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OWS, Police Brutality, and the War on Terror: An Empire State of Mind
OWS, Police Brutality, and the War on Terror: An Empire State of Mind
by Falguni Sheth———————————————-
“We are shocked by the police brutality of Dorli Rainey and the Occupy Davis protestors because they are guilty of nothing but loud political dissent. Why then should we not revisit our suspicions of the unproven assertions of the criminal tendencies of millions of men and women around the world and here in the US? We need to see through the aspersions that have been unceasingly cast by the United States government, the 1%, and their minions in order to justify their assaults, brutality, and murderous actions? It’s an Empire State of Mind, not only abroad but increasingly here at home. And the way to dismantle an Empire State of Mind is to revisit our assumptions about the targets of violence and brutality. If brutality can be leveled at American students wrongly, then we need to accept that it’s been meted out unfairly in the Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Terror, and Latino migrants, among others.”
The war Ronald Reagan started against the working class is a resounding success today
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Opportunities for Women – published the report and it finds that a single Michigan resident needs to make more than 12 bucks an hour just to house – clothe – and feed him or herself. The minimum wage in Michigan is well short of that marker – just $7.40. But when you throw children into the equation – the picture is even grimmer.
A mother with two children needs to make about $24 dollars an hour to meet their basic needs – that’s more than three times higher than minimum wage, and that’s working a 40-hour week. That means each and every month – someone who’s trying to raise their kids on minimum wage has to forego dinner – or rent – or electricity – or a new pair of shoes just to get by in America – the richest nation on the planet. I guess Republicans will argue they just need to get a credit card.
Looks like the war Ronald Reagan started against the working class 30 years ago is a resounding success today.
Submitted by Louise Hartmann from The Thom Hartmann Program Blog
Insane.
(via the-doomed-antagonist)
This guy nailed it.
I could write a novel on how frustrated I am with people who reduce OWS to nothing but a hippie rally for handouts. We all want the same thing, if we could only act like grown ups and think for ourselves, we might actually achieve it.
Nice.
(via politicsd00d)
Read and share please. The paradigm is shifting!!!! Be a part of it =)
“We protest not only at our exclusion from the American Dream; we protest at its bleakness. If it cannot include everyone on earth, every ecosystem and bioregion, every people and culture in its richness; if the wealth of one must be the debt of another; if it entails sweatshops and underclasses and fracking and all the rest of the ugliness our system has created, then we want none of it.
No one deserves to live in a world built upon the degradation of human beings, forests, waters, and the rest of our living planet. Speaking to our brethren on Wall Street, no one deserves to spend their lives playing with numbers while the world burns. Ultimately, we are protesting not only on behalf of the 99% left behind, but on behalf of the 1% as well. We have no enemies. We want everyone to wake up to the beauty of what we can create.”
Later -
“To those holding the reins of power, let us say, We will be your witnesses and your truthtellers. We will not allow you to live in a bubble. We will not go away. We will show you who you are hurting and how. We will make it awkward to do business, until your conscience cannot stand it any longer. We know, in the beginning, many of you will try to escape us; perhaps you will leave Wall Street for suburban corporate offices on private land where there is no “street” for us to hit. You might also retreat further into your ideologies of globalism and growth that deny the obvious. But nothing will stop us, because our tactics will constantly shift. In one way or another, we will speak the truth and we will speak it loudly. Where speaking the truth becomes illegal, we will break the law. We will not wait to be invited. We will enter, in some way, every physical and ideological fortress.”
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Hmm…. this actually is something of an interesting article…
I would like a more equal world for everyone to come out of these protests as well. As many people seem to want to ignore: a lot of the irresponsible(or just downright manipulated) economic policies, and corruption that come from them, create much of the devastation of our planet’s flora and fauna. (and that includes devastation to humanity)
Within the media, there’s a saying that you need a good publicist to get a story in the news, but a great publicist to keep it out of the news.
