It’s late, but not too late for injustice. San Francisco police have shown up in force to shut down San Francisco’s Occupy Wall Street encampment.
So much for “San Francisco liberal values”.
Police shutting down Occupy Wall Street/ San Francisco
October 6, 2011 By 4 Comments
Cops get violent vs Occupy Wall Street
October 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
After a day in which 15 to 20,000 people marched peacefully in New York City, we are now entering a night in which police are cracking down, brutally, on the protest. As of 10 pm, there were reports on Twitter that the New York Police Department had barricaded the Occupy Wall Street headquarters in Zucatti park, were threatening arrests, and helicopters were hovering overheard.
Sarah Palin NOT running for President
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
After months of campaigning, fundraising, touring the country and shooting her mouth off, Tea Party darling Sarah Palin has finally made her decision. It’s all been a lot of fun, and very lucrative, but she will NOT be a candidate for President in 2012.
Obama admin approves Arctic drilling plan
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
Well, it’s been a good week for oil companies. After two years of delays, the Obama administration has approved oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
You’ll be relieved to know that there will be no environmental impact from the planned exploitation of 30 million acres of stormy, icy, dangerous waters off the coast of Alaska.
Despite Washington screw-ups, clean energy moves forward
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tea Party leaders like to paint clean energy and climate action as issues that matter only to elite Democrats living in coastal cities. This claim would come as a surprise to the 38,000 autoworkers building fuel efficient cars in Michigan, the 80 companies involved in the wind supply chain in Iowa, and the more than 100,000 Americans working in the solar industry across the nation.
GOP says US can’t compete with China on clean energy
October 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
Stearns says considering the $30 billion China has sunk into solar subsidies, it’s too late for us. He wants us to put money in areas the US has a chance of winning. Nice move – we’re in the second inning of the World Series of solar, and Stearns wants us to throw up our hands and walk away.
It’s the media that’s clueless, not the OWSers
October 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous professional observers complained that the Occupy Wall Street marchers “have no clear agenda” or “can’t articulate their positions.” What impertinent horseshit.
It is cosmically ironic, of course, that the same generation of Boomer-hippies that ran in the streets and marched through the maze of service roads around the Pentagon has become a new “establishment” more obtuse, feckless, greedy and mendacious than the one they battled with over 40 years ago. I guess they just don’t see that their time has come to get right with reality – or get shoved aside and trampled.
Occupy Wall Street’s first official release
October 1, 2011 By 7 Comments
This was unanimously voted on by all members of Occupy Wall Street last night, around 8pm, Sept 29. It is our first official document for release. We have three more underway, that will likely be released in the upcoming days: 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of Solidarity 3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group.
The Onion: Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What’s Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
October 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop a moment, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.
