43 - Daily Show - Canadian Pot Tunnel
44 - Immortal Technique - Soul purpose
45 - Prison Overcrowding - Sept 18
46 - Agnostic Front - Police State
47 - Fremont Police shoot thief - Nov 15
48 - Rebecca Riots - Borrowed Clothes
49 - Closing – Rufus Wainwright - Natasha
01 - MCR - opening
02 - Chappelle - Law and Order
03 - Special Forces - Make Leaders Fight
04 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
05 - Bad Company - Crazy Circles
06 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
07 - Immortal Technique - Creation and Destruction
08 - Daily Show - Dick Cheney
09 - Kottonmouth Kings - Legalize Freedom
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10 - OPD launch - Aug 12
11 - Unseen - So This Is Freedom
12 - BART extra security - Nov 20
13 - Immortal Technique - Fuck Tha Government
14 - NipTuck - G spot
15 - Deterrent - Death Penalty Protest
16 - Superbad - Description
17 - STFU - Right Wing Dead Wrong
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18 - Crisis for men of color - Nov 20
19 - Rogue Wave - Screw California
20 - Sublime - April 29
21 - OPD grads - Aug 17
22 - Angelic Upstarts - I Won't Pay For Liberty
23 - Vets Suicide - Nov 13
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24 - Be Cool - I am Cool
25 - Kottonmouth Kings - Who's the Criminal
26 - Waitress - Love Pie
27 - Thousands March DC Jena - Nov 16
28 - Kermit - Rainbow Connection
29 - Firefly - Serenity
30 - SF shootings - Nov 18
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31 - BLR - Mission Statement
32 - Immortal Technique - Freedom of speech
33 - McD Shootings - Oct 30
34 - Rebecca Riots - Bolrom
35 - Two Cities Most Dangerous - Nov 20
36 - Immortal Technique - Poverty of Philosophy
37 - Daily Show - Torture
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38 - Kottonmouth Kings - Leave Us Alone
39 - Daily Show - You Don’t Know Dick
40 - Sweet Honey in the Rock - Ella’s Song
41 - Daily Show - Dick
42 - Maniax - Off To War
43 - Daily Show - Canadian Pot Tunnel
44 - Immortal Technique - Soul purpose
45 - Prison Overcrowding - Sept 18
46 - Agnostic Front - Police State
47 - Fremont Police shoot thief - Nov 15
48 - Rebecca Riots - Borrowed Clothes
49 - Closing – Rufus Wainwright - Natasha
Nov 13 show
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01 - Frisk - Demand 13
02 - Hogans Heroes - Self Defense
03 - Molotov Cocktail - Fuck it all Up
04 - California - EPA lawsuit
05 - VA - Vet Stealin Pain Pills
06 - NoFX - Youre Wrong
07 - Chants - protests
08 - Sublime - Date Rape
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09 - Hayward - Pot Club Bust
10 - Drug Bust - Joint
11 - Death Penalty - Court injunction
12 - Oct 22 interview - Chip Fitzgerald
13 - Ohio Players - Everybody Up
14 - Shooting - Gary King
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15 - Ramona Africa - Mumia hearing
16 - Sublime - I wouldn’t do that
17 - Richmond shooting - Tent City
18 - SF - McD shoot
19 - Lawsuit - Dog shoot
20 - Pittsburg - Courthouse shooting
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21 - SF - Parolee escapes
22 - Molotov Cocktail - Cop Party
23 - Arundhati Roy - Save Us From Police
24 - Angel - Pointy Pants
25 - Closing - commentary
01 - Frisk - Demand 13
02 - Hogans Heroes - Self Defense
03 - Molotov Cocktail - Fuck it all Up
04 - California - EPA lawsuit
05 - VA - Vet Stealin Pain Pills
06 - NoFX - Youre Wrong
07 - Chants - protests
08 - Sublime - Date Rape
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09 - Hayward - Pot Club Bust
10 - Drug Bust - Joint
11 - Death Penalty - Court injunction
12 - Oct 22 interview - Chip Fitzgerald
13 - Ohio Players - Everybody Up
14 - Shooting - Gary King
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15 - Ramona Africa - Mumia hearing
16 - Sublime - I wouldn’t do that
17 - Richmond shooting - Tent City
18 - SF - McD shoot
19 - Lawsuit - Dog shoot
20 - Pittsburg - Courthouse shooting
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21 - SF - Parolee escapes
22 - Molotov Cocktail - Cop Party
23 - Arundhati Roy - Save Us From Police
24 - Angel - Pointy Pants
25 - Closing - commentary
Aug 20 show
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01 - Animals - We Gotta Get Out
02 - Daily Show - Wilmore Snitching
03 - Lil Kim the Game - Quiet No Matter What People Say
04 - Anderson Cooper - Busta
05 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
06 - Anderson Cooper - On Snitching
07 - Killer Cam - Kurtis
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08 - Lil Kim - Suck My Dick
09 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
10 - CHP Suicides - Press Conference
11 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
12 - Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
13 - Russel Crowe - Temper
14 - Chris Rock - Being Black
15 - Patti Smith - Free Money
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16 - Democracy Now - May Day
17 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
18 - The Game - Where I’m from
19 - Anderson Cooper - Closure Rate
20 - Strung Up - Police in Graves
21 - John Burris - SFPD Serna
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22 - Jimmi Cliff - Harder They Come
