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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: GLOBALIZATION
Gov. Scott Walker gets mic checked!
Posted in AUSTERITY, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, PROTESTS
Tagged austerity, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, government shutdown
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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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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
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Riot cops invade & brutalize OccupySF camp at Justin Herman Plaza
Last night at the Occupy SF camp. See #OccupySF for more details.
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITALISM, CENSORSHIP, COLONIALISM, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, INCOME INEQUALITY, NEWS, OCCUPY SF, POLICE BRUTALITY, POLICY, RESOURCES
Tagged #occupySF, austerity, capitalism, commons, DEMOCRACY, Justin Herman Plaza, permanent underclass, police brutality, privatization, riot cops, The Corporate State
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OECD Figures Indicate Economy’s Future Continues To Darken
More reasons to support the movement to OCCUPY! throughout the world: REUTERS (Vicky Buffery) – The outlook for the world’s major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Monday, which showed sharp … Continue reading
The Depression: If Only Things Were That Good
More reasons why OCCUPY WALL STREET! is so critical to the future success of the U.S. and the rest of the world: By David Leonhardt New York Times UNDERNEATH the misery of the Great Depression, the United States economy was quietly … Continue reading
Protests Surge Around Globe
By Nicholas Kulish The New York Times MADRID — Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece … Continue reading
Women Help Promote a Just Global Economy
Anasuya Sengupta Wednesday, September 14, 2011 SF GATE In the countryside of war-torn Mindanao in the southern Philippines, a group of indigenous female farmers have opened their own organic produce store. Even as they try to improve their own health … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMY, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBALIZATION, SOLUTIONS, Women's Rights
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Investors Fear Collapse Of Major European Bank
By Landon Thomas Jr. and Nelson D. Schwartz The New York Times Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Europeans certainly do. As Europe struggles to contain its government debt crisis, the greatest fear is that one of the Continent’s major … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, GLOBALIZATION, GREED, INTERNATIONAL
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U.S. Economy Tumbles Down Down Down … Global Ranking Of Competitive Economies
U.S. in Fifth Place: The World Economic Forum cited the U.S. for “a number of escalating weaknesses” including declining public faith in political leaders and corporate ethics. By John Heilprin HUFFINGTON POST GENEVA — The U.S. has tumbled further down … Continue reading
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Happy Labor Day! (If you’re a CEO): HOW LABOR IS GETTING SHAFTED BY CORPORATE AMERICA
By Josh Harkinson Mother Jones The red line is the share of the economy taken up by wages, salaries etc. The blue line is the share taken up by corporate profits. So the graph shows that corporations have bounced back … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY
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WORD!
U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GREED
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The Deficit is Not Default of Obama
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama, by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis, Thursday 21 July 2011 Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY, RESOURCES
Tagged austerity, capitalism, corporate capitalism, debt ceiling, Democratic Leadership, Eric Cantor, GOP, Greg Palast, Obama
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Workers Producing Clothing for Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s and Hanes Have Allegedly Been Routinely Beaten, Underpaid and Forced To Work Excessive Hours
One manager repeatedly raped female Sri Lankan workers, prompting a strike late last year … By Janell Ross HUFFINGTON POST A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GREED, INTERNATIONAL
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Petition against Gang of 6 debt ceiling bill which cuts Social Security and threatens Medicare and Medicaid: from Dennis Kucinich
The Raw Deal? by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 “A Big Deal.” That’s what the White House has been fighting for the past few weeks in negotiations over raising the debt ceiling. It was a search for a … Continue reading
U.S. Consumer Confidence Now Lower Than At Height Of Global Recession
REUTERS LONDON (Susan Fenton) – Global consumer confidence fell in the second quarter to its lowest level in a year and a half as an uncertain economic outlook, a deepening euro zone debt crisis and rising inflation made people more … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, RESOURCES
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NIKE Faces New Worker Abuse Claims In Indonesia
Our only choice is to stay and suffer, or speak out and be fired. HUFFINGTON POST SUKABUMI, Indonesia (AP) — Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, EMPLOYMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GREED
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