
Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers by Alexander Cockburn Too bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sustained by the news that President Obama had signed into law a bill that [...]
The Empire Strikes Back Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.* *But Only During Business Hours and When Your [...]
We Are the 99% ——————————————- By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins – Being part of the 99% isn’t about dominance – it’s about universality. The struggling economy is impacting everyone. Well, almost everyone. Americans on the whole aren’t getting ahead; they’re falling further behind every year. Nearly every American is worried about paying his bills or keeping her job. The terrible [...]
Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future. by David Graeber Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation – despite the latest police crackdown – sent out sparks across America, within days, inspiring hundreds of [...]
Organizing Our Community to Overrule the Court. Move to Amend the Citizens United Supreme Court Decision that gave corporations the rights of personhood and untold billions to spend on electing their own. David Cobb will speak.
Posted on 01 January 2012
Change-Links January 2012 Calendar Please if you use this online calendar, please donate, thats the only way it will continue. http://change-links.org Updated Since print edition Janurary 1 • Sunday Political Action: Oscar Grant Memorial March from Oscar Grant Plaza to Rally at Fruitvale BART. 1-4 PM. Oscar Grant Plaza, One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 14th & Broadway, Oakland. <argrantcommittee@gmail.com>. Political Action: OTRP [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012 . Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act “ by Michel Chossudovsky With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the “National Defense Authorization Act ” H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The actual signing took place [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
Happy New Year and Occupy the Occupy By John Johnson For over three months the Occupy Movement has taken hold of national and worldwide discussions. Inspired by the revolts during Arab Spring, people started to clamor for a real democracy and took to the streets in the US. Egypt had elections and parliament, but also had a [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
Occupy Movement Changes Public Debate, and People By Paul Krehbiel Over 1,000 protestors defied a 12:01 am deadline Monday, November 28 by refusing to leave the Occupy LA encampment at City Hall in a night-long stand off with police. The Occupy movement, begun in Los Angles on October 1, vows to continue. One leaflet urged people to [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender by Ralph Nader Paraphrasing Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of Capitol Hill. A majority of Congress is just about to put the finishing touches on an amendment to the military budget authorization legislation that will finish off some critical American rights under our Constitution. Here is how two retired 4 star [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
Occupy the Corporation by: Richard D. Wolff An Occupy Los Angeles protester at the camp outside City Hall in Los Angeles, November 30, 2011. (Photo: Ted Soqui /- The New York Times) Imagine a democratic alternative to police evictions of Occupy encampments across America’s cities and towns. What if the decision to evict or not had been made [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
Confessions of an Occupy LA City liaison person by Clay Claiborne (323) 219-6507 cjc@Linuxbeach.net The eviction of Occupy Los Angeles from city hall park on November 30th happened because the city let us have enough rope to hang ourselves with and we took it. Many occupiers knew there were serious problems with drugs, alcohol and more at [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 December 2011
You Can Arrest an Idea by Robert Scheer The bankers slept well. Their homes in Beverly Hills were not spotlighted by a noisy swarm of police helicopters, searchlights burning through the sanctity of the night, harassing the forlorn City Hall encampment of those who dared protest the banks’ seizure of our government. I live within [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 November 2011
Change-Links December 2011 Calendar Please if you use this online calendar, please donate, thats the only way it will continue. http://change-links.org Updated Since print edition December 1 Thursday Community Event: AIDS Day Look for events all around the city. Talk: Profile of OWS Participants “Profile of Users of the Occupy Wall Street Website: A Window into the Demographics of an Evolving Movement.” Speaker Hector [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 November 2011
This Is What a Revolution Looks Like By Chris Hedges …Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt. Pay your [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 November 2011
Occupiers: We’re Already Changing Politics by Caitlin MacLaren and Zoltán Glück The whole world seems to be waiting eagerly for the “next phase” of Occupy Wall Street, or else for the entire thing to dissipate overnight. While the raids on occupations from Oakland to New York certainly change the equation, they do little to subtract from our [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 November 2011
The Police State Makes Its Move: Retaining One’s Humanity in the Face of Tyranny by Phil Rockstroh For days now, we have endured demonstrably false propaganda that the fallen soldiers of U.S. wars sacrificed their lives for “our freedoms.” Yet, as that noxious nonsense still lingers in the air, militarized police have invaded OWS sites in numerous cities, [...] Continue Reading