1848+: Last and First Men

Jobs for All, Medicare for All, More Social Security by ROBERT ROTH In a helpful review and constructive critique of the current status of the Occupy movement, Ismael Hossein-Zadeh makes several good suggestions. And I’ve seen some other comments more recently that seem worth sharing with you, in case you haven’t seen them. Hossein-Zadeh focuses [...]

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Militancy and Counter-Insurgency by MIKE KING A crowd of several hundred quickly swelled to a couple thousand, as Occupy Oakland attempted to occupy the vacant Kaiser Convention Center. The goal was to use it as an indoor base for Occupy Oakland – a place to have General Assemblies and meetings, share food and get shelter [...]

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Occupy Wall Street's 'Solidarity Sunday': What Are 'Black Bloc' Protesters? New York Observer By Steve Huff 1/29 9:36pm Journalist Tim Pool began live-streaming an Occupy Wall Street solidarity march for Occupy Oakland in Manhattan Sunday night. The march was intended to demonstrate support for the 400 or so Occupy Oakland protesters arrested … See all [...]

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Police fire tear gas at Oakland, 200 arrested Reuters By Laird Harrison and Emmett Burg | OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – Riot police fought running skirmishes with anti-Wall Street protesters on Saturday, firing tear gas and bean bag projectiles and arresting more than 200 people in clashes that injured … See all stories on this topic [...]

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Published on Saturday, January 28, 2012 by Reuters The Siren Call of Austerity by David Cay Johnston The World Economic Forum opened in Davos amid choruses of central bankers and economists calling for governments to cut spending. This message of austerity is like the call of the ancient Sirens, whose music lured sailors to shipwreck.We [...]

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Published on Saturday, January 28, 2012 by Common Dreams Occupying the Grounds of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry – Common Dreams staff Japanese anti-nuclear protesters defied a government order Friday to vacate the area in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki. Protesters have been occupying the Ministry [...]

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Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by In These Times Liberals’ Inequality Narrative Ignores Role of Free Trade, Unionbusting by Roger Bybee The Occupy movement forcefully injected a long-taboo topic—America’s appalling “banana republic”-level economic disparities—into the mainstream political debate. That inequality has immense implications, from falling wages, to deteriorating healthcare coverage, the overgrown financial sector, [...]

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Published on Saturday, January 28, 2012 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer The Heroes of Wall Street: How Democrats Got Their Pockets Picked by Kevin Horrigan It’s hard to read Thomas Frank’s new book, “Pity the Billionaire,” without being astonished at what utter nincompoops Democrats are. This surely was not Frank’s primary intent. The book is [...]

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Protesters urged to occupy Chicago during G8 and Nato summits The Guardian - ‎Jan 26, 2012‎ Adbusters, the group which helped spark the Occupy movement, has put out a call for tens of thousands of protesters to occupy Chicago during the G8 and Nato summits in May. Seeking out those it describes as "redeemers, rebels and [...]

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Don’t Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize Crucial movements of the past with clear and radical demands suffered a diminished voice when traditional organizational standards took hold. Hopefully not Occupy. It’s worth a long night’s conversation over your beverage of choice to explore the history of how becoming institutionalized [...]

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