[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTtdhjn0_A&w=420&h=315] Ari Berman, The Nation Magazine, joins Thom Hartmann. Massive labor strikes rocked the U.K. today - as public workers took to the streets to protest ongoing austerity measures. Last year - the Conservative government passed a slew of austerity measures - laying off public workers - cutting back on pensions - and ending More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWmk31P3pJU&w=420&h=315] So why is it - going off the decision by the high court in Buckley versus Valeo - that when political expression is given the "broadest possible protection" - money is protected, but tents are not? And why is it - when recogning the CREATIVE dynamic of free expression - that again - More
A few “pre-revolutionary” thoughts I had By Arundhati Roy (about the author) November 19, 2011 OpEdNews Text of a speech given by Arundhati Roy at the People’s University in Washington Square, NYC on November 16th, 2011. screen grab from video below Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know More
“The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You Are Free.” by Phil Rockstroh Published on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 by CommonDreams.org I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to “distract” the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of More
ACLU-MN Files Lawsuit Against Hennepin County on Behalf of Occupy Minneapolis Protesters OccupyMN From the ACLU-MN: For Immediate Release November 22, 2011 St. Paul,Minn.– The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit against Hennepin Countyt oday on behalf of Occupy Minneapolis. The lawsuit argues that County’s new restrictions on the OccupyMPLS unconstitutionally restrict More
Occupy Homes: Will Taking the Fight to Foreclosed Houses Unleash More Police Violence? Some worry that camping on private property may invite more extreme police attacks. November 23, 2011 | AlterNet / By Tana Ganeva A couple of days after the Occupy Portland encampment was busted up by police, 15 occupiers took over a vacant, foreclosed home owned by More
Tomgram: Posted as comments on "Andy Kroll, Occupy Wall Street's Political Victory in Ohio" November 20, 2011 TomDispatch Twelve hours after Mayor Bloomberg’s cops evicted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park, the space had been scrubbed down and repopulated with police and private-security types, up to 150 of them. More
Afghans protest against long-term US pact More than 1,000 students demonstrate against decision to back agreement that would allow US troops to remain after 2014. Last Modified: 20 Nov 2011 17:41 Al Jazeera English The protesters blocked the road to the capital Kabul as they shouted 'Death to America! Death to Karzai!' [AFP] Hundreds of Afghan More
The Banality of Evil Reflections on UCDavis Incident and the Occupy Movement I notice that University of California (UC) President Mark Yudof, former president of the University of Minnesota, has spoken up loud and clear against the violence, as has the UCDavis Chancellor herself, with vows to assure the safety of students, etc. There is nothing wrong More
WHOSE POLICE? November 17, 2011 The New Yorker via Reader Supported News Posted by Philip Gourevitch An eighty-four-year-old woman is looking straight into a camera. Her eyes are wide, her mouth is agape, and she is drenched in a filmy white fluid: it flattens her white billowing hair, it glazes her flushed cheeks, it runs off More
Facing Calls to Give Up Power, Egypt’s Military Battles Crowds By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: November 20, 2011 The New York Times Demonstrators in and around Tahrir Square clashed with the police for a second day on Sunday. Moises Saman for The New York Times. More Photos » CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers struggled Sunday to contain an More
