February 2012
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Workers Occupy Former Republic Window And Door... →
Once again, plant workers demanded a seat at the negotiating table. Around 8:30 p.m., the workers and their union representatives were in communication with the corporate offices in California. In a statement read in front of the building, Leah Fried, an organizer for UE Local 1110 said “Our only demand is that we be given a chance to save these jobs. What we want is time. We want time to...
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“Education should be community-oriented, and parents and teachers and students in...”
– http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/direct-action-in-action-occupy-piccolo/#disqus_thread
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Direct Action in Action - Occupy Piccolo →
Carroll’s words and the actions of the parents and their supporters, including members of Occupy Chicago, illustrate the exact reason why peaceful direct action is so necessary to reinvent our democratic system. The power imbalance in American politics has become so wide that signed petitions, marches in the streets, or even voting officials out of office can be completely ignored by the...
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Parents and Protesters Occupy Elementary School To... →
In a press conference outside Piccolo Elementary School in Chicago, where parents, students, teachers and activists staged a sit in and occupation over the weekend, Cecile Carroll said: “This engagement was satisfying, but it illustrated the community engagement process though, is flawed. It should not have to take drastic measures like an occupation for real engagement…parents and...
Tonight! Occupy Chicago 5 pm: Occupy 4 Prisoners... →
capriciousyetconstant:
This action is part of a national call—initiated by California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper. This demonstration is in solidarity with those behind prison walls, their loved ones, and formerly incarcerated people. Prisoners are part of the 99% and we stand together! We will meet up at 5pm at the Chicago Board of Trade to call out the racist system that puts profits over...
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Chicago Alderman Proposes Ordinance To Protect... →
Similar tactics have been employed not only in countries like Egypt during protests, but also in other parts of the United States. The Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Fransisco killed cell service in its tunnels to prevent protesters from attempting to shut down trains during a demonstration last year. While that was the first time in the United States such communication was shut down,...
The only thing potentially as great as the human capacity for love is the American propensity to find ways to turn it into a chance to guilt each other into proving how much we love by seeing who can buy the bigger bucket of candy hearts.
oldenough2burmom asked: Great blog. Glad I found you. I'm trying to network with other activists via tumblr. I'm with Occupy Philly. Solidarity!
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Chicago To Get New Riot and Surveillance Gear for... →
According to Fraternal Order of Police President Michael Shields, 3,000 new helmets might not be enough. Because the old helmets are thinner, weaker and liquid can seep through them, Shields would like all of the city’s 9,500 patrol officers to have new equipment. He told the Sun-Times “Rioters known to attend NATO and G-8 meetings have been known to throw bags of urine and bags of...
Forgottenness: Happy Valentine's Day →
forgottenness:
The male’s inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Being empty, he looks outward, not only for guidance and control, but for salvation and for the meaning of…
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Eyes In The Sky For NATO/G8 in Chicago →
A press release from a company called Vislink revealed that Chicago Fire and Police Department helicopters will be equipped with new airborne surveillance technology ahead of the summits in May:
The airborne units will transmit to four strategically located ground-based receiver sites providing city-wide coverage and the ability to simultaneously receive real-time images from two aircraft...
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If ideas are in fact, bulletproof - then the words used to express them and the means to project them are more powerful than any weapon or any entity wielding one.
“The false choices offered by spectacular abundance — choices based on the...”
– Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Big Banks STILL Gambling →
rockyanderson2012:
According to a report in today’s New York Times, the same banks which wreaked havoc on Wall Street in 2008 are gambling again. The big five have had more than eighty billion dollars of exposure in the most economically troubled European countries.
Justice Party Presidential candidate Rocky Anderson thinks this is too dangerous for America.
“It’s infuriating. After all the...
Greek debt implosion could trigger contagion →
solitaryforager:
Greece’s economy is small but the shock waves from a default on its debt could be amplified by links in the global financial system to hurt stocks, banks and entire economies far from the epicenter in Athens.
In Greece, banks could go bust, overwhelming the government’s ability to bail them out, and lenders in France, Germany and elsewhere in Europe could suffer serious...
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Radio Free Ruin #5 →
This week, I had the fortune of sharing some time on Radio Free Ruin (by the always amazing http://eventualghost.com/) to talk about Occupy Chicago and the upcoming NATO/G8 demonstrations happening in May in Chicago. It’s a great podcast, and I’m honored to have been a part of a show filled with so many amazing things.
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capricious yet constant, like the sea.: Chicago... →
capriciousyetconstant:
Chicago Principles
• Our solidarity will be based on respect for a political diversity within the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice. As individuals and groups, we may choose to engage in a diversity of tactics and plans of action but are committed to treating each other…
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Chicago Settles Class Action Suit Over 2003 Iraq... →
The settlement isn’t only a victory for the participants in the class action suit, it also affects future demonstrations. According to the People’s Law Office, the court opinion holds that the City cannot arrest peaceful demonstrators without warning, solely because they do not have a permit, and will apply to future demonstrations. Rachael Perrotta, a member of the class action suit and...
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Pulling Down The Pyramid
Through generation after generation of living in authoritarian structures, we have been bred to believe the only way to govern ourselves is through hierarchies or States. All systems look like the great pyramid, with a single person or small group at the top, who delineate small pieces of power to subordinates, who then delineate further until the common person merely exists to support the others...
January 2012
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Solidarity Forever
Solidarity is more than a simple word, concept or idea. It is a way of living, one which creates a bond between persons who may have differences, may live tens or thousands of miles apart, but share a unique value and vision for the world. Solidarity ties together the dispossessed and pours strength into the souls of the struggling. It creates a nexus stronger than any link in a chain, more...
“There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no...”
– Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat, Robert Anton Wilson
capricious yet constant, like the sea.: The... →
capriciousyetconstant:
Article by Natalie W
An unofficial count of 400 Occupy Oakland demonstrators were arrested Saturday, January 28, after being fired upon, beaten, kettled, and trapped by Oakland riot police. The Occupy Oakland social movement is rooted in the lower-income, ethnically diverse Bay area city…
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Journalists Under Fire in 2012 →
Reporters Without Boarders released its 10th annual Press Freedom Index, which found that while 2011 may have been Time Magazine’s “Year of the Protester,” it was also the year of government crackdowns on journalists. The opening of the report reads: “Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much. Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on ...
Lifestylism and ethical consumerism will solve all...
Not your parents' American Dream
thepeoplesrecord:
Source: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1201/american-dream/flash.html
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Could Chicago Use Cultural Events as a PR Shield... →
It looks like the city may believe that a youth soccer tournament and dining spectacle will either distract people or put a more positive spin on the negativity swirling around the summits. Given the ramped up rhetoric surrounding the demonstrations from both sides however, one can assume the city has found a PR shield in these new events. When the protests outside the summits affect the city’s...
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Obama's Campaign Kickoff →
While the President can trumpet bringing the troops home from Iraq, there are still thousands of American contractors fighting there. Opening 75 percent of offshore oil to drilling isn’t exactly the cleanest energy policy, even if the President says he won’t “back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago.” He can say he supports...
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“What’s always lost in the pomp and circumstance of politics are the...”
“No thought is given to the culture prevailing in the era of capitalism disguised...”
– Jose Carlos Mariategui (via punkrockquotes)
smallrevolution: Well we all know money is the...
cultureofresistance:
Money: the root of all fuckery.