You Can Arrest an Idea Robert Scheer Dec 1, 2011 truthdig via RSN A Los Angeles Police Department officer stands guard on the eve of the city’s eviction of the Occupy L.A. protest. AP / Dan Steinberg The bankers slept well. Their homes in Beverly Hills were not spotlighted by a noisy swarm of police helicopters, More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LF_r5Kqvo&w=560&h=315] If only Washington would listen. You may subscribe to WAMMToday from this blog website, or you may “Follow” us. WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today.
Nonviolence Is Creative Posted by Reverend Billy Talen November 24, 2011 AlterNet Consumerism is violent. The apologists for ads and products, life styles and brought-to-you-by media are disastrously wrong. The thousands of marketing confrontations that a person must get through daily are not persuasive, clever, or normal. The 50 foot-tall actor wearing a watch and grinning at More
WE ARE THE ONE PER CENT by John Kenney NOVEMBER 28, 2011 New Yorker Average wealth of the top 1 percent was almost $14 million in 2009, according to a 2011 report from the Economic Policy Institute. —Washington Post “Shit is fucked up and bullshit.” —Sign seen at the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltxMtS1Frpk&w=560&h=315] Robert Reich breaks some knowledge on the REAL public nuisance. OCCUPY DEMOCRACY. Uploaded by karinmoveon on Nov 21, 2011 You may subscribe to WAMMToday from this blog website, or you may “Follow” us. WAMMToday is also on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today.
Occupy’s Woman Problem November 22, 2011 By Tina Dupuy Atlantic via LA Progressive Elise Whitaker (Photo: Robert Stuart Lowden) “I’m called ‘that white bitch who gets everything she wants’ at the GA’s,” says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit of a defiant posture. She’s been at Occupy LA since the second week of the encampment. A More
This a photo of the billboard that was installed by Veterans for Peace on November 4th in Minnesota on I-94 near the Clearwater exit. You may subscribe to WAMMToday from this blog website, or you may “Follow” us. WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page More
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable Tom Dispatch When it set up its campsite at Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was facing in only one direction: toward the financial heart of the planet two blocks away. The police, who promptly surrounded the encampment and organized their own occupation of the neighborhood, were in a sense facing More
Civil Society at Ground Zero You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring Rebecca Solnit November 22. 2011 Tom Dispatch Last Tuesday, I awoke in lower Manhattan to the whirring of helicopters overhead, a war-zone sound that persisted all day and then started up again that Thursday morning, the two-month anniversary More
What a dessert! Thank you Occupy!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZU3TU2Pjo&w=420&h=315] It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months > but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This animation explains what the key data says about the state of America today. More
