Media

Application for movement

Anatolih — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:42:11 -0600

Application for virtual march on the wall street!

http://apps.facebook.com/occupyws

Global Square

slave — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:12:07 -0700

Wikileaks-backed Global Square P2P activist platform due in March:

http://exopermaculture.com/2012/02/16/wikileaks-global-square-coming-march-2012-where-people-of-all-nations-can-come-together-as-equals-to-participate-in-the-coordination-of-collective-actions-and-the-formulation-of-common-goals-and-a/

Inspirational Occupy the World Video documentary

web20005 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:25 -0700

Hi, I saw this video on Youtube and thought others might want to look at it. Despite the negative press Occupy has been receiving lately this video shows peaceful protests and how the occupy movement is spreading around the world.

Link:

Hacker and Pierson's "Winner-Take-All Politics"

DeMarquis — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:54:05 -0700

I have written another book review, this time on Jacob hacker and Paul Pierson's "Winner-Take-All Politics". You can find it at: http://387442890115614373.weebly.com/

From my review:

"The Introduction describes what is basically the underlying idea of the entire book. They describe what they call “The Thirty Year War” in which federal policy has been used to ensure that the rewards of economic growth have been hyper-concentrated at the top of the socio-economic scale. For example, since 1979 the top one percent accounted for almost three times as much growth in income as the bottom sixty percent (remember that the benefit to the rich is divided among far fewer individuals than that to the rest of us)....

...Their conclusionary chapter, “Beating Winner-Take-All” is the most disappointing. Hacker and Pierson are much better at describing what has gone wrong than they are at making recommendations regarding what to do about it. Nevertheless, their well-documented and clearly written diagnosis of what has gone wrong will be extremely valuable to those who are currently agitating for change. Anyone who may want to develop a vision for the future would do well to carefully read this book. In particular, their admonition to attend to three specific issues- reducing the capacity of elites to block change, promoting greater mass participation in the political process, and developing new groups to organize voters and lobby the Congress, are well taken. "

Message from Jeremy Rifkin to 15M, Occupy, etc

MundusVultDecipi — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:28:18 -0700

Source: http://youtu.be/9OCPACdiJTk
Jeremy Rifkin is the author of The Third Industrial Revolution: How lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. I plan on reading his book within the next couple months.

Rate or read about his book here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104082-the-the-third-industrial-revolution

Angel? Alien? Really smart guy? Whoever it was, these appear to be well thought out solutions to our

fattymoon — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:33:46 -0700

At approximately 1:30 p.m. Saturday, in the park outside Branigan Public Library in Las Cruces, New Mexico, home of Occupy Las Cruces, a man appeared out of nowhere, walked up to me and Caz, and said he had something for us. He handed me a 4-page single-spaced document which he said were his thoughts on what needed to be done to correct the imbalances in our society. Then, without another word, and before I could ask him his name, he walked off. After reading the document, I believe this man was an angel in human form. Or, maybe a friendly alien. Or, maybe he was just a really smart guy. Judge for yourself. The following is the complete document, edited for a couple typos only.
http://fattymoon.posterous.com/occupiers-everyone-i-bear-a-message-for-you-f

Mitt, Son of Citizens United

DeMarquis — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:54:11 -0700

A really good article by a U of California professor describing how big money has captured the Romney campaign: http://robertreich.org/

From the article:

"...In the last weeks before the just-completed Iowa caucuses, Romney spent over $3 million relentlessly torpedoing Newt Gingrich with negative ads — cutting Gingrich’s support by half and hurtling him from first place to fourth. But Romney kept his fingerprints off the torpedo. Technically the money didn’t even come from his campaign.

It came from a Super PAC called “Restore Our Future,” which can sop up unlimited amounts from a few hugely wealthy donors without even disclosing their names. That’s because “Restore Our Future” is officially independent of the Romney campaign — although its chief fundraiser comes out of Romney’s finance team, its key political strategist was political director of Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign, its treasurer is Romney’s former chief counsel, and its media whiz had been part of Romney’s media team..."

I suppose "captured" isn't really the right word. That might imply some inclination on Romney's part to resist the influence of big donors, but really he always was their creature, a true blue member of the 1%.

