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Occupy Activists Help People Keep Their Homes
via Think Progress:
An hour after Occupy DC protesters organized a rally outside Freddie Mac’s offices in downtown Washington, DC on behalf of a Maryland resident facing eviction, the mortgage giant announced that it had developed plan to keep her in her home.
Occupy protesters across the country have been trying to find a purpose after being evicted from encampments in public parks, and a...
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Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to... →
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Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Misdirect Is... →
via truthdig:
In the first five months, the Occupy movement has had major victories and has altered the debate about the economy. People in the power structure and who hold different political views are pushing back with a traditional tool—infiltration. Across the country, Occupies are struggling with disruption and division, attacks on key people, escalation of tactics to include property...
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Activism Helped Iceland Recover from Economic...
Icelandic protests in the aftermath of their financial crisis resulted in accountability for banks, debt forgiveness for homeowners, and a stronger economy for the entire country.
via Bloomberg:
Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger.
Since the end...
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“I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius...”
– John Taylor Gatto
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Bradley Manning formally charged with "aiding the...
Bradley Manning has been formally charged with “aiding the enemy” and faces life in prison if he is convicted.
via ABC News:
Pfc. Manning is accused of providing online publisher WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified military action reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 260,000 classified State Department cables when he served as an Army intelligence...
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New legislation mandates FAA must allow more...
via Ars Technica: President Obama last week signed the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012. Tucked inside the legislation is a provision that could have far-reaching implications in the coming decade: widespread civilian use of unmanned aerial drones.
According to the New York Times, the new legislation mandates that the FAA begin allowing the use of small...
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy
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U.S. Judge Rules Defense of Marriage Act... →
reuters:
A U.S. judge ruled unconstitutional part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying that a plaintiff court employee’s same sex spouse should be allowed to enroll in her government health insurance program.
Read more of this report filed by Dan Levine
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Religion And Politics Don't Mix, Major Religious... →
On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Interfaith Alliance released a “statement of principles” on religion in political campaigns that calls on candidates vying for office to feel comfortable explaining their religious conviction to voters but also warn that “there is a point when an emphasis on religion becomes inappropriate and...
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“The temper has changed. And people on the streets did it. Occupy Wall Street...”
– Bruce Springsteen
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“If society is a contract, it is not a contract between the living only, but a...”
– Roger Scrutony (via azspot)
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Palestinian activist Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike following his arrest by Israeli forces on December 17, 2011. He has gone 66 days without food to protest Israel’s use of administrative detention, wherein prisoners are held indefinitely without charge or trial. Khader Adnan is one of 309 Palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in administrative detention by Israel,...
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Occupy Austin Joins Diverse Alliance seeking... →
occupyaustin:
AUSTIN, TX, Feb. 13th, 2012 – Two weeks ago, a grassroots alliance of consumers, food manufacturers, politicians, public health and environmental organizations delivered a letter to the Austin City Council asking for swift passage of a resolution requiring labeling for genetically engineered foods within the Austin city limits. The resolution would require foods which contain more...
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Occupy Our Homes Saves Former Civil Rights...
(Photo credit: Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean)
via Think Progress:
Helen Bailey, the 78 year-old former civil rights activist who was threatened with foreclosure by J.P Morgan Chase while the company trumpeted its efforts to uphold Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, will be able to remain in her home until she passes away after a successful campaign by Occupy Nashville:
“I feel like a...
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Anonymous Takes Down Greek Police, Prime Minister...
via Forbes:
Anonymous seems to be active in the growing unrest in Greece: the websites for the Prime Minister, the police and Parliament are both currently unavailable as the shadowy hacker organization weighs in against the government as the debt crisis grows worse and worse.
“TANGO DOWN” reads twitter posts for each website, military-speak for a downed hostile.
Athens is erupting in...
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
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“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, quoted in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”
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V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous | Alan...
via BBC News:
PREOCCUPATIONS
Without wishing to overstate my case, everything in the observable universe definitely has its origins in Northamptonshire, and the adoption of the V for Vendetta mask as a multipurpose icon by the emerging global protest movements is no exception.
Back at the crack of the 17th century, Rushton Triangular Lodge was a strange architectural folly constructed to...
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each...”
– Mother Teresa
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“Personally, I’m always nonviolent. But once that kind of repression manifests...”
– Chris Hedges