January 2012
1 post
Get arrested while occupying.. your home? →
All of these people are 1 off hand decision that they are terrorists away from being indefinitely detained. Gotta love america. home of the brave, land of the free(most of the time)
December 2011
6 posts
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Time for the ADD Meds. Time to focus. →
Both groups should adopt this issue. The Occupiers need not agree on anything else, because frankly nothing else matters, and a bit more focus on the root of our problems for the Tea Party certainly wouldn’t hurt them either.
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American Deceptionalism. →
“…Even then, it took another 30 years for us to add universal health care, but only for senior citizens. The results of creating Medicare were dramatic: Within a decade, American seniors went from being the age-group with the highest poverty rate to the lowest. But that was nearly 50 years ago, 130 years after Germany established its universal healthcare system. Since then,...
November 2011
26 posts
The truth about the crackdown on Occupy →
“Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people? After all, protesters against the war in Iraq, Tea Party rallies and others have all proceeded without this coordinated crackdown. Is it really the camping? As I write, two hundred young people, with sleeping bags, suitcases and even folding chairs, are still camping out all night and day...
Members of Occupy Portland move into foreclosed... →
Police Response to Occupy Wall Street is Absurd →
FORBES
“By and large, Occupy has been a peaceful affair. Certainly pepper-spraying protesters while they sit calmly in a row like this is a gross abuse of power. It should have our collective blood boiling, whether or not we even agree with the protesters themselves. What was meant to be a protest against economic equality quickly morphs into a protest against the police state.”
The U.S. is like Fiji water. We have one major export and the government does everything it can to make sure the citizens don’t have access to it.
Watch
Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine... →
“CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans...
Occupy All Streets: NYPD cop pushes New York... →
occupyallstreets:
New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith:
I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on,…
Managed democracy →
Sound familiar?
hey homeland security, what are you up to? Oh... →
“Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and...
Audit of the Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trillion... →
How much was that debt the country has again? Why can’t we have roads or health care?
UGH →
I don’t get it. A judge said they could re-occupy this morning. Why is this happening?
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What will happen in Oakland? →
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How much force is excessive when there are NO... →
As much as you want, it would seem.
Take your money and move it from the banks. Take... →
TAKE ACTION!
MB “Good afternoon officers. Are you here for me?” Off1: “Why, what did you do? [hehe, trick question]” MB: “Nothing, officers. I’m politely and calmly handing out flyers and talking to people. I’m not blocking the sidewalk or causing any disturbance.” Off1: “Well, let’s see what’s going on, wait here.” ...
I was on strike in Oakland
I’ll be saying a lot about it later
Hopw to occupy PDF →
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Toughing out the Chill →
Thanks Occupiers!
11 simple ways to support the occupy movement... →
This list includes actions large and small that just about anyone, anywhere, can do to support the movement.
October 2011
129 posts
Occupy San Francisco: the teenager who was refused... →
“The decision was absolutely influenced by some corporation or some bank saying, ‘we can’t afford her. She’s not worth our money.’ In end terms, corporate greed is going to cost me my life.
“I used to be really upset about it. I’m not as much any more. I’m angry…”
How the 99 Percent Really Lost Out →
“Early in the American republic, Thomas Paine urged that everything “beyond what a man’s own hands produce” was a gift that came to him simply by living in society, and, hence, “he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.” Another American reformer, Henry...
Strengthen our democracy by publicly financing all... →
Petition your gov’t
More succinct than I could say it →
A corporation does not need the success of any nation. As nations fail, the corporations win more freedoms and can literally buy more of the world.
Watchyou should be mayor no more
Good job SF :) →
“…
We’ll have a full reports later today. Occupy Oakland protesters showed up outside a cordoned-off Frank Ogawa Plaza to figure out how to respond to the previous day’s aggressive police raid, which made national news and left Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen in the hospital with a fractured skull after apparently being hit by a tear gas canister or some other projectile fired...
Uh oh Oakland →
How are you going to deal with the marines?
The revolution won't be televised, or shared... →
“…Google has been asked by a US law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from the video sharing service YouTube, the company has revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report.
Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. The two requests were among 92...
Oakland PD, why are you trying to kill our vets? →
“…Olsen, 24, was in 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, before leaving the military last year. He had been opposed to the Iraq war even before his first tour to the country, Shannon said. Shannon and Olsen met in November or December 2005, and share an apartment in Daly City, south of San Francisco.
“It’s really hard,” Shannon said. “I really wish I had gone out with...
Oakland PD says it didn't use rubber bullets... So... →
And where did the rubber bullet casings come from?
Protect the Right to Peacefully Assemble in San... →