By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape. Seems a majority of Canadians – and most of the world – still do not share the media’s jaundiced view of the mostly young people
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Media’s anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape. Seems a majority of Canadians – and most of the world – do not share the media’s jaundiced view of the
Continue readingNancy Pelosi: Keystone XL oil was "always destined for overseas … it wasn’t for domestic consumption."
No surprise here. “If the Republicans cared so much about the Keystone pipeline, they would not have narrowed the president’s options by putting it on the time frame they did,” Pelosi said. “They left him very little choice…. This oil was always destined for overseas. It’s just a question of
Continue readingThings Are Good: Occupy 2012 and Beyond
Megan Boler has an inspirational article on The Mark about the coming year in the Occupy Movement. She did research into the Occupy Movement and interviewed many participants to see what some people are still wondering – what’s occupy all about? Well, Boler points out that at the core there
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Lanark County: Newest Canadian Occupy Movement to Hold First General Assembly
As the Occupy Ottawa website reported earlier, on Sunday, December 11, 2011, more than 100 people packed O’Reilly’s Pub in Perth to hear speakers from the Occupy Ottawa movement talk about their collective and personal …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: January 2012 protest actions by Occupy Ottawa and allies in Canada and the US
A protest on Parliament Hill to end Omnibus Crime Bill C-10. Ending violence against indigenous women. A teach-in for Crime Bill C-10. Occupy Toronto Activist Assembly. Martin Luther King Day of Action. Occupy Congress. These …Read More
Continue readingArmagedddon time for the American right. Gingrich is now a ‘Socialist’ and Perry is ‘like something out of Occupy Wall Street’.
Hey Newt, pass me that copy of Little Red Book. Sure Rick, how about we spark one up? As the US right does everything it can to destroy not only its own reputation but the economic and human health of its citizens (excepting of course the 1%), it keeps tainting
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Wall Street: The Movie
Soon, we’ll get better understanding of the passion underlining the Occupy Wall Street movement. Via the big screen. But not from Michael Moore or some other leftty big-shot Hollywood film-maker. From film-savvy activists on the …Read More
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
If an elephant has its foot on a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa: It is 2012 and this is why we are still here
In 2011, Occupy Ottawa, OWS and other Occupy movements challenged the mass injustice inflicted upon us by corporate forces in Canada and the world. We built a global movement for economic, social, political and environmental …Read More
Continue reading350 or bust: Deck The Jails With Wall Street Bankers: The 99% Choir Goes Christmas Caroling
This youtube gem came my way via MyFireDogLake.com, and I knew I had to share it. Here’s the 99% Choir, made up of members from The Backbone Campaign, Washington Community Action Network, Seattle Labor Chorus, and The Other 98%, singing their renditions of some familiar Christmas tunes in front of
Continue reading350 or bust: Spring is Radical, And It’s Just Begun
Here’s a Solstice message from Reverend Billy, from the Church of Earthalujah, from Zuccotti Square in New York City: What did I learn this year. We are the 99%. I learned that. So we’re not divided into separate causes anymore who pass like ships in the night – we are
Continue reading350 or bust: There’s Something Happening In the Air
Need some inspiration? Check out this video: A powerful group of images of the brave people throughout our lifetime (and before) who took the front lines to sow the seeds of social change with peaceful demonstrations and were forcefully dealt with by the preservers of the status quo.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Jack Layton, Canadian Newsmaker of the Year
It’s a fitting tribute to a fine Canadian and global citizen. In 2011, no other Canadian dominated the news headlines like the late NDP leader, Jack Layton. Editors and news directors participating a Canadian Press …Read More
Continue reading350 or bust: Planetize The Movement
Like many of you, my focus these days is on Christmas preparations – cooking, traveling, feasting, and spending time with friends and family. 350orbust will be getting less attention than usual for a while. But I have a collection of videos and photos that I’m going to share during the
Continue readingThings Are Good: Just Show Up
People often say to me “Why go to protests? They don’t change anything.” Usually my response relates to the necessity of an actively engaged population within a democracy. If we’re not on the streets asking for change then change won’t happen. The usually response to that is a lame excuse
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Continue readingArt Threat: Pepper spray cop serenaded by Shearer – Monday Music: Ballad of the Pepper Spray Cop
Pepper Spray Cop infiltrates Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Harry Shearer — yes, that Harry Shearer of Simpsons and Spinal Tap fame — has immortalized UC Davis’ infamous police officer in song. Entitled Ballad of the Pepper Spray Cop, the ditty debuted on Shearer’s
Continue readingOccupy Melbourne shows how to handle eviction with humour. And success.
Tent monsters! (It’s better with the sound off.) From the video’s comments: “It’s part of our policy not to be taken seriously because our opposition, whoever they may be – in all their manifest forms, don’t know how to handle humour, we’re humorists, we’re willing to be the worlds clowns…The
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Where Did the Fed Get $7.7 Trillion?
The Fed in the US as explained by Dennis Kucinich.
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