July, 2012
Occupy the Press – #A9 Call for Global Day of Action: Chalkupy the World!
Posted 1 day ago on July 30, 2012, 2:14 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt via Occupy Los Angeles: On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on power over local and state politics. The activists handed out chalk and [...]
Huffington Post – Los Angeles Artist Alex Schaefer’s Painting Of A Burning Bank Brings Visit from LAPD
Los Angeles-based artist Alex Schaefer, 41, recently learned just how problematic it can be to have your work misinterpreted. A painting of his, which depicted a Chase Bank on fire and was “was intended to be a visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy,” according to the LA Times, [...]
Occupied Wall Street Journal – Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEws There’s no smiling in baseball! Photo: The Tax Dodgers This week in Occupy, Southern California erupted, the Occupied Chicago Tribune won the battle to keep its name, The Tax Dodgers were honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and time is running out to [...]
ROAR – Millions on streets as Spain unites against austerity
Struggles converge as miners, firefighters, judges, public employees, the unemployed and even the army step up their resistance against EU-enforced cuts. On Thursday, millions of Spaniards took to the streets in over 80 cities around the country in the largest protest since the past 15th of October, just hours after the Rajoy government ratified [...]
Portland Occupier – Irreformable Corruption, Rebellious Cities, Commerce, and Coal Trains
July 21, 2012 By Nicholas Caleb Through a process of losing confidence that has spanned my twenties, I’ve finally given up on national politics and find it incapable of being reformed through existing institutional reform mechanisms (except maybe a constitutional amendment coming from a state driven convention; different can of worms for a different post). [...]
Portland Occupier – Job Crisis Denial by Shamus Cooke
July 18, 2012 Photo by Mary McClain By Shamus Cooke Before any problem can be fixed it must first be acknowledged. The jobs crisis stays in the shadows, out of mind, and consequently unaddressed. This is allowed to happen because those in power – Republicans and Democrats – both have political reasons to remain silent. [...]
Portland Occupier – Cascadians Drop Banner During Obama Fundraiser by Elona Trogub
Barack Obama has failed to halt any wars and has greatly expanded presidential power, despite promises to carry out different policies than his predecessor George W. Bush. At noon today, several members of the Cascadia Now! Movement gathered across from Obama’s Portland fundraiser event and dropped a large banner depicting a Sasquatch foot kicking out [...]
Occupy KC Journal – Raise the Wage Rally in Kansas City
Youtube protesting for better pay in the Kansas City heat . . . #RaiseTheWage rally in KC
Chicago’s Teachers Could Strike a Blow for Organized Labor Globally By Richard Seymour, Guardian UK
ast month, approximately 90% of Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members voted for strike action. Only 1.82% voted against. This was a shock to the local administration. Not only is this the heart of Obama country, where unions are expected to play ball with the Democrats in an election year. It is also a city where, thanks [...]
Occupied Oakland Tribune – Oakland takes on Goldman Sachs
The City of Oakland is currently debating the possibility of terminating a contract it has with the investment bank Goldman Sachs. The deal in question is called an interest-rate swap, and is a particular type of arrangement that was supposed to save the city money, but instead has resulted in Oakland taxpayers making annual payments [...]
Green Is The New Red – SHAC 7
SHAC 7 The SHAC 7 were convicted on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges for campaigning to shut down a notorious animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences. Huntingdon Life Sciences has labs in New Jersey and England, and five undercover investigations have shown workers punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting live monkeys and falsifying scientific data. [...]
The Huffijngton Post – Andy Stepanian
Andy Stepanian is a social justice activist, artist, and political rabble-rouser. Andy is the co-founder of The Sparrow Project, a grassroots PR outfit that aims to braid popular culture, the arts, and revolutionary activism. In 2002 The Financial Times characterized Andy and his fellow activists as “succeeding where Karl Marx, the Baader-Meinhof gang and the [...]
Occupy KC Journal in The Occupied Wall Street Journal
#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines Posted on 07/02/2012 by Jennifer Sacks YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS #Occupied Media continues to expand: check out the Occupy KC Journal and the Occupied Detroit Free Press. Thousands march through Los Angeles’s Chinatown to stop Wal-mart’s invasion of Los Angeles. Photo: Neil [...]
