“People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought. …” – Dylan Ratigan “Once you’ve said your piece, you can either keep saying it — and then it’s a job, good job, pays well, everybody knows your name, it’s great — or you can decide what you’re going to do about it,” he [...]
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“Save the Rich”: Watch This Video
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. On this day of Wisconsin voting, 2012 electoral politicking, and a generally still prevalent pre-Occupied view of things, a song that provides a post-Occupied perspective. Lyrics below the video. Followed by a few other views and ideas about the way things are. From Occupy.com: Riki [...]
Two Roads to July 4 in Philadelphia, One “Representative,” One “Direct”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. July 4 is one month away. Two groups associated with the Occupy / 99% movements have been planning for months, and both will gather in Philadelphia. Via The Daily Pennsylvanian : Occupy movement and 99% Declaration group plan summer conventions …The two groups have differing [...]
Land of the Colonized, Home of the Slave: A Mockery of Democracy
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. “One of the scariest things I ever did,” a long retired public school teacher (who was Caucasian) told me years ago, “was to name what I saw every single day in my classroom: racism. And once I said it, there was no turning back.” And [...]
The ‘Red Square’ in Canada and What We Can Learn
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Maybe if we focus outside the U.S., we can gain some insight, some perspective, about what’s happening here. It’s certainly all connected. And it certainly helps understand the frustrating familiarity of the latest round of electoral politics. So, let’s look north to Canada, to Québec [...]
Brewing Beer or Manufacturing Molotov Cocktails?: Welcome to ‘Preemptive Policing’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Can you tell the difference between beer brewing equipment and Molotov cocktail building equipment? A middle of the night raid by the Chicago PD raises that question. The raid was one piece of the several days of actions immediately before and during the NATO Summit, [...]
G8 & NATO Powers Meet in U.S.: Who’s Paying Attention?
Guest post by Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. For the Occupy and related movements, the next few days are very important. The G8 Summit will take place May 18 -19, at Camp David. The NATO Summit in Chicago follows, May 20 -21. Everyone involved – Summit attendees, officials and protestors [...]
If ‘This Is Not Who We Are,’ Then Who Are We, and Who Gets to Decide?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Earlier this month Dan DeWalt wrote So then Who in the Hell Are We? at This Can’t Be Happening. The latest PR catch phrase from business, administration, military, state and local officials after some atrocity or other is that whatever happened, it is certainly ‘not [...]
Voting for Lesser Evilism And Expecting Good Results
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. If you choose the lesser of two evils voting path, then what’s next? Pushing the lesser evil to do better? Or not pushing the lesser evil for fear the greater evil might win next time? If our lesser evil guy / gal says he or [...]
Occupy Arrests Over 7200, But The Banks Are ‘Too Big to Jail’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. A comparison is one way to get some perspective. There’s certainly something of an “apples to oranges” dynamic going on here. But that there is a different treatment for “white collar” and “street” crimes is surely not in question. And when the comparison is between [...]
Why Occupy Should / Shouldn’t Be the Left’s Tea Party
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. It’s surely no surprise that my response to whether Occupy should or shouldn’t “be the left’s tea party” is the latter. That’s my Two Party Front for the Oligarchy perspective. The status quo-ed corporate Duopoly system is working just fine for those for whom it’s [...]
Chipping Away at the Wall of Money
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. This is probably one of the busiest months in a long while, for advocacy / activist groups, Occupy and others. It’s extremely difficult to break through the Wall of Money, and the incessant electoral politics “news” it funds. Depending on MSM, you’d likely miss most [...]
Obama Slams George W. Bush Economic Legacy in New Ad
With the Occupy protesters resuming battle stations, and Mitt Romney in place as the presumptive Republican nominee, President Obama has begun to fashion his campaign as a crusade for the 99 percent–a fight against, as one Obama ad puts it, “a guy who had a Swiss bank account.” Casting Romney as a plutocrat will be [...]
When Party Loyalty Rules the Ballot Box
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Voting party over policy is a major dynamic in our electoral system, present in both Republican and Democratic sides of the Duopoly. Making loyalty to a party, or person, the basis for voting (and then for governing) is one of the most significant factors in [...]
May Day: ‘The Whole World is Waking,’ ‘Which Side Are You On?’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. “The Whole World is Waking” headlines at OWS. Florence Reece wrote the song “Which Side Are You On?” in 1931. The question is as relevant today as then. Her husband was a union organizer with United Mine Workers of Harlam County, Kentucky, and the efforts [...]
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