I encourage you to scroll on and read his equally excellent essay on the decline of the public good: the lack of a spirit of public service is exactly what I think is wrong with the 1% now.

Now We are the Masters of Our Own Fate

Casey — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:34:00 -0700

On Dec 26, 2011, at the tent city in Washington DC, Winston Jerome Lindsley, a descendant of Winston Churchill, recreated a speech in Churchill costume given to congress by Sir Winston on December 26, 1941. It was done at a time when parallels in effort and will to overcome hardship and difficulty for a better world. Most of all it is a reminder of how we are the means in which to overcome our trials and tribulations.

Ted Rall Column: Government to OWS (and Everyone Else)--F*** You

TedRall — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:07:29 -0700

OUR F--- YOU SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Anti-Occupy Crackdowns Highlight Lack of Services
Governments are supposed to fulfill the basic needs of their citizens. Ours doesn't pretend to try.
Sick? Too bad.
Can't find a job? Tough.
Broke? Can't afford rent? We don't give a crap.
Forget "e pluribus unum." We need a more accurate motto.
We live under a f--- you system.
Got a problem? The U.S. government has an all-purpose response to whatever ails you: f--- you.
During the '80s I drove a yellow taxi in New York. Then, as now, there were no public restrooms in the city. At 4 in the morning, with few restaurants or bars open, the coffee I drank to stay awake posed a significant challenge.
It was--it is--insane. People pee. People poop. As basic needs go, toilets are as basic as it gets. Yet the City of New York, with the biggest tax base of any municipality in the United States, didn't provide any.
So I did what all taxi drivers did. What they still do. I found a side street and a spot between two parked cars. It went OK until a cop caught me peeing under the old elevated West Side Highway, which later collapsed due to lack of maintenance. Perhaps decades of taxi driver urine corroded the support beams.
"You can't do that here," said the policeman.
"Where am I supposed to go?" I asked him. "There's aren't any restrooms anywhere in town."
"I know," he replied before going to get his summons book from his cruiser.
The old "f--- you." We create the problem, then blame you for the results.
I ran away.
In recent days American mayors have been ordering heavily armed riot police to attack and rob peaceful members of encampments allied with Occupy Wall Street.
Like NYC, which won't provide public restrooms but arrests public urinators, government officials and their media allies use their own refusal to provide basic public services to justify raids against Occupations.
In the middle of the night on November 15th NYPD goons stormed into Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. They beat and pepper-sprayed members of Occupy Wall Street and destroyed the books in their library. Citing "unsanitary conditions," New York's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, then told reporters: "I have become increasingly concerned…that the occupation was coming to pose a health and fire safety hazard to the protestors and to the surrounding community."
Four days before the police attack The New York Times had quoted a city health department statement worrying about the possible spread of norovirus, vomiting, diarrhea and tuberculosis: "It should go without saying that lots of people sleeping outside in a park as we head toward winter is not an ideal situation for anyone's health."
So why don't they give the homeless some of the thousands of abandoned apartment units in New York?
Anyway, according to the Times: "Damp laundry and cardboard signs, left in the rain, have provided fertile ground for mold. Some protesters urinate in bottles, or occasionally a water-cooler jug, to avoid the lines at [the few] public restrooms."
Of course, there's an obvious solution: provide adequate bathroom facilities--not just for Occupy but for all New Yorkers. But that's off the table under New York's f--- you system of government.
Doctors noted a new phenomenon called "Zuccotti cough." Symptoms are similar to those of "Ground Zero cough" suffered by 9/11 first responders.
Zuccotti is 450 feet away from Ground Zero.
Which brings to mind the fact that the collapse of the World Trade Center towers released 400 tons of asbestos into the air. It was never cleaned up properly. Could Occupiers be suffering the results of sleeping in a should-have-been-Superfund site for two months?
We'll never know. As under Bush, Obama's EPA still won't conduct a 9/11 environmental impact study.
Sick? Wanna know why? F--- you.
One of the authorities' most ironic complaints about the Occupations is that they attract the mentally ill, drug users and habitually homeless.
To listen to the mayors of Portland, Denver and New York, you'd think the Occupiers beamed in bums and nutcases from outer space.
When mentally disabled people seek help from their government, they get the usual answer: f--- you.
When people addicted to drugs--drugs imported into the U.S. under the watchful eyes of corrupt border enforcement officers--ask their government for help, they are turned away. F--- you again.
When people who lost their homes because their government said "f--- you" to them rather than help turn to the same government to look for safe shelter, again they are told: "f--- you."
And then, after days and years and decades of shirking their responsibility to provide us with such staples of human survival as places to urinate and defecate and sleep, and food, and medical care, our "f--- you" government has the amazing audacity to blame us, victims of their negligence and corruption and violence, for messing things up.
Which is why we are finally, at long last, starting to say "f--- you" to them.
(Ted Rall is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." His website is tedrall.com.)