23 - Giants game - SFPD Collins
24 - Fight Club - Quitting Work
25 - Bob Marley - Redemption Song
26 - SJPD Council - Police Auditor
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27 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
28 - Manic Hispanic - Anarkia
29 - APD Veteran - Police lie
30 - Fugazi - Give Me the Cure
31 - APD - Observers
32 - Led Zepelin - Black Dog
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33 - OPD - Community Policing
34 - Leftover Crack - So You Wanna Be A Cop
35 - OPD - Shoots Guy
36 - Project Pat - I Ain’t Going Back To Jail
37 - Prison Abolition - Sign Off
01 - Animals - We Gotta Get Out
02 - Daily Show - Wilmore Snitching
03 - Lil Kim the Game - Quiet No Matter What People Say
04 - Anderson Cooper - Busta
05 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
06 - Anderson Cooper - On Snitching
07 - Killer Cam - Kurtis
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08 - Lil Kim - Suck My Dick
09 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
10 - CHP Suicides - Press Conference
11 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
12 - Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
13 - Russel Crowe - Temper
14 - Chris Rock - Being Black
15 - Patti Smith - Free Money
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16 - Democracy Now - May Day
17 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
18 - The Game - Where I’m from
19 - Anderson Cooper - Closure Rate
20 - Strung Up - Police in Graves
21 - John Burris - SFPD Serna
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22 - Jimmi Cliff - Harder They Come
23 - Giants game - SFPD Collins
24 - Fight Club - Quitting Work
25 - Bob Marley - Redemption Song
26 - SJPD Council - Police Auditor
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27 - DJ Natasha - Commentary
28 - Manic Hispanic - Anarkia
29 - APD Veteran - Police lie
30 - Fugazi - Give Me the Cure
31 - APD - Observers
32 - Led Zepelin - Black Dog
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33 - OPD - Community Policing
34 - Leftover Crack - So You Wanna Be A Cop
35 - OPD - Shoots Guy
36 - Project Pat - I Ain’t Going Back To Jail
37 - Prison Abolition - Sign Off
July 1 show
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01 - STFU - Miserable Existence
02 - DJ Natasha - BLR mission
03 - Awful Truth - Wallets
04 - Tom Robinson - Up Against The Wall
05 - Casey Neill - Hooray for the Riff Raff
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06 - Extension - Oakland Riders
07 - The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
08 - AC/DC - Jailbreak
09 - Bad Cop No Donut - Phoenix Louie Arriaga Jr.
10 - Leftover Crack - 500 Channels
11 - SuperTroopers - Spit
12 - Molotov Cocktail - I HateYou
13 - Heavy Metal - Hangings Too Good for him
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14 - Abusers - Sick of You
15 - Andrea Pritchett - PRC Copley
16 - Ian Dury - Sex and Drugs and Rock
17 - Arundhati Roy - Turkey Pardon
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18 - Arundhati Roy - Fear and Safety
19 - Pirates of the Caribean - Hoist the Colors
01 - STFU - Miserable Existence
02 - DJ Natasha - BLR mission
03 - Awful Truth - Wallets
04 - Tom Robinson - Up Against The Wall
05 - Casey Neill - Hooray for the Riff Raff
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06 - Extension - Oakland Riders
07 - The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
08 - AC/DC - Jailbreak
09 - Bad Cop No Donut - Phoenix Louie Arriaga Jr.
10 - Leftover Crack - 500 Channels
11 - SuperTroopers - Spit
12 - Molotov Cocktail - I HateYou
13 - Heavy Metal - Hangings Too Good for him
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14 - Abusers - Sick of You
15 - Andrea Pritchett - PRC Copley
16 - Ian Dury - Sex and Drugs and Rock
17 - Arundhati Roy - Turkey Pardon
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18 - Arundhati Roy - Fear and Safety
19 - Pirates of the Caribean - Hoist the Colors
Sonya
Sonya watched the street below. The police made their way from their cars casually as if they were strolling through her street without care. When they reached the front door of her building, she waited as they announced themselves. She was certain that none of her neighbors would come out to let them into the hallway.
She waited until after they had broken down the door and had completely disappeared from her view before she opened the window and ducked out onto the fire escape. Fortunately the ladder would take her all the way to the roof. She only need take care to avoid moving when the intruders stood still. The weight and thudding of their boots would cover the small noises she made as she ascended.
She had been expecting them to be more hurried, less relaxed as they searched for her. The police that had been assigned to intimidate the protesters last summer had been far more tense. She remembered feeling compassion for their misplaced fear of her and her compatriots during the week of action. She and Taric had been the relaxed ones then. They had held hands as they walked to the street party after the Friday bike ride.
