OccupyStream - Live Revolution Annual Ann Arbor Hash Bash Rally To Feature Legalization Campaign Tribute to Drug War Victims Press Release Committee for a Safer Michigan:Matthew Abel, Campaign Director 313-567-4724Charmie Gholson, Media Director 734-620-7277www.repealtoday.org University of Michigan Students for Sensible Drug Policy:Nick Zettell, President 231-286- Ream, coordinator, Safer Michigan Coalition 734-395-0811 ROJS News Needs Your Vote to Attend Netroots Nation in 2012! Call Your Mayor: Complete List of Numbers for Occupied Cities On October 13, I started calling Mayor Bloomberg’s office to protest his threatened attack on Zuccotti Park, and urged others to do the same. Apparently they did, mostly without any urging from me, because the high volume of calls from around the country was credited, by the New York Times, with making the mayor back off. The next day, prompted by reports from occupiers, I used Facebook to tell people to call the mayor of San Diego. When a movement has no leaders and no staff, the only way to get something done is to do it yourself – or, in my case, to get some friends and relatives to do it for me. We can’t all sleep outdoors in tents, but we CAN all provide a sturdy “second line” of support. ALABAMA (Gov. AuburnAlabamaGary Fuller(334) 705-5150gfuller@ci.opelika.al.us BirminghamAlabamaWilliam A. HuntsvilleAlabamaTommy Battle(256) 427-5000contact@hsvcity.com MobileAlabamaSamuel L. TuscaloosaAlabamaWalter Maddox205-248-5001mayor@tuscaloosa.com ALASKA (Gov. ARIZONA (Gov. PhoenixArizonaW.J.
10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free Below is today’s column in the Sunday Washington Post. The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free. If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should at least have the integrity to adopt one Chinese proverb: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” We seem as a country to be in denial as to the implications of these laws and policies. Whether we are viewed as a free country with authoritarian inclinations or an authoritarian nation with free aspirations (or some other hybrid definition), we are clearly not what we once were. Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. Indefinite detention
Arrests Outside Goldman Sachs in New York | The People Occupy Posted on 03 November 2011 by The People Occupy This morning a march and trial on Goldman Sachs resulted in arrests after a small group of protesters blockaded the entrance to the Goldman Sachs building. Footage below was rebroadcast from the TheOther99 channel on Ustream . Watch this footage on Livestream.com Inequity That Must Be Changed Often it takes a couple years for enough statistical data to be collected to get a clear picture of the effects of Republican class warfare in the US. The truth about Republican economics is that trickle down never has trickled down and never will. It always gushes up. This has led to inequity so severe, that it must be changed. NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that sometimes seems inured to income inequality, these takeaways are truly stunning. Inserted from <NY Times> The Republican response to such inequity is simple.
Here are a list of Police Officer names that beat US Berkeley students : occupywallstreet Bobby Rush, Illinois Congressman, Thrown Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was thrown off the House floor Wednesday after wearing a hoodie and sunglasses in protest of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. "Racial profiling has to stop," Rush said as he peeled off his suit jacket to reveal a hoodie underneath, at which point he pulled the hood over his head and replaced his glasses with sunglasses. "Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum." Rush began citing passages from the Bible about the need "to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" and about being "sent ... to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and to recover the sight to the blind and to set the oppressed free .... Rep. "May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family," Rush shouted. Harper said Rush violated House rules by wearing a hoodie and reminded those in the chamber of the rules. A request for comment from Rush's office was not immediately returned.
At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home - Tina Dupuy - Politics Expert at living in tents, some veterans are finding new purpose in the streets We're in a coffee shop near McPherson Square, the location of Occupy DC, and Michael Patterson, 21, and I are having hot cocoa on a cold November night. He's wearing an Iraq Veterans Against the War sweatshirt and baggy shorts. It's freezing outside. "I'm from Alaska," he offers as an explanation. In Zuccotti Park, Army Specialist Jerry Bordeleau, 24, was sitting next to a table of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) literature. At Occupy Baltimore, I met 21-year-old Justin Carson, who tells me he served in the Army National Guard in Iraq from 2009 until this February. It was a surprise to meet Iraq war vets at these protests. Their presence became national news when Iraq vet and former Marine Scott Olsen's skull was fractured by a non-lethal round fired by police in Oakland in late-October. At Occupy DC, a painting of Scott Olsen in uniform is draped on the side of a tent. Image credit: Tina DuPuy