My review of "Republic Lost"

DeMarquis — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:53:09 -0700

See my website for my latest review, of Lawrence Lessig's "Republic Lost", about the systemic corruption that has infected the Congress. From the review:

“The clue that something is wrong is the endless list of troubles that sit on our collective plate but never get resolved” Lessig writes, also quoting Thoreau: we are… “The thousand hacking at the branches of evil, with one striking at the root.” The stated purpose of Lessig’s book is to name that root: “… the thing that feeds the other ills, and the thing that we must kill first.”

The reason why our government cannot address the many ills that demand our attention, from a growing deficit to the health care crisis to an accelerating climate catastrophe, the reason that a vast majority of Americans have lost trust in Congress, is a form of systemic corruption. “It is the economy of influence now transparent to all, which has normalized a process that draws our democracy away from the will of the people… we have created instead an engine of influence that seeks to make those most connected rich.” Not the rich in general, but instead those who “secure their wealth through the manipulation of government and politics.”

My website is at http://387442890115614373.weebly.com/

Our impact on the "American Dream"?

Aceton3 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:08:37 -0700

Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

99% plan new tax war on Super Rich in 2012 Commentary: Jobless youth enraged, ready with aggressive

Doc4the99 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:47:00 -0700

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/99-plan-new-tax-war-on-super-rich-in-2012-2011-12-20/comments#newcomment

Jobless youth enraged, ready with aggressive tactics

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Warning to America’s Super Rich: Think Occupy Wall Street disappeared in winter’s cold? Wrong: The 99% just declared a new aggressive, covert special-ops war strategy to take back our democracy in 2012.

No more peaceful tent encampments in parks. No more Mahatma Gandhi nice-guy stuff. Not enough. Escalation time. Wall Street, the Super Rich and their Washington lobbyists are tone deaf, blinded by greed, trapped in their post-2008 business-as-usual bubble.

Christopher Hinton/MarketWatch

Warning, OWS tells us America’s going to be shocked by not one but hundreds of wake-up calls in 2012.

How? In a recent Washington Post op-ed column, OWS leaders are clearly accelerating their battle strategy in 2012. In what amounts to a new declaration of war that promises to electrify the 2012 elections, OWS will be using new asymmetrical warfare strategies, write the two men who’ve been the driving force behind the movement since early this year, Kalle Lasn editor-in-chief of Adbusters magazine and senior editor Micah White.

Listen to some of the specific guerilla tactics they warn will be used in their coming 2012 “American Spring” assault: A “marked escalation of surprise, playful, precision disruptions, rush-hour flash mobs, bank occupations, ‘occupy squads’ and edgy theatrics.” And in a New Yorker magazine interview shortly after New York Mayor Bloomberg’s “military-style operation,” Lasn warned: “this means escalation, pushing us one step closer to a revolution.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/99-plan-new-tax-war-on-super-rich-in-2012-2011-12-20/comments#newcomment

Why Bother with the Media?

economicsystem — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:57:42 -0700

If you turn off your television permanently and don't read the newspapers, what affect can the media really have in indoctrinating people? There are other ways to get information about the world. There are government archives, reports, studies in current laws and policies, and lots and lots of books. So why bother fighting propaganda ? Why not just ignore it? What do you think?

Slavoj Žižek - What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? Marxism 2009 (VIDEO LINK)

TheRielDeal — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:44:48 -0700

Hillary Clinton: "We are losing the information war to alternative media."

