CIO HEROES!!
OCCUPY Wall Street!
OCCUPY Together!
OCCUPY ALL OVER THE WORLD!
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.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OCCUPY Wall Street!
OCCUPY Wall Street (Adbusters)
OCCUPY Together
OCCUPY SF
Category Archives: ECONOMY
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
Leave a comment
What Kind of Country …
This American Life March 2, 2012 All across the country right now, local and state governments are finding they can’t pay their bills. Schools are losing teachers, street lights are going dark, garbage is piling up in public parks, and … Continue reading
Dilemmas: Smaller Bonuses for the Rich 1% and Motel Room Homes for Those The Rich Have Screwed
COMPANION PIECE: How The Rich Are Living with Smaller Bonuses & How Those They’ve Screwed Over Are Barely Managing To Survive: Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal (1% Bonus Withdrawal) By Max Abelson Bloomberg Florida Homeless Students Increase (Barely Surviving) By Christine Armario Huffington … Continue reading
Working Poor: Almost Half Of U.S. Households Live One Crisis From The Bread Line
Don’t be fooled by the latest numbers released by the Labor Department reporting that unemployment has dropped to 8.3% due to a hiring surge … or the idea that the country’s problem is just a “crisis of confidence.” This is … Continue reading
Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (2 of 4)
This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend! For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading
ROLL OVER..
With the uncertainty of the future of the US Dollar – I’ve been considering the absolute withdrawl of any type of future financial “security” strategies. For those of you who do not have a 401K, IRA, IRA Roth, etc – … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, Future, Investment
Leave a comment
Frame Capitalism not the Earth
We in the west think that Darfur was torn apart due to ethnic conflict, while according to David Morse it was a resource war. He writes in an insightful article on Alternet, “The most sophisticated technologies deployed are, on the … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, Global Warming, GLOBALIZATION, OCCUPY WALL STREET
Tagged capitalism, corporate capitalism, Democracy Now, false solutions to climate change, global warming, John Vidal, occupy wall street, Pablo Salon, Slavoj Žižek, The Muppets
Leave a comment
We are all Occupiers | Arundhati Roy
People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire Arundhati Roy · 17/11/2011 ·Text re-posted from guardian.co.uk Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CIO Heroes, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, FASCISM, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, US Military expansioin, Wall Street
Tagged arms sales, Arundhati Roy, austerity, Bail Out, capitalism, DEMOCRACY, evictions, foreclosures, globalization, The American Way of Life, The Corporate State, WARS
Leave a comment
Massive police action cracks down on Occupy Oakland
Police Raid Occupy Oakland Camp, By MALIA WOLLAN; Re-posted from The New York Times, November 14, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment downtown on Monday morning, making arrests and flattening … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CENSORSHIP, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, FASCISM, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, HOMELAND SECURITY, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY OAKLAND!, POLICY, political, PROTESTS, RESOURCES, THE 99%
Tagged #occupyoakland, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, permanent underclass, sit/lie law, The Corporate State
Leave a comment
Rags to Riches: Who Should Really Care?
Not the 99 percent. We’ve let the cheerleaders for the richest among us get away with myths about mobility for much, much too long. By Sam Pizzigati Too Much Mobility, apologists for America’s grand fortunes love to argue, trumps inequality. … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT, GREED, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, INCOME INEQUALITY, POLICY, THE 99%
Leave a comment
#OWS: The brand leaders cannot afford to ignore
By Paul Mason, Nov 2, 2011, Re-posted from BBC News Cannes, France: I can sense very clearly here at Cannes that this is the moment “the masses” start shaping the policy response to the global financial crisis. Why? Because everybody … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, European Union, FASCISM, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, MEDIA, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY OAKLAND!, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, OCCUPY WALL STREET, POLICE BRUTALITY, political, postcolonialism, SOLUTIONS, TAX THE RICH, UNEMPLOYMENT, Wall Street
Tagged austerity, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, European Union, Greece, Paul Mason, permanent underclass, privatization, The Corporate State, underclass
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
Robert Reich at OccupySF, Police walk out on their own meeting after OSF arrives, OSF at Harvey Milk Plaza
Read the article by Andrew Dalton on SFist “Make so much of a ruckus – nonviolently – that Washington can’t help but pay attention.” Robert Reich to Occupy SF Robert Reich gives a speech to Occupy SF protesters at Justin … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, HOMELAND SECURITY, INCOME INEQUALITY, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY WALL STREET, Police, POLICE BRUTALITY, UNEMPLOYMENT
Tagged austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, permanent underclass, police, privatization, sit/lie law, The Corporate State
Leave a comment
HomoEconomics
“Predatory Lending? It wasn’t me!” Upload and quote from Global Justice Ecology Project: “When an angry crowd forecloses on Wall Street (or, in this case, Wells Fargo), they need some entertainment to keep them going. A queer crew of San … Continue reading
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, GREED, INCOME INEQUALITY, NEWS, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY WALL STREET, TAX THE RICH, UNEMPLOYMENT
Tagged queer San Francisco
1 Comment
Protesters disrupt Murdoch speech in SF
10.14.11 – Rebecca Bowe, SF Bay Guardian “I pledge allegiance to McDonalds!” In the Grand Ballroom of the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 14, News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch delivered a keynote address to a crowd that … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, POLICY
Tagged CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate money, Education, Jeb Bush, privatization, Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Uncut
Leave a comment
Naomi Klein calls out captialism at Foreclose Wall Street West in San Francisco
Foreclose Wall Street West foreclosed on Wells Fargo Bank yesterday in a march at 7 am in San Francisco’s financial district. Naomi Klein was there to speak to the crowd. And she got to the root of the problem: capitalism.