November 2011
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October 2011
61 posts
Open Letter to that 53% Guy
Hello,
I briefly visited the “We are the 53%” website, but I first saw your face on a liberal blog. Your picture is quite popular on liberal blogs. I think it’s because of the expression on your face. I don’t know if you meant to look pugnacious or if we’re just projecting that on you, but I think that’s what gets our attention.
In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet of paper that says:
I...
Occupy Everything
Wall Photos”What They did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took...
11 Facts You Need To Know About The Nation’s...
By Pat Garofalo on Oct 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm
The Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York City more than three weeks ago have nowspread across the country. The choice of Wall Street as the focal point for the protests — as even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said — makes sense due to the big bank malfeasance that led to the Great Recession.
While the Dodd-Frank financial...
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in...
Naomi Klein October 6, 2011
I love you.
And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would shout “I love you” back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Say unto others what you would have them say unto you, only way louder.
Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each other.” That sentiment captures the beauty of what is being...
Jesse LaGreca To Mainstream Media: 'We're Getting...
Put Americans Back to Work
October 6, 2011
As the Senate prepared to take up President Obama’s jobs package, Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a Senate floor speech on Thursday that it’s time to put Americans back to work. With real unemployment at more than 16 percent, Sanders called for the creation of millions of jobs by investing in much-needed road and bridge repairs and other construction projects to repair...
Hartmann: First they ignore, then ridicule, then...
Submitted by Thom Hartmann A… on 5. October 2011 - 8:49
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So said Gandhi to his legion of peaceful demonstrators as he took on and defeated the British Empire - the most powerful empire on the planet at the time - without raising a single musket. And today - history is repeating itself right here in America with Occupy Wall Street.
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Hartmann: Eric Cantor...no jobs bill, no safety...
Submitted by Thom Hartmann A… on 5. October 2011 - 8:36
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5. October 2011 - 8:36
Neil McCabe vs. Thom Hartmann. House Republicans again proved they don’t care about creating jobs. Eric Cantor called President Obama’s “American Job Act” “unreasonable” - and said the House won’t even vote on it. Since when is trying to get over 20 million...
Herman Cain Blames The Unemployed For Being...
October 5, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
Herman Cain. Image from http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2011/07/herman-cain-im-so-sorry-muslims-for.html
Conservatives have made the claim that unemployed Americans only have themselves to blame for not having jobs, and now Herman Cain is joining the fray. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cain claimed that Occupy Wall Street is a...
Somethings Happening Here
There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind What a field-day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and...
Something Big Is Happening
Occupy Together
Wednesday 5 October 2011by: Jim Hightower, Truthout | Op-Ed
To paraphrase one of Bob Dylan’s songs of youthful protest, “Something’s happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you Ms. Bellafante?”
A New York Times writer, Ginia Bellafante, is but one of many establishment reporters and pundits who’ve been covering the fledgling...
Free Trade - POOF goes the Money & the Stimulus
Unions endorse, will join Occupy Wall Street...
By Jason Kessler and Michael Martinez, CNNupdated 10:23 AM EST, Wed October 5, 2011Protesters have been camping out at New York’s Zuccotti Park for more than two weeks.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Social media spurs similar protests in Boston, other cities
NEW: Massachusetts Nurses Association will join Boston protesters
Labor leaders say the Occupy Wall Street protesters raise issues they...
Van Jones on America's Uprising
It’s Going Be an Epic Battle
Wednesday 5 October 2011by: Adele M. Stan and Don Hazen, AlterNet | News Analysis
Jones talked to AlterNet about the growing social movements for change, running real progressives in 2012, and how we can train a million new leaders.
As the grassroots sit-ins and marches that originated as Occupy Wall Street spread to other cities, Van Jones, lead evangelist...
Rep. Steve King Daydreams About The Good Ol' Days
Rep. Steve King Daydreams About The Good Ol’ Days When Only Property Owners Voted
October 04, 2011 3:39 pm ET — Brian Powell
In a Judiciary Committee hearing on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) used his allotted time to daydream out loud about an era of American history when only male property owners were allowed to vote. King pondered...
How Unequal We Are
The Top 5 Facts You Should Know About The Wealthiest One Percent Of Americans
By Zaid Jilani on Oct 3, 2011 at 11:25 am
Source: http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
As the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by hundreds of protesters enters its third week — and as protests spread to other cities such as Boston and Los Angeles — demonstrators have endorsed a new slogan: “We are the 99 percent.”...
The Reign of the One Percenters
Income Inequality and the Death of Culture in New York City
Monday 3 October 2011by: Christopher Ketcham, Orion Magazine | Op-Ed
Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City
For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his head, we start the tour at Wall Street. It’s hot. August....
Anatomy of a $30 Billion Medicare Crime
Monday 3 October 2011 by: Kathleen Sharp, Truthout | News Analysis
(Photo: Vermin Inc)
Like all great capers, this $30 billion Medicare crime unfolded in plain sight. A drug rep sat in the doctor’s office, balancing folders on his knees and flipping through the patient files. He wore a starched shirt, navy slacks and a golf tan from that day he’d convinced the doctor-client to...
US Tax Policies Benefit Rich
Tuesday 4 October 2011 by: Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. | Op-Ed
President Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on Americans who earn more than $1 million annually. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times)
It seems as if a number of people in the media have decided that President Obama was fibbing when he said that some millionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries —...
An Open Letter to Wall Street
Tuesday 4 October 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Protesters, some dressed as zombies, walk the streets as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began three weeks ago, in New York. (Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times)
Cancel my subscription To the resurrection Send my credentials to the House of detention I got some friends inside…
- James Douglas...
Supreme Court Justice Scalia claims religion...
William Hamby
, Atlanta Atheism ExaminerSeptember 30, 2011
“The Rule of Law is second only to the Rule of Love. The here and now is less important than the hereafter.” — Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice.
In America, the Supreme Court is the ultimate judge. Once it has decided a matter, that’s pretty much it. Antonin Scalia, one of the judges who sits on that court, has...
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ryan Devereaux talks Occupy Wall Street and ‘The...
Countdown StaffOctober 3, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Ryan Devereaux, reporter from “Democracy Now,” gives his first-person account of Occupy Wall Street’s ongoing protests and “The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge.”
KEITH OLBERMANN: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Saturday — where more than 500 protesters marched in solidarity with Occupation Wall Street — and in Denver, where protesters gathered at the...
Frances Fox Piven at Occupy Wall Street →
CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven recently spoke with Democracy Now’s Mike Burke at the Occupy Wall Street protest. “I think we desperately need a popular uprising in the United States,” Piven said. “I study movements. None of us know the exact formula for when those movements erupt, but it could be. And if that is true, then these people who are here are really wonderful.”
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but...”
– Mark Twain
