Occupy 2.0: The Great Turning
Building a movement to build a new reality By Michael Nagler April 5, 2012 http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/occupy-2.0-the-great-turning The spinning wheel, and the spinning wheel alone, will solve the problem of the deepening poverty of India….
Occupy Wall Street Protests ALEC In What Activists Call Largest Coordinated Occupy Event This Year
By Saki Knafo 03/01/2012 Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ In cities around the country today, hundreds of Occupy protestors gathered for what the movement described in a release as its “largest coordinated action this year.”…
Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring
by Rebecca Solnit Feb. 21, 2012 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/21-5 When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you…
Colombians Protest at FARC Executions, Call for Peace
Helen Murphy, Reuters, 12-6-2011 http://news.yahoo.com/colombians-protest-farc-executions-call-peace-182229366.html BOGOTA (Reuters) – Outraged by the execution of four captives by FARC rebels, tens of thousands of Colombians protested across the nation on Tuesday to demand an end…
Egyptian Unrest: Cairo Protests Continue Despite Military Concessions
Egypt unrest: Cairo protests continue despite military concessions BBC News, 22 November 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15848602 Lyse Doucet in Tahrir Square: “There has been a constant wail of ambulance sirens” Thousands of Egyptians have continued…
SaLuSa: The Need For Awakening is Greater Than Ever
SaLuSa via Mike Quinsey http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/November2011/salusa__21november2011.htm 21-November-2011 Once you have made up your mind where you are going, let no one divert you from your goal and know that you have been preparing for…
Turkey Threatens to Turn Lights Out on Syria, Literally
By Ivan Watson, CNN November 15, 2011 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/15/world/meast/syria-isolation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey threatened to cut off supplies of electricity to its neighbor Syria Tuesday, as the Damascus regime found itself under growing pressure from Arab, Turkish,…
Occupy Oakland: Strike Gains Big Labor Support
CBS News, November 2, 2011 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-20128840/occupy-oakland-strike-gains-big-labor-support/ (AP) OAKLAND, Calif. – A widely anticipated strike Wednesday by anti-Wall Street demonstrators in Oakland is expected to get a big boost from organized labor and established…
Albany Police Defy Order to Arrest Protesters
Under pressure to make arrests, police and troopers push back Governor’s office urged mayor to press police to make arrests at protest By BRENDAN J. LYONS Senior writer Monday, October 24, 2011 http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Under-pressure-to-make-arrests-police-and-2232934.php#ixzz1bkmhURKz…
Occupy Wall Street: The Battle for the Public Conscience
Whose Side Are You On: The Moral Clarity of Occupy Wall Street Robert L. Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future, Huffington Post, 10/7/11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/whose-side-are-you-on-the_b_1000157.html Once Occupy Wall Street demonstrations started to sweep across…
