We're not camping, and this is our PERMIT... Und3r_score - Poster. Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)’ by Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘In the Plex’ by Steven Levy and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ by Douglas Edwards · LRB 6 October 2011. This spring, the billionaire Eric Schmidt announced that there were only four really significant technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, the company he had until recently been running.
People believed him. What distinguished his new ‘gang of four’ from the generation it had superseded – companies like Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Cisco, which mostly exist to sell gizmos and gadgets and innumerable hours of expensive support services to corporate clients – was that the newcomers sold their products and services to ordinary people. Since there are more ordinary people in the world than there are businesses, and since there’s nothing that ordinary people don’t want or need, or can’t be persuaded they want or need when it flashes up alluringly on their screens, the money to be made from them is virtually limitless. Together, Schmidt’s four companies are worth more than half a trillion dollars. Some people find all this frightening. The reason is that Google is learning. 'Occupy Wall Street' Fighting Bankster Greed and the Surveillance State | News & Politics.
September 27, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The crackdown on the Wall Street protesters this weekend seems to have backfired. The campsite-cum-experiment in radical democracy is still there, holding general assemblies just shouting distance from Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street bull. The complaints that the media has ignored the sustained protest seem to be resonating—the park has cameras aplenty today, and food trucks line one side of the plaza. ( Local eateries have been taking out-of-town orders for protesters.) While even theoretically like-minded folks had been a bit dismissive of the Wall Street occupation before Saturday, the heavy-handed moves by police to control a small march have brought worldwide attention to Zuccotti Park, formerly Liberty Plaza. The orange mesh net came out on Saturday and the #OccupyWallSt Twitter hashtag was filled with warnings from those who had been there in 2004.
Robert Scheer: What Do They Want? Justice. What Do They Want? Justice Posted on Oct 6, 2011 By Robert Scheer How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country? Not that any of the protesters have gone so far as to overturn the tables of stockbrokers or whip them with cords in imitation of the cleansing of the temple, but the rhetoric of accountability is compelling. “Is this Occupy Wall Street thing a big deal?” It should pose a threat, not because peaceful demonstrators will suddenly morph into vigilantes fatally damaging their cause with violent action, but rather because government prosecutors should fulfill their obligation to pursue justice and incarcerate some of the obvious perps. Sorkin ended his account with snarky comments about the protesters using ATM machines and about the ever-admirable Code Pink founder Jodie Evans having flown a commercial airline to get across the country to the demonstration.
Feingold: Occupy Wall St. ‘will make the tea party look like a tea party’ By Andrew JonesWednesday, October 5, 2011 12:44 EDT Add Russ Feingold to the list of prominent names backing Occupy Wall Street. The former Wisconsin senator sat down for an interview with the Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent and stated how the protests will outdo its right-wing counterpart. “This is like the Tea Party — only it’s real,” he said.
“By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like …a tea party.” “I’m really encouraged by what I’m seeing. Feingold expressed disagreement with critics who say that the protests have lacked a coherent message. “The guys who are protesting are not filing legal briefs,” he said. Feingold also urged President Barack Obama to understand how pivotal the movement could be for his chances at a second term. “The White House should realize that this would be beneficial to the president and his reelection chances if he recognizes how correct the protesters are to be upset,” he said. Feingold joins House Dems and Progressive Caucus figures Rep.
October 15: Unite for Global Change! Our people’s democracy movement is about to get three mighty boosts: On October 6, a few thousand of us will swarm the capital and #OCCUPYDC. Find out the plan at october2011.org On October 15th, the movement goes global … check it out at 15october.net On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy.
The ruling powers work for the benefit of just a few, ignoring the will of the vast majority and the human and environmental price we all have to pay. United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future. We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers who do not represent us. On October 15th, we will meet on the streets to initiate the global change we want.
It’s time for us to unite. March 9, 2012 -- An Open Letter to Non-Occupiers. Thom Hartmann: What Really Happened with Occupy Atlanta & Rep John Lewis. Kanye West makes silent stand with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ By Andrew JonesTuesday, October 11, 2011 9:05 EDT Occupy Wall Street received an unexpected visit Monday afternoon by music star Kanye West. Accompanied by hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, the rapper made his way to Zuccotti Park to have a first-hand view of the demonstrations. He declined to take questions from the media, letting the former head of Def Jam Records speak for him. “Kanye has been a big supporter spiritually of this movement, and he’s just here to stand with the people” Simmons said. “He’s not here for the politics of it, he doesn’t want a statement, didn’t want to do any media at all actually. Thom Hartmann: Conversations wtih Great Minds - Naomi Klein Occupy Wall Street. part 1.
For tonight's "Conversation with Great Minds" - I am joined by award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and internationally best-selling author - Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is also syndicated internationally.
Her writing has appeared in dozens of other major newspapers - including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s magazine earned her the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College in Canada. In 2007, her book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" became a number one international best-seller. Occupy Wall Street: echoes of the past as protesters grasp the future | Ana Marie Cox. So far, the Occupy Wall Street movement has found success with what it has self-consciously learned from the Arab Spring. OWS leaders have put technology to work in the cause of direct action, leaderless organisation and the creative expression of persistent critiques.
But talk about persistent critiques. Forty-nine years ago, an ad-hoc collection of earnest and angry young activists known as the Students for a Democratic Society published the Port Huron statement. Their list of grievances could be lifted directly from the OWS demands: "We live amidst a national celebration of economic prosperity while poverty and deprivation remain an unbreakable way of life for millions in the 'affluent society,'" the inaugural SDSers wrote.
