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... →
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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... →
Occupy K St: Twelve Arrested at 'Take Back the... →
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Watch Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes, OWS Finds a New Frontier | | AlterNet
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“Occupy” Goes South for the Winter | Occupy Wall... →
“Laarman noted, “It’s the language of sanitize and cleanse and the...”
– Hazmat Suits to Break Up Occupations? How Mayors Feign Concern for Health to Trash a Growing Movement | | AlterNet
Watch(via Ed Schultz and Alan Grayson on Luntz’s “99% for Dummies”: His Tricks Won’t Work This Time | AlterNet)
December 6: "Occupy Our Homes" National Day of... →
Occupy Updates: Philip Glass, Lou Reed Occupy... →
“Obama is not on the money trail because he enjoys hotel ballrooms and posing for...”
– Barack Obama Has, on Average, Attended a Fundraiser Every 5 Days in 2011 | Mother Jones
Great analysis from our friends at MoJo
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“So, why occupy? The point is not to hold a city park. The point is to dramatize...”
– Why Occupy? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Excellent points about the theory behind OWS.
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Occupy Updates: What's Been Happening This Week?
Occupy Updates: Protesters Barricaded, Reporters Turned Away Outside of “1%” Obama Fundraiser
Occupy Updates: OWS Pushes GOP to Cave on Payroll Tax, Bloomberg Says He Has Own Army, More Scott Olsen
Occupy Updates: What’s Phase II? Plus Actions Continue Worldwide as Nurses, Students, Keep Up the Fight
Thanks to Nurses Union and Occupy Wall Street,... →
With the nation’s (and the world’s) focus back on Wall Street, the possibility of a financial transaction tax is looking more likely.
