There’s a National Security Blanket, tightly interwoven of Red and Blue threads, which covers Occupiers, Eco Activist and who knows who else. While the National Security Agency, among others, uses the Security Blanket to cover as wide an area as possible in surveillance and such, We the Electorate seem to use it quite frequently as [...]
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Update on Turkey from Occupy Gezi
**Updated** AN update from Animal New York: Sunday witnessed the broadest turnout yet, with tens of thousands of people streaming into Takism – and overflowing out into its arteries like Istiklal — and news of smaller protests in other provinces and indeed in other countries brought hope to the weathered protesters. While more-organized and established [...]
Guns in the U.S.A.: The Public, the NRA, and Occupy’s Silent No More
A recent Pew Poll about guns in the U.S.A., or more specifically, about the recent Senate vote; and Occupy the NRA’s “Silent No More” actions, scheduled for tomorrow, provide two indications of how the public is thinking and feeling about the gun arguments. They don’t change much, those arguments. They fairly frequently become headline news, [...]
FOIA Obtained Information Show DHS and FBI Routinely Monitored Occupy
It’s taken a number of efforts through the Freedom of Information Act to get to the information which shows what was expected, and in some cases, known at the time when the Occupy Movement, or OWS, was highly visible and active. Along with local undercover and overt law enforcement surveillance of Occupy groups across the [...]
Austerity and Income Inequality in Portugal, Switzerland and the USA
Portugal’s Streets Flooded With Message: ‘Austerity Kills’. Swiss Overwhelmingly Vote to Curb Executive Pay. Meanwhile, in USA! USA!, Electeds play sequential and contrived Grand Bargain / Fiscal Cliff / Super Sequestration games and much of the Electorate yawns. Much, but not all. First, about the citizen actions in Portugal: Over 40 cities across Portugal on [...]
The ‘2nd American Revolution’ Explained by Way of a Graph
Discussion of “income inequality” is considered an out of date topic by some, but it’s as real, as significant and if we’re looking with open eyes and not through Duopoly supplied blinkers, as in-our-faces at this moment as it was when, for the obvious example, the Occupy movement made it “news.” The graph is via [...]
Some Stuff I’d Like to Hear Seriously Addressed in the State of the Union, and Even Better, on a Day to Day Basis in DC
I can think of a lot of stuff I’d like to hear DC Electeds having serious conversations about. More unlikely yet, it would be cool if they’d take serious actions aimed at helping the majority – you know, that “99%,” – of people. I don’t expect to hear such things in the State of the [...]
Challenges to Independent and Alternative Journalism on the Left
The three stories below, each related in some way to the state of journalism on the Left independent and alternative side, are just three of many. Staying informed in an accurate, thoughtful sort of way requires persistent efforts. At least this is my experience. What’s happening with independent / alternative news reporting and analysis on [...]
Chris Hedges on ‘Debt Peonage’: That 1% – 99% Chasm Didn’t Disappear With the Corporate State Suppression of Occupy
“Stop beating the dead horse,” I was chastised when I kept paying attention to the Occupy movement beyond that sliver of attention deemed newsworthy. The movement evolved, still continues in various projects. I’ve never stopped paying attention. And for good, or really bad, reasons: the inequalities it helped reveal remain. Chris Hedges has also continued [...]
Focus on the Media: FCC & Media Revolving Door, Press Freedom Index, and ‘The Power of Activist Journalism’
Below are three ways of looking at and assessing the media, the press and journalism. Definitions of what each of those terms means vary, as does the accurate, or not, use of the three interchangeably. Reporters Without Borders has released its 2013 World Press Freedom Index report, which, following last year’s “Arab Spring” and other [...]
News Desk: Fast-food Workers Walk in Biggest Effort to Unionize Ever Launched
“Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay.” PEOPLE CAN’T live a quality life on what fast-food companies pay their workers. Their bosses are making millions and the disparity has finally reached the tipping point. Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job on Thursday, firing the first salvo [...]
Top Story: Obama’s Winnings and the Unreasonable Liberal
“If you want to pull the party, the major party that is closest to the way you’re thinking to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them they don’t have to listen to you, [...]
‘Two Parties That Give Americans the Illusion of Choice’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Unless we get beyond the range of Romney/Ryan vs. Obama/Biden media “news” coverage, we’ll likely miss a lot of very interesting conversations. These are conversations about the kind of stuff the Duopoly prefers we not hear, and for the most part, if relying on mainstream [...]
Guess Which Presidential Candidate Will Speak at Hempfest, and Which at Paul Festival?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. You already know the answers to the question in the headline, right? We’ll have no problem knowing where Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney are, most any day, between now and November 6. If, however, you might be interested in knowing where Green Party presidential candidate [...]
Obama/Biden/Romney/Ryan: Are We in Trouble, OR What?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. We’re less than a week into the official Obama/Biden vs. Romney/Ryan – the only two party candidates considered newsworthy – matchup, and the two campaigns have already moved to the dog story level. No offense meant to dogs, or dog lovers, but this (not unusual) [...]
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