How to start a revolution: Learn from Iceland! Punished for supporting OWS? Police captain Ray Lewis talks to RT. Chomsky: Occupy Wall Street "Has Created Something That Didn’t Really Exist" in U.S. — Solidarity. Occupy Global Day of Action #Occupymay. Stop the War Coalition, Sydney. Owen Jones: This austerity backlash across Europe could transform Britain - Commentators - Opinion. And yet the past four years have proved a total vindication of Klein's argument. A crisis of the market was cleverly transformed by free market ideologues into a crisis of public spending. Across Europe, the biggest slump since the 1930s has been used to push through policies straight out of some right-wing wet dream: the slashing of taxes on the rich and major corporations; the selling off of public services; and a bonfire of workers' rights. It is disaster capitalism on speed. But, this week, the great revolt against the Shock Doctrine began.
Before I am accused of a swivel-eyed left-wing conspiracy theory, it is worth pointing out that even some proponents of austerity are candid about their strategy. Free market economists in Portugal had long supported such policies, but knew they could not get away with them in normal circumstances. Democracy in Europe has not been suspended, and the collision course is more apparent than ever. 12 May: Global Day of Action – Meet the 1% 12 May: Meet at 1pm, St Paul’s Cathedral. Bring a tent. On 12 May, the Occupy, indignados and take the squares movements all over the world have called for a global day of action. In London we’ll be visiting the ’1%’, those who: · gambled with our pensions and savings, · created financial nonsense to make money out of thin air, · brought the global economy to the brink of ruin and forced ordinary people to pay for their mess, · paid hundreds of thousands to wine and dine with our ‘elected’ representatives, · have taken more than £1tn in bailouts from the taxpayer and continue to pay themselves exorbitant bonuses, · evaded billions in taxes, · are benefiting by the crisis by grabbing fat privatisation contracts of our public services.
From banks and hedge funds to lobbyists and private equity firms, they’re all in the ‘Map of the 1%’ that has been produced by Occupy London and will be available on the day. Nowhere in Europe is the unequal distribution of wealth as striking as in the UK. Occupy London: Hundreds march for global change (PHOTOS) Exposed: Media fabricated 'empty tents' story at OccupyLSX. Occupy Wall Street. MSNBC on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street Lawrence O'donnell with "The Last Word" Trust in government has 'suffered a severe breakdown' 23 January 2012Last updated at 05:19 Governments have seen a dramatic decline in trust during 2011 Public trust in government has suffered a severe breakdown across the world, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
Governments have been blamed for the financial and political chaos of 2011. In 17 of 25 countries surveyed governments are now trusted to do what is right by less than half those questioned. Overall trust in government fell by nine percentage points to 43%. Trust in business also fell, from 56% to 53%. Although businesses saw less severe declines in trust, countries at the heart of the eurozone saw sharper decreases. Businesses in Spain, France and Germany saw trust decline by 21, 20 and 18 percentage points respectively. China was the only country to see a significant rise in trust in businesses, up from 61% to 71%. Trusting 'me' Richard Edelman, president and CEO of Edelman, said: "Business is now better placed than governments to lead the way out of the trust crisis".
UK Uncut. “There is no alternative.” We are told that the only way to reduce the deficit is to cut public services. This is certainly not the case. There are alternatives, but the government chooses to ignore them, highlighting the fact that the cuts are based on ideology, not necessity. One alternative is to clamp down on tax avoidance by corporations and the rich and tax evasion, estimated to cost the state £95bn a yearAnother is to make the banks pay for free insurance provided to them by the taxpayer: a chief executive at the Bank of England put the cost of this subsidy at £100bn in a single yearEither the tax avoided and evaded in a single year or the ongoing taxpayer subsidy to the banking industry could pay for all of the £81bn, four-year cuts programme.
“We are all in this together.” The facts speak for themselves; we are not all in this together, we are paying for the folly of reckless bankers whilst the rich profit. There are alternatives to the cuts, and we are not all in this together. Untitled. Awakening Full movie by Douglas Mallette. So what the fuck has occupy done so far? Another City is Possible | Another World is Possible | Just another WordPress site. Occupy | MapBox. One People flash mob - Occupy. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: As protest gathers force, so does state oppression - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Commentators.
When economies are atrophying, the powerful turn even more hyperactively repressive. Anxieties about jobs and cash produce anger, endanger the settled order, which, however iniquitous, must be protected. The establishment understands that duty. The camp outside St Paul's Cathedral by activists who want a fairer deal for all is winning public sympathy. Can't be allowed. They will be overcome, defeated by any means necessary. What about the right to peaceful protest?
Yeah, what of it? For more than a year, Tories in this coalition government have discredited, attacked and broken any collective resistance to their policies and economic decisions. When the country celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Dickens next year, perhaps everyone in government will read him and understand what happens to humans under uncontrolled capitalism.
So we have the St Paul's settlement and the inevitable overreaction. Such official indifference and tough action was seen at Dale Farm, too. Capt Ray Lewis Joins OWS Protest,Gives Message to NYPD and Slams The Greed 1% from Zuccotti Park. Hawaiian singer surprises Obama summit with ‘Occupy’ song. HONOLULU, Hawaii — A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement. Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact. But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha,” using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace.
