Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
At this hour, the Port of Oakland has been shut down by as many as 10,000 marchers, part of the General Strike called by Occupy Portland. The Port had been running at well under capacity all day, as many workers walked off the job in solidarity with the General Strike. But earlier this evening [...]
The pepper-spraying of passively resisting protesters at Occupy Tulsa is even more barbaric than we originally expected. No wonder Kieth Olberman says it’s the worst incident of police brutality so far. Police methodically pepper-sprayed five people at point-blank range directly in the face. They were not resisting, they were not shouting, they were not throwing [...]
By Susan Kramer (Cross-posted from our sister blog, CleanTechnica) The Obama administration had set a goal, for the public good, of cutting solar costs to $1 a watt installed by 2016. The reason that the Obama Department of Energy invested $535 million in backing some of the private VC loans (which totaled $1 billion) [...]
I guess the Tulsa, Oklahoma police haven’t gotten the memo yet on what is and is not appropriate behavior when confronting un-armed, peaceful protesters. At 2 am this morning, Tulsa police moved in and informed the 30 Occupy Tulsa demonstrators that they were in violation of curfew (apparently their copy of the first amendment says [...]
Once upon a time, the general strike was a powerful tool of the powerless. The question is, can it work in this day and age? Occupy Oakland has called for a general strike in response to the brutal police crackdown last week that sent veteran Scott Olson to the hospital in a coma (for background, [...]
The right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has been using its muscle to cut back on the power of the Federal Government. In particular, there are concerns that it made invalidate some of the broad authority the government has assumed over the years under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution. So it’s encouraging [...]
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