[youtube=http://youtu.be/mw2z9lV3W1g] letsfreecongress.org TEDtalksDirector·1,378 videos Published on Apr 3, 2013 There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the More
Professor Noam Chomsky speaking at Boğaziçi University in Turkey in January 2013 Malcolm Steinberg posted in CounterPunch Friends and Supporters WHY DOES THE U.S. SUPPORT ISRAEL? Noam Chomsky has the best explanation I've heard... load this video up, go to the 38min45sec spot and the tale begins ----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYiGamLZSo This video is the full speech, More
Professor Noam Chomsky speaking at Boğaziçi University in Turkey in January 2013 Malcolm Steinberg posted in CounterPunch Friends and Supporters WHY DOES THE U.S. SUPPORT ISRAEL? Noam Chomsky has the best explanation I've heard... load this video up, go to the 38min45sec spot and the tale begins ----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYiGamLZSo This video is the full speech, More
Occupy Movement Files Lawsuit Against Every Federal Regulator of Wall Street By Pam Martens: February 28, 2013 WallStreetOnParade.com In several respects, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the feminist movement. Corporate funded media has declared the women’s rights movement dead ad nauseam for four decades — and yet it thrives and reinvents itself. Similarly, corporate More
Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored? by Ishaan Tharoor February 15, 2013 by Time Magazine Anti-war protesters gather in London at the start of a demonstration against war on Iraq, February 15, 2003. Millions of people are expected to take to the streets of towns and cities across the globe on Saturday to demonstrate against More
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How to Build a Grassroots Power Base By Norman Solomon The Nation | Op-Ed Monday, 12 November 2012 via truthout.org Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary. September 17, 2012. (Photo: Sunset Parkerpix) Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for More
How to Build a Grassroots Power Base By Norman Solomon The Nation | Op-Ed Monday, 12 November 2012 via truthout.org Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary. September 17, 2012. (Photo: Sunset Parkerpix) Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for More
The Problem of the New York Police Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 25, 2012 New York Review of Books New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on terrorism charges, May 12, 2011. (Mary Altaffer/AP Images) Over the More
The Problem of the New York Police Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 25, 2012 New York Review of Books New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on terrorism charges, May 12, 2011. (Mary Altaffer/AP Images) Over the More
Groups Fault Boston Police For Surveillance By Monica Brady-Myerov October 18, 2012 90.9wbur Boston's NPR Station BOSTON — The Boston chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Boston Police Department to stop monitoring peaceful demonstrations, interrogating activists and categorizing peaceful groups as extremists. After reviewing hundreds of public police records the ACLU and the National More
New York: The Police and the Protesters Still, the overwhelming policing of OWS was out of proportion to any threat to civic order that the protest posed. Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 11, 2012 New York Review of Books An Occupy Wall Street protester at Zuccotti Park before it was raided by police, New York City, November 13, 2011 More
