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OCCUPY Wall Street!
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Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% who will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
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Category Archives: CONSUMERISM
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy Re-posted from Outlook India Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare…. How long can the cardinals of corporate gospel buy up our protests? Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or … Continue reading
Posted in art, AUSTERITY, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, CONSUMERISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT, imperialism, OCCUPY!, Women's Rights
Tagged Arundhati Roy, austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, corporate money, health, India, permanent underclass, privatization
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Keep Wall Street Occupied
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, BILLION, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EDUCATION
Tagged #occupySF, BANKS, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, occupy wall street
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Occupy first. Demands come later
by Slavoj Žižek · 26/10/2011 · guardian.co.uk The problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The reason protesters went out is that they had enough of the world where recycling … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, EMPIRE, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBALIZATION, HOMELAND SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, INCOME INEQUALITY, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, OCCUPY WALL STREET, POLICY, postcolonialism, PROTESTS, TAX THE RICH, Uncategorized, UNEMPLOYMENT
Tagged "another world is possible", austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, privatization, Slavoj Žižek, The Corporate State
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SCREENING of LIVING WITHOUT MONEY at ATA
JOIN CIO at ATA for an afternoon of documentary film and dialogue. WHEN: Sunday September 25 at 2pm WHERE: Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 WHAT: “LIVING WITHOUT MONEY” (52 minutes, directed by Line … Continue reading
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CIO Heroes, CONSUMERISM, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, EVENT, SOLUTIONS, the RIGHT WINDOW
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CIO HEROES!!
Coming out of the summer haitus – and having slight issues with the WP 3.2 update (not WPs fault..) – we’re back with a whole new section dedicated to folks (groups and individuals alike) who are CIO’s HEROES. CIO … Continue reading
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CIO Heroes, CONSUMERISM, RESOURCES, SOLUTIONS
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Obesity as lifestyle choice
Al Jazeera
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, FOOD, GREED, Health
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A Palatable World: Three ways the way we eat can save the planet
By Benjamin Pauker Foreign Policy “On a personal level,” says Bittman, “people can move away from junk and processed foods and animal-central products. Even eating 10 percent less of these things could make an enormous change.” Mark Bittman: Why We … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, FOOD, POLICY, SOLUTIONS
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McDonald’s Solicited by City Hall for Dolores Park San Francisco
By Kevin Montgomery Uptown Almanac A slew of information obtained through the Sunshine Ordinance revealed that the SF Department of Recreation and Parks both neglected local businesses and put little thought into the commercialization of city parks. As you may … Continue reading
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Capitalism’s Dismal Future
Capitalism’s Dismal Future, by Paul Mattick, The Chronicle Review, March 13, 2011 A homeless man named Roger panhandles in New York City, Spencer Platt, Getty Images Apart from the patently nonreality-based dissent of its Republican … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, GREED, INTERNATIONAL, POLICY, RESOURCES, SOLUTIONS
Tagged "another world is possible", austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, global warming
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Worst Company In America
Here is this year’s lineup for The Consumerist’s WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA:
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM
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Must See: Inside Job
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, POLICY
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The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?
By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” - Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBALIZATION, Health
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The Invention of Money
THIS AMERICAN LIFE Five reporters stumbled on what seems like a basic question: What is money? The unsettling answer they found: Money is fiction. In other words: MONEY IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT
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The Limits of Consumption
By John McKnight and Peter Block HUFFINGTON POST The essential promise of a consumer society is that virtually all satisfaction can be purchased. This promise runs so deep in us that we’ve come to take our identity from our capacity … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, RESOURCES
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