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David Graeber: New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protestors
By David Graeber, a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an author and activist currently based in New York A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast.
Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights.”
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike - Infoshop News
Concentrated wealth is a long-term threat to America - The Washington Post
Occupy Wall Street is not known for the precision of its economic analysis, but new research on income distribution in the United States shows that the group’s sloganeering provides a stunningly accurate picture of the economy. In 2010, according to a study published this month by University of California economist Emmanuel Saez , 93 percent of income growth went to the wealthiest 1 percent of American households, while everyone else divvied up the 7 percent that was left over.
Chiang Mai, Thailand - Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media - but do not return these income streams to the value "produsers". In other words, the current so-called "knowledge economy" is a sham and a pipe dream - because abundant goods do not fare well in a market economy.
'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
All sorts of other equalizing forces were present, not least the police brutality that battered the privileged the way that inner-city kids are used to being battered all the time. Part of what we had in common was what we were against: the current economy and the principle of insatiable greed that made it run, as well as the emotional and economic privatization that accompanied it.
The truth about violence at Occupy - Salon.com
Defend the Bill of Rights for All of Us. | OccupyWallSt.org
On Bill of Rights Day, Thursday, Dec 15 there will be a Press Conference on Federal Court Steps, 40 Centre St., Manhattan, 11am.
Update (1:35 p.m. EST): The Port of Long Beach is back open, The Guardian reports , citing "Freelance journalist and Occupy LA protester Ruth Fowler," who is on the scene.
Occupy Protesters Have Blocked Access to Three West-Coast Ports - National - The Atlantic Wire
I have no idea what it takes to have your skull smashed, get dragged out of harms way by your buddies while all hell is breaking loose around you, spend a month in recovery, and then decide to go back into action. This Monday he and his fellow former servicemembers will once again be on the front lines , quite possibly confronting the same police organization that critically injured him. On December 12th, the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Bay Area Chapter will march with the 99% as Occupy movements along the West Coast stage mass mobilizations to shutdown the hubs of commerce owned by the 1%.
Daily Kos: Occupy It All: Military Vets Will March with Scott Olsen to Shut Down the Ports.
by PATRICK MEIGHAN My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
Guest Post Arrested in Los Angeles — A Terrifying Ordeal in a Police State | Mitchel Cohen
local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents.
The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Salon.com