ProPublica – The Best Reporting on Detention and Rendition Under Obama
A U.S. captain looks on during a media tour of Bagram prison, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 15, 2009. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images) by Cora Currier and Suevon Lee ProPublica, July 13, 2012, 2:19 p.m. When Barack Obama took office, he banned torture, shut down the CIA’s network of black-site prisons and pledged to close [...]
Occupied Wall Street Journal – Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS The 99 Mile March comes home. Photo: Yoni Jakob Brombacher Miller This week in Occupy, the 99 Mile March rocked its way across two states, the movement survived an NYPD smear campaign, Comic Con got #occupied, and banks continued their usual reprehensible behavior. #Led by the Occupy [...]
Occupied Oakland Tribune – Elaine Brown, Former Chair of the Black Panthers, Speaks to Occupy Oakland and All Occupiers
Elaine Brown has been many things. Chair of the Black Panther Party from 1974 until 1977. Candidate for Oakland City Council. Candidate for the nomination of the Green Party for President of the United States. Founder of various nonprofits. Advocate for radical prison reform and prison strike organizer. She has been a supporter and [...]
Adbusters – Overcoming The Fear
THE AGGIE One of the most inspiring recent actions against banks was pulled off by a group of students and faculty at the University of California, at Davis (UC Davis). Every day for two months, they sat in front of the entrance of a U.S. Bank branch in their student union. Last February the [...]
ROAR – Italy in Crisis: Monti and the dictatorship of austerity
by Andrew Marshall on July 15, 2012 Ruling over Rome like a new Caesar, in the words of TIME Magazine, the unelected Mario Monti effectively runs Italy as a modern dictatorship of austerity. Italy in Crisis, Part II: ‘Super Mario’ Monti and the Dictatorship of Austerity By Andrew Gavin Marshall The following is Part II [...]
ROAR – Police Crackdown as Striking Miners March on Madrid
by Jerome Roos on July 12, 2012 Dozens injured as riot police attack striking miners and their sympathizers in Madrid while Spanish government announces further austerity measures. The crisis of European capitalism took a major turn for the worse on Wednesday as the Spanish government made a radical U-turn by announcing even deeper austerity measures [...]
Portland Occupier – “Jail the Banksters!”
Caricature of banker during the Gilded Age. by Stephanie Hampton The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ~ Naomi Klein The two-tiered justice system in the United States is made crystal clear in its special treatment of financial sector [...]
DenverPost.com – Photos: Anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on Monday, July 16, 2012
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The New York Times – Thousands Gather in Tokyo to Protest Nuclear Restart
Fukushima disaster. By HIROKO TABUCHI TOKYO — In Japan’s largest antinuclear rally since the disaster at Fukushima, tens of thousands of protesters gathered Monday at a central Tokyo park to urge the government to halt its restart of the nation’s reactor fleet. Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto Agency A protester shouted slogans during a large antinuclear rally [...]
Kansas City – City of Fascist Heart of the Nation
“falsely blamed as Anti-Semitic” The 1% in Kansas City routinely defame and smear anyone they perceive as a threat against their own agenda. The 1% use the main stream media as tools to discredit any individual or group they fear may relinquish their control and expose them as the tyrants they are in KC. Ladies [...]
CounterCurrents.org – “The Corporate Media Occupies A News Blackout”
The Corporate Media Occupies A News Blackout Text & Phtot By Mickey Z. 07 July, 2012 World News Trust “The revolution will not be objectively reported.” –Richie Alexandro, “Meet Me at Zuccotti” During the July Fourth hoopla… >> We learned Tom Cruise may be getting divorced. >> They held another hot dog eating contest at [...]
Occupy Marines – Operation Returning Freedom
http://www.occupy-marines.org/2012/07/09/operation-returning-freedom-press-release-7-6-12/
The Village Voice Blog – Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership SOPA 2.0? Anonymous Says So
First came SOPA and PIPA, but now internet-liberty advocates — such as hacktivist group Anonymous — warn that a new measure, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the next affront to a free web. The org tweeted this morning a rally to stop the TPP, which is currently being negotiated in Hollywood. The [...]
Washington’s Blog – “The Big Losers in the Libor Rate Manipulation”
Local Governments Which Entered Into Interest Rate Swaps Got Scalped We know that the big banks conspired to manipulate Libor rates, with the approval of government authorities. We know that the Libor manipulation effected the world’s largest market – interest rate derivatives. But who are the biggest victims? Sometimes the big banks manipulated the Libor [...]