If the critique is familiar, so is the state of affairs. But here's one big difference: the OWS will not be producing a Port Huron statement – or at least, that's the talking point. Those hallmarks are dubious successes, at any rate. What's the Wall Street Occupation Really About? by Nathan Schneider. There’s a lot of misinformation about the occupation of Wall Street. What’s it really about? Posted Sep 23, 2011 Click here for a photo essay from the #OccupyWallStreet protests. Cross-posted from Truthout. A lot of what you’ve probably seen or read about the #occupywallstreet action is wrong, especially if you’re getting it on the Internet. At the center of occupied Liberty Plaza, a dozen or so huddle around computers in the media area, managing a makeshift Internet hotspot, a humming generator and the (theoretically) 24-hour livestream. For someone who has been following this movement in gestation as well as implementation, it’s painfully easy to see which news articles take their bearing entirely from a few Google searches.
As is now well known, the anti-consumerist group Adbusters made a call on July 13 for an occupation of Wall Street. It’s a movement in formation. Soon came US Day of Rage, the project of Alexa O’Brien, an IT content management strategist. So it has become. Oh Fa Chrissake... - An Open Letter to Wall Street. Protesters, some dressed as zombies, walk the streets as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began three weeks ago, in New York, October 3, 2011. (Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) An Open Letter to Wall StreetBy William Rivers Pittt r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Tuesday 04 October 2011 Cancel my subscriptionTo the resurrectionSend my credentials to theHouse of detentionI got some friends inside... - James Douglas Morrison Before anything else, I would like to apologize for the mess outside your office.
Your friends at JP Morgan Chase just donated $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation, the largest donation ever given to the NYPD. That's what you do anyway, right? Now is the time to bone up on your coping skills, because three weeks is nothing. I hate to be the Irony Police, but that's pretty much the whole point.
Let's face it: the mess outside your office is your doing. We (You) Have Bought Solidarity Pizzas for 22 Cities...So Far! The World vs Wall Street. I Support These Protests. Protests and occupations have spread to Washington D.C. from Wall Street and other towns. This is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Afghanistan War, the longest in U.S. history. Protesters are extending the occupation from Wall Street to the government that Wall Street corrupts -- to the government that launches war without end. We are going to deliver a statement of solidarity to the D.C. protesters -- and a demand for fair and accurate coverage to major news outlets. Please add your name and share this link with friends: With occupations and protests spreading to Freedom Plaza in DC from Wall Street and dozens of other towns, RootsAction.org and the undersigned individuals stand in solidarity with nonviolent protests aimed at redirecting our resources from banks, wars, and exploitation to peace, human needs, and environmental protection.
And we urge you in the news media to give these protests fair and accurate coverage. Sanders skewers the ‘class warfare’ of America’s ‘economic royalists’ By Andrew JonesWednesday, October 5, 2011 11:45 EDT Appearing on Tuesday night’s edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) felt the need to correct former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Earlier that day, the former Massachusetts governor labeled the protest “dangerous” and “class warfare.” “The irony is that Romney is right, class warfare is being waged in America today.” Sanders said. “In America now you have the most unequal distribution of income and wealth of any major country on Earth, with the top 400 wealthiest people owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans.” Sanders added: “With that wealth, these economic royalists if you like — which FDR (Franklin D. WATCH: Video from Current TV, which originally aired on October 4, 2011. Andrew Jones. Techniques the Corporate Powers Will Use to Destroy the OWS Movement.
“Remember, the guy who suggests getting the dynamite is usually the Fed.” - Old hippie saying Who knows - this might even be the old hippie who said it. (Photo: DavidDennisPhotos.com at flickr.) Yesterday morning a retired military officer friend (RMOF) and I were conversing about what might happen next with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here are a few of his thoughts and some of my questions, predictions and suggestions. RMOF: I expect “trouble” soon. Spocko: Definitely. Spocko ACTION Suggestion : In the following days the “folks at home” can look through the videos and photos and capture the plants, just like we found “Tony Bologna”. Spocko ProTip for OWS protesters: How can people identify plants at a protest? Check out the “boots on the ground,” literally.
[A] March organizer came by telling us there were “agitators looking to start stuff” and to not engage. Photo by Adrian Kinloch, Occupy Wall Street October 1st Spocko: What will be the trajectory of the escalation of violence? Spocko. Shuler: Fresh Generation of Activists Needed to Turn America Around. The World vs Wall Street. Why we should all occupy Wall St. Update: We will be joining in the largest Occupy Wall Street march yet on Wednesday, October 5 at 4:30 pm. It will go from Foley Square (map) (no longer City Hall) to Wall Street. More information on our Facebook event here. "Go Paul! " That's what a top State Department official wrote in an email to the top lobbyist for TransCanada, a tar sands oil producer, upon hearing that he had garnered support for the Keystone KL pipeline from a US Senator.
The real decision on Keystone XL, though, won't happen at the State Department–the permit must be signed in the White House. Later on this year, when Obama makes a decision whether to go forward with the tar sands pipeline, we'll know where he stands–but the Occupy Wall Street protesters aren't waiting that long. Here's a quick video of some Occupy Wall Street folks talking about the connection between Climate Change and the occupation. Hot News & Views. Occupy Wall Street: A timely call for justice. I love that when Occupy Wall Street was denied permission to use bullhorns, demonstrators came up with an alternative straight out of Monty Python, or maybe “The Flintstones”: Have everyone within earshot repeat a speaker’s words, verbatim and in unison, so the whole crowd can hear. It works — and sounds tremendously silly. Protest movements that grow into something important tend to have a sense of humor.
I can’t help but love that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called the protests “growing mobs” and complained about fellow travelers who “have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.” This would be the same Eric Cantor who praised the Tea Party movement in its raucous, confrontational, foaming-at-the-mouth infancy as “an organic movement” that was “about the people.” The man’s hypocrisy belongs in the Smithsonian. Most of all, I love that the Occupy protests arise at just the right moment and are aimed at just the right target.
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