We Are the 99 Per Cent I have spent the last two days at the Occupy Wall Street gathering. It was a beautiful display of peaceful action: so much kindness and gentleness in the camp, so much belief in our world and democracy. And so many different kinds of people all looking for a chance at the dream that America had promised them. America has been debased and degraded by greed. This has touched 99% of America's population. When people critique this movement and say spurious things about the protesters' clothes or their jobs or the general way they look, they are showing how shallow we have become as a nation. It is a thing of beauty to see so many people in love with the ideal of democracy, so alive with its promise, so committed to its continuity in the face of crony capitalism and corporate rule. Their message is very clear and simple: get money out of the political process; strive for equality in taxation and equal rights for all regardless of race, gender, social status, sexual preference or age.
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Dante’s inferno: massive riots in Rome — pictures and videos 200,000 peaceful protesters march on Rome, but an army of riot police and a small militia of anti-capitalist urban guerrillas wreak havoc across the city. As the European debt crisis spills over from Greece to Italy, so do the flames of indignation spread from Athens to Rome. On Saturday, the Italian capital was the theater to a spectacular 200,000-strong peaceful anti-austerity march. Makeshift bombs were detonated, missiles and Molotov cocktails fired at police, a church was ransacked, and the Ministry of Defense set ablaze. As the tear gas and petrol bombs fly from one ancient city to the next, the social sustainability of our present political economic arrangement is once again being thrown into question. In December 2010 we made a gloomy prediction for the new year: “The rage is spreading, and the legitimation crisis of global capitalism is only going to deepen in 2011 as austerity measures aggravate inequality, insecurity and unemployment.
Call for Transition Day on November 5th The 5th. of November is becoming a day for global actions, for going from the theory to the praxis and the Bank Transfer Day or Transition Day, or operation CashBack is spreading faster than light! (Seen on Fox Business, Good Morning San Diego, EVBLive, Fox13, msnbc). Greetings to the people of the world, We are Anonymous In this day, as we speak, there is a revolution brewing. We are Anonymous we are Legion we do not Forgive we do not Forget Expect Us! Proposal to your assembly: The proposal is to start an international campaign for everybody to take their money out of the commercials banks and pass it to ethic banks (bank account), credit unions (savings), or invest it in ethic or alternative economy, you can also build your own financial institution. So this action will have two fronts: take the money out from the banksters elites, and also put more money available for sustainable projects who will contribute to everybody and help to heal the world. What is the plan: Follow-up:
The Political Notebook — Yesterday at #OccupyOakland in pictures: Occupy... The Political Notebook Yesterday at #OccupyOakland in pictures: Occupy protesters swarmed the port area during yesterday’s general strike in the thousands, effectively shutting it down. Protests went from peaceful to violent when police and groups of protesters clashed . Flash bang grenades and tear gas were used. 125 notes Show Disqus Like Dislike Glad you liked it. Share No thanks Login Add New Comment Image Showing 0 comments Trackback URL <p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" Blog comments powered by Disqus posted 03 November, 2011 125 notes for this post Permalink / Short URL Previous post Next post This blog is a mix of Internet curation and global news commentary. Home About the Blogger Writing, Work and Elsewhere Call for Submissions Occupy Wall Street Original Submissions blogroll FAQs Picture Of The Day Interviews Protest Music Subscribe to This Week in War Best Of Archive Ask me anything This set of Sebastian Rich conflict photography is stunning. RSS feed
Occupationalist / Covering the Occupy movement as it unfolds. No filters. No delays. Would Jesus Occupy Wall Street? There’s a fascinating article at Michigan Live about the faith community’s efforts to connect to the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement. I must say (and I’m as secular as they come) I did actually describe my three recent visits to Occupy Wall Street to several people as being like “Going to a new church and EVERYONE you meet is friendly and very WELCOMING.” There’s something special going on at Zuccotti Park and if you think otherwise you are… wrong. It makes sense that a state as hard hit economically as Michigan has been would have clergy so supportive of the anti-capitalist protests. It’s because they know what post-capitalism looks like in Michigan! If Jesus were alive today, would he be at Occupy Wall Street movement? As senior pastor of the nondenominational Fountain Street Church, [Rev. —Snip— It’s interesting to read this brain-damaged comments thread at NewsBusters for the opposite side of this issue, including who Jesus would hate, using nukes on OWS, etc, etc.
#OCCUPYXMAS begins This years’ Black Friday was a resounding success. Fifty-five billion dollars chimed through cash registers across the USA. Two hundred and fifty-thousand people went into the malls and spent on average 400 hundred dollars each, the biggest shopping day ever. We in the 99%, alongside our sympathetic friends in the 1%, need to challenge this “normal” way of doing Xmas and come up with a new normal. So what are we occupiers going to do different this season?