#tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot Occupy Leader Marisa Holmes Files Lawsuit Against New York City http://www.newsweek.com/occupy-leader-marisa-holmes-files-lawsuit-against-new-york-city-261073 The New York Police Department punishes people who exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech and press, including filming police, a prominent Occupy Wall Street organizer claims in a new federal lawsuit. Police arrested Marisa Holmes on September 24, 2011, on charges of impeding “pepper-spray cop” Anthony Bologna’s arrest of Robert Stephens. Holmes was also charged with disorderly conduct. Prosecutors dropped the obstruction of governmental administration charge in April 2012. The Manhattan district attorney gave Holmes a “conditional dismissal” for the resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges. A graduate student, she accepted the deal so she wouldn’t miss classes, she told the New York Daily News at the time...