October 2011
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Next up at #OccupyWallStreet: Veteran Agitators →
underthemountainbunker:
Going into its 14th day, the Occupy Wall Street protest is not only not fading out, it’s about to get a big injection of support and bodies. The established New York City labor and community groups who normally organize local marches, rallies and sit-ins, have announced they plan to join up next week.
Crain’s reports that the groups include The United Federation of...
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“We’re talking about a democratic awakening. We’re talking about raising...”
– Cornel West, interview. Democracy Now!, 29 September 2011
A good response to people who keep demanding that the OWS protestors draw up some sort of platform of demands. That rarely happens in the early stages of liberation movements. At the moment, it’s about raising the consciousness of everyday...
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
progressivefriends:
“Going to a demonstration in New York City? Know your rights! The New York Civil Liberties Union has two guides that can help you know what to do if you’re protesting or if you have a police interaction.”
From the ACLU.
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Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf →
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan: "No Child Left... →
quickhits:
States line up to ditch No Child Left Behind (MSNBC)
September 2011
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“Obama may have flown by the fail-safe line, especially when it comes to...”
– Jonathan Turley (via azspot)
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“When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with...”
– Paul Watson on YouTube’s new partnership with the UK government over protest videos • The British government is hoping the removal of certain protest images from the popular video sharing website will prevent copycat demonstrations from forming in the future. The British government isn’t the only...
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The Problem With Unilaterally Assassinating...
letterstomycountry:
Manicchill asked me earlier about the recent killing of al-Awlaki by U.S. drones in Yemen. Below is a rebloggable version of my response in which I identified WHY THIS IS REALLY BAD AND YOU SHOULD BE VERY CONCERNED. I have done my best to describe many of the disturbing legal issues (certainly not all) surrounding the Obama’s administration’s decision to assassinate the...
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Governments Co-opting Internet Firms for... →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Reuters, from an Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi:
Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.
Although such companies try to keep their users’ information private, their business models depend...
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“ When I was in bed, I was begging the sheriff,... →
tinfoilandtea:
I… what the shit is this? Why would anyone think this is okay?
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UPDATE on Radiohead concert rumour
occupywallstreet:
This morning, we were alerted to the possibility of Radiohead playing an impromptu show at #OCCUPYWALLSTREET at about 4pm this afternoon.
The New York Times’ City Room Blog reports that the band’s spokesperson has said that the band is “definitely not” going to perform at Liberty Plaza, contrary to initial reports. This is contrary to the “confirmed” information we received...
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“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards (x)
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Obama Won't Say He Called Strike →
randomactsofchaos:
President Obama was asked by Michael Smerconish just now whether he ordered the strike on the anti-American cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, but he declined to get into it.
“I can’t talk about the operational details, Michael,” Obama said. “This is something we had been working with the Yemeni Government on for quite some time. There’s been significant cooperation with the...
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Looks Like The White House Has Officially Killed...
letterstomycountry:
Somewhere in the West Wing, Emperor Palpatine is cackling wildly as White House Aides redact the 5th Amendment with a $5,000 oversized magic marker made in China by Halliburton subsidiaries with Stimulus funds. Meanwhile, Obama has begun construction of a “shovel-ready” Deathstar, which Republicans claim will be used for Class Warfare.
Stay tuned for next year’s Easter Egg...
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A thought experiment: The Government of Norway
If the government of Norway decided, after just the accusation (without evidence reviewed in a court of law) that they were involved in or incited the violent acts of terrorist Anders Breivik, to pilot a drone aircraft into the United States, in violation of state sovereignty, to assassinate Pam Gellar or Frank Gaffney, would this be acceptable?
Please disregard your personal feelings for either...
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Banks now charging per-month fees on your debit... →
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circlingtheroundabout:
Chris Hedges: The Best Among Us | Truthdig
To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no...
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“You want to know why we have an Arab Spring. Barack Obama has laid the table for...”
– Michele Bachmann, missing all of the points, while discussing President Obama, the ‘Arab Spring’, and our strained relationship with Israel. (via manicchill)
My palm just smashed through my forehead. Clean up time.
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“You can’t spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network...”
– The Technium (via azspot)
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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City →
occupytheplanet:
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our...
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Yemen Defense Ministry: another American in... →
Another violation of the fifth amendment and assassination of an American citizen.
Note to everyone who is fine with this: these were accused criminals and should have been treated as such. There aren’t “sides”. There is justice and law.
BUT THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR CORPORATE MEDIA ECHO CHAMBER SAID THEY WERE EVILDOERS AND THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME! is not acceptable.
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38,000 NYC Transit Workers To Join Occupy Wall... →
cognitivedissonance:
Up until this announcement, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been unwieldy and somewhat lacking in a coherent voice, but that’s all about the change. New York City labor unions have decided to descend upon the streets of Lower Manhattan on Friday.
The leadership of the Transit Workers Union Local 100—comprised of subway and bus workers—voted unanimously to support the...
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The due-process-free assassination of U.S.... →
jonathan-cunningham:
It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki. No effort was made to indict him for any crimes (despite a report last October that the Obama administration was “considering”...
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BREAKING: NYC TRANSIT UNANIMOUSLY VOTES TO JOIN... →
leftish:
via TheHuffingtonPost 9/29/11
New York City labor unions are preparing to back the unwieldy grassroots band occupying a park in Lower Manhattan, in a move that could mark a significant shift in the tenor of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street protests and send thousands more people into the streets.
The Transit Workers Union Local 100’s executive committee, which oversees the...
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“So when we build those bases on that global field of screams, when we send our...”
– Tom Engelhardt
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Google spokesman: The Drudge Report drives more... →
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via theadrianflores)
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Dorkus Malorkus Speaketh | alicublog →
In reaction to this piece of toilet paper from Victor Davis Hanson:
VDH…Sphinxes out some riddles:
Why is it more moral for a federal bureaucrat in a state-supplied SUV to shut down an offshore oil rig on grounds that it is too dangerous for the environment than for a private individual to risk his own capital to find some sort of new fuel to power his government’s SUV fleet?
Answer...
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Muhammad Yunus and His Bonsai People | Jake... →
[Muhammad] Yunus is surprisingly tiny. Despite his diminutive size, he radiates an enormous amount of warmth and bonhomie. He wore a green tunic and gray vest, his silver hair gleaming in the church spotlights. After a brief standing ovation, he fielded questions from the crowd, which were almost worshipful.
All but one questioner began by thanking Yunus for his work pioneering micro-credit—the...
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"Job Creators": Luntz Strikes Again | Alan Grayson →
FRANK Luntz is like a serial killer of the English language.
As soon as I heard the term “job creators,” I said to myself, “that sounds like Frank Luntz talking.” And sure enough, it’s right in there in Frank Luntz’s latest book, Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary. Here are Luntz’s exact words: “You don’t create jobs by making life difficult for job...
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