The global Occupy Movement arrived in Canada nearly a month after the first Occupy Wall Street protest. But, the movement is a made-in-Canada thing. Pages: 1 2
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wmtc: top 10 ows signs (as chosen by a friend of wall street)
Top Ten OWS signs, courtesy of International Business Times.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Why Occupy Wall Street does NOT need the Democratic party
Some people are now calling for Obama and the Democratic Party to get behind (or is that take over or co-opt) the Occupy Wall Street movement; this at best a strategically unwise misdirection of energies, I would argue, and at worst, a dangerously naiv…
Continue readingwmtc: tomorrow: occupy toronto: all out against the corporate agenda
Join Occupy Toronto: All Out Against The Corporate AgendaJoin Occupy TO for a family friendly march to Nathan Phillips Square.* Meet: 2:00 p.m. at the Occupation site (St James Park, Adelaide & Jarvis)* Rally: 2:45 p.m. at Nathan Phillips Square (City …
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa to Join Air Canada Flight Attendants Rally on Parliament Hill
The General Assembly (GA) of Occupy Ottawa last night resolved to join Air Canada flight attendants’ rally on Parliament Hill at 12:00 noon on Friday, Friday, October 21, 2011. Occupy Ottawa is encouraging all in the movement to come out and “…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base of support. What is needed now, I believe, is to further clarify and…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa to protest Canadian International Council foreign policy event on Canada-US integration
From Occupy Ottawa, unedited: Friends, We’re pleased to inform you that Occupy Ottawa will hold a protest march and rally outside the Sheraton Hotel (O’connor and Albert) on Wednesday October 19th. We will be protesting a foreign policy event on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Climenhaga responds to the Cons’ union-bashing in the guise of accountability by pointing out who actually exerts disproportionate influence under a cloak of secrecy:(M)aybe the bright light of a freshly c…
Continue readingwmtc: occupy movement: some answers to cynics and detractors
While at work this past weekend, I spent some time reading comments and posts written by people who dislike the Occupy movement. Most of these comments were angry, or cynical, or dismissive. I thought I’d address a few of them here.Laziness. Supposedly…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford rightly says that it’s long past time for the Occupy movement to refocus our economy in the wake of a free-market-induced crash and stagnation:In the 1930s, the last time capitalism failed so dest…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government – but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren’t looking for finger-pointing. They’re not looking to shi…
Continue readingwmtc: occupy wall street protesters not evicted from zuccotti park
The flood of calls and emails, and a steady stream of supporters joining the protesters in Zuccotti Park early this morning, caused New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to re-think his plan to “clean” Zuccotti Park. Civil disobedience was planned for …
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: RIP Frank Kameny, May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011
Frank Kameny was sacked from his American government job as an astronomer in 1957 for being gay. He protested his firing and argued the case to the United States Supreme Court in 1961. Although the court denied his petition, Kameny’s case was the first…
Continue readingwmtc: urgent: nyc to move on occupy wall street: call and voice your outrage right now!
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced plans to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Please pick up the phone! Call the Mayor’s office, call Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park. Tell them wh…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On concealed agendas
Just because the Cons have no credibility in decrying popular protest as a means of political change doesn’t mean they won’t do their best to undermine activism now that they have full control over the levers of power. And they’re going out of their wa…
Continue readingwmtc: occupy wall street: the most important thing in the world right now
In case you missed any of these, here’s some great stuff on the Occupy Wall Street movement.Naomi Klein: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now: If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. When people a…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Murray Dobbin comments on the role that the Occupy protest movement can play in countering corporate power that’s faced far too little opposition for far too long:Why now? Perhaps it is the international dime…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leading by example
David Atkins points out how the Tea Party (however contrived and astroturfed) may have contributed to the rise of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement by legitimizing protest as a means of political change. And it’s worth highlighting that Canada…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out what a “Buffett tax” could do for Canada:Put Larry and his 99 fellow CEOs together, and they could put almost a 10% down payment on a national program to bring dental care to school k…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies: Canadian “Democracy” and (not) You!
So, Ontario, Canada’s most unbearably self-righteous Province, just concluded another one of those spiffy “election” things everyone is getting so worked up over these days. As of this writing, it’s still not entirely clear just how low the voter turnout was but it seems to be definitely below 50%—the lowest in Provincial history. The McGuinty Liberals […]
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