#OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us. There are no excuses left.
Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night.
Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. We Recommend The youth and those who are not so young participating in Occupy Wall Street deserve support, not scorn. Does the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has now spread from lower Manhattan to places as far flung as Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, signal a new beginning for the left? SLAVOJ ZIZEK AT OWS PART1. ‘We are wall Street…we are smarter and more vicious than [dinosaurs]‘ David Graeber: On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet. Yves here.
I have to note that David DeGraw of Amped Status is widely credited as the originator of “We are the 99%.” By David Graeber, who is currently a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to that he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ which is available from Amazon. Just a few months ago, I wrote a piece for Adbusters that started with a conversation I’d had with an Egyptian activist friend named Dina: All these years,” she said, “we’ve been organizing marches, rallies… And if only 45 people show up, you’re depressed, if you get 300, you’re happy.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across America, and even the world, I am suddenly beginning to understand a little of how she felt. Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston. Naomi Klein on Environmental Victory: Obama Delays Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Decision Until 2013. Environmental activists are claiming victory after the Obama administration announced Thursday it will postpone any decision on the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline until 2013.
The announcement was made just days after more than 10,000 people encircled the White House calling on President Obama to reject the project, the second major action against the project organized by Bill McKibben’s 350.org and Tar Sands Action. In late August and early September, some 1,200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C., in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience. Home. Occupy Tokyo: Mass demonstrations go unreported by Japanese media. You've heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Berlin, Tel Aviv and elsewhere around the world.
G20 case reveals 'largest ever' police spy operation - Canada. Police organizations across the country co-operated to spy on community organizations and activists in what the RCMP called one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history, documents reveal.
Information about the extensive police surveillance in advance of last year's G8 and G20 meetings in southern Ontario comes from evidence presented in the case of 17 people accused of orchestrating street turmoil during the summits. The court case ended Tuesday before it went to trial. Six of the defendants pleaded guilty to counselling mischief and two of those to an additional count of counselling to obstruct police, while 11 people had their criminal charges dropped. Testimony previously under a publication ban describes how two undercover police officers — one male, one female — spent 18 months infiltrating southern Ontario community groups ahead of the June 26-27, 2010, gathering of world leaders. Undercover operatives Canada-wide surveillance. West Coast Port Shut Down. Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution' U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights.
WASHINGTON -- The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded -- sometimes violently -- by local authorities.
Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Creeping American Police State. November 28, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Occupy London's anger over police 'terrorism' document. Police have angered Occupy London activists after listing the movement among terrorist groups in an advisory notice sent to the business community in the City.
The document issued by City of London police, headed "Terrorism/extremism update for the City of London business community", included a detailed account of recent and upcoming Occupy London activities and was sent to "trusted partners" in the area. Professor Richard D. Wolff. Published on December 2, 2011 As the Occupy movement keeps developing, it seeks solutions for the economic and political dysfunctions it exposes and opposes.
For many, the capitalist economic system itself is the basic problem. They want change to another system, but not to the traditional socialist alternative (e.g., USSR or China). That system too seems to require basic change. The We-Are-At-War! mentality. Two significant events happened on Thursday: (1) the Democratic-led Senate rejuvenated and expanded the War on Terror by, among other things, passing a law authorizing military detention on U.S. soil and expanding the formal scope of the War; and (2) Obama lawyers, for the first time, publicly justified the President’s asserted (and seized) power to target U.S. citizens for assassination without any transparency or due process.
I wrote extensively about the first episode on Thursday, and now have a question for those supporting the assassination theories just offered by the President’s lawyers. To pose that question, I’d like to harken back for a moment to the controversy over the Guantanamo detention system. Democrats universally purported to be appalled that the Bush administration was indefinitely imprisoning people without any charges or due process. . (1) Terrorism is not primarily a criminal offense. It is an act of war. Melbourne cops made to look foolish by protesters in tent costumes get vindictive revenge by stripping protester to underwear in park.