MundusVultDecipi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:34:53 -0700

Source: http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/must-see-videos/item/5445-hillary-clinton-us-losing-information-war-to-alternative-media

Ret. Police officer ray lewis responds to challenge

Doc4the99 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:54:06 -0700

http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/phillynow/2011/12/09/retired-ppd-captain-and-occupy-wall-street-protester-ray-lewis-wont-take-off-his-uniform/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retired-ppd-captain-and-occupy-wall-street-protester-ray-lewis-wont-take-off-his-uniform

True hero

NY congressmen clashes with Bloomberg over the use of police violence

Doc4the99 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:31:34 -0700

mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/nyregion/bloomberg-and-nadler-clash-on-police-conduct-at-zuccotti-park.xml

Someone post the correct link. Thanks. FROM the story: Representative Jerrold Nadler wants an inquiry into police conduct. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg criticized the idea.

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Published: December 09,2011

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg criticized a prominent New York City congressman on Thursday for asking the Justice Department to investigate reports of police misconduct at the Occupy Wall Street protests in Lower Manhattan.

Charlie Rose - Update on OWS

MundusVultDecipi — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:10:47 -0700

Source: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12017

free dvd, screening and streaming opportunity: IF A TREE FALLS documentary, relevant to OWS

treefallsfilm — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:46:57 -0700

Greetings:

We were recently contacted by folks from Occupy Oakland who wanted to screen our film “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.” The documentary, released earlier this year, is about a radical environmental group (the ELF), and it follows in particular the story of Daniel McGowan, an activist who took part in two multi-million dollar arsons in 2001 against companies that he believed were destroying the environment.

The film raises a lot of central questions and issues that seem super relevant to people involved in this growing movement today — its startling footage of late 90s pepper spray use alone is eerily familiar in light of recent developments in NYC, UC Davis and beyond — and Occupy Oakland’s interest in the movie sparked an idea to share it with occupations across the US. It’s a nuanced documentary that asks more questions than it answers and we share in Oakland’s belief that it can be a helpful tool for generating critical discussion about movement building and the ethics, effectiveness and legal ramifications of different kinds of activist tactics. It’s also pretty entertaining — the film won the documentary editing award at Sundance — and even Entertainment Weekly gave it an ‘A’ grade, saying “the film sweeps us up like a thriller.”

After discussing things further with people at Occupy Oakland, reaching out to Occupy Cinema, and later attending an Arts and Culture Group meeting at OWS in NYC, we’d like to offer the film to Occupy groups who are interested in setting up screenings and discussions in their communities around the country. We can’t set up the screenings ourselves — we’ll need local people to handle that — but we’re happy to provide a number of DVDs for free that can be used.

Additionally, we have uploaded a free stream of the entire film onto Vimeo. Unfortunately we are only able to host the film in this manner until Wednesday, December 14th, but in that time feel free to pass this link and password to anyone who might find the film beneficial:

PASSWORD: occupywallstreet

For more background info, people may want to check out a discussion guide that PBS made for the film’s recent broadcast. It can be downloaded directly here: http://www.pbs.org/pov/ifatreefalls/discussion_guide.php. The film is trailer online here at: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/ifatreefalls/. Our website is http://www.IfaTreeFallsFilm.com and we’re also on Facebook at ifatreefalls.

Please let us know if you have any questions or ideas on how to push this along, and also if you’d like to set up a screening in your area. We’re really looking forward to sharing this film and hope that there are some useful lessons in the story we tell as things move forward with occupations across the US.

Please direct inquiries to our @treefallsfilm handle here, or by email at treefallsows@gmail.com.

Many thanks in advance for your interest,
 Josh,
Oscilloscope Laboratories

Good Article - Today ! Looks like one one hand some media continues to bash ows strong, others

Doc4the99 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:11:52 -0700

other media is turning positive:

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/dec/5/occupy-wall-street-targets-congress-99-vs-1/

Hedge fund wall streeter explains why he supports ows.

Doc4the99 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:20:46 -0700

http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/muqzv/

Good read. Also on zerohedge.com

Basically the markets are rigged to take your money. What else is new.

Music for the 99%

bocheli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:30:59 -0600

What other good demonstration/protest songs would you recommend?

