A small, but tasteful, spread of activists gathered in Minneapolis, MN at The People’s Plaza on November 1st, 2014 to expose and march against corruption. The action kicked off with a rally that featured speakers who had spoken from several differing perspectives. The following is the written version of a
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URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Justice For Cecily McMillan!
NEARLY 150,000 PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF CECILY MCMILLAN. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? __________ Justice betrayed! Cecily McMillan is a young woman who was sexually assaulted and then falsely arrested by a NYC police officer! She is a committed social justice advocate with no prior criminal history, yet
We Are a Movement of Movements
By Rivera Sun – www.riverasun.com I feel like shaking everyone and saying, don’t you get it? We don’t need a Movement of Movements – we are a movement of movements. My friends, we have been trapped in old dominant paradigm thinking. We have been steeped in warmongering, hierarchical, competitive, control-based mindsets since birth. We think we are
Why We Occupy
By: Sam Wagner [Sam Wagner – Radical News Media and Photography] It makes me happy to see you are here reading this. If you made it to this website it demonstrates to me the many threads we all have in common. You’ll have to please excuse my tone throughout this
Why We Occupy
By: Sam Wagner [Sam Wagner – Radical News Media and Photography] It makes me happy to see you are here reading this. If you made it to this website it demonstrates to me the many threads we all have in common. You’ll have to please excuse my tone throughout this
#American #Truckers Determined to Shut Down #WashingtonDC for Three Days
Recent campaigning by Truckers to Shut Down America is revealing that truckers across the United States of America are determined to not only hold a general strike, but they are likewise dedicated to direct action. In a statement from their facebook page they state: “The American people are sick and
Occupy Anniversary Special: Highlights, Pitfalls and the Shifting of Public Consciousness
Abby Martin remarks on the tragic mass shooting that took place in Washington, DC, posing the question of how many more it will take to finally have a debate fueled by reality, not politics. Then second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, highlighting a recent Reuters poll showing that only 15
Supressing OWS: How the Police Use Arrests to Disrupt Peaceful Assemblies
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Occupy movement, two video activists, have released a 10 minute short film providing perhaps the most detailed civilian account to date of the NYPD’s process of crowd dispersion during mass mobilizations. The video, shot on September 17th, 2012, during Occupy Wall
Movements Without Leaders And Climate Change
Movements Without Leaders In recent months — and it’s the curse of an author that sometimes you change your mind after your book is in type — I’ve come to like the idea of capital L leaders less and less. It seems to me to miss the particular promise
Digging Us a Hole #NoKXL #RLBlockade #IdleNoMore
We are excited and humbled to be announcing the release of “Digging Us a Hole.” This song was born during the “Funeral For Our Future” action in March, where we sang it together with over 100 activists in the TransCanada lobby in Westborough, MA. 25 of us kept singing as
The Terrifying Future of The United States
If this doesn’t wake you up, I don’t know what will. Links to get you started on your research: NDAA 2013 passes with indefinite detention still intact http://rt.com/usa/news/ndaa-indefinit… The Patriot Act http://thepage.time.com/2011/02/15/ho… http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/… Obama extends Patriot Act: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05… Widespread abuse of patriot act: http://www.aclu.org/national-security… Obama tries to hide information regarding