All week they had enjoyed the fruits of their plans as friends and strangers arrived and swelled the mass of humanity assembling to stand against the rising police state at home and the illegal war abroad. They wore black all week and felt so safe in a sea of bodies all dressed to form a monochromatic blur.
She waited until after they had broken down the door and had completely disappeared from her view before she opened the window and ducked out onto the fire escape. Fortunately the ladder would take her all the way to the roof. She only need take care to avoid moving when the intruders stood still. The weight and thudding of their boots would cover the small noises she made as she ascended.
She had been expecting them to be more hurried, less relaxed as they searched for her. The police that had been assigned to intimidate the protesters last summer had been far more tense. She remembered feeling compassion for their misplaced fear of her and her compatriots during the week of action. She and Taric had been the relaxed ones then. They had held hands as they walked to the street party after the Friday bike ride.
All week they had enjoyed the fruits of their plans as friends and strangers arrived and swelled the mass of humanity assembling to stand against the rising police state at home and the illegal war abroad. They wore black all week and felt so safe in a sea of bodies all dressed to form a monochromatic blur.
July 29 show
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01 - STFU - Miserable Existence
02 - dj Natasha - BLR mission
03 - Johnny Cash - Starkville County Jail
04 - Johnny Cash - SanQuentin
05 - Johnny Cash - SanQuentin2
06 - Andrea and Alex on KPFA - Copley
07 - Pogues - Man You Don’t Meet Everyday
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08 - Arundhati Roy - Fear and Safety
09 - STFU - Flat Out Fucked
10 - Awful Truth - Pleas Out
11 - Heavy Metal - Power
12 - Lewd - Dressed In Black
13 - True Romance - I Hate Fucking Cops
14 - Molotov Cocktail - One Finger
15 - Mostly Harmless - Distraction
16 - Squirrel Nut Zippers - HaveYou Had Enough
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17 - Make Mine Freedom - Hopelessness Of Capitalism
18 - Steve Martin - Cat Handcuffs
19 - Flogging Molly - Spoke and Wheel
20 - Flex Your Rights - Police stop
21 - Molotov Cocktail - FCC
22 - Pump Up the Volume - Problem with Free Speech
23 - Awful Truth - Stop And Frisk Night
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24 - Millions of Dead Cops - John Wayne was a Nazi
25 - These Streets are Watching - Pretty Racist
26 - Briefs - Ephedrine Blue
27 - Flex Your Rights - At Home
28 - Roadside Prophets - Symbianese
29 - Union 13 - Roots Radical
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30 - Awful Truth - IQ test disqualification
31 - Flogging Molly - Worst Day Since Yesterday
32 - This American Life - Chicago Cops
33 - Dropkick Murphys - Watch Your Back
34 - These Streets are Watching - Approach Like A Wild Animal
35 - Flogging Molly - Devils Dabcefloor
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36 - Democracy Now - Chicago Torture
37 - Leftover Crack - Crack Rock City
38 - These Streets are Watching - Police Hostility
39 - Rubber City Rebels - I Don’t Want to be a punk No More
01 - STFU - Miserable Existence
02 - dj Natasha - BLR mission
03 - Johnny Cash - Starkville County Jail
04 - Johnny Cash - SanQuentin
05 - Johnny Cash - SanQuentin2
06 - Andrea and Alex on KPFA - Copley
07 - Pogues - Man You Don’t Meet Everyday
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08 - Arundhati Roy - Fear and Safety
09 - STFU - Flat Out Fucked
10 - Awful Truth - Pleas Out
11 - Heavy Metal - Power
12 - Lewd - Dressed In Black
13 - True Romance - I Hate Fucking Cops
14 - Molotov Cocktail - One Finger
15 - Mostly Harmless - Distraction
16 - Squirrel Nut Zippers - HaveYou Had Enough
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17 - Make Mine Freedom - Hopelessness Of Capitalism
18 - Steve Martin - Cat Handcuffs
19 - Flogging Molly - Spoke and Wheel
20 - Flex Your Rights - Police stop
21 - Molotov Cocktail - FCC
22 - Pump Up the Volume - Problem with Free Speech
23 - Awful Truth - Stop And Frisk Night
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24 - Millions of Dead Cops - John Wayne was a Nazi
25 - These Streets are Watching - Pretty Racist
26 - Briefs - Ephedrine Blue
27 - Flex Your Rights - At Home
28 - Roadside Prophets - Symbianese
29 - Union 13 - Roots Radical
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30 - Awful Truth - IQ test disqualification
31 - Flogging Molly - Worst Day Since Yesterday
32 - This American Life - Chicago Cops
33 - Dropkick Murphys - Watch Your Back
34 - These Streets are Watching - Approach Like A Wild Animal
35 - Flogging Molly - Devils Dabcefloor
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36 - Democracy Now - Chicago Torture
37 - Leftover Crack - Crack Rock City
38 - These Streets are Watching - Police Hostility
39 - Rubber City Rebels - I Don’t Want to be a punk No More
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