Windy City Times - Queer Occupy members protest HRC in NYC for honoring Goldman Sachs - 635. York, NY, Feb. 1, 2012 -Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Occupy Wall Street, a caucus of the NYC based Occupy Wall Street movement, will protest a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) gala honoring Goldman Sachs Feb. 4, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria.
In contrast to the $650 a plate Gala, the Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Caucus will host a "Guerrilla Potluck" on the sidewalk outside of the prestigious hotel at 50th Street & Park Avenue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Queer Caucus: 1. Condemns HRC for honoring Goldman Sachs, 2. Calls upon HRC to adopt a strategy of Full Equality by 2014, and 3. Demands that HRC create a transparent process that includes the grassroots. 1. 2. To address this, the Queer Caucus calls on HRC to take The Pledge for Full LGBT Equality to seek and secure full non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identify for all people. "Homo/transphobia in America is a public health and economic emergency for our community" said Michael Tikile, an occupier and Duke University graduate. Occupy Movement Has Captured The Nation's Attention, If Not Its Cities.
Hide captionA protester at the Occupy D.C. encampment in Freedom Plaza packed up his belongings Monday ahead of a National Park Service deadline to clear out.
Win McNamee/Getty Images Most of the tents are gone, the parks are empty and nearly 99 percent of Occupy Wall Street's 99 percenters have gone home. But even as the occupation enters a denouement, the nationwide movement sparked in September can claim a huge victory in the battle of ideas. Occupy has spoken, and Americans have listened. Subjects that were largely taboo on Wall Street, Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue just six months ago have moved to center stage. "There's a better than reasonable chance that we are at this turning point in American life and American politics," says David Meyer, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the book The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America. Casting A Long Shadow New York City's Zuccotti Park, where the movement began, is quiet. Prosecutors subpoena Occupy tweets. New York City prosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestor arrested in October during a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge.
According to Reuters, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is seeking to obtain "user information, including email address," as well as three months' worth of tweets written by @destructuremal, aka Malcolm Harris. The 23-year-old Harris, who works as a freelance writer and editor in Brooklyn, posted a copy of the subpoena on his Twitter account. "When you get an email from Twitter Legal, you assume it's a phishing scam, trying to get your password," Harris tweeted. "It turned out that it is a phishing scam, but it's from the prosecutors. " Harris didn't appear particularly concerned by the impending legal action, as he fully expects his lawyer to challenge the subpoena. Harris was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct back in October. Accountability Proposal. Occupy Wall Street is founded upon the Principles of Solidarity, which states the following: “On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetuated by the economic and political elites.
On the 17th we as individuals rose up against political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice. We spoke out, resisted, and successfully occupied Wall Street. Today, we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love. It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world, Enough! We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality.
Additionally, we also follow the Statement of Autonomy, which states the following: Climate Scientists Occupy Wall Street Journal. “Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition?”
Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, rhetorically asked in a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to a letter by climate change skeptics. Trenberth, along with 37 other atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, and other climate experts, signed the letter, published on Feb. 1. “You published ‘No Need to Panic About Global Warming‘ (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most of these authors have no expertise in climate science,” continued Trenberth. BLOG: Skeptics Catching Up on Climate Science Some of the “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” signatories with dubious credentials as impartial climate science skeptics included: Jan L.
But Trenberth stated scientists like Allègre are a fringe in the field of atmospheric science. Which Bank Is the Worst for America? Five Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage.