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Excited Delirium: London Ontario: Home of the Intolerant
London, Ontario becomes the first Canadian city to turf occupiers.
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Canadians Like the Occupy Movement
Even the right-leaning Canadian press can’t disagree that the Occupy Movement is a positive thing in and of itself. A new poll reveals that almost 60% of Canadians view the movement in a positive light, while some others tend to have problems because it is “leaderless”.
It’s great to see Canadians (who have not suffered […]
The Disaffected Lib: Bill Moyers on What America Used to Mean
Bill Moyers looks back to his roots to find the greatness that was his United States of America:Henry and Ruby Moyers were “common laboring people.” My father dropped out of the fourth grade and never returned to school because his family needed …
Continue readingThe resigned sadness of Occupy Vancouver. Ashlie Gough edition.
I walked through Occupy Vancouver late yesterday afternoon. There was a pallor over the place with television cameras smothering the usual exuberance even further.
As I was headed to happier places, I shrugged off the curious state of affairs only…
Continue readingScott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this. Cross Posted at Let Freedom Rain
Continue readingScott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.
Continue readingSecond Iraq war hero wounded by police at Occypy Oakland. Right wing cheers.
If anything in the last few decades has scared the right wing out of its comfort zone of pretend patriotism it is the Occupy movement. Not the first black president, not the wars, not the uprisings in the Mideast, the failing economy, the loss o…
Continue readingSecond Iraq war hero wounded by police at Occypy Oakland. Right wing cheers.
Kayvan Sabehgi: another funny-named vet no one will care about
If anything in the last few decades has scared the right wing out of its comfort zone of pretend patriotism it is the Occupy movement. Not the first black president, not the wars, no…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Noam Chomsky, Occupy = A Decent Future
Noam Chomsky delivered this year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture to Occupy Boston. He stressed that the Occupy movement may be our last, best hope for a decent future and that it’s vital the movement grow within the United States and around the wo…
Continue readingAnother reason for the right to hate the troops
First they booed one at a GOP debate. Then, they laughed at one whose brain was smashed in. Now, they are about to escalate the hate for the troops because veterans are joining the Occupy movement in greater and greater numbers.Expect our troops t…
Continue readingOccupy Montreal: a lesson in dealing with itinerants and homeless
As the Occupy movement rolls on, it must deal with those who come not so much to share in the communal building of a new form of alternative resistance to the ills of our financial and governmental system, but for shelter and food. Mixing in with deter…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Occupy This!
I’m a bit surprised that there are still some progressives who don’t “get” what the Occupy movement is truly about. Some think it’s just so much street theatre, a bunch of unambitious but greedy kids eager for attention.Bollocks!Quite predictably…
Continue readingThe real class warfare: law firm representing banks and mortgage servicers mock homeless at Halloween party
This is beyond sick. It may have been a 2010 party but one has to wonder what these folks are doing this year. So bank industry, so privileged, so American.
The media and economists wonder why Occupy is happening. It’s right in front your faces, assholes.
Between the crying billionaires, Erick Erickson’s “suck it . . . → Read More: The real class warfare: law firm representing banks and mortgage servicers mock homeless at Halloween party
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Egyptians Protest in Support of Occupy Oakland
First they got rid of Mubarak. Now Egyptians have returned to Tahrir Square to march on the US Embassy in support of Occupy Oakland. Here are a few photos.
Continue reading350 or bust: Occupy Movement Continues To Grow, Highlight Corporate Corruption of Democracy
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Explains How Corporate Greed Is Ruining America: ****************
Continue readingWith the American right, it’s not about the troops. It’s never been about the troops.
When a GOP debate audience booed a soldier in Iraq because they didn’t approve of the question he posed to the candidates, it was obvious then. Now that an Iraq vet has been so severely beaten by cops at Occupy Oakland he requires brain surgery, and th…
Continue readingBrigette DePape, iconic images, and Occupy
While establishment journalists muck around in muddy waders searching for a clue about the Occupy movement, condescending in their attitudes because they do not understand, I look back on perhaps a bit of the genesis of our Canadian versions of Occupy….
Continue reading350 or bust: The Occupy Movement: A Puny Little “Ant” That’s Messing With The Corporations’ Way Of Life
“You let one ant stand up to us, then they ALL might stand up to us. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life.” ****** Rabble.ca: Occupy Canada Weekly News
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