Video: UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to her car | #ows #occupy
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What @justinsb said re @goldsbie
Bear with me tweeps. My Mac’s in the shop. Doing this all on Blackberry, so I can’t Storify the relevant tweets, but someone should. (No names *cough* mcgrath *cough* )…
Audio: The United Church’s prayer vigil at Occupy Toronto
Further to last night’s post. Pretty hard to get decent video at night with an inexpensive camera, so I stripped out the audio. I’m not especially religious, but for whatever…
Video: Occupy Toronto, one month in | #OccupyTO #TOpoli #cdnpoli
A_few_scenes_from_Occupy_Toronto’s_one-month_anniversary.mov Watch on Posterous So it’s not that easy to get good visuals at night with an inexpensive camera. Who could have known? Either way, I wanted to get this…
@mtaibbi on How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the #OWS Protests | #Occupy #OccupyTO
This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness,…
The four-wheel fetish: moving beyond the car | #mobilityTO #moveTO
Back to the whole War on the Car thing. A recent post at All Fired Up suggests that driving cars essentially turns people into sociopaths. Perhaps I'm not giving the…
@Cityslikr, @NickKouvalis, and the need for civility in public discourse | #TOpoli #TeamFord
Ah, nuance. What a thing it is to contemplate. It's so bracing. Complication. Reflection. Complexity. It's what puts the real in real life. My friend @cityslikr, who on his worst…
Chris Hedges Arrested in Front of Goldman Sachs – via Truthdig | #OWS #classwarfare #uspoli
Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning during the People’s Hearing on Goldman Sachs, which he chaired with Dr. Cornel West. The activist…
Gay-friendly policy sparks death threats against Burnaby teacher | #homophobia #stupidity
via burnabynow.com Naming names: Homara Ahmad, Charter Lau, Helen Ward, Gordon World, and Long Xue were identified as opponents of Burnaby's anti-homophobic-bullying initiatives. Related posts: Video: Rick Mercer buries one…
@accozzaglia, I think I love you | #TOpoli
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A nice bit of anti-bankster agitprop | #OWS
moveyourmoney2.pdf Download this file Not sure at this point whether Papandreou's Eurozone referendum is a go or not, but I'll settle for this in the meantime. Well, look ... no…
BBC: Markets dive in reaction to unfortunate outbreak of democracy in Greece
US and European markets have fallen following Monday's announcement of a Greek referendum on the latest aid package to solve its debt crisis. Eurozone leaders agreed a 50% debt write-off…
The #Occupy movement and the U.S. party system: a prescription?
It is telling that our founders recognized the need for a semblance of democratic governance, if only to establish the legitimacy of the regime they established. This is why capitalists…
More on the #Occupy movement and the failure of current forms of politics, via @pogge411
Should we confine the expression of our opposition to the channels that are made available to us by the same media institutions that overwhelmingly support the Conservatives? And if so,…
Slavoj Zizek on why the traditional media and mechanisms of ‘democracy’ can’t figure out the #Occupy movement
Once you have reduced the Tahrir Square protests to a call for Western-style democracy, as Applebaum does, of course it becomes ridiculous to compare the Wall Street protests with the…
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters in Tax-Funded Center | #OccupyWallStreet | AlterNet
via alternet.org "Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of…
Leave him alone, you BASTARDS!
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Breaking the Barrier – YouTube
via youtube.com Via Bernie Hatefield Productions. Spotted by my partner Laura, who has more class, taste and savoir-faire in her pinky finger than I have in my entire body. I…
Internet Service Providers’ Claims of Expensive Bandwidth Costs are a Myth, Concludes Report | Stop the Cap!
via stopthecap.com Could someone tell me again just what the CRTC does? In my naivete, I thought they were there to stand up for us ... Permalink | Leave a…
Rob Ford accused of verbally attacking 911 dispatchers – Toronto – CBC News
Several police sources tell CBC News that Ford asked for police assistance but became agitated as he waited, and called back to ask when officers would arrive. Sources say Ford…