All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

MundusVultDecipi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:02:28 -0700

3 hour long sections of a very important documentary. I especially loved the 3rd one.

Source: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media - The Guardian

janmarbol — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:13:53 -0600

"...to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.

The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.

The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same...." read more--- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

If We Do Not Silence These Military Industrial Complex Mouthpieces, They Will Certainly Silence Us

ironboltbruce — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:08:15 -0700

If We Do Not Silence These Military Industrial Complex Mouthpieces, They Will Certainly Silence Us:

US and Israeli Regimes - Collaborators in Repression

slave — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:59:00 -0700

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security

Thought Crime in Washington

MundusVultDecipi — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:15:20 -0700

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/28

Video made the Occupy Wallstreet Movement-Watch, forward & inspire...

atthehop1 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:22:36 -0700

http://vimeo.com/user9370067/videos

YouTube Version: youtu.be/XtO4vHv_oek

Friends,

This is for you who have stood up. This is to acknowledge your cause.

We are trying to awaken a world that has sunken into a swamp of lies.

Occupy, protest & demand that there be real change.

There are no holds barred on freedom.

Let's continue.

Love,

At The Hop

Words to video & more can be found at:

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Follow us:

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Occupy TV

oppositefear — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:29:55 -0600

http://www.youtube.com/occupytv#g/p

Terms Being Thrown About

piss_off_gov — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:09:29 -0700

Reading a recent YAHOO report, the media is now referring to police interference as "raids." Although the term is politically correct, it's becoming obvious that more and more people are flabbergasted by the actions made by our government forces. Also, the term "raids" has such a negative connotation that I have to wonder what's going on within the media that is encouraging them to use such a strong word. I understand that they (they being the government officials who use their brute force whenever possible) feel the need to try and moderate what's going on, but there has to be a limit. Right?

WW3

MundusVultDecipi — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:31:43 -0700

Source: http://youtu.be/HMOFP_Bv5OQ

Intense: "We Miss You."

MundusVultDecipi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:06:38 -0700

Source: http://www.wemissyou.de/

SONG FOR THE 99%

bdog — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:02:26 -0700

check out this song for the 99% http://youtu.be/J6BuQcemmtM

Music for the Occupation

maxrocket — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:25:32 -0600

Come on, I know there's more than just one musician wanting to contribute to the movement. Put your music here that you're willing to let the movement use for non-profit purposes!

Put your songs here with creative commons permission for non-profit use.

Use this: http://maxrocketmusic.com/2011/10/a-song-about-why-we-need-to-occupy-wall-street/

And about the greed mentality that led to the crisis in the first place.
Use this for non-profit, progressive purposes in your videos as long as you attribute Max Rocket ant http://maxrocketmusic.com/

Manchester Orchestra - "Virgin"

MundusVultDecipi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:08:24 -0700

Source: http://youtu.be/fKgSs0MQ270

Banks preparing for break up

Doc4the99 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:09:35 -0700

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/business/global/banks-fear-breakup-of-the-euro-zone.xml

Understand the euro zone is collapsing because goldman sacs cooked greeces books before they got accepted into the euro coin.

OCCUPIED

fatjoesatan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:23:06 -0700

did this video inspired by the movement http://youtu.be/78L1Ihy-uy4 thanks AMURKA ...love from CANADUH !

Kil the zombie banks!

Doc4the99 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:56:35 -0700

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/kill_the_zombie_banks/singleton/?mobile.html

Dont stand for another tax payer funded bail out for billionaires. Bail out main street

We need more Occupy Flash Mobs!

skinny — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:45:30 -0700

(and more, and more creative messages)

The Roots Dis Michelle Bachmann

MundusVultDecipi — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:52:10 -0700

***Disclaimer*** I am not sexist. I have strong opinions about those who wish to alter my future.

Props to the roots for the ballsy intro song! I was belting out the absent lyrics when she enters: "You're nothing but a little lying ass bitch, you know she says she loves you but you know she doesn't!"

After her graceful intro Michelle Bachmann practices her 'I don't know nothing.' speech in case she becomes President in an alternate universe.

