with Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Oct. 16, 2011
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Cindy Sheehan arrested after protest at Occupy Sacramento + Transcript of speech
Day: October 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Populist Financiers Supporting Protesters Is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution by Finian Cunningham
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
East Africa
15 October 2011
[Note: revised by the author and replaced text Oct. 17, 2011]
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The Occupy Wall Street movement sweeping across the US faces a tricky dilemma, the outcome of which will determine its historic impact. Up to now, part of the movement’s strength derives from its diffuse, eclectic spread of voices. That enigma makes it hard to define and confront from the authorities’ point of view. However, sooner or later the campaign will have to set out its own agenda by defining demands and aims. Otherwise, it runs the risk of running out of the admirable popular momentum that it has thus far generated; also, such a vacuum allows others who do not share the ultimate concerns of the grassroots to define the direction of the movement – a direction that most likely will lead to a safe, blind alley – again from the authorities’ point of view. Continue reading
Cornel West and Dennis Trainer arrested at Supreme Court at Occupy DC/October2011 + Speech
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Updated: Oct. 17, 2011 added West’s speech
ncftTV on Oct 16, 2011
For the dedication of the MLK Jr statue, Cornell West decided to get arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the Citizens United case.
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Rumble from the people by Ralph Nader + Occupy Orlando
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Oct. 14, 2011
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Inside the barricading bubbles surrounding the Wall Street plutocrats and the Washington oligarchs who service them, there must be worry. After three years of disclosed “lying, cheating and stealing” as one prosecutor put it, with nary a visible stir from the masses, suddenly the barricades are beginning to quiver.
The Public Option in Banking: Another Look at the German Model by Ellen Brown + Keiser Report: Dog & Pony Show
by Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
Oct. 13, 2011
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Publicly-owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany’s “economic miracle” after the devastation of World War II. Although the German public banks have been targeted in the last decade for takedown by their private competitors, the model remains a viable alternative to the private profiteering being protested on Wall Street today.
Occupy Wall Street: Potentials and limitations of the 2011 American Protests by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.
by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
October 12, 2011
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Spontaneous nature and origin of the protests
In absence of organization or direction from a political party or organization, the 2011 American Protests-being called the Occupy Wall Street-can only be described as spontaneous in their origin and nature, a manifestation of rage against high unemployment; extremist economic injustices and inequalities, adversely affecting countless millions of people, in all areas of life; and demonic self-righteous, selfish, and insatiable accumulation and enjoyment of wealth and greed by a tiny minority of the wealthy and the corporations, in the midst of all this misery. Continue reading
Chomsky on civil disobedience and creating a just society (1971)
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munderlarkst on Oct 13, 2011
Amazing how pertinent this still is today — from “Justice vs. Power” debate between Chomsky and Foucault, 1971.
Rankin Taxi and Dub Ainu Band : Radioactive Material: You Can’t See It, and You Can’t Smell It Either
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linktv on Oct 17, 2011
(LinkAsia News: October 14, 2011) Japan reggae artists MC Rankin and Dub Ainu Band deliver a cautionary message about radioactive material through this song and music video “You Can’t See It, and You Can’t Smell It Either.”
“You can’t see it, and you can’t smell it either – 誰にも見えない、匂いもない 2011- ”
By Rankin Taxi & Dub Ainu Band
Words & Music: Rankin Taxi
Is It Immoral to Vote for Obama? by Mike Whitney
by Mike Whitney
Information Clearing House
www.counterpunch.org
October 15, 2011
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I don’t like mixing politics with morality, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. What I mean is this: how can anyone cast a ballot for a man who they know will continue to kill people in other countries merely to advance US policy objectives? That’s the question people need to ask themselves.
Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Slaughter by Felicity Arbuthnot
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
London, England
13 October 2011
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As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism’s face
And the international wrong.— W.H. Auden, 1907-1973
What a murderous, infanticidel, appalling, shameful, ignorant – and arguable, decade-long war crime.
John Pilger: There is only one way now – Civil disobedience
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justiciayauk on Oct 8, 2011
Antiwar demonstration to commemorate 10 years of the war in Afghanistan – Trafalgar Square, London – 08/10/11
“There are two types of humanity in war: there are worthy victims and unworthy victims… None of it happened. It didn’t happen even as it was happening.”
Daniel Buxhoeveden: Science and Religion
Science and Religion are portrayed to be in harmony in the Tiffany window Education (1890). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
hromaugusta on Sep 12, 2011
Daniel Buxhoeveden speaks on Science and Religion. Recorded April 30, 2011 at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Mission in Augusta, GA.
Don’t Divide, UNITE! From Occupy Wall Street to Liberate the World + We Want to be Free! by Andrew Gavin Marshall
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
October 13, 2011
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Having watched closely the development and rapid growth of the ‘Occupy’ movement from when it began on Wall Street in September to its current global scope, where on October 15th it is expected to erupt in hundreds of cities around the world, there are various concerns and issues which I feel the need to discuss in a little more detail.
Tax Dollars At War + Defense Secretary Panetta: Wrong on Military Spending
SoftboxFilms on Oct 4, 2011
Based on a “Flashpoints” interview with Dennis Bernstein & Dave Lindorff.
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