Source: scoop.co.nz Monday, 3 October 2011, 4:45 pm Column: Emir Hodzic Occupy Wall St: New Zealander Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge Emir Hodzic October 3, 2011 As I was having my morning coffee on Saturday, ready to go out and join the Day 15 of Occupy Wall Street, the last thing […]
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The “Occupy Wall Street” protests in the financial district took a dramatic turn on Saturday when protesters tried to march across the Brooklyn Bridge. When police arrested 700 of the demonstrators, the event quickly turned into one of the largest arrests of non-violent protesters in recent history. [youtube]ezYoxIYJjSo[/youtube] Some protesters […]
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03-6 The protests that began in Wisconsin this year, and which now also fill the streets of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and this week, Washington D.C., have gotten the attention of the American political class. And how could they not? 2011 is becoming a remake of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, […]
Scathing, blistering, truth-telling op-ed from columnist David Weidner. This is awesome.
The conversation that began on Wall Street on September 17 has swept northward to Boston, and inspired a powerful national movement. [youtube]TUi6CWGPb3I[/youtube] Joining with nearly 100 actions in cities from Los Angeles to Dallas, Chicago,and Washington D.C., concerned citizens have come to speak out for greater economic equality.
The largest crowd so far. Read the rest here
“There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the […]
[youtube]LbvzIpc-U6Q[/youtube] It’s been going on for decades, the relationship between the military and Hollywood is nothing new, but it’s good to be reminded now and then just how much of our culture has been hijacked and manipulated with the intent of framing our conceptions of the world around us. And […]
[youtube]d39biIxeuss[/youtube] An epic story of about 20 families that uprooted from suburbia and made their homes for good in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the U.S. Lykins Neighborhood 64127 Inner City KCMO to invest thier lives into the youth and poor. We’ve seen it all, yet together as […]
If we take a careful look at a map of Africa and also look at the African organization of the new Pentagon Africa Command —AFRICOM— the pattern that emerges is a careful strategy of controlling one of China’s most strategically important oil and raw materials sources. NATO’s Libya campaign was […]