December 2011
43 posts
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...
November 2011
158 posts
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.”
– ‘Mayor’ Michael Bloomberg — ‘I Have My Own Army’ (via cultureofresistance)
submission from coltivator: Voting Record for...
Check the list to see which senators voted against the amendment to PREVENT indefinite detention and who voted for it.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00211
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Submission from acaskofbrando: Senate Votes To Let...
This just came in regarding the un-American NDAA: “The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat. The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, was also opposed by civil libertarians on the...
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Ex-Seattle chief: 'Occupy' police use 'failed'... →
Police across the US have been criticised for their actions in clashes with Occupy Wall Street protesters. The man who led the police response to the Battle in Seattle protests at the 1999 WTO meeting blames the post-9/11 militarisation of American policing.
“Law enforcement across the country is pursuing the same tactics that failed so miserably in Seattle,” Norm Stamper tells...
More live streams:
mohandasgandhi:
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Occupy LA Civic Engagement
Occupy Freedom LA
Occupy Oakland @OakFoSho - currently streaming activity in LA
Occupy LA Streaming List
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One of your #OWS colleagues is working on a group survey project of those sympathetic to the Occupy movement and its relation to other social movements, and he would love to have some responses from you.
If you have time, please fill out his survey. It’s simple and quick. Thank you!
Anthropologist David Graeber on OWS's anarchist... →
occupy-anthro:
London, UK - Almost every time I’m interviewed by a mainstream journalist about Occupy Wall Street I get some variation of the same lecture:
“How are you going to get anywhere if you refuse to create a leadership structure or make a practical list of demands? And what’s with all this anarchist nonsense - the consensus, the sparkly fingers? Don’t you realise all this radical...
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!! IMPORTANT! →
jonathan-cunningham:
leftish:
Tell the Senate “NO to Indefinite Military Detention!”
The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and without charge.
The Defense Authorization bill is now on the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all...
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racismwithoutprejudice a reblogué votre photo : rtnt: Read This, Not That: Misogyny in the…
Just earnt yourself an unfollow. Someone sais ‘lets try and change the world’ and you said ‘but people who feel bad about who they are might imagine that other people have a problem with it even though actually other people are just fuckheads!’ then I said ‘fuck you.’
Good riddance.
