[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlbtm5oUmo&w=560&h=315] “Our aim is to confront Wall Street’s unchecked power to put profits over people’s right to housing.” April 16, 2012 Nation of Change In support of homeowners facing foreclosure and eviction in NYC, members of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other community groups will conduct vibrant singing protests and raise the More
How to Succeed in Reoccupation without even trying by Nathan Schneider Saturday 7 April 2012 Nation of Change “Potential allies expect more from the movement, I’d say, and so they should.” I’ve lately been getting the feeling that Occupy Wall Street’s past successes are starting to go to the heads of some people More
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park By Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams March 26, 2012 October2011 Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU5h4IoIMqk&w=420&h=315] Uploaded by WAMMMall on Apr 9, 2012 April 7 was Re-Occupy Day in Minneapolis -- Occupiers gathered in Peavey Plaza and Loring Park. After being evicted from Peavey at 1:30 am, they peacefully marched down the street and were brutally attacked by the police. Videos at www.occupyminneapolis.mn show the police pulling several people off public sidewalks and violently More
Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You By Chris Hedges Posted on Apr 2, 2012 Truthdig The security and surveillance state does not deal in nuance or ambiguity. Its millions of agents, intelligence gatherers, spies, clandestine operatives, analysts and armed paramilitary units live in a binary world of opposites, of good and evil, More
Occupy Wall Street not Palestine by Mira Dabit from Ramallah Submitted by Crystal Zevon on Tue, 02/28/2012 OccupyPeaceHouse.org In the heart of a revolution transcending one locale, what connects us? That question looms deep in my mind as I walk through the streets of Ramallah, a city I know so well. I look ahead and am More
How 60 Minutes Blew the Story Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD by PAM MARTENS FEBRUARY 06, 2012 Counterpunch On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired More
Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring By Rebecca Solnit Feb 22, 2012 TomDispatch via Truthdig When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCoFAQdr6M&w=420&h=315] Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Feb 21, 2012 Since last fall, Occupy Minnesota activists have defended the houses of two Minneapolis homeowners facing foreclosure ? Monique White in North Minneapolis and ex-Marine Bobby Hull in South Minneapolis. In doing so, they've helped galvanize a growing Occupy Homes movement nationwide. Now Minnesota homeowners are beginning to pledge en More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aauh8upBL0U&w=560&h=315] OccupyMN Targets ALEC Corporate Influence in Government Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Feb 6, 2012 Occupy organizers say corporate money has too big of an influence on Minnesota's government and there needs to be reforms. Scott Hargarten of OccupyMinneapolis and OccupyMN says those reforms target the corporate influence that groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council More
Petition to Supreme Court of Alaska to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention Provides Model For All by VVV PR Wednesday, 25 January 2012 RSN Writing for Godot While the mainstream media blackout keeps millions of Americans clueless about the consequences of NDAA 2012 and Constitutional Rights groups do little more than milk the issue, in Alaska More
An Iraq Vet’s Journey From Wall Street to OWS Derek McGee January 25, 2012 This article appeared in the February 13, 2012 edition of The Nation. An American flag flies over the empty Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park as dawn breaks, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) In late More
