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    • Occupy TV Raided by Police

    John on January 3, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    According to this story at the Atlantic, globalrevolution.tv, which carried live-streams of occupy events, had moved to a studio in Brooklyn after their equipment kept being stolen. Today the Brooklyn site was raided and perhaps half a dozen individuals were arrested:

    The raid Tuesday follows a notice to vacate that police delivered to the Bushwick studio on Monday night. Victoria Sobel, a Global Revolution volunteer, said Vlad Teichberg and a guy named Spike, both of whom maintain the live feed aggregator, had been taken into custody by police, along with four or five others.

    Here’s a photo of the notice police had posted earlier:

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