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Occupy Wall Street | Occupy Wall Street

edmund-jenks's picture
Oct.06.2011
A computer program hacker organization, Anonymous 99, introduces their plan to ‘engage in a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience’ to fight back against crime by banks and government agencies when they announced an upcoming ‘Operation Empire State Rebellion’. A99 [ctrl-...
dennis-loo's picture
Oct.06.2011
Today, October 6th, is the tenth anniversary of the U.S.'s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The richest country in the world making war on one of the poorest. An occupation of Washington, DC to end this and the other wars and policies of torture, Obama's "preventive" detention, and no due...
sandy-polishuk's picture
Oct.05.2011
The Poet Laureate has a responsibility to speak for the citizens and the citizens at this moment are rising up in the American Autumn. If I were the PL I would be joining the occupation of NYC, Washington DC or whatever city I could reach. I would be speaking out in support of the 99%. I would be...
dennis-loo's picture
Oct.02.2011
I attended the Occupy LA action on Saturday, October 1 at City Hall. What follows is a recent post of mine at Open Salon about the Occupy Wall Street actions and the related popular upsurges worldwide.   I've been to many demonstrations in my life, including some in the 1960s' era. This is...
arlene-goldbard's picture
Sep.26.2011
The 2012 election campaign is in full swing, beginning, once again, to stage the vast (and vastly repetitive) drama that periodically mesmerizes the body politic. Like a huge pod out of Invasion of The Body-Snatchers, it replaces actual democracy with an expensive similacrum. From time to time...