Source: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/44705-watch-the-roots-play-lyin-ass-bitch-for-michele-bachmann-on-fallon/

Can you handle the Truth?

politicalboondock — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:32:39 -0700

The "Occupy Movement" Exposed.

http://youtu.be/fCrC6GL7430

"Politics" Exposed.

http://killuminati.isgreat.org/zion.html

Human Revolution.

http://youtu.be/SJRKZCV3D2s

Message From Anonymous.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=CCEA19A4F7D352AB

"those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - john f. kennedy

10 myths about OWS

gavemehope — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:54:40 -0600

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/occupy-wall-street-media_b_1019707.html
Nice article, nicely done

The Holidays are for Family and people, Save your money boycott Consumerism

radsupporter — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:04:10 -0700

What has thanksgiving become? The Holiday to make sure the economy goes into the Black for the 1%. Everything is tainted with consumerism, people become nothing more than an atm, a stat a credit card victim, a consumer as defined by the corporate powers is not a person though a person consumes. To call a person a consumer simplifies and denotes them as a means to an end. That is Fascism in corporate greed. There are still efforts by major media to portray the people in the occupy movement as anarchist and socialist, they are some and they are brave and heroes for us all and entitled to their beliefs, but we all are under the banner of democracy. We Are Democratic. I have an opinion and others have an opinion. My opinion is that instead of enriching the 1% this Friday the 25th on a gimmick day that in no ways provides any benefit to the buyer or the people as a whole, i.e. a benefit would be an service station selling gas at cost for the holidays, a benefit to the people in savings. A deal is where something is really at cost or just above cost. But the corporate sponsored retail day called "Black Friday" is for the owners and the 1% not the people there really are no deals, and the profit above cost is in the 100% range, that is the marketing gimmick, bait and switch, promise savings and rake it all in to the loss of the buyer, it is a day of consumerism infamey that betrays the entire concept of a thanksgiving holiday that would be better spent enriching your friends, family and neighbors with joy, kindness, and feasting than running around all day burning gas, waiting in lines and making credit card companies rich through the interest they will charge and being in crowds for a lie, wait the deals will come as Christmas gets near and the prices actually do go down. Boycott and disrupt Black Friday we are not consumers to be fleeced taken advantage of we are the people of democracy who will not be robbed of our rare holidays by corporate greed. Love your families, spend time hiking biking, walking, talking face to face, enough of having the holidays become nothing more than an offensive display of corporate greed and consuming waste.

Be Peaceful but Occupy

Radsupporter.

The Revolution Business - World

MundusVultDecipi — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:00:10 -0700

What are your thoughts on this?
Source: http://youtu.be/lpXbA6yZY-8

Welcome to Democracy

Doc4the99 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:49:05 -0700

US vet soldier (combat vet recent) beaten by Oakland PD (another one). Is this the country we want to live in? Shameful:
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/another_vet_struck_down_by_police_in_oakland_20111121/

Good News?

Doc4the99 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:07:30 -0700

LA gets building?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/la-offers-occupy-protesters-office-space-farm-to-close-camp.html

Three Very Intense Documentaries

MundusVultDecipi — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:06:36 -0700

I only watched the Toronto G20 one.
http://underoccupation.com/

We need more celebs and bands involved.

gavemehope — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:59:16 -0600

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/10/31/john-rzeznik-talking-get-money-out-on-tour/

Here is something I think everyone might be able to get behind. Thank God some people that are not suffering cares enough to stand for something. I wish more famous people, and bands would get involved. It is an immeasurable help. I think this issue is the first step to get anything accomplished, so do the Goo goo dolls. I will let them explain why. This is really cool we need some of this.

Tea Party Members Meet With Occupy Memphis, Praise Efforts Of Protesters

SaferHealthcare — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:58:20 -0700

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/tea-party-occupy-protests_n_1101129.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Tea Party Members Meet With Occupy Memphis, Praise Efforts Of Protesters

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Occupy Memphis member Mallory Pope had just finished telling a group of about 75 tea party followers Thursday night that politicians should not allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists and unions when she received an unexpected invitation.

"It sounds to me that y'all ought to be joining us," said Jerry Rains, a 64-year-old computer programmer and tea party member. "You have a lot of the same goals we have, which is to take our country back."

