Occupy Wall Street protesters demand tax equality. Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:59AM Gary Anthony Ramsay, Press TV, New York Hundreds of Protestors took to the streets of New York to protest unfair taxes. The peaceful demonstration was met with harsh reaction from police. The crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protestors by New York Police continued during their latest march at the New York Stock exchange. 8 people were arrested for standing on the sidewalk as the cops from the NYPD pushed forward. City police were joined by a squad of federal park police and members of the NYPD’s counter terrorism division. Protestors say the show of force against unarmed civilians speaks volumes about whom these troops protect and serve.
The latest occupy Wall Street protest come during the same week that more than a hundred million Americans race to meet a tax filing deadline. Protestors continued to use these gathering to prepare for an 18 hour day of action on May 1st. Whistleblowers Unite with Occupy Washington for Civil and Human Rights Conference May 20-22, 2012. (Washington, D.C.) - The USDA Coalition of Minority Employees ( and watchdog group ACORN 8 ( united with 40 national and international coalitions of good government, open government, civil rights and human rights groups as well as hundreds of individual Occupy Wall Street protesters from across the country, announce an assembly at the Washington DC Capitol to be held May 20-22, 2012. We are proud to announce that MSNBC Host Dylan Ratigan has agreed to moderate and the PACIFICA Radio Network has committed to broadcast the historic event this year.
Pacifica Foundation Logo by Pacifica Foundation Over the last six years members from the Make it Safe Coalition (MISC) have arranged an assembly of whistleblowers in Washington, DC each year for an annual conference originally known as Washington Whistleblower's Week. Charles "Chuck" Grassley, U.S. Senate (R-IA) Tom Devine, Legal Director, Government Accountability Project. Occupy Wall Street Calls for Universal Living Wage. Proclaims New Holiday. All human beings must fulfill their basic, physiological needs in order to sustain a healthy and productive life. If you just look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs you will find that human beings first require the fulfillment of physiological needs and then safety needs. Physiological is pretty obvious and safety of course means the “security of body, employment, resources, health etc.
See Maslow’s Hierarchy here: Now in order to fulfill these needs that Maslow describes, what is necessary? Well in current society, the answer is a steady income, through which men can procure these needs. A disparity between income and need leads to poverty, starvation, homelessness, ( ). That is why OWS is calling for Occupy Midsummer (continue reading): The regime of wholesale robbery — what the 1% call “austerity” — is already falling across Europe, and soon across the world. Now what does OWS mean by universal living wage? Occupy Wall Street rally. The Left, Labor and Occupy.
May 2012 Trotskyism vs. Social Democracy and Anarcho-Liberalism The Left, Labor and Occupy Occupy protesters in Portland picket Terminal 6 on December 12. (Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP) Six months after Occupy Wall Street began – when a few hundred people sparked worldwide protest with a march and sit-in in lower Manhattan against political corruption and corporate greed – OWS was back. And four months after Occupy encampments were brutally evicted around the country, the police were there to greet them. On March 17, OWS supporters flowed into the public-private park next door to the center of world finance capital.
NYPD wades into crowd at Zuccotti Park on March 17, arresting scores. Meanwhile, meeting a few blocks away was the annual Left Forum. Clearly, fissures have begun to show in the “99%,” in the populist vocabulary of OWS. Only a few months ago, Occupy Wall Street was being hailed as the greatest movement since civil rights. Barely half a year later, Occupy is splintering left and right. Algorithms: The Ever-Growing, All-Knowing Way Of The Future : All Tech Considered. Hide captionQuid's algorithm mapping software allows users to visualize the proliferation of ideas on the Internet. This representation of articles written about the Occupy Wall Street movement uses colors to group ideas together and lines to show a connection between articles. Courtesy of Quid Quid's algorithm mapping software allows users to visualize the proliferation of ideas on the Internet.
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Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken. He looks out of place, a white guy carrying a $1,500 Nikon D700 camera, but the residents are used to him by now and greet... Blackhawks thrilled to have Brent Seabrook back Starting with Game 6 Sunday, Brent Seabrook's timeout will be over and the defenseman will be back on the ice — so long as he promises to play nice. The Blackhawks have done pretty well in Seabrook's absence, winning all three games the NHL... NFL draft preview: Defensive ends As the NFL draft nears — it takes place May 8-10 — we're taking an 11-day, position-by-position look at what's out there and what the Bears need. In May 1974, Tribune delivered 2 Watergate bombshells Obama denounces racist comments reportedly made by NBA owner Cubs can't take advantage of Brewers' injuries Northwestern women win at Wrigley Blackhawks thrilled to have Brent Seabrook back.
Occupy Wall Street's people power loses popularity | Harry J Enten. New York Police Department officers detain an Occupy Wall Street activist during a protest march across the Williamsburg Bridge in New York on May Day. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Any New Yorker can tell you that Occupy Wall Street was a force to be reckoned with in the fall of 2011. I witnessed it first hand on 30 October 2011, the day after the largest early snow storm in New York City history. Undeterred by the conditions, the Occupiers forced re-routing of traffic as they fought for their cause. Two weeks later, the New York City Police Department, on orders from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, evicted the protesters from Zuccotti Park.
