Monthly Archives: October 2011
ACLU-TN Legal Victory – Occupy Nashville’s Free Speech Protected
ACLU-TN Legal Victory – Occupy Nashville’s Free Speech Protected Posted October 31, 2011 United Progressives NASHVILLE – A federal judge this afternoon ordered the State of Tennessee to stop enforcing rules that violate the free speech rights of the Occupy Nashville protesters in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Wall Street by the Book> OWS at Valley Forge
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Wall Street by the Book Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:00pm, October 30, 2011. OWS at Valley Forge A (Self-)Graduation Speech for the Occupiers of Zuccotti Park By Tom Engelhardt Once the Arab Spring broke loose, people began asking me why this country was still so quiet. I would always point out that no one ever […]
Lynching in Libya – Made in U$A> Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa
Lynching in Libya – Made in U$A Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa By Sara Flounders INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER STATEMENT ON LIBYA The brutal lynching of Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, is the latest criminal act in NATO’s seven-month war of regime change and conquest. Gadhafi died resisting to the […]
Video> Saying No To Corporate Greed Gets Union Support at OccupyMpls
Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Oct 30, 2011 A few months ago, people marching against corporate greed might have been perceived as wasting their time. This weekend in downtown Minneapolis normally disinterested bystanders gave the protesters their enthusiastic backing. The message that “corporate greed is killing us” is resonating with average citizens as government statistics now show the 1% […]
OWS: Washington Still Doesn’t Get It> Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
OWS: Washington Still Doesn’t Get It By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 25 October 11 I’ll have more coming out about this in a few days, but there have been two disgusting developments in the realm of plutocratic intervention on behalf of Wall Street that everyone protesting should take note of. The fact that both […]
Video> The other 98%> The not-so-silent majority
The other 98% > The not-so-silent majority Uploaded by other98 on Jul 21, 2010 Our graphics guy grabbed a bunch of our best slogans and strung them together in what looks like a rather polished 30 second P.S.A. for The Other 98% Now all we need is millions and millions of dollars to run it […]
Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating> Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Activists demonstrate outside of the New York Stock Exchange against Wall Street bonuses, 12/15/10. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 26 October 11 via Reader Supported News I was at an event on the Upper East Side last Friday night when I got to talking with […]
The Great Hunt: Return of the Burning Times> Witch Hunts Then and Now
The Great Hunt: Return of the Burning Times By Mary Beaudoin WAMM Newsletter October 2011 The Great Hunt of today takes various forms with the whole world as hunting grounds: there are fishing expeditions to identify domestic enemies, hunts to apprehend undocumented people and suspected terrorists, and hunts for declared enemies in other countries. Today […]
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