Pope and fellow Occupy Memphis protester Tristan Tran had a lively, sometimes strained and confrontational, but mostly civil discussion with members of the Mid-South Tea Party at a municipal meeting hall outside Memphis.

The factions saw eye-to-eye on some issues and clashed on others. And, while the young speakers didn't change many minds, they did earn praise from the tea party members for their passion, honesty and courage.

The 21-year-old University of Memphis students had been invited by the tea party group to talk about the goals of the Occupy movement. The invitation was extended after a discussion between members of both groups on the tea party's website, meeting organizer Jim Tomasik said.

Occupy Memphis set up camp last month at Civic Center Plaza in downtown Memphis, within view of City Hall and federal and county government buildings. Their numbers have ranged from a dozen protesters to 100 or more, depending on the time of day. They have had no clashes with police and city officials have said they will not evict the protesters as long as they remain peaceful.

Tea party members said before the meeting that they didn't know what to expect, and that most of what they know about the Occupy Wall Street movement and its offshoots were from confrontations with police in New York and Oakland, Calif. Some said they were confused about the purpose of the Occupy movement because it has no leader and no consistent list of goals promoted by every Occupy group.

Almost every chair in the white-walled meeting room was taken. Pope's speech and a question-and-answer period were supposed to last about a half-hour – they went for nearly two hours.

Pope gave a rundown of some of the goals of Occupy Memphis and some of her individual beliefs as well, including that Wall Street executives "gambled with our economy and housing market."

Both Pope and Tran stressed at times during the discussion that they were speaking for themselves and could not speculate on what other members think.

"The Occupy movement has remained adamant about not drafting a list of demands because terrorists make demands, and we're not terrorists," said Pope, a graphic design student. "We shouldn't have to demand a democratic process."

By the end, the Occupy Memphis members and their audience – made up mostly of whites over 40 years old – reached common ground on some issues, such as their perception that the government and politicians no longer listen to and serve the people they represent.

They also found some agreement in their stances against taxpayer-sponsored government bailouts and "crony capitalism," the idea that close ties between lobbyists, businesses, and other self-serving interests can influence government officials and the exercise of capitalism.

"We all want the same form of government, which is one that listens to its constituents," said Tran, a business and American history student who said he served in Iraq in 2009 and 2010 with the Army.

But some disagreements also emerged. Tea party members expressed frustration with big, intrusive government, while the Occupy Memphis speakers opposed what they perceive as the corporate world's manipulative influence on government policy. Some tea party members noted that each of their protests were one-day events and they cleaned up after themselves, while the Occupy movement calls for long-term encampment at sites officials say have become unsanitary.

Tea party members praised themselves for using the power of the vote to bring about the change they desired, and that the Occupy movement won't be successful until it does the same.

During the meeting, a tea party member showed a picture of pro-communist images at the Occupy Memphis movement, drawing shakes of the head and disapproving comments from audience members.

Tensions rose when a third member of the Occupy movement, Karen Seus, was told to sit down and stop speaking because only Tran and Pope were invited to address the meeting.

"Are you trying to divide us now?" Seus said loudly.

But the conflict blew over quickly, Seus was allowed to stand with the college students and she apologized for raising her voice.

Tran found himself on the defense at times, saying he does not approve of the illegal behavior seen at other Occupy sites and denounced the idea that most Occupy protesters are debt-ridden, unemployed troublemakers who don't vote.

"We do not condone violence. We do not condone destruction," Tran said.

Page Gregory, a retiree in his 60s, stood and praised Pope and Tran for having the passion and courage to stand before the tea party group and address its questions.

Then he said the Occupy groups should go home and work within their community to try to bring about change.

"Get people elected," Gregory said.

As the meeting closed, the Occupy Memphis members were inviting tea party members to join them at Civic Center Plaza, and everyone shared chocolate chip cookies.

Pete Dresser, 68 and retired, said the meeting confirmed what he believed about the Occupy movement.

"It's a ramshackle movement that is not organized, not focused and more emotional than purposeful," Dresser said.

Tran said the meeting was productive.

"The discussion and the exchange of ideas and the exchange of approaches, it's fundamental for American people to do that," Tran said. "It's progressive, it's constructive."