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,...
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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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