Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
More than 2,000 writers have signed on to support Occupy Wall Street at the OccupyWriters website. Here is the contribution by Alice Walker, civil rights activist, poet, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple. “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” – Alice Walker the joyful [...]
Yesterday, we showed you a shocking video showing Oakland Police firing on videographer Scott Campbell as he filmed a police line during the Occupy Wall Street General Strike in Oakland. There was no provocation, no threat. He had even asked permission to be where he was. The San Jose Mercury news has been all over [...]
By Representative Brad Miller How do we grow the new green economy if our financiers aren’t interested in actually funding companies that make things? While the Chinese and Germans move into the 21st Century, our bankers are stuck in the 19th.) The grievance of the Occupy Wall Street Movement is not just growing income inequality, [...]
The Oakland Police still don’t get it. They are not winning any points for their side by unprovoked shootings against Occupy Wall Street, even if they’re rubber bullets. Rubber bullets which they’re not supposed to be using under their own rules of engagement. This happened Saturday night. Scott Campbell (YouTube user Antiprocon) is videoing a line [...]
One of the biggest complaints of the Occupy Wall Street Movement is that the 1 percent have rigged the game so that the rest of us have no hope of winning. By spending millions of dollars on lobbyists and campaign cash, they get billions and even trillions in benefits, which the rest of us have [...]
The Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada all the way to Texas, has hit a major roadblock. Politico broke the story: The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General will conduct an investigation into serious allegations that the Keystone approval process has been corrupted. As Politico notes, there have [...]
By James Howard Kunstler (Originally appeared at Clusterfuck Nation) Portents of winter and the toothless chatter of flag-draped traitors vies with a fog of lies spread by Koch Brother messenger boys, Reagan nostalgia hucksters, suck-ups in office, Murdoch empire servlings, Banker PR catamites, and Jesus terrorists to occupy the national mind-space with a narcotic Jell-O [...]
By Bill McKibben 350.0rg There are days along any journey that stick with you, and yesterday was one of them. Under perfect blue skies, more than 12,000 people from every corner of the United States descended on Washington DC; then, with great precision, they fanned out to create a human chain that completely surrounded the [...]
There was a 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma last night. Buildings shook, chimneys and towers collapsed, and there was other extensive property damage. It was the worst quake in Oklahoma history. The only question is: How long will authorities continue to deny that fracking is a problem? Last year, we reported on earthquakes in Cleburn, [...]
As many as ten thousand demonstrators gathered in Washington today, joining hands to encircle the White House in a human chain. They called on President Obama to live up to his campaign promises and NOT approve a pipeline to shunt some of the dirtiest oil in the world into America’s heartland. For months, it had [...]
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