Showing posts with label informed action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label informed action. Show all posts
May 9, 2012

TPP Negotiations in Dallas this Week

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If you liked PIPA and SOPA , you'll probably love the TPP . But only the participating governments and a handful of multinational corp...

Occupy the Regulatory / Investigatory System

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From the Washington Post : Occupy Wall Street has moved. Its new address: 60 Wall Street. There, inside a soaring public atrium, dreadlocked...
April 16, 2012

May 1st: General Strike

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More info here . And just in time: if you missed the 99% non-violent action training , you can take it online here .
April 8, 2012

Occupiers & Others Preparing for General Strike May 1; Noam Chomsky Endorses 99% Spring

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Back in the 70's, experts believed that the improvements possible through technology would increase worker productivity to the point tha...
March 27, 2012

Find a Non-Violent Action Training Event Near You

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One concern w.r.t. activist efforts during the last few years is that it seems that few of us fully understand just what our rights of free ...
February 2, 2012

The Logic of Nonviolence

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"Erica Chenoweth has developed a dataset and analyzed the historical record. Below the fold are slides summarizing the results of her s...
January 31, 2012

More Re- the Infowar

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Don't miss Michael Hasting's excellent, recent interview of Julian Assange in Rolling Stone . Assange mentions the speaker in the v...
January 24, 2012

Assange to Host Talk Show

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Just when one might have feared that Assange and Wikileaks had been successfully sidelined, WL's issued this press release: Julian Assan...
January 22, 2012

Clay Shirky on PIPA and SOPA

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Excellent overview of where these bills are coming from and what we should expect going forward, at TED .
December 18, 2011

Occupying the Golden Calf

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From Raw Story : WASHINGTON — About 20 “Occupy DC” protesters took their anti-corporate demonstration to the corridors of the US Congress, t...
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December 13, 2011

Tents for Protesters Not Ok; Tents for Police to Hide Their Actions from Media, Ok

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December 5, 2011

Must See: Occupy Melbourne

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On Wall Street, Some Insiders Express Quiet Outrage

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From the NYT : "Last week, I had a conversation with a man who runs his own trading firm. In the process of fuming about competition fr...
November 26, 2011

All Student General Strike Monday, November 28

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November 28th – In solidarity with UC Davis, UC Berkeley, CUNY schools and all students who are defending their right to protest against ris...
November 24, 2011

The Difference Between the 2008 Bank Crisis & the S&L Crisis of the '80's

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. . . as explained by William K. Black . You've got to see this.
November 22, 2011

NYPD Rendition of "Wikileaks Truck"

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The “WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit” has no actual affiliation with Wikileaks; its owner, artist/activist/prankster...
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November 21, 2011

Citigroup's 2006 Declaration of "Plutonomy"

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Per Bill Moyers (see vidi below), the term was coined by Citgroup in 2005 to refer to "an economic system where the privileged few make...
November 20, 2011

A Useful Summary of Recent Police Violence Against Protesters in the US

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. . . is available on Alternet (with visuals).

Great Signs from Today's Gov. Scott Walker Recall Rally in WI

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More photos here . Per the Brookfield Patch , 25,000 to 30,000 showed up at the rally, and organizers say they've collected more than 10...

The Day After the Pepper-Spraying at U.C. Davis

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Another one I've got to re-blog. As Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing put it, I thought I wouldn't see a more dramatic video than the ones...