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The Sparrow Project – Sentencing of UK Lulzsec Hacktivists Highlights Disparity in Sentence Guidelines as US Activist Jeremy Hammond Still Faces 42 Years in Federal Prison
[New York & London] Three English co-defendants who plead guilty to being members of the Lulzsec hacktivist group were today sentenced by a UK court. Ryan Acroyd, the most technically experienced of the three, received the longest sentence – he will spend 15 months in prison. A Young Jeremy Hammond | Images Courtesy of Jason [...]
The Kansas City Star – Protestorers rally over IRS’ tea party scrutiny
By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI — Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country to protest the agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups. Order Reprints Mel Evans Cliff Toye, of Tabernacle, holds a sign as he stands with others [...]
Health Care Now! – Unions Break Ranks on ObamaCare
Unions break ranks on ObamaCare May 21, 2013 by Healthcare-NOW! Filed under Single-Payer News By Kevin Bogardus for The Hill – Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare. Months after the president’s reelection, a variety of unions are publicly balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that [...]
Occupy Wall Street Press – Hundreds of low-wage workers go on strike in D.C.
Ned Resnikoff, @resnikoff (Low-wage employees of federal contractors protest in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2013. (Photo courtesy of GoodJobsNation.org)) Hundreds of low-wage employees of federal contractors walked off the job on Tuesday morning, demanding that President Obama sign legislation or an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay higher wages. The Washington, D.C., strike [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Report on the Independent Foreclosure Review
Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement Details Here is the report: http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2013/nr-ia-2013-60a.pdf
Think Progress – Banks May Have Illegally Foreclosed On 5,000 Members Of The Military
By Pat Garofalo For months, major banks have been dealing with the fallout of the “robo-signing” scandal, following reports that the banks were improperly foreclosing on homeowners and, in many instances, falsifying paperwork that they were submitting to courts. Banks have been forced to go back and re-examine foreclosures to ensure that homeowners did not [...]
Occupy the Wall Street Press – The Fraudclosure Settlement Is Even Worse Than You Think It Is
Life, liberty, and property. These were in theory the founding principles of the republic. But as President Obama meets today with the the Big Banksters to plot his latest attacks on Social Security and Medicare, it seems property rights still only exist for roughly the same percentage they did in days of America under the [...]
Occupy Wall Street Press – Occupy Our Homes Activists Arrested At Justice Department Headquarters
By: DSWright Members of one of Occupy Wall Street’s offshoots, Occupy Our Homes, were arrested Monday and Tuesday demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington. According to Washington police the protesters attempted to enter the building. About 100 protesters with groups called the Home Defenders League and Occupy Our Homes marched [...]
wired.co.uk – Seattle plans ‘food forest’
by Duncan Geere Food ForestLiz West / CC BY 2.0 The city of Seattle is planning to create a “food forest”, where anyone can go and harvest fruits and vegetables for free. The Beacon Hill neighbourhood will be home to the 28,000 square metre park, which will be planted with all sorts of edible plants, [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – The Occupy Voice
Hello Friends, I’m seeking contributors for a new project. The Occupy Voice is a zine of occupy-related images suitable for photocopied paper. If you have any lo-fi graphic design, MS Paint, cut/paste, collage, photography, comics, sketches, anything related to the occupy movement, pro or con, please submit them to TheOccupyVoice@gmail.com Accepted images will be posted [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Free Jeremy Hammond
About the Case Jeremy is currently facing federal charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for transferring information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting to the whistleblower news site Wikileaks. Written in 1984 and long criticized for being outdated and vague, the CFAA has seen increasing use against information activists in an [...]
The Blaze – Man Spends $20K Cleaning Abandoned Lot Near His Business– City Threatens Legal Action
Real estate developer Ori Feibush has tried for years to acquire the city-owned lot near where he planned to open a new business, he says. An eyesore filled with trash, weeds, broken glass and other dangerous substances, it was undeniably a deterrent to potential customers. “Feibush…submitted seven written requests for either owning or leasing the [...]
Breitbart – Multiple Agencies Involved with IRS in Intimidation
Tea party groups’ allegations that the IRS has long been targeting them for their political beliefs were recently confirmed by an apology from the IRS. The scandal gained traction as congressional leaders began efforts to hold the IRS accountable and understand the depths of the federal government’s politically-motivated abuses of power. Yet given the history [...]
Fractured Paradigm – Farmer Faces Over 2 Year Jail, $10 K Fines for Feeding Community
Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches. Raw milk drinkers are outraged that Wisconsin DATCP is bringing criminal charges against a farmer who serves a private buying club. Do citizens have a right to contract with a producer and grow food to their own standards? That is [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest Friday, April 5, 2013 25 comments Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot [...]
The Guardian – Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’
Cornell West … ‘I would rather have a white president eradicating poverty than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones.’ Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule but such things barely move [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Largest Fast Food Strike Yet as Workers Walk Out in Michigan
By Kevin Zeese – Posted on 11 May 2013 Fast food workers and Reverend Charles Williams II (center) picket a Long John Silver’s in Detroit, Mich. on May 10, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Suzette Hackney, D15 coalition.) By Ned Resnikoff MSNBC, May 10, 2013 Organizers estimate that as many as 400 workers at more [...]
Occupy the Farm: Gill Tract – UC Police Make Early Morning Raid on Gill Tract Public Farm
UPDATE 9:15am UC Tractor moved on to Gill Tract Farm and plowed under the thousands of crops planted. Follow @occupyfarm for updates Albany, CA UC police moved in to break up the two-day old Gill Tract Farm in the early morning hours of May 13. Despite a transformation of the vacant lot from abandoned [...]
