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Obama moves G8 to Camp David for “more intimate conversations”

Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Late yesterday, with media well into non-stop Super Tuesday coverage, Mr. Obama announced that he’s moving the May G8 conference from Chicago to Camp David. His administration says this decision has nothing to do with the announced plans of Occupy and related movements, from around [...]

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The Big Two Political Conventions and Occupy

In the greater Occupy world, there’s uncertainty verging on ambivalence toward the idea of protesting either the DNC in Charlotte or the Republican National Convention taking place in Tampa. Some activists admitted that they did not know when the DNC was taking place. While they stressed it might be important to show opposition, they are [...]

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Liberally Independent: Occupy Day 25 and the 2011 version of “Somethin’s happenin’ here”

Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. At TaylorMarsh: Liberally Independent, including the Two Parties series, and Queer Talk When Occupy Wall Street action began, the expectations were for 15,000 to 20,000. When only a few hundred showed up, the initiators just kept going. And now we’re at day 25 in NYC, and [...]

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