The coordinated nationwide police crackdowns against the protests - and the brutal methods used against civilians - has not merited substantial…
Democracy Now! talks to investigative reporter Greg Palast about a controversy in the banking community around the Occupy Wall Street movement. Palast investigates the story behind Goldman Sachs’ recent decision to pull out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union in New York City after it learned the event was honoring the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. The investment bank withdrew its name from the fundraiser and also canceled a $5,000 pledge. Was the $5,000 a Goldman Sachs donation or actually American taxpayer bail-out money Goldman set aside for community banks?
Occupy Wallstreet - clearly a successful initiative, if it has Goldman Sachs threatening People’s banks, and retracting money that by law has to be circulated to them.
Occupy Wallstreet - keep SHOUTing - this is only the beginning
(via citizensaci)
THE PERSON WHO RESPONDED IS AMAZING! The person who originally wrote about the 99% movement clearly had NO idea about what the hell it really was. Whoever responded came back spot on!
(Source: thiswaytosincity)
the people participating in the protests of OccupyWallStreet are not “demonic” “mobs” or young people who feel like they have some “entitlement” or “lazy hippie radicals”
These people are everyday people who have been laid off and looking for jobs for months, even a year in a job market that isn’t there. These are everyday people who have been working for years and years but have had their shifts and hours cut as well as their salaries cut. WHILE THE BIG CORPORATION FAT CATS ARE GETTING EVER INCREASING YEARLY BONUSES.
this video reveals how much the media lies to us about the truth of the matters at hand.
(Source: sshengatron)
Occupy Wallstreet Can Start A Major Change In the World
So I’ve been really focused on the Occupy Wallstreet movement lately. I think It’s the most important political movement of our times and the beginning of something important. So I just thought I’d share my views on the subject.
I want equality and a good world for all of humanity. I want everyone to wake up and really see the world around them, not just the smoke and mirrors. I’m tired of big companies owning government and pushing shady agendas that just cover up even more shady agendas and conspiracies.
We are not meant to live as cattle, slaves, or living experiments. We are not stupid as they would have us believe, and we are not so divided as they would have us believe either. No one with any compassion or understanding wants people dying in wars orchestrated by people who try to keep control of this world with fear. They profit off those wars while people die, then they ruin the lives of everyone else for good measure.
We don’t need our planet’s recourses drained and our planet brutalized by fascists. We can have a clean environment and better energy. Children don’t need to be in hospitals with ailments that shouldn’t even exist, we can fix all that. But the top doesn’t profit off it, so they wont let us fix anything. They want to keep us blind and make us stupid. Because that’s how they keep control.
(They own pharmaceuticals, energy, chemicals, and so much more that they claim is just what we need how we need it.)
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I keep seeing people ask things like, “Why occupy wallstreet, you think you’re doing something right?”
Well, that’s why I believe in it. I do believe we can do something. I believe we can stop the tyranny of the few and create something better for everyone.
I believe we do not have to live in a world where people can tell you who you are, what you want, or what you can and can’t have. Where they ridicule every independent idea or tear at the self respect of someone because they believe in something the media disagrees with. Where they take and hide technology that can do good while they poison our food and air and kill our planet.
Their behavior is sick, and it’s wrong, and it shouldn’t be allowed to persist.
I think that’s as good a reason as any to support the movement. At least, that’s how I see it. Everyone wants something. But in the end, we’re all people and we should all be connected in some way other than corporate greed and power.
I pretty much agree with this guy. He says so much of what I believe is right. How can a society function when the people who make it up can not be equal, free, and capable of bettering themselves?
I believe we could become one good society built on knowledge, compassion, and understanding. Not under a central control, but with everyone equal. We have that ability to come together and create for the good of ourselves and each other. We have the passion and motivation, just look around.
Regardless what the media or politicians would have people believe, we have so much in common and we are capable of great things.
I think when we all have and no one needs, then we can truly keep our society functioning, educated, and happy.
Just imagine what we can do, where we can go, and what we can learn. Always.
Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to “Occupy Together” Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square
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New York, NY — After…