Russian Times – Homeland Security gathers ‘crap intelligence’ and spies on Americans
The US Department of Homeland Security has endangered the civil liberties of Americans and spent millions on collecting not counterterrorism intel but “a bunch of crap,” a Senate subcommittee investigation of DHS data fusion centers has found. The Senate’s bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released on Tuesday their findings of a two-year-long probe that has [...]
Russian Times – Boston police accused of spying on protesters and intimidating dissidents
The Boston Police Department calls them criminals, extremists and a reason to raise a red flag in regards to ensuring homeland security. Their crime, though, is simply exercising their First Amendment rights. The American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts has successfully requested and obtained a trove of files from the Boston Police Department that reveals [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Boston police spied on Occupy protesters instead of investigating Tsarnaevs
Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as anexplosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo exclusively licensed to Reuters by photographer Dan Lampariello after he took the photo in Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 2013 (Reuters / Dan Lampariello) RT America May 10, 2013 The US [...]
Russian Times – Homeland Security under investigation for massive ammo buys
The Department of Homeland Security is under investigation for purchasing large stockpiles of ammunition, days before legislation was introduced that would restrict the amount a government agency can legally buy. The Government Accountability Office is now conducting the investigation into the alleged DHS purchases, which is “just getting underway,” GAO spokesman Chuck Young told US [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Fast Food Workers Plan Surprise Strike
‘Keep your burgers. Keep your fries! Make our wages super sized’ A protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald’s in Times Square in support of employees on strike at various fast-food chains in New York November 29, 2012. (Credit: Reuters/Andrew Kelly) WORKERS IN SOME 70 RESTAURANTS EXPECTED TO WALK OFF JOB, POTENTIALLY SHUTTING [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Veterans and Iraqis Join to Protest Bush Library
Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer Vietnam veteran Bruce Berry headed to get more crosses as protesters set them in a grassy area in memory of those who died in the Bush administration wars during a protest Tuesday across Central Expressway from the Bush Presidential Center, near the SMU Boulevard intersection. By David Flick Dallas Morning News, [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Show Time! Tripping the Light Fantastic as a Performance Artist for Occupy Wall Street
By Kevin Zeese By Marni Halasa, Lawyer, journalist and Occupy Wall Street performance artist Huffington Post, April 27, 2103 My conservative Arab father always told me I had no shame. Little did he know that my insatiable desire to exhibit and entertain as a performance artist would come in handy for Occupy Wall Street. I [...]
InstaPunk – Killing the Old White Guys
CROSS-POLLINATION. The liberals are having their moment. They haven’t had one of their own in the White House for 50 years, not since Lyndon Johnson. Carter was a pipsqueak (wake’em up in the middle of the night and ask — they’ll admit it) and Clinton was just a whoring deal maker, proof that policy and [...]
Occupy Student Debt Campaign – Rolling Jubilee
Greetings Fellow Student Debtors and Pledgers, Occupy Student Debt Campaign (http://www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/) is continuing the struggle against debt. OSDC has joined with other Occupy groups to form a collective debt refusal movement called Strike Debt. Strike Debt is spreading the word about debt as a global system of domination and exploitation. Please join OSDC and [...]
A Deerhound Diary – Nefarious Narratives
By R.F. Laird I’m still struggling with the notion that freedom from the archaisms of religion allows for a more objective and rationally enlightened consensus of morality. The argument is generally couched in terms of an increase in individual freedom by both secularist liberals and libertarians, both of which trade on their appropriations of the [...]
Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance – Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to Keystone XL Heavy Machinery — Halts Construction
_________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE- 10:30am Nancy Zorn has been extracted by local law UPDATE- 10:30am Nancy Zorn has been extracted by local enforcement and taken into custody. Please consider contributing to Nancy’s bail fund. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ALLEN, OK – Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 9:00 AM – Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, from Warr Acres, has [...]
Anonymous Operations – Monsanto: All Your Seeds Are Belong to Us
Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana farmer, says that switching to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans “made things so much simpler and better.” Monsanto’s patented beans can survive when they are sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate, also known as Roundup, which makes pest control much easier. Monsanto is less impressed with Bowman: The Supreme Court heard [...]
The New York Times – Suit Settled With Occupy Wall St. Over Seizure of Library at a Park
As myriad court battles pitting the Occupy Wall Street movement against New York City agencies proceed, protesters claimed a victory on Tuesday, based not on how they were treated, but on how their books were mistreated. The City of New York and Brookfield Properties agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit filed [...]
Occupy Wall Street – Mobilize for Striking Fast Food Workers
via 99pickets.org: Today, Thursday April 4 , over 400 fast food workers across NYC are starting a second wave of strikes for better wages and a union, marking the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Like the sanitation workers that Dr. King marched with in Memphis, these workers are standing up [...]
The Boston Occupier – Detroit Citizens Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Masters
Mark Vorpahl March 20, 2013 Fresh from shoving his “Right to Work for Less” legislation down the throats of Michigan’s workers, Governor Rick Snyder has grown bolder in pursuing a corporate agenda. He has now appointed Kevyn Orr of Jones Day law firm to act as an Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) of Detroit. As an [...]
Occupy Washington, D.C. – Strike Debt Kicks Off Second Debt Buy-Up With March for Universal Healthcare
By John Knefel, Truthout | Report A Strike Debt action regarding medical debt in Union Square, New York City, March 23, 2013. (Photo: The Eyes Of New York)]A coalition of groups associated with Occupy Wall Street took to the streets of midtown Manhattan on Thursday evening calling for the abolition of the for-profit health care system in the United [...]