Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine 'Occupy Wall Street'

More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls?

Interesting report this evening in the San Francisco Bay Guardian suggesting that big city mayors have not been the only ones making conference calls in an effort to coordinate crackdowns on Occupy Movement encampments: ...a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events....
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/736778/more_on_police_department...
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Motorola sponsors group responsible for coordinating attacks on Occupy Wall Street
November 20, 2011
tags: #ACW, #AnonCorpWatch, #Motorola, #PERF, OWS

Motorola sponsors group responsible for coordinating attacks on Occupy Wall Street

It has come to our attention that the corporation, Motorola, has close ties to a police organization that is responsible for coordinating the recent crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street protests in various cities. The organization that is responsible for coordinating these attacks is PERF. PERF stands for Police Executive Research Forum:

The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) is a national membership organization of progressive police executives from the largest city, county and state law enforcement agencies. PERF is dedicated to improving policing and advancing professionalism through research and involvement in public policy debate. Incorporated in 1977, PERF's primary sources of operating revenues are government grants and contracts, and partnerships with private foundations and other organizations.
http://anoncorpwatch.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/motorola-sponsors-group-respons...
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From: MSNBC
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/19/8884405-lobbying-firms-memo...
Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine Occupy Wall Street

By Jonathan Larsen and Ken Olshansky, MSNBC TV

A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program "Up w/ Chris Hayes."

The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC's clients, the American Bankers Association.

CLGC's memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct "opposition research" on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct "negative narratives" about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.
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CLGC's memo
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/CLGF-msnbc.pdf
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/CLGF-msnbc.pdf
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Obama Campaign Responds to "Up" Exclusive on Lobbyist Plan to Take Down Occupy Wall Street
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/19/8899483-obama-campaign...

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[GrowTheTruth]

Come at me, bro! Just try it! Bring it! OWS is going to CRUSH these corrupt pieces of shit!

[drummerpablo1]

America is scary.

[tehgreatist]

@leftovers0 right? people dont even seem to care. half the country doesnt realize how bad it is to have businesses own your politics. it doesnt take a genius to realize that you dont want the people whos #1 priority is to make money off the citizens in charge of the country. why do people approve of this?

[leftovers0]

This is terrifying. How is this considered the norm?!

[tooltalk]

I love it., democrats trying to hard to portrait themselves as the enemy of the bankers!!! As if electing more democrats would help end the political corruption in DC!

[TweetyAffect]

Damn America you scary.

[babygurlcrazy]

We are making them scared! Keep fighting!

[FoxKnightJ07]

@herpderpmonkey The camps act as a focal point, somewhere people can go when they get sick of how the world is and finally get off their ideologically lazy arses and go to the only place they know to head to. Once at these camps they get exposed to ideas from all angles and bit by bit people are forming a consensus.

Of course things won't be methodical and uber efficient, I suspect the majority of people in this crowd-sourced revolution have never done anything of the sort in their lives.

[dylansmale]

2 people who watched this are not in touch with reality

[macgeek2004]

^but the management is ENTIRELY conservative and corporate in nature. Like, think "CNBC". They *are* owned by *GE and Comcast*, after all...

[macgeek2004]

@grisevg

Hence their *firing* of Cenk and subsequent replacement w/Al fucking Sharpton of all people. See what I mean?