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Countdown: 226 days until National General Assembly, July 4, 2012, Philadelphia

Check out the99%declaration.com.       WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and topetition the […]

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Has human violence just reached a turning point?

Occupiers all over the world have been setting a moral example of non-violence. Yet the UC Davis pepper-spray drama stands out as more than usually iconic in that it clearly distinguishes between the passively sitting occupiers, the insouciant cop who sprays them for sport, and the encirclement of both by stunned, alert witnesses intoning, as […]

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on “Black Friday”: Occupy the Malls!

  If you’re like me, you never did pay much attention to the fact that a long time ago media and advertising conspired to condition the sheeple to think that they must shop until they drop for (gigantic and/or expensive) Christmas presents at corporate stores on “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, for those who […]

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More from Story of Stuff: Citizens United v. FEC

Another wonderfully clear, informative Annie Leonard animation for all ages that includes roots of how corporations used to work: with a temporary mandate to tackle a specific project, and then disband when that project was done. “It’s easy to angry. It’s time to get smart. Let’s get together and take back democracy from corporations. Imagine […]

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Dr. Amit Goswami: occupy quantum activism

I just ordered the film The Quantum Activist from netflix. Thanks to ecologyofeverything for the pointer. Goswami: “Objects are possibilities for consciousness to choose from . . . My question for you . . .so what are you doing about it? . . . We change our society by changing ourselves.” Occupy ourselves. Fully. Which […]

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Professor poet collides with foot soldiers of the 1%

If shoving retired New York Supreme Court Justice Karen Smith up against a wall in NYC doesn’t do it, perhaps beating a former U.S. Poet Laureate and his wife will get the attention of those who haven’t yet identified with scruffy, determinedly non-violent youngsters or out-of-work union guys, or Veterans for Peace, or scrappy old […]

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