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December 2011

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Inside the 1% Voices From the Occupy Movement. Across the country, the Occupy Movement is developing new forms of exposing the 1% - Transcript OSCAR LEON: My name is Oscar Leon. I'm a South American reporter and documentary filmmaker. I have been around the country as a correspondent for teleSUR covering the Occupy movement, experiencing the struggle of the occupiers in many cities, listening to what they have to say. Here are some of their voices.DWAYNE, ARMY VETERAN, AGE 51: It's a shame when you think that a guy could survive a war in Afghanistan and come back to America and get shot.

Well, we often hear about the military-industrial complex, and they're warmongers, and they create incidents like the weapons of mass destruction. If you look at the profits of Halliburton, they're the only ones not really hurting. End DISCLAIMER: Please note that transcripts for The Real News Network are typed from a recording of the program. Comments. The Camp is the World – An open letter to the occupy movement | Red Pepper blog. We write this letter as participants in the movements, and as an invitation to a conversation about which we write. We hope to raise questions about how we continue to deepen and transform the new social relationships and processes we have begun … to open the discussion towards a common horizon.

The evictions and threats to the physical Occupations in the United States have again raised the question of the future of the movement. That the movements have a future is not the question – but what sort of future is. For example, should our energy be focused on finding new spaces to occupy and create encampments? A look at the recent history of a movement similar to Occupy - the Spanish indignados or 15M movement can shed some light on the opportunities and urgency of this new phase. There are three key elements that have made the global movements of 2011 so powerful and different. Let’s look at the first element. Spot the differences: New York Times on Russia and Occupy. When 5,000 liberals protest in Moscow, it’s front page news; but when 15,000 radicals rally in New York, they simply pretend it never happened. “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 virtually ignores them, pushing the news onto its obscure ‘City Room Blog’ (which, by the way, is excellent). The difference in framing between these two items is particularly remarkable. First of all, there’s the title: “Moscow Moves to Quell Second Day of Anti-Putin Protests.” The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action. Scriptonite Daily: Voices from the Occupation - Occupy Propaganda. Voices from the Occupation Occupy Propaganda Propaganda is discussed in classrooms across the UK in the context of fascist or totalitarian regimes in Germany and Russia, as a historical phenomenon.

Taught mainly in History (Nazi and USSR), and English Literature (1984, Brave New World). The critical point, being it was past tense and bad. But consider everything said or written is propaganda, and what makes it ‘bad’ is when there is not an equal share of voice and access to propaganda to allow the ideological debate necessary to balance ideological power. Today’s article takes a look at how propaganda is monopolised across our media and political systems today, hidden in plain view, and how to think your way out of these mechanisms of control. To be clear, this article is propaganda. The False Dilemma One means of seemingly creating debate, while actually directing people straight to your intended outcome, is by creating a false dilemma.

Let’s take the false dilemma of our age. “Panic!