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Video Contest – Occupy Wall Street: Strike the Root!

By on October 3, 2011 in Activism, Support

This post is current as of 10AM EST Monday, Oct. 3rd – updates (additional sponsors, prize money, judges added, etc.) will be added to this related page:

Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root
CURRENT POT: $400 (as of Sat. Oct 3rd)

UPDATE: October 18th, 2011
Drew Phillips Takes OWS Video Contest

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

Striking the root is a concept advocated by abolitionist, individualist anarchist and trancendetalist Henry David Thoreau. He believed that striking the cause (the “root”) was preferable to hacking at the effects (the “branches”).

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CopBlocking Portsmouth, NH

By on June 20, 2011 in LOT: FSFT

Before MARV even rolled into the fourth stop on the Free State Friendship Tour, the local paper published a piece stating, “Cop Blockers Reportedly Coming to Portsmouth.” Since the reporter talked to the police and they knew we’d be filming, Pete decided to dress up and act like a reporter. I think this would have made a great video except that after this stop the police literally stopped driving around downtown. We didn’t see another person pulled over the entire night.

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Portsmouth PD and Parking Illegally

By on June 16, 2011 in LOT: FSFT, Update

Last year, almost to the day, I was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with Pete. We were there to visit friends and decided to spend the day at the local Starbucks working on details for Liberty On Tour 2010 edition. That’s when I noticed officer Hood of the Portsmouth police department parking illegally, several times, outside the Starbucks.

I decided to make a phone call to the police station about the double standard police have when enforcing their laws against other ‘protectors of society.’ You can guess how that turned out for me, so, when we returned this year, I was stunned when I (thought I) saw the same officer park illegally right in front of me. Beau and I quickly ran off to ask the officer about his double standards toward parking laws.

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Win Liberty On Tour Swag!

By on June 14, 2011 in LOT: FSFT, Support

That’s right, we’re giving away one of our cool LibertyOnTour.com T-shirts (or a CopBlock.org shirt) to one person who changes their FB profile picture to one of our graphics. Starting today, and lasting a week, we’ll watch our Facebook page(s) (Liberty On Tour’s and CopBlock.org’s) for people who change their profile pic to one of those linked below (see this example). At weeks end we’ll announce the lucky winner – don’t forget to tag as many friends who you think would like our projects.

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Area Activists Join LOT to Cop Block Manchester PD

By on June 10, 2011 in Activism, LOT: FSFT, MARV


Last Friday Manchester-area activists armed with cameras, two-way radios and police scanners joined us and patrolled the streets in four cars and MARV. A couple days earlier we had made public our “LOT Watches the Watchmen” press release. Our mission – accountability, a trait that seemingly absent among the ranks of those working for the Manchester police department.

Christopher Micklovich

Case in point: two weeks before the patrol, Michael Delaney, the top law enforcement official in New Hampshire, concluded that those involved in the brutal beating of a man at a local watering hole a year prior wouldn’t face criminal charges because they wear badges.

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