July 18th, 2012
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 [...]