The Price of War> Estimated U.S. cost: $4 trillion | FROM EXPLORATIONS | BY SUSAN SELIGSON Bostonia> Boston University Fall 2011 “These wars have been financed mostly by borrowing, so they are like no other war in U.S. history,” says CAS’ Neta Crawford. Photo by Cydney Scott Neta Crawford hopes to deepen the public’s understanding of the More
The National Occupation of Washington, DC: Occupy Power! Submitted by Margaret Flowers on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:14 NOWDC.org March 30, 2012, people from across the country will gather for an American Spring in Washington, DC. The National Occupation of Washington, DC (NOW DC) opposes the corruption of both parties in conducting U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Our most precious safeguard, the More
Thank You for Standing Up By Chris Hedges (about the author) January 23, 2012 opednews.com This article cross-posted from Truthdig I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” More
"Martin Luther King Would Have Occupied Wall Street" Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Jan 17, 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King ? if he were alive today ? would have embraced the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Homes movement and spoken out against the current exploitative economic system, members of Occupy the Hood articulated during a spirited MLK Day march More
Bill Moyers: Occupy a Cause Bill Moyers on Occupy Wall Street from BillMoyers.com onVimeo. Saturday 14 January 2012 truthout Video by: Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. Click here to see the Video (Image: Moyers & Co.) What’s the common cause behind Occupy protesters? The Moyers & Company team visited the Occupy Wall Street site several times between More
‘Wild Old Women’ Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch Reporting Doug Sovern January 5, 2012 3:24 PM CBS San Franciso via truthdig A group calling themselves ‘Wild Old Women’ protest outside the Bank of America Bernal Heights branch in San Francisco, January 5, 2012. (CBS) SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – It was a slow-moving Occupy Wall Street More
There is no frigate like a book Posted October 30th, 2011 Sara Paretsky And no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can’t afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want More
What REALLY Happened at Zuccotti Park on New Years When We Re-Occupied and Re-Energized OWS By Bill Perry (about the author) January 2, 2012 opednews.com The November Hosni Bloomberg Scorched Earth attack on Occupy Wall Street proved that “YOU CAN’T EVICT AN IDEA.” While Mayor Bloomberg & Lady Gaga smootch at the Times Square BALL More
David Cobb - 'Citizens united' Doesn't Fly in Big Sky State [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CuvMNFnsc&w=420&h=315] Thom Hartmann talks with David Cobb, Spokesperson-Move to Amend / Attorney / National Projects Director-Democracy Unlimited, about Montana's Supreme Court issuing a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpwtbQoRd0&w=420&h=315] Blase Bonpane, Director of the Office of the America & Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard join Thom Hartmann. Since the Occupy Wall Street movement started more than 3 months again - it's taken on many forms. From physical occupations in cities across America - to occupying individual homes to help struggling homeowners avoid More
