#occupymontreal

[porterdavis]

"Casseroles". (Pots and pans). The favoured South American form of protest has taken root in Montreal. I wish I were there. I may not have a pot to piss in but I'd sure find one to bang on.

[porterdavis]

Lessee here...Freedom of association - check; freedom of the press - check. Yep, we pretty much trampled all those dirty hippies' rights. Shame, Montreal police and governments.

Up the revolution.

[porterdavis]

"Would you like fresh pepper-spray on your salad?"

Hard to see how enjoying a Montreal Saturday summer night on a beautiful terasse  can be illegal, but the police come and...

(This will do wonders for attendance at the F1 race in a few weeks)

[chaosnewsinc]

An Occupy Montreal protester's hand is shown under UV light after being marked by police.  (Credit: Nina Haigh/Facebook/Salon)

"Occupy protesters in Montreal were dismayed to find they had been marked by police with a special ink that is only visible in UV light after being arrested during a raid of Victoria Square Friday.

Police told CTV Montreal they borrowed the technique from bouncers at clubs and bars and it is meant to mark protesters who might return to the square.

But they apparently weren’t so forthcoming with at least one protester.

“They wrote on my hand with a permanent marker and then after I felt something pointy and metallic scraping across my skin,” wrote protester Nina Haigh on Facebook, continuing:

I immediately asked “What are you doing” and they simply said we wrote on you with a pen and showed me a bunch of various pens in her hand.

I didn’t argue about it and I was unable to look at my hands as they were tied behind my back with zipties. As soon as I was released I looked at my hands and there was no ink on them from a pen. …

This morning we tested my hands under a black light and sure enough there was a number 2! The freaky thing is this is IN my skin, washing my hands and scrubbing with abrasives will not get this off…. perhaps in several months of my skin cells renewing themselves if will eventually fade. What ever ink that is in there is irritating my skin slightly and its a very terrible feeling that they put a substance in my body with out my consent and then later lied about it.

Here’s the picture of Haigh’s hand under normal light:

The picture of her hands under UV light is at the top of this post.

I’ve asked the Montreal police for comment on all this, and I’ll update this post if I hear back.

There are reports of police using invisible ink to mark objects as part of campaigns against burglary and underage drinking. But this seems to be the first time UV ink has been used to mark people during the Occupy movement. Have any experience with this ink? Email me.

UPDATE: So what did being marked with the UV ink feel like?

“It felt very similar to some one drawing on you with a nail,” Haigh tells me. “It really wasn’t a pleasant feeling and I passed a good 24 hours wondering what they had done to me before my friends and I figured it out. I did get a rash from the ink for a few days and my hand was rather sensitive.”

She adds the marking faded after four days, “but I still feel my body was violated.”

UPDATE II: This tattoo website suggests that UV ink has a history of health risks."~(Salon/Justin Elliott)(Thanks to Epic)

[occupycolumbiauniversity-blog]

Horrifying: Police UV Tagging.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150964676845543.767297.792405542&type=3

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‎****** IMPORTANT for all those who were arrested at occupy Montreal to read ******** When I was arrested at Occupy Montreal on the 25th of November 2011 They were taking my information. They wrote on my hand with a permanent marker and then after I felt something pointy and metallic scraping across my skin. I immediately asked "What are you doing" and they simply said we wrote on you with a pen and showed me a bunch of various pens in her hand. I didn't argue about it and I was unable to look at my hands as they were tied behind my back with zipties. As soon as I was released I looked at my hands and there was no ink on them from a pen. I began to worry and wonder what exactly did they do to me that prompted them to lie to me... it really was not a fun feeling. when I spoke about what happened a few hours later to a friend and my partner, the idea came about that perhaps it was something they used as a way to identify me. This morning we tested my hands under a black light and sure enough there was a number 2! The freaky thing is this is IN my skin, washing my hands and scrubbing with abrasives will not get this off.... perhaps in several months of my skin cells renewing themselves if will eventually fade.  What ever ink that is in there is irritating my skin slightly and its a very terrible feeling that they put a substance in my body with out my consent and then later lied about it. This is a semi permanent alteration they did to me, if I go anywhere now with a black light this will show! -------------------- I called the SPVM today and after being on hold for over 10 minutes I explained what happened to me to the officer on the line. I was calm and explained I was concerned for my health because I was having a reaction to whatever it was they used... He told me he had no idea what I was talking about, that he never heard of that before ...  I asked if it was possible to speak to some one who might know more and he said that there was no one ... he then said he needed to answer the other line and hung up ......

[peregriner]

Ho wait, I know this voice. Ho hai, it's @Annie_Becker singing @ Occupy Montreal

[chaosnewsinc]

"Occupy protesters in Vancouver, Victoria and Quebec City have been told they have to leave, but they say they will resist any efforts to dismantle their camps.

Officials in the cities are agitating for the protesters to clear out of the public spaces they began occupying in recent weeks, citing health and safety concerns.

There has already been a small fire in the Quebec City park where protesters are camped out, though no one was hurt in the incident last week.

City spokesperson Jacques Perron said the park is no longer safe, which is a problem because it is a public space that should be safe for everyone.

The city wants the protesters to leave the park Monday.

Similar concerns are being raised in Vancouver, where one woman has died during the so-called occupation and another protester has suffered a non-fatal drug overdose.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has asked police and fire officials to look at strategies to "end the encampment as soon as possible."

The protesters say they will not leave voluntarily.

As one Occupy Vancouver protester told CTV British Columbia on the weekend: "If they really want to come in and try to clear us out, we're going to stand our ground and what happens from there will happen."

The protesters say they have a charter right to protest, although the city is expected to seek a court injunction to get them to move.

Out in Victoria, protesters have been told to leave a city square by noon on Monday.

City officials want to decorate the square for the holidays and they also want to complete maintenance on the public fountain there.

Protester Rob Baron told CTV British Columbia that the protesters have made their point even if they get kicked out of the downtown square.

"If you remove the people from here, I don't think you realize how much support that we have gained from this statement we've been making down here," Baron said Sunday.

"This has been an education and an awareness process and that's all it has been."

Occupy protesters in Halifax, meanwhile, have made a deal to temporarily relocate their camp so that that city officials could organize Remembrance Day ceremonies at the city's main cenotaph.

The Haligonian protesters say they will return after those ceremonies have finished.

Occupy protests continue to take place in several other Canadian cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Calgary"

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20111107/occupy-canada-protests-evacuation-orders-111107/#ixzz1d2znDsx8