Occupied Wall Street Journal – “Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines”
YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Photo: Aaron Black This week in Occupy, the National Gathering culminated in a gathering at Independence Mall, TPP was exposed as the latest NAFTA/SOPA nightmare, a Romney fundraiser hosted by David Koch was #occupied, and a homeowners bill of rights passed in California. #NatGat culminated in Washington, D.C., [...]
Explosive Report from MXGM Reveals: Every 40 hours Police in the US Kill a Black Person
Some of the families of loved ones slain by police in Northern California This past weekend at Everett & Jones restaurant in Jack London Square, there was a gathering of more than 10 mothers and members of their family who have all lost sons, daughters and husbands to police violence over the past 2 years…It [...]
Permanent Culture Now – Are Governments attempting to stop citizens from growing their own food?
I have watched and followed with some worry and considerable concern during the last few years at various Governments attempts to ban people from growing organic food and medicinal plants in their home gardens. No Conspiracies here! At first glance this looks like something that you would expect to come from conspiracy theorists, in many [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – “Special Taxing District Scam”
TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY STREETCAR CAMPAIGN MISDEED?!?!? QUESTIONABLE KANSAS CITY “YES” VOTE NOTARY OFFER COULD SOON CAUSE CONTROVERSY!!! First let’s define terms . . . THE “SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT” VOTE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BARELY LEGAL AND DESPICABLE SCAM INVENTED TO BILK ALL OF KANSAS CITY OUT OF CASH IN [...]
Occupy Student Debt Campaign – “The Illegitimacy of Student Debt”
David J. Blacker University of Delaware Stadtluft macht frei (“city air makes one free”) was a medieval German motto reflecting the legal situation of many serfs.[1] If one fled to the city—dare we say “occupy”?—and survived for a year and day then one was considered liberated from the feudal bonds that had legally tied one [...]
Occupy Monsanto – It’s time to expose Trader Joe’s GMOs!
The fact is no supermarket in America is immune to genetic contamination. Some grocers & natural food stores work with their customers to prevent this ghastly invasion of our food supply. Trader Joe’s simply says “Be assured.” You’ve probably heard that before from Monsanto’s minions in the form of “Trust us,” and you’ve probably learned [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “Reports: Police visit Goldengate Project”
Residents of Detroit’s Goldengate neighborhood reported Tuesday that police visited it and ticketed some of the people who are living in abandoned houses they helped make habitable as part of the Goldengate Restoration Project, project member Erik Shelley said. Shelley, who wasn’t in the neighborhood at the time but spoke to people who were, said [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “Occupy Detroit’s Goldengate Restoration Project”
Occupy Detroit’s Goldengate Restoration Project has seen new life with the warm weather. New residents have moved into the Gold House (formerly the Cat house), the Brick house, the Church house and the newly named Mexican Village house. Mars’ bike shop is putting kids on wheels and the plants are in the ground of [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “The Philadelphia Experiment”
When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle [...]
Protesters kettled and arrested at occupy national gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOugpD_ivD8
Occupy KC Journal listed in the Occupy Wall Street Journal !!!
#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines Posted on 07/02/2012 by Jennifer Sacks YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Thousands march through Los Angeles’s Chinatown to stop Wal-mart’s invasion of Los Angeles. Photo: Neil Jacobs, IATSE Local 600 This week in Occupy, the Occupy National Gathering is under way in Philadelphia, Los Angeles rejects Wal-mart, [...]
Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill By Jane Hamsher
click for a PDF of our health care reform fact sheet I’ll be on the new CNN show with Jon King that premieres at noon ET, available for live stream here — jh The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will [...]
Portland Occupier – The De-Politicizing of the Olympics
July 2, 2012 This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Times. by the Editors of the Occupied Times illustration by Alex Charnley In Ancient Greece, power was centred around numerous city-states (poleis) acting as distinct political bodies. These poleis were perpetually at war with one another, but also [...]
The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism – Adbusters
Excerpt from Adbusters – The Crisis of Capitalism “We are beginning to live between two worlds, in an intermediate cultural state. And the point should be made that we need to start imagining a new world, thinking of alternatives to this world, or we will very likely end up with something “very unpleasant”: An alliance [...]