As I’m sure you know, city governments and police forces around the continent have been moving against Occupy camps, along with the accompanying unnecessary and expected police violence used against peaceful citizens. This overkill and intolerance will…
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Politics and its Discontents: The Occupy Movement and Christianity’s Core Message
Gene Robinson, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, addresses the relationship between the Occupy Movement and the central message of Christianity:Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cop Who Infiltrated Occupy Oakland Denounces Police Violence
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their “Birmingham moment.” It’s a rambling commentary but you can skip forward to 4:30….
Continue readingwmtc: some good occupy reading: moyers, hedges, rich
Three pieces worth reading:Frank Rich: The Class War Has Begun.Bill Moyers: How Wall Street Occupied America.Chris Hedges: A Master Class in Occupation.
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry citizens moved their bank accounts from corporate banks to local citizen…
Continue readingwmtc: "she is my family" and other revelations of humanity: s. brian willson in toronto
Guest post: Allan reports on “An Evening with S. Brian Willson”, a benefit for the War Resisters Support Campaign, Monday, November 7, 2011.(Willson speaking at a church in San Francisco, July 2011)Brian Willson’s life changed forever on one afternoon …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why the Occupy Movement Has Relevance in Canada
Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that provide a modicum of protection to the most vulnerable. They also argue for the superiority of our banking system, …
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: What Do Banks Actually DO? Teach-In With Occupy Toronto
What do banks actually DO? Create credit out of thin air. Were Canadian banks bailed-out? Absolutely, to the tune of $200 billion. And they are still protected and subsidized more than any other sector of the economy. What must be done with these banks? Tax them, control them, and ultimately take them back. Those are […]
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Social Media, Part II: The Value of Social Media
Like it or hate it, social media is now a potent force in society that is legitimately changing the way people interact with information, with news and politics, with each other, and ultimately with the world. In part one of this series, I considered …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sticks and Stones…
Emboldened and enraged by the demagogic politics that substitute for reasoned discussion in the United States, an unemployed man is shown misdirecting his anger at Democratic Massachusetts’ Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren in the following video. Calli…
Continue readingwmtc: nyc reflections part 1: occupy wall street
I was very happy to spend time at Occupy Wall Street this week. A while back I reported on a comrade’s observations; here are mine to add to the picture. I purposely didn’t bring a camera, so as not to be a tourist. I just talked to a lot of people and…
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-11-03 14:07:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 3As I’ve mentioned before, both here and on my Facebook page, the very fact that the movement has refused to set up a list of demands to the power elite is a source of strength not weakness. What the O…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Noam Chomsky Addresses The Occupation Movement
While some may wonder about the practical utility of the Occupy Movement and where it is headed, I believe that in its current form, its chief value lies in the raising of consciousness about the gross inequities that exist in the world today, and endi…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Occupy Canada movement remains unscathed following phoney attack by MACLEAN’S
The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as MACLEAN’S Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada. Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone living in th…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: CD conversation on the Occupy Movement
Saul Landau: Are we witnessing a new agency of social change? Is the
multitude in OWS the beginning of the replacement for the Working class and its party as the new actor to bring history to its next stage? Or am I dreaming?
Ken Kalturnyk: I think t…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Ballerina and the Bull
From a spontaneous outpouring of critical energy
and anger triggered by an enigmatic image in Vancouver’s
Adbusters magazine, the Occupy Wall Street
protest has grown over a period of several weeks into
something bordering on a movement.
It was s…
wmtc: guerrilla librianship meets the occupied wall street journal
From the Occupied Wall Street Journal #3:Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here, and all free. Barnes & Noble may be endangered and the Borders across the st…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Seattle Police and the OWS Movement
Many thanks to Roxy Katt for her post and link to a story and video showing Seattle Police arresting a woman for opening up an umbrella while on the ground in a park, a practice recently banned by the city. While watching the video, I initially had th…
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-10-28 21:54:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT (PART 2):The first part of this series was published over at my Facebook page a little while ago. Yet a movement such as the ‘Occupy’ protests deserves far more than one comment. There is little doubt that …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Peggy Nash announces candidacy for NDP leadership
Peggy Nash, the NDP incumbent for my riding of Parkdale-Highpark and the candidate I voted for, has just announced that she is running to be the next NDP leader. I wanted to share my thoughts on her announcement and recall some previous comments I have…
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