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“Occupation,” then and now

It’s not incidental that the Occupy movement has transformed the meaning of “occupation” from racist military genocidal take-over by military minions of the 1% to a recognition that we and the military are all part of the 99%, and that when we occupy ourselves, we transform the world. This youtube video from January 2010 has […]

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“Rolling sympathy” engulfs us, re-igniting the spiritual heart of humanity

Thanks to Occupy — and before that, to all the indignados and disappeareds in South and Central America, the Mideast, Europe, including our own Bradley Manning, still imprisoned, still untried— we are moving like a great rolling tsunami into action on many levels and fronts, to occupy all the systems and pockets of unfairness that […]

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Thom Hartmann: on the transformational power of iconic images of non-violence

One day our children will look back on these days and say, as we say when watching the old newsreels of Birmingham, ‘What the hell were those police thinking? And how much longer can this society continue in such a badly broken fashion before things change?’ “Things will change. And we can thank those young […]

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Robert Reich: We need to occupy our democracy

Two minutes, sixteen seconds of easy to absorb truth to present to all those who still haven’t crossed the line to recognize that they too, are among the 99%. Thanks to moveon.org and fb friends. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ltxMtS1Frpk]        

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Wrestling with Naomi Wolf and commentator: “Yes. Yes. Yes.” and “No. No. No.”

Woke up at 2 AM (not unusual), checked email on my iphone (a bad habit), and noticed this comment in my inbox, referring to the Naomi Wolf post I had put up just before going to bed: No, no, no. Wolf’s perspective and her conclusion that we’re in the beginning stages of a new civil […]

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