"By the protestors' account, the standoff began at 4 a.m., when about 20 to 30 police arrived at the home with a battering ram, bashed in the front door, surrounded the home and blocked traffic so that no one could approach it. A spokesman for the sheriff's department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
For the past month, activists with the Occupy movement in Minneapolis have been using the home as a sort of fortress and command center, and the raid was the second on the home this week. On Wednesday, the police called off their first attempt to evict the protestors after about 100 people rallied at the house."
-- This is what needs to be happening more and more everywhere. So far the resistance I have seen is in bunches in different pockets around the world. However, if we attempted to make more of a collective organized effort, we could achieve much more success here than we think. -- JB, Managing Editor
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