The hippies are chattering on the intertubes, especially on the West Coast in the Tacoma and Olympia, Washington areas. Apparently they found a member of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency spying on them.<\/p>\n
Brendan Maslauskas Dunn asked the city of Olympia for documents or e-mails about communications between the Olympia police and the military relating to anarchists, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) or the Industrial Workers of the World (Dunn\u2019s union). Dunn received hundreds of documents. One e-mail contained reference to a \u201cJohn J. Towery II,\u201d who activists discovered was the same person as their fellow activist \u201cJohn Jacob.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunn told me: \u201cJohn Jacob was actually a close friend of mine, so this week has been pretty difficult for me. He said he was an anarchist. He was really interested in SDS. He got involved with Port Militarization Resistance (PMR), with Iraq Vets Against the War. He was a kind person. He was a generous person. So it was really just a shock for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJacob\u201d told the activists he was a civilian employed at Fort Lewis Army Base and would share information about base activities that could help the PMR organize rallies and protests against public ports being used for troop and Stryker military vehicle deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2006, PMR activists have occasionally engaged in civil disobedience, blocking access to the port.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The premiere hippie journalist, Amy Goodman has an hour long video of the report, if you really have that much time to waste;<\/p>\n