March 2012
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WatchOccupy Wall Street protesters marched around midtown Manhattan on Wednesday chanting anti-corporate slogans outside banks and the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Scores of police officers followed the protesters on foot and on motorcycles and used metal barricades to keep them from their targets, including Citibank and Bank of America branches.
Outside of Pfizer’s headquarters on East 42nd...
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“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letter From a Birmingham Jail, 1963 (via voicesofearth)
February 2012
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On the rich getting less rich: "People who don’t... →
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I don’t know whether to cry or pull my hair out or both.
Wow…those ARE some really stressful decisions. Maybe they shouldn’t have had three kids if they couldn’t afford them. Think of it this way rich people, if you get less rich, you’ll be SO much less stressed! You’ll only have to make decisions like, should I pay for gas to get to work this week or...
Private Prisons Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put... →
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Yesterday, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released areport chronicling the political strategies of private prison companies “working to make money through harsh policies and longer sentences.” The report’s authors note that while the total number of people in prison increased less than 16 percent, the number of people held in private federal and state facilities increased by...
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Watch1/24/12—-Former White House adviser Van Jones discusses his new solution-oriented movement to rebuild America for the 99% who find the American dream increasingly unattainable. One of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Jones will present his 10-point plan to fix the economy, create jobs, and restore America’s democracy. Jones, who is the...
Higher social classes more likely to act...
A raft of studies into unethical behaviour across the social classes has delivered a withering verdict on the upper echelons of society.
Privileged people behaved consistently worse than others in a range of situations, with a greater tendency to lie, cheat, take things meant for others, cut up other road users, not stop for pedestrians on crossings, and endorse unethical behaviour, researchers...
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anwarsdreams asked: I'm doing a school project on the Occupy movement, and I was looking to find out why people were occupying, what they would change if they could, and to describe the Occupy movement in five words or less. Or any of the three, really (I am asking the people at my local Occupy site as well, but I figure why not vary the sources?). Could you please send this out to your followers? Answers can be...
I apologize for not keeping this updated as well...
I went camping last weekend and was staying in a cold, damp yurt (very smart move on my part) and caught pneumonia. I’m hoping to be back in form in a week.
I welcome any submissions of breaking news or important topics that people think should be posted in the meantime. Thank you all for your patience.
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SALLIE MAE: FORGIVE STUDENT DEBT →
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard someone call Occupiers entitled students just wanting their student loans paid for. Read below if you want to understand the real reason why students are upset. I can guarantee that the vast majority of students would be willing to pay a fair and practicable sum for their educations. The problem is that cost of education as it currently stands in...
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How Occupy helped labor win on the West Coast
Defiance of labor law and movement support yield a union victory in Washington state
Earlier this month longshore workers in Washington state reached a contract with a boss that has spent the past year fighting to keep their union out. That company, the multinational EGT, sought to run its new grain terminal in the town of Longview, as the only facility on the West Coast without the famously...
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Interview Excerpt: Phylicia Rashad on Occupy Wall...
Are the cuts in education one of our country’s main problems at the moment? What our country looks at right now — there is this insidious greed and apathy. We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
We really don’t stop to think...
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Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed a massive consolidation of our food system. Never have so few corporations been responsible for more of our food chain. Of the 40,000 food items in a typical U.S. grocery store, more than half are now brought to us by just 10 corporations. Today, three companies process more than 70 percent of all U.S. beef, Tyson, Cargill and JBS. More than 90 percent...
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WatchAnimal sanctuary in Iran
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What Oligarchy Means: Small Groups of... →
Forget the five people you meet in heaven, here are the five people running the US election system these days.
We know how the super PACs have come to dominate the presidential campaign, but a closer look at financial-disclosure numbers shows how just a tiny handful of billionaires are dominating those super PACs. An analysis of January’s campaign-disclosure filings reveals that 25 percent of...
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BREAKING: Bradley Manning is formally charged with... →
The enemy being Truth?
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6 Facts About Mitt Romney's Taxes/ Lack Thereof →
think-progress:
1. Romney paid a lower tax rate than many middle-class Americans, at 13.9 percent.
2. Romney makes more in a day than the average American makes in a year, and becomes a 1 percenter every week.
3. Romney likely paid $0 in payroll taxes.
4. Romney has accounts in countries notorious for tax dodging, like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands.
5. Romney and...
