August 2012
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“A journalist reported that officers threw down and beat a photographer with...”
– From The Atlantic magazine, which has published excerpts of a lengthy compilation of civil rights abuses, police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters last fall.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/14-specific-allegations-of-nypd-brutality-during-occupy-wall-street/260295/
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“That’s the level of detailed monitoring that drone surveillance enables....”
– Glenn Greenwald, Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas, on Salon.com
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“A member of the Research Team witnessed officers arresting a protester. A number...”
– Descriptions of systematic police brutality against Occupy protesters in fall 2011, published by The Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/14-specific-allegations-of-nypd-brutality-during-occupy-wall-street/260295/
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Odin's B-Log: Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Sues to... →
abaldwin360:An effort to keep many New Yorkers living in poverty from the mayor who made billions selling Bloomberg boards to Wall Street. No wonder he has used his police to beat the hell out of protesters.
The world’s 20th richest man declared recently that a living wage bill passed (over his veto) by New York’s city council was the next best thing to Communist central planning. Michael...
July 2012
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“A member of the Research Team witnessed a particularly violent arrest. A...”
– From The Atlantic: Descriptions of brutalization of Occupy Wall Street protesters by members of Bloomberg’s police force.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/14-specific-allegations-of-nypd-brutality-during-occupy-wall-street/260295/
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Justice for Manuel Diaz: March to Anaheim City... →
cultureofresistance:fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1ST 5:30PM from Memorial Site on Anna Drive We must keep marching, we must keep protesting, we must get the truth out about what happened to Manuel Diaz and the truth out about the disrespect and brutality we face every day from the Anaheim police – if we don’t, we will not win justice for Manuel. On Saturday evening July 21st,...
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WatchPlease circulate this video, everyone. It’s unreal. Truly, I can’t believe I’m watching this in the U.S.
occupyiowa:
The YouTube corporation and CBS have now censored the original video of Anaheim cops shooting at children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS.” Spread links to the mirrors. Keep firing.
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They're Not Winning. They're cheating. →
cameronblazer:
There are too many good grafs in the post linked above to pull just one. I hope that if you think the Occupy Wall Street movement is a joke, or just the rumblings of a lazy band of social misfits, you will take a few minutes to read Taibbi’s piece. I don’t always agree with him, but here I think he’s spot-on, and he focuses on specific acts of corporate misfeasance that have not...
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Based African Kid: Americans are working... →
abaldwin360:
Americans are literally working themselves to death. America is the most overworked nation in the developed world and Americans have become hostage to their jobs that has made their work-life balance unattainable.
President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 signed into law the Fair…
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Southern Minority: I don't understand working... →
socialwerq:
“I don’t make that much money! Why should they?!” Do you see how stupid that sounds?
There is a strike going on at a plant in Illinois. Caterpillar, the company that makes a lot of construction equipment, is raking in billions in profits and has (of course) given their senior management raises…
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NYPD paints over a politically correct mural... →
pandahspunk:
“A mural calling the NYPD “MURDERERS”, spray-painted on a wall by a graffiti artist with the permission of the building owner, was painted over and removed by cops Tuesday. The artist has now been told by the building owner that the controversial painting needed the clearance of the NYPD, in what seems a clear violation of the First Amendment “
“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice...”
– Rev. Pat Robertson (via grrrlstudies)
Are you fucking kidding me? (via oneandonlyjay)
“What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same...”
– Bernie Sanders (via azspot)
Watchoccupyiowa:
The YouTube corporation and CBS have now censored the original video of Anaheim cops shooting at children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS.” Spread links to the mirrors. Keep firing.
‘On His Own’ Romney Ad Star, Jack Gilchrist, got... →
sinidentidades:
Jack Gilchrist, a businessman who stars in an ad (video below) for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, claims in the ad: “My father’s hands didn’t build this company? My hands didn’t build this company? My son’s hands aren’t building this company?”
However, what Gilchrist failed to mention is that he built his business, Gilchrist Metal, through government-sponsored...
“If voter suppression goes forward and [Mitt] Romney narrowly prevails, consider...”
– Harold Meyerson, writing in his column: Harold Meyerson: GOP’s voter ID tactics could undermine a Romney win - The Washington Post
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“So far, 0.000063 percent of the country’s population - 196 superwealthy people -...”
– TheAtlantic.com
Which begs the question: what are they buying? 