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1967 Summer of Love –> 2017 Summer of Rage & Resistance
ATA (Artists’ Television Access) 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA July 20 – August, 2017
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM IS OVER!, Colonization of Public Space, CONSUMERISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, CREATIVE PLACEMAKING, DEMOCRACY, Displacement, ECONOMY, EVIL CORPORATIONS, Gentrification, GLOBALIZATION, GREED, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, LOVE, POLICY, PROTESTS, San Francisco, TAX THE RICH, Tech, Technology, Urban Prototyping
Tagged 1967, 2017, Airbnb, Another Planet Entertainment, Apple Inc., Asian Art Museum, ATA, capitalism, Civic Center Commons, Cobalt Mines, Colossal Clusterfest, corporate capitalism, Creative Placemaking, DEMOCRACY, Democratic Republic of Congo, Disrupting, Dot-Com, Dot-Com Bubble, Flower Interruption, Flower Power, Gentrification, Global Financial Crisis, I'd like to teach the world to sing, Innovating, Lyft, Megan Wilson, Mission District, Mission Playground, neoliberal agenda, privatization, San Francisco, Sharing Economy, Summer of Love, Summer of Rage, Summer of Rage & Resistance, Tech Shuttle Buses, The Corporate State, Think Different, Twitter Tax Breaks, Uber, Urban Prototyping
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Airbnb Had Housing Activists Pushed Into a “Free Speech Zone”
This weekend Airbnb held its first-ever conference for hosts in San Francisco. Inside, executivesrestated the company’s goal to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Outside, local cops allegedly shoved housing activists who were protesting Airbnb’s role in the eviction crisis, confining demonstrators into a “free speech” pen. …. … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM
Tagged Airbnb, Candace Roberts, capitalism, corporate capitalism, evictions, Gentrification, homeless, homelessness, pig costume, protest, San Francisco, taxes owed
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Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 5: Nigeria
By Rebecca Tarbotton, Rainforest Action Network, Executive Director / reposted from SFGate / originally posted May 28, 2012 This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters … Continue reading
Posted in Big Oil, BIGOTRY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM IS OVER!, COLONIALISM, CONSUMERISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT, Global Warming, GLOBALIZATION, Health, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, imperialism, INCOME INEQUALITY, INTERNATIONAL, Investment, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, POLICY, postcolonialism, RACISM, RESOURCES, UNEMPLOYMENT, Women's Rights
Tagged Big Oil, capitalism, Chevron, corporate capitalism, corporate money, dispossession, global warming, health, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nnimmo Bassey, oil rig burning, permanent underclass, The Corporate State
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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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“Debt” by David Graeber
By Justin E. H. Smith Re-posted from Bookforum David Graeber has been much praised of late as a prophet of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and even if one doesn’t want to go that far, his book is remarkably timely. … Continue reading
A week of cognitive dissonance and direct action
What do we do when the government shockingly proves it already has the power to do one day what we were opposing the prior day? It is more than disquieting to see the government brutally illustrating the fact that the … Continue reading
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CAPITALISM, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY WALL ST WEST, PROTESTS, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged #occupySF, BANKS, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, finacial district, financial institutions, Food Bank of America, Glenn Greenwald, government, obscene pentagon budget, occupy wall st west, Slavoj Žižek, The Black Blob, The Corporate State
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Winning Moments for the 99% in 2011
Re-posted from AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe / December 26, 2011 This year saw working people around the world begin to stand up and fight back. Ten organizers share their most inspiring moments from the U.S.’s year of action. 2011 … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, RESOURCES, UNEMPLOYMENT, Unions, US Military expansioin, Wall Street, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, health, occupy wall street, permanent underclass, privatization, sit/lie law, The Corporate State
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Anticapitalism and Occupation
Re-posted from THECURRENTMOMENT 19 Dec The novelty of Occupy in relation to the past decades of anticapitalism has been to introduce one other way of thinking about alternatives – the camp itself as a kind of autonomous, self-sufficient community, with … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY ALOHA!, OCCUPY LA!, OCCUPY OAKLAND!, OCCUPY PORTLAND!, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT!, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, TAX THE RICH, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, Wall Street, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged anticapitalism, capitalism, corporate capitalism, OCCUPY, occupy wall street, The Platypus Society, THECURRENTMOMENT
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Protest Chevron’s Tax Grab! Tomorrow 12/15 in Martinez, CA
Protest Chevron’s Tax Grab 651 Pine Street, Martinez Thursday December 15, 2011 11:30 AM – Gather and Leaflet Area 12 Noon Rally Find flyers, the Richmond City Council resolution asking Chevron to drop its property tax appeals, and more information … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, Big Oil, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, PROTESTS, RESOURCES, TAX THE RICH, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Chevron, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, global warming, health, Richmond, tax grab, underclass
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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
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