A majority of New York City voters disapproved of Bloomberg's handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests, while a majority approved not only of the views of the protesters, but also of the way the protests were being conducted. More significantly, perhaps, the public's backing of Occupy has taken a hit. Graph: Harry Enten/guardiannews.com. DHS Turns Over Occupy Wall Street Documents to Truthout. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: Wesley Fryer, Allie_Caulfield) Click here to go to the documents. This report has been updated with new information gleaned from the cache of documents. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, providing agency officials with threat assessments, regular updates about protests taking place throughout the country, responding to internal requests for intelligence on the group and mining Twitter and other social media for information about Occupy's activities, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents DHS released to Truthout in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Eric Neuschaefer, a DHS FOIA program specialist, said the agency expects to release a second set of OWS-related documents to Truthout, the first news organization to file a FOIA request with DHS for OWS records, sometime in mid-April. "How Would We Describe Our Activities? " FPS is part of DHS. Files: Occupy Wall Street Forms a PAC - Helen Whalen Cohen. Getting money out of politics by...raising as much campaign cash as they can. Occupy is officially starting a PAC, which will enable them to raise money for or against candidates and to provide information about legislation and ballot initiatives. The money that will be raised can be used by Occupy as a whole, from branches in Huntsville, Ala. to ones in New York City or Oakland, Calif. “This PAC is for everyone and if they want to contribute they are more than welcome,” Thornton said. “This is going to be uber-transparent down to the cent. It will be egalitarian and democratic.”
Money will also be used for federal candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders because of their pledges to get money out of politics. As a big fan of unfettered campaign spending, I say, let the good times roll! National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners « National Prison Divestment Campaign. Read below for actions across the US in support of Prisoners Austin, TX Student Activities Center, 3.116 Balcony Room C University of Texas, Austin This national day of action is called for by prisoners and inspired by the Occupy movement which has united so many people across the country over the last several months. Prisoners and their loved ones are a big part of the 99% and many have been inspired by the call for economic justice and justice for the oppressed.
People all over the country will unite on February 20th to show solidarity with those behind prison walls, their loved ones, and formerly incarcerated people. Prisoners and their allies are demanding an end to inhumane conditions and unjust sentences, for political prisoners to be freed and for an end to retributive repression of prison activists, and for the positive development of people NOT prisons! Baltimore, MD WHAT: Baltimore Anti-prison Noise Demonstration WHEN: Monday, February 20th. 8pm WHERE: Meet at William F. The OccupyUSA Blog: Special Weekend Edition! Share Live-blogging OWS daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. See my e-book on Occupy "40 Days That Shook the World.
" My OWS-relevant "Journeys With Beethoven" just published in print and e-book, my other books here... 12:30 Important piece from the Portland Occupier raising tough questions about Occupy's future and facing frankly loss of "momentum" and plunging number of participants. "This is the original sin of Occupy: Without first sinking its roots deep enough into the broader population, Occupy marched quickly to the left, unconcerned with who was following. "Hopefully, Occupiers have passed through the movement’s immature adolescence. "Europe has already answered this question, having passed through the adolescence if its own movement... " 1:45 Livestream from the Chicago occupation. 1:00 Updates on school action @OccupyChicago. ... and story here.... 9:50 Humboldt Park school occupied in Chicago. From late Friday "The temper has changed.
The Occupy Movement Morphs. Think Occupy Wall Street has dribbled to the oblivion of political history? Think again. It seems an offshoot of the OWS movement, The 99 Percent Working Group, Ltd., a non-profit, came up with the 99% Declaration and National General Assembly. They published a PETITION FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES and are organizing delegates, complete with voting rights, to ratify their platform. Yup, a real specific platform and agenda. They even bought a commercial. Reddit put up an abbreviated declaration list from the above 99% Declaration new website: Elimination of the Corporate State.Overturning the “Citizens United” Case.Elimination of All Private Benefits to Public Servants. Others associated with the Occupy Movement formed a Super PAC. Another subgroup, Occupy the SEC, literally drafted a 256 page financial technical letter on how to implement the Volcker rule: Yet another OWS offshoot, Occupy Our Homes, is trying to save people from foreclosure.
Chomsky Supports Occupy Wall Street. Noam Chomsky (born in 1928) is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. As the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy, he has also influenced computer science, mathematics, and psychology. You can see him talk at the Boston Occupy Wall Street rally on You Tube . Chomsky is the creator of the universal grammar theory. He believes we're wired in such a way to be able to understand and produce language. We couldn't learn to speak the way we do unless we already had the capacity for language in our brains. Chomsky has written over 150 books and writes in www.Nation of Change.org. His MIT biographer said, "He is warm and accessible, despite his formidable stature. Some of his ideas: • He condemned the 2010 US Supreme Court ruling revoking limits on campaign finance, calling it a corporate takeover of democracy.
Springsteen applauds Occupy movement. NY Occupy protester's tweets at heart of privacy clash. By Jennifer Peltz Associated Press NEW YORK — An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online. The contest has sounded alarms among electronic privacy advocates, who see ominous overreaching in the Manhattan prosecutor's efforts to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge. The protester's lawyer is trying to block the subpoena, calling it an infringement on constitutional rights and "an unwarranted invasion of privacy. " But the Manhattan district attorney's office says it's fair game to go after messages protester Malcolm Harris sent publicly for weeks before and months after his arrest.
The messages might contradict Harris' defense that he thought protesters had police permission to march in the street on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday. The charge against Harris is a violation, not a crime. Privacy clash over Occupy protester's tweets. Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the motorway, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 in New York. AP Photo/NBC, Andres Gutierrez An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.
The contest has sounded alarms among electronic privacy advocates, who see ominous overreaching in the Manhattan prosecutor's efforts to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge. The protester's lawyer is trying to block the subpoena, calling it an infringement on constitutional rights and "an unwarranted invasion of privacy. " But the Manhattan district attorney's office says it's fair game to go after messages protester Malcolm Harris sent publicly for weeks before and months after his arrest.
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