December 2011
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Famous Wall Street bull to roam free again, as... →
The Wall Street bull has been one lonely bovine since the end of summer.
The sculpture was corralled behind barricades when the Occupy Wall Street protest began Sept. 17, as police feared vandals might try to damage the stock market mascot.
After three-plus months of isolation, the iconic animal is going to be freed from its caging at noon Monday, said Arthur Piccolo, bull advocate and...
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Full spectrum sustainability: Bringing together... →
To ensure our society is sustainable over the long term, we have to attend not just to environmental issues and climate change, but to the economic crisis, and the depletion of natural resources. Responses that deal with all three aspects of our sustainability predicament will not only be more effective than those that don’t, but they can be framed in terms of whichever aspect can gain broader...
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Occupy protester 'banned' from flight home for...
anticapitalist:
A member of the Occupy London protests was stopped from boarding his flight home for Christmas after he was found carrying anarchist literature, it has been claimed.
The demonstrator, who is part of the group occupying the empty UBS building dubbed the “Bank of Ideas”, said he was told he would not be allowed on the Ryanair flight to Malaga because the pilot feared he might...
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Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this...
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Amendment inspired by Occupy Movement on the table →
Petition to support ”Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment”
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A letter from Mumia Abu-Jamal →
My Friends of OWS,
My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength.
You are the central movement of the hour. You’re raising questions that are in the hearts of millions. Your motto, “We are the 99%,” has been heard, heeded, and responded to by millions. You can be certain that the 1% have heard you clearest of all.
Your work, however,...
kelsium:
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gsaps asked: Hello! I was hoping you could help promote our protest against religious institutions interfering with politics to the detriment of the LGBT community. All the information can be found on our tumblr/facebook. It would be a great help if you could put the word out on your tumblr! Thanks!
Watchoccupyallstreets:
Memo Leaked, Banks Plan Attack On Occupy Wall Street
The banks will use $850,000 to conducted surveys to try to smear the OWS movement. They believe the OWS movement should be ‘treated as a competitor’.
This only proves that the 1% are, in fact, afraid of us.
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the merger of state and corporate power
carton-rouge:
> local PUBLIC law enforcement agencies distribute flyer on ‘domestic threats,’ to protect corrupt businesses from criticism
> local PUBLIC law enforcement agencies include in said flyer a warning that protesters might try to record and embarrass them (as if this is the police’s business)
> local PUBLIC law enforcement agencies denounce the ‘anti-capitalist profile’
The...
City of London Police include Occupy movement on... →
carton-rouge:
City of London Police have sparked controversy by producing a brief in which the Occupy London movement is listed under domestic terrorism/extremism threats to City businesses.
Picture- Occupy LSX
The document was given to protesters at their “Bank of Ideas” base on Sun Street – a former site of financial corporation UBS. City police have stepped up an effort to quell the...
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80% of giving to SuperPACs has come from just 58...
abaldwin360:
Two wealthy tribes will decide the political messages we hear — and the ones we won’t
BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT | salon.com
The hidden infrastructure of the 2012 campaign has already been built.
A handful of so-called Super PACs, enabled to collect unlimited donations by the continued erosion of campaign finance regulations, are expected to rival the official campaign organizations in...
Apparently this poll is still happening →
cognitivedissonance:
You know what to do, Tumblr. As of 11:50 PM EST:
ghoulmann:
AN OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICA’S PORT TRUCK DRIVERS ON “OCCUPY THE PORTS”
socialismartnature:
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.
We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New ...
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'Occupy' Protesters Disrupt Ports in Oakland And... →
socialismartnature:
“Occupy” protesters on the West Coast moved Monday to disrupt ports in Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere.
The “Wall Street on the Waterfront” protests seem to have had more success in Oakland [than elsewhere]. KQED says that a crowd their reporter estimated to be 1,000 strong marched through the streets of West Oakland this morning. At the port, protesters were able...
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Russians come out in force to protest against... →
Up to 50,000 people braved the cold and snow on Saturday to turn out for the largest ever protest against the rule of prime minister Vladimir Putin.
Bolotnaya Square, across the river from the Kremlin in central Moscow, was filled to overflowing with thousands standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the bridges and along the riverfront leading to the site. Tens of thousands of police and...
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Wall Street protesters vow to reoccupy on... →
Activists at Occupy Wall Street have issued a call to thousands of protesters across the US to reoccupy outdoor public spaces to mark the movement’s three-month anniversary.
The Occupy movement has stalled in recent weeks after a wave of evictions swept away a raft of encampments, including the largest in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York. On Wednesday, it suffered a fresh blow...
thepantslessprincess asked: I saw a group of senior citizens at the mall last night while I was on break. All their shirts said "occupy Danbury". They prove that no matter how old its never to late to make a difference.
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Watchcarton-rouge:
Radiohead and Massive Attack play at Occupy London Christmas party
Protesters at Occupy London had some surprise guests at a Christmas party last night. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Robert ‘3D’ del Naja from Massive Attack dropped in to DJ at the group’s occupation of UBS’s empty building in east London.
Organisers added that the concert was recorded and would be put on an album...
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Spot the differences: New York Times on Russia and... →
“Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” ~ Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (1988)
Consider this rather dramatic contrast: when 300 liberals are arrested during an anti-Putin protest in faraway Moscow, the New York Times splashes the news onto its front page. But when 700 radicals are arrested in an anti-Wall Street rally in New York itself, the Times...
99 Percenters Occupying Joe Walsh’s Office Until... →
This afternoon, at least 99 different groups of Americans outraged at income inequality and the lack of jobs are at the U.S. capitol, demanding that Members of Congress support jobs legislation. The action, called “Take Back The Capitol” is one of the few times that Members of Congress will be directly confronted by unemployed people.
About half an hour ago, a group of demonstrators entered...
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Reclaiming Space, Public and Private →
A remarkable thing happened several weeks ago in a small city in North Carolina. A group of Occupiers from Chapel Hill affiliated with the national movement, emboldened by similar actions by Occupiers in Oakland, California, reclaimed an old used car dealership that had sat vacant for years. The owner, a deadbeat who has been apparently at odds with city government for some time now, has...
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Occupy Homes lauds a radical new phase for the... →
The drive to stop foreclosures and squat bank property marks a radical shift from the occupation of public space to the public repossession of private property.
The Occupy movement is racketing up the resistance. Inspired by the Spanish indignados, this Tuesday activists all over the United States will be taking the struggle indoors: to the homes of poor families who are under threat of...
The Devil Himself Is Frightened Of OWS
liberalsarecool:
“I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death.” — GOP strategist Frank Luntz, quoted by Yahoo News, noting the Occupy Wall Street protests are “having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.”
Know your enemy. Here are some Luntz GOP talking points about OWS:
What Luntz says in a list: 1. Don’t say ‘capitalism.’ 2. Don’t...
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Next Step: Loan Strike! →
Occupy Wall Street and their far-flung allies might as well give up on addressing their demands to the government, at least for the time being. The slogan ought to be something like “We’re tired of being pawned off on the help; from now on, we insist on dealing directly with the masters.”
And the plan should be to spend the next several months developing, articulating, and organizing...
