After a night of standoff, it looked like Portland Police had agreed to give the Occupiers a three-day extension before they had to leave. So people dropped their guard, and many who had been up all night left to get some sleep. There were only a couple of dozen people left… when the police moved […]
Here’s the rundown for the day, as we wait to see what will happen in Portland at midnight: Portland, OR | Albany, NY | Denver, CO | San Diego | San Francisco | St. Louis Portland, OR:Mayor Sam Adams had been an on-again, off-again friend to the Occupation, but he’s issued an ultimatum: Out of the park by midnight or face arrests. […]
Two weeks ago, we reported on an expose – outing Oakland Police who were attempting to infiltrate the Occupy Movement. Now, one of the cops who was exposed as an undercover agent has spoken out. He says the police brutality perpetrated by his own force may well be remembered as a turning point in changing […]
How did America, a society founded on equality, become so unequal? How did power shift from voters to corporations? Bill Moyers concludes his keynote address to Public Citizen by showing how it began: with the corporate backlash against the environmental movement in the 1970s. (Part 1 is here.) Comments Prepared for Delivery (video here) Public Citizen […]
(From the Oakland Tribune’s occupy liveblog) A man named Michael Haley is handing out free socks at the Occupy encampment, saying he is running Sockupy Oakland. Dry feet, he says, are the key to getting people to defy Quan’s request to leave. He has a website, www.sockupyoakland.org, where he is accepting donations to buy more socks. […]
Here we go again. The city has circulated what amounts to an eviction notice on Occupy Oakland, and is calling for the Occupiers to leave peacefully. The latest excuse is a shooting that happened near Frank Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. They say the occupation is no longer safe. Oddly enough, there was a stabbing outside […]
by Bill Moyers [The super-rich]were not content with their wealth just to buy more homes, more cars, more planes, more vacations and more gizmos than anyone else. They were determined to buy more democracy than anyone else. Comments Prepared for Delivery (video here) Public Citizen 40th Gala Washington, DC October 20, 2011 I am honored […]
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 […]
It’s Bank Transfer Day or Move Your Money Day, and all across America, people are reporting on the change they are making in their own lives as they drop their failed bank and switch to a local credit union. Apparently Bill O’Reilly, on FOX last night, claimed nobody was going to do this. Then he said Geraldo […]
Are we broke? Can we really not afford a clean environment, green jobs, and clean energy?
The truth is, we can’t afford NOT to do those things.
The folks who brought us The Story of Stuff, a cute animated film that asked whether we’re spending too much on random crap rather than leading meaningful lives, now revisits the concept, post-Great Recession: How do we make meaningful lives now that we can’t spend too much on random crap anymore?
November 5 has been designated Bank Transfer Day or Move Your Money day, the day to send the message to the too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks that they have failed us. But it looks like the tsunami has already begun. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) says that some 650,000 people have opened credit unions in […]