These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• At Occupy Berke­ley, Beat Poets Has New Mean­ing — NYTimes​.com

  “NONE of the police offi­cers invited us to dis­perse or gave any warn­ing. We couldn’t have dis­persed if we’d wanted to because the crowd behind us was push­ing for­ward to see what was going on. The descrip­tor for what I tried to do is “remon­strate.” I screamed at the deputy who had knocked down my wife, “You just knocked down my wife, for Christ’s sake!” A cou­ple of stu­dents had pushed for­ward in the excite­ment and the deputies grabbed them, pulled them to the ground and cud­geled them, rais­ing the clubs above their heads and swing­ing. The line surged. I got whacked hard in the ribs twice and once across the fore­arm. Some of the deputies used their trun­cheons as bars and seemed to be try­ing to use min­i­mum force to get peo­ple to move. And then, sud­denly, they stopped, on some sig­nal, and reformed their line. Appar­ently a group of deputies had beaten their way to the Occupy tents and taken them down. They stood, again immo­bile, clubs held across their chests, eyes care­fully meet­ing no one’s eyes, faces impas­sive. I imag­ined that their adren­a­line was surg­ing as much as mine.”
  
  occupy Civil-​​War protest cultural-​​dynamics