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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…
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 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…
Scott 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.…
Scott 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.
Second 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,…
Second 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…
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…
Another 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…
Occupy 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…
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…
The 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.…
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.
Occupy Movement Continues To Grow, Highlight Corporate Corruption of Democracy
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Explains How Corporate Greed Is Ruining America: ****************
With 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…
Brigette 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…
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…
Support Occupy Wall Street Through Blog-Bombing
What is Blog-Bombing? The term is inspired by the concept of Tweet-Bombing, in which many Tweeters engage en masse in tweeting a particular message in order to fill the Tweetosphere…
You knew this was coming. Bomb thrown into Occupy encampment.
The right-wing media has been all abuzz from the beginning of the Occupy movement, provoking and reporting on any little incident to prove their case against the occupation. Despite the…