6 People You Need to Start a Revolution | Visions April 12, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. With the 99% Spring up and rolling and set to bring 100,000 new activists to the party this weekend, there's some increased friction between various progressive groups who are working to expand the movement this year. It's a good time to remember that mass movements are — by design and necessity — big and diverse, encompassing lots of different kinds of people who bring all kinds of skills, resources, interests and priorities to the table. There's not enough that can be said about the genius of Occupy at raising America's awareness of the corporatization of our culture, and defining and framing the predations of the 1 percent against the 99 percent as the defining conflict of our age. For the revolution to spread, the Occupy protestors need to be joined by other people — very specific kinds of other people, in fact. Activists Intellectuals
How OWS Plans to Take Down Bank of America How OWS Plans to Take Down Bank of America Posted on Apr 12, 2012 By Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet This piece originally appeared at AlterNet. Bank of America: the very name is meant to conjure up comforting, red-white-and-blue fantasies of a bank of the people, by the people, and for the people. But as Matt Taibbi pointed out in his latest feature for Rolling Stone, while there’s almost nothing the megabank does that is for the people, it sure as hell is paid for by the people. Unless we do something soon, we might be heading for yet another people’s bailout of America’s bank. Occupy Wall Street has decided to fight back. Big Bad BAC Bank of America just can’t seem to stay ahead of its public relations disasters. But outrage over its CEO’s pay is the least of the zombie bank’s concerns. What does that actually mean? Then, of course, there’s the constant lawsuits, settlements, and battles with various state and federal government officials. Taibbi continued: Previous item: You’re on Your Own, Kids
Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic Occupation / Save Our Clinics CHICAGO, IL – As the Chicago Police Department closed in on those who had barricaded themselves inside Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic last Thursday, I realized this was a terrible time for me to be going away from Internet access for the next 48 hours. If you aren’t up to speed, here’s the situation. Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget, 6 of the 12 public mental health clinics in Chicago are scheduled to be shut down. Adding insult to injury is the fact that the clinics slated for closure are uniformly located within the poorest, hardest-hit neighborhoods of the city. In other words, those who need it most will no longer have access to mental health services. The Mental Health Movement associated with STOP Chicago has been working for the past 4 years to protect mental health clinics from closures and privatization. Photo Credit: Marcus Demery After work on Sunday I was able to join the occupation for several hours in the afternoon and evening. -Rachel Allshiny-
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‘The Bank Is Messing With Us’: The Enduring Legacy of Occupy Homes I was having dinner over the weekend with a relative, who innocently asked, "Is Occupy around anymore?" Now that the big camps are gone –Occupy DC, one of the last major camps was raided over the weekend– some individuals erroneously assume the group has disbanded. The truth is that in addition to planning a spring resurgence, many Occupiers are now involved in smaller cells that branched off from the mother movement. In New York City, Occupy assemblies still meet on the regular outside of the space at Zuccotti Park. These aggregations gather in Sunset Park, Staten Island, East New York, Queens, Harlem, Washington Heights, among other places. Sunset Park recently posted a "Spring Is Coming" flyer announcing its own plans for Occupy's widely publicized May Day actions. Put simply: the actions never stopped. On Thursday, students, teachers, and their supporters will gather at Brooklyn Technical High School for an action opposing school closures and the privatization of public education.
Occupier News National Debt Graph by President The best odds on the presidential election come from the betting markets and can be found here. In 1981, the supply-siders commandeered the Reagan Presidency and employed their Voodoo economics, as Bush senior had called it in 1980. He was saying that tax cuts would not increase government revenues. As you can see on the graph above (get it on your smartphone app info), the Voodoo failed just as Bush predicted, and the supply-siders turned a 32-year winning streak into a debt disaster that continues to this day. What's causing today's huge deficits? Bush senior fought against supply-side debt, so the Republicans didn't support him and he lost to Clinton, who put an end to supply-side economics. What about Obama? Recessions cut tax revenues—in this case, dramatically. The green line shows what would have happened to the national debt if Reagan and the Bushes had balanced their budgets as Reagan claimed he would. The Election. Thanks for all the "Likes" and "Shares" — a real help.
New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF Donate to PCJF Action Alert End the NSA's Dragnet Surveillance Program! Congress must abolish and ban the bulk collection of data on the telecommunications of the people of this country and the world. Take action now! A Message from the Founders "As we look to the future, the Partnership will continue to be at the forefront of legal struggle, using the law to defend and create room for the peoples' movement for progressive social change." Continue reading www.justiceonline.org > News / Commentary New NPS Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF Case: The Crackdown on the Occupy Movement Last Updated: April, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages)
ows3-17-12-115 Occupy Archive OccupyNews.ORG Federal Receivership: Good or Bad for Occupy Oakland? | Ripper Hollow There has been a lot of talk about federal receivership for the Oakland Police Department in the past few weeks, and considering much of the readily available content online via YouTube, various blogs, and live streams, many would say that is a well deserved fate for many recorded incidents. Thinking about all the defensive statements from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Police Chief Howard Jordan, one would be inclined to think that the Occupy Oakland protesters are really crazy and/or violent and should be jailed, or forcibly put in mental institutions for their behavior. It’s unfortunate that these same individuals have the power to send out highly publicized press releases that broadcast their damaging statements against people demanding social change and governmental responsibility at the very least. One thing I keep thinking about, is the fact that the Police Department is a law enforcement system. In my honest opinion the fight goes on. Federal receivership is a scary thing.
Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression | News & Politics December 11, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further? What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population? Can anything be done to turn this around? Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Yes. Does knowing the truth of their abuse set people free when they are deep in these abuse syndromes? No. Has such a demoralization happened in the U.S.? In the United States, 47 million people are without health insurance, and many millions more are underinsured or a job layoff away from losing their coverage.