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Diversity of Tactics and the One Percent:
[T}he movement’s violence in Tahrir Square isn’t relevant to other movements that are still in stage three. In the U.K., the U.S. and so many other places, our task is to conduct confrontations in ways that maximize the contrast between our behavior and that of the opponent. Our creativity and courage need to show dramatically to the public why they should join us, as happened in Occupy Wall Street’s early confrontations and were largely responsible, through police violence, for its remarkable growth.
With All The Suffering in the World, Why Invest in Science?
Occupy vs eviction: radicals, reform, and dispossession:
A number of individual radicals are involved and providing important work within Occupy Homes. It’s possible that their role plus the experience of struggle will radicalize reformist elements within Occupy Homes and it will become more radical over all. It’s also possible that radical elements will organize within the emerging Occupy Homes network to push out reformists. It’s also possible that reformist elements will set the agenda and draw on the energy and militancy of radicals to accomplish reformist aims.
Analysing Obama’s Track Record
In completely unsurprising news, Hooter’s is a revolting place with advertising so disgusting and sexist that I hardly believe it’s real.
Ironically, I’ve also spent a lot of this past month researching the New Atheist ascendancy, which I detailed here and here. The more I looked at it the more dismal and bankrupt it seemed to be, and how it seemed less like some brave march to a (sterile) new future, but the lancing of a boil.
The more the public sees of these people the less they will like them and maybe one day the New Atheists will realize people don’t care for them because they spend most of their time attacking and insulting other people’s beliefs (Dawkins on how to talk to religious people: “Mock them, ridicule them in public.”).
What Do Chick-fil-A Boycotters and the Catholic Bishops Have in Common?
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act:
The AETA was passed in 2006, with just six members of Congress in the room, just hours after lawmakers and celebrities were on hand to break ground for the new memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The law is so vague and broad that the non-violent tactics of MLK could be prosecuted as “terrorism.”
Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.
Voting either Democrat or Republican is waste of vote – Interview with Scott Olsen:
Most likely people are either going to vote for Democrats or Republicans and I think both those are wrong choices. They are both working for the same system, they are both taking money from the same people, from the same banks and you can see in their policy that they are rewarding their donors. Voting for the continuing of this policy is not going to change anything at all.
Interview With the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Candidate for Organizer in Chief:
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spent Wednesday night in a Philadelphia jail after being arrested at an Occupy protest against Fannie Mae, something not entirely surprising for a politician that throws around words like “imperialism” and “economic violence” while celebrating “the battle that has already come to our streets.”
Today in labor and people’s history: “Rebel Girl” born:
Gurley Flynn gained fame as a fiery leader of the 1912 “Bread and Roses” Lawrence, Mass., textile strike. She was a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (the “Wobblies”) and the American Civil Liberties Union, and leader of the International Labor Defense, which defended Sacco and Vanzetti and the Scottsboro Youth. She joined the Communist Party in 1936, and was elected chairperson in 1961.
Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others:
10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.
Obama fights ban on indefinite detention of Americans:
Manhattan federal court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in May that the indefinite detention provisions signed into law late last year by US President Barack Obama failed to “pass constitutional muster” and ordered a temporary injunction to keep the military from locking up any person, American or other, over allegations of terrorist ties. On Monday, however, federal prosecutors representing President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta filed a claim with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of eliminating that ban.
Brother Ali hosts Occupy show in north Minneapolis
Last year, Monique White asked Occupy activists, who had set up in a plaza in downtown Minneapolis, to help her fight foreclosure of her north Minneapolis home.
“She decided in the midst of that fight to begin planting a garden,” said Occupy Homes MN member Jillia Pessenda. “Even when the bank was trying to take her home, she was planting roots and planting seeds of change.”
White was one of the first homeowners in the country to successfully renegotiate her mortgage with the help of Occupy activists. That victory helped spawn the Occupy Homes movement across the country, as Occupy activists shifted their focus from public plazas to foreclosed houses, Pessenda said.
Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty:
What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average workingman.