He then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many.” “I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be? '” “It was incredibly comical. Makana released the song on the Internet the day before and decided to play it at the urging of fans, he said. Copyright © 2011 AFP. ‘Money’ the perfect tool for Enslavement. They have achieved this through their centrally controlled banks which they manipulate the flow and availability of money available to the public via interest rates. As today’s medium of exchange for goods and services, “Money” is what everyone is striving for in order to obtain the goods and services they require and demand.
In today’s materialistic and superficial world and because of our indoctrination that having materialistic possessions will provide us eternal love and happiness, we believe that money is the only way out of our misery and problems. Thus most of us make that our first priority in our lives because all of us want to achieve a better life for ourselves. Through the media, the Corporations, Banks and the Government, they propose and influence what is socially acceptable or not and what is socially admirable or not. All these four entities normally work together hand in hand. Brian Jonathan Liew Sources : Congress to Vote on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State. Last Christmas (I Gave You My Cash) Occupy UK: Mass strike bites Britain. The Zeitgeist Movement Foresight | Occupy Everything | Peter Joseph - Michael Ruppert.
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Accept Notifications. Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) Block The Bridge, Block The Bill - 67 QuikPix. Dateline: Westminster Bridge, London, UK, 13:00-16:40, Sun 09 Oct 2011 - Enraged by the attempt by the Cameron-Clegg clique of millionaire politician pratts to wreck our National Health Service, today thousands of people from all over the UK heeded UK Uncut's Call to Direct Action and physically blockaded Westminster Bridge. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, just three days before a vote in the House of Lords which could scupper the Con-Dem government's NHS-wrecking bill, we symbolically Blocked The Bill by Blocking The Bridge between the law-makers in the Houses of Con-mens to the west and St Thomas Hospital to the east. At the request of UK Uncut, I'm uploading these photos as soon as possible, without the photo-editing and captioning that normally characterises my Indymedia Action Reports.
So, letting the pix speak for themselves, here's what our bridge-blocking direct action looked like, including the direct democracy of Occupy London's General Assembly. Share-&-Enjoy, Up the Revolution, 15th october: #United we will re-invent the world. THE BEST VIDEO ON "OCCUPY THE WORLD" RAP NEWS 7: #Revolution spreads to America (#OccupyWallSt) - w Pilger, Mahfouz & Glenn Beck. Fiat Money: Explained in less than 4 minutes. Occupy LSX criticizes British media. Occupy LSX criticizes British media The Occupy London Stock Exchange movement has criticized the British media for downgrading the anti-capitalism demonstration after claiming only one out of ten protest camps were occupied during the nights. British media, which had formerly imposed a total blackout on the event, claimed that the majority of Occupy LSX protesters who are camped outside St Paul's Cathedral leave their tents at night and return to their “warm beds.”
According to the Daily Mail, “footage from a thermal imaging camera” shot by a police helicopter showed that the camps were almost completely empty during the nights. “It suggests the majority of the 300 'defiant' protesters at the cathedral return home or to hotels after dark to sleep in warm beds,” the Daily Mail reported. The paper also quoted from Matthew Richardson, Corporation of London councillor, as saying, “It's incredible.
“This is simply not the case. “We are ordinary people with jobs and families. Oakland Police Flashbang and teargas unconcious man. Crony Capitalism Comes Home. ‘We are in Third World War - an economic war. And the weapon is debt’ Occupy Corporatism | The Truth Behind the News. Guantánamo Bay contractor on shortlist to run UK police services | UK news. A US Pentagon contractor that was involved in building Guantánamo Bay is on a shortlist of private consortiums bidding for a £1.5bn contract to run key policing services in the West Midlands and Surrey. The Texas-based Kellogg Brown & Root, which was sold off by the controversial Halliburton corporation in 2007, is part of a consortium which has made it to the final shortlist for a contract that will see large-scale involvement of the private sector in British policing for the first time.
When KBR was still part of Halliburton it won a large share of Pentagon contracts to build and manage US military bases in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Its former chief executive, Dick Cheney, was US vice-president. The Guardian has learned that 15 groups of companies and individual firms have made it on to the most recent shortlist. Sims cited the KBR as one example as the Texas company employs the large contingent of civilian staff managing the British Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. A May Day alert for the Occupy movement | Naomi Wolf. So, Occupy got it together for May Day – at least, in New York City.
You would never know it, though, from mainstream news: those reports were full of what I call the "erectile dysfunction" narrative, the default narrative in American new coverage of mass protest. "Why Occupy May Day Fizzled", as CNN had it: flaccid efforts, always in "drenching rain", that may be well-intentioned but have no staying power. But if you click onto the new site Occupy.com – or if you actually went to the rally held in the late afternoon in Union Square – it was a very different story: thousands of euphoric protesters, a massive sound stage, edgy hip-hop artists who had created Occupy anthems that were euphorically received by the crowd, and representation by dozens of community groups and unions in Manhattan.
In other words – if built on further – a power base. It seems Occupy has spent the winter changing its strategy – and building coalitions with existing community groups on the ground. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.
An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first.
Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people? Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World | The Zeitgeist Movement. The Zeitgeist Movement Response to FBI Targeting Political Activists as Terrorists.
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