Monthly Archives: December 2011
Tomgram> Tom Engelhardt> Rebecca Solnit, Occupy Your Heart>Compassion Is Our New Currency
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit Occupy Your Heart Compassion Is Our New Currency Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 9:01AM, December 22, 2011. Tom Dispatch The other evening, I took the subway to the very bottom of Broadway, reputedly the longest street in the world, for a rally of New York’s transit workers. Their contract expires in mid-January and […]
Nation of Change> Ethnic Media Takes a Sober Look at U.S. Intervention in Iraq
Ethnic Media Takes a Sober Look at U.S. Intervention in Iraq New America Media/News Analysis Thursday 22 December 2011 Nation of Change In the wake of the end of the Iraq war, U.S. ethnic media are taking a sober look at the last nine years of American military intervention in Iraq, and […]
Video> Thom Hartmann> Why Occupy Christianity is important
Blase Bonpane, Director of the Office of the America & Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard join Thom Hartmann. Since the Occupy Wall Street movement started more than 3 months again – it’s taken on many forms. From physical occupations in cities across America – to occupying individual homes to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure – […]
Video> Thom Hartmann> The Good! Occupy Minnesota. The Bad! The NYPD.
The Good! Occupy Minnesota. The Bad! The NYPD. The Very Very Ugly! Mitt Romney.
Video> Thom Hartmann> What the National Defense Authorization Act really says> Obama’s Signing Statement
The highly controversial National Defense Authorization Act is still awaiting the President’s signature. The act contains an indefinite detention provision – giving the President of the United States the power to use the military to indefinitely detain you without trial if is says that you’re a suspected terrorist. There’ve been protests across the country in […]
Video> Obama NDAA OK Draws OccupyMN Protest At Reelection HQ
Obama NDAA OK Draws OccupyMN Protest At Reelection HQ Think bad thoughts about the government and you could go to jail…forever. That may sound like a Soviet-era law, but civil libertarians say it’s possible under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which is awaiting President Obama’s promised signature. The NDAA, was passed by the […]
Glenn Greenwald> Snapshots of Washington’s essence
Snapshots of Washington’s essence BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com I intended to post sporadically or not at all this week, and that’s still my plan, but there is a new Washington Post article which contains three short passages that I really want to highlight because they so vividly capture the essence of so much. The article, by Greg Miller, […]
Noam Chomsky> Interview with Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers> World Militarization
Noam Chomsky> The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘Part of Global Program of World Militarization” Noam Chomsky Published: Saturday 17 December 2011 Nation of Change “It is well understood among the military leadership and also the political leadership in the United States and its allies, that they cannot achieve a military solution of […]
How Will the Walls Come Tumbling Down> Diversity of Tactics vs Nonviolence in the Occupy Movement.
Video> Dialogue> Occupy Oakland Nonviolence vs Diversity of Tactics Positive Peace Warrior Kazu Haga Editor’s Note: The video posted here is of the dialogue between the panelists after they have given their individual presentations. Links to the individual presentations—all are worth listening to—are included below, as well as a link to the full program. Questions such as, […]
Occupy Libraries> Youth Justice Coalition Cleans Up Abandoned Library in South LA, Confronted by Police
Youth Justice Coalition Cleans Up Abandoned Library in South LA, Confronted by Police Feature Stories | Published 14 Dec 2011, 11:08 am | Uprising Radio The start of the New Year in California may not be something to celebrate if $1 billion dollars in budget cuts go into effect on January 1st as planned. Governor […]
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