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 What distinguished his new ‘gang of four’ from the generation it had superseded – companies like Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Cisco, which mostly exist to sell gizmos and gadgets and innumerable hours of expensive support services to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. September 27, 2011 | Like this article?
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Justice Posted on Oct 6, 2011 By Robert Scheer. Feingold: Occupy Wall St. ‘will make the tea party look like a tea party’ By Andrew JonesWednesday, October 5, 2011 12:44 EDT.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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... 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.” “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. 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.) 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. That shouldn't be too surprising, since the lobbyist was one of Hillary Clinton's campaign aides during her presidential run. 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.” Tiananmen protest leader thrilled by ‘Occupy Boston’ demonstration. By Eric W. The Occupation Movement has Broken Through a Wall in America.
Do 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests Represent Your Views Of The Economy? Wall Street Occupiers Fight America’s Democracy Deficit. Thursday, Oct 6, 2011, 12:31 pm. The Best Among Us - Chris Hedges' Columns. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country.
So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. 'We Can't Afford Not to Be Here': Occupy DC Takes Off. October 6, 2011 | Like this article? Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Occupy Wall Street Sparks Great New Mass Movement. Occupy Your City. Activate. Rescuing America from Wall Street. “It’s a confluence of planned and unplanned demonstrations,” says Stephen Lerner, a longtime organizer for the Service Employees International Union who once spearheaded the union’s successful campaign to organize big-city janitors and today helps guide the groups in New Bottom Line. “We build on each other. We go ping-ponging back and forth.”
Planned and unplanned, the groups are coming together. The imminent mixing of largely young and countercultural Wall Street occupiers with more seasoned and hard-nosed unionists and middle-class liberals may produce some clashes of style, but their shared anger at what banks have done to them — to all of us — should be sufficient to cement this nascent coalition. Anonymous Safeguards the Reputation of Occupy Wall Street. Panic of the Plutocrats. Slavoj Zizek: Marriage between democracy and capitalism is over. Feingold: Republicans ‘nervous’ that ‘Occupy’ protests ‘might work’ Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box. 15 October - United for #globalchange - #15oct #Oct15 October 15th.
Civic Action: Virtual March on Wall Street. Are We Heading For A Bigger Global Financial Crash Than 2008? Alan Grayson On Occupy Wall Street. The World vs Wall Street. Sign the statement, and pass it on: "It's time for Wall Street bankers who broke the law to occupy jail." FAIR 25th Anniversary Speech - Noam Chomsky. Poll: The public kinda likes Occupy Wall Street protesters. "We Are the 99 Percent" - A Photo Diary That Will Bring... Ben & Jerry’s endorses ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest. Russ Feingold to Dems: 'This is no time to hang back' - Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Mr. Fish: Tear Down This Wall - Mr. Fish's Cartoons. Taking the Bridge: Why The Peaceful Arrests of 700 Protesters is PR Gold. Jobs Talks About ‘How to Live Before You Die’ Global Depression: It Is Time For World Citizens To Rise Against Shock Capitalism.
Revolution is happening in the USA. How Killer Student Debt and Unemployment Made Young People the Leaders at Occupy Wall Street. Rights of Protesters.