December 2011
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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...
