February 2012
15 posts
How Right-Wing Smears Against Occupy Exploit... →
Right-wingers are using sexual assault at Occupy to justify smears and attacks. Here are the facts.
“Now here’s something astonishing. While the camp was in existence, crime went...”
– Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring | Common Dreams
Aerial Surveillance, Snipers, Face Masks:... →
Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch.
Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise... →
A series of incidents last year, in some cases where police broke the law, has sullied the reputation of the NYPD. From the department’shandling of Occupy protesters and journalists, to officers’ participation in illegal gun sales and a ticket-fixing scandal, to rape charges and reports that allege thetargeting of Muslims, the NYPD’s pattern of abuse, law-breaking, and poor judgment is raising...
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the... →
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Join Us: AlterNet Expands its Coverage of Labor... →
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“… many scientists have pointed to a two-degree rise in global temperatures as...”
– Bill McKibben, “The Great Carbon Bubble, Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard”
“The world is changing quickly, and we need to help steer it according to our...”
– New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World | Visions | AlterNet
“is time to generate a new conversation — one that asks: What comes next?...”
– What’s Next? Join With AlterNet in Looking into the Future | Visions | AlterNet
6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working... →
January 2012
13 posts
“Crucial movements of the past with clear and radical demands suffered a...”
– Don’t Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize | | AlterNet
Goodreads | The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street... →
We’re on Goodreads!
Today, San Francisco - "This Friday, Occupy Wall... →
leftish:
Occupy Wall Street West: New Movement Rises In San Francisco
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18…
For those who assumed the Occupy movement had fizzled out in San Francisco, think again.
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BREAKING: The petition to recall Wisconsin Gov.... →
think-progress:
That’s 460,000 more than was required. And about the same number of votes Walker received in his election.
WOW.
ONLY ONE DAY...
until our OWS book party. Are you ready?
Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters:... →
December 2011
39 posts
The 99% Versus Wall Street: Stephen Lerner on How... →
I think what was so fascinating about why the right-wing went so berserk, is that I really nailed their biggest fear, which is if regular people join together and acted in the same way corporations do, we could challenge their power.
“But the season has changed. Autumn has ended and winter is upon us. We’ve lost...”
– Revolutions Don’t Happen in a Day: 5 Ways OWS Can Stay Powerful and Truly Build a Movement | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
OWS, Without a Space to Occupy, Faces... →
“Now that there are fewer physical occupation sites for mainstream news outlets...”
– 6 Stories That You May Have Missed From the Occupy Movement | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
The Very Different "Occupations" That Led to... →
“Live: Protesters Attempting a “Re-Occupation” On the Three Month...”
– Live: Protesters Attempting a “Re-Occupation” On the Three Month Anniversary of OWS | AlterNet
Occupy Online: Throng of Occupy protesters appear... →
occupyonline:
In Manhattan, arraignments were under way for 166 people, most of them among the more than 700 picked up in an Oct. 1 march that marked the biggest mass arrest of the New York protest so far. Hundreds of other protesters arrested on the bridge and during other Occupy demonstrations in the city…
“To be sure, the 99 percent framework, so magnificently popularized by Occupy...”
– Don’t ‘Occupy the Democratic Party’ — Four Lessons From the Populist Movement | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
“Don’t Get in My Face, I Have a Gun:” It’s Police vs. Press As...”
– “Don’t Get in My Face, I Have a Gun:” It’s Police vs. Press As NYC Cops Aggressively Scoop Up Tweeters, Videographers | AlterNet
Occupy Activists Try to Shut Down West Coast Ports... →
“The Constitution of this country has served us well, but when the Supreme Court...”
– Sen. Bernie Sanders: Corporations Are Not People and They Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Our Elections | | AlterNet
Watch(via Occupy Updates: Boston Evicted, Family from Occupy Homes on Chris Hayes, Today’s March Targets Kochs, Voter Suppression | AlterNet)
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Lynn Parramore and Sarah... →
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FDL Book Salon: The 99%: How Occupy Wall Street... →
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“Occupy organizer Kari Koch in Portland says that their action is aimed at...”
– All about the port shutdown.
How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers — Occupy Protesters Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Protest | Economy | AlterNet
Finally, Higher Taxes for the 1% — Is Occupy... →
