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November 2011

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Occupy Online: It's All a Game of Musical Chairs...If We Let It Be → occupyonline.tumblr.com

occupyonline:

Our society is like a game of musical chairs. We don’t have enough chairs for everyone, but we have enough for everyone to design a workable rotation in which everyone will have an adequate time to sit.

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There seems to be two principal divides:

Those who believe that life is a battle, about…

The music has stopped for the 1%

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“The protesters came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance. They were actually very kind and helpful. It was the police officers who were very aggressive.” —Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields • Discussing how protesters treated her after she and videographer Direna Cousins were struck by NYPD officers earlier today. “Direna had a camera in her hand and I had a microphone, and we were being hit,” she said. “When I fell to the ground I said at one point, ‘I’m just covering this! I’m covering this!’  And the officer just said, ‘Come on, get up, get up,’ before pulling me up by my jacket.’” As ThinkProgress notes, The Daily Caller’s Occupy coverage has been negative, but protesters helped them anyway.  source (via • follow)

I respect everything about this.

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“In its foreign policies, the United States does not punish atrocities, only disobedience.” —Noam Chomsky 

A city on a hill.

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Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For  → theonion.com

bringtheruckuss:

WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last year to destroy the immense asteroid currently hurtling toward Earth.

The $440 billion legislation, which would send a dozen high-thrust plasma impactor probes to shatter the massive asteroid before it strikes the planet, would affect more than 300 million Americans and is strongly opposed by the GOP.

“The voters sent us to Washington to stand up for individual liberty, not big government,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said at a press conference. “Obama’s plan would take away citizens’ fundamental freedoms, forcing each of us into hastily built concrete bunkers and empowering the federal government to ration our access to food, water, and potassium iodide tablets while underground.”

“We believe that the decisions of how to deal with the massive asteroid are best left to the individual,” King added.

Repealing the act, which opponents have branded ‘Obamastroid,’ has been the cornerstone of the GOP agenda since the law’s passage last August. Throughout the 2010 elections, Republican candidates claimed that the Democrats’ plan to smash the space rock and shield citizens from its fragments was “a classic example of the federal government needlessly interfering in the lives of everyday Americans.”

“This law is a job killer,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who argued the tax increases required to save the human species from annihilation would impose unbearably high costs on businesses. 

Leave it up to the individual!

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Spread this like wildfire! → gayswillprevail.tumblr.com

occupyallstreets:

Operation Walk Out will take place on November 30th in solidarity with The National Association of Head Teachers.

Students and teachers have been greatly impacted by the economic crisis.

Our teachers have been continually laid off and schools have lost funding due to budget cuts.

We need to send our government a message, our education should be top priority.

The Walk Out will begin at 12 p.m. in all schools.

We ask students, teachers and faculty to march against education cuts and tuition hikes.

We shall be heard.

Like us on Facebook for updates.

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#occupywallstreet: OCCUPY DENVER ELECTS LEADER → occupywallstreet.tumblr.com

gravewisdom:

In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver’s General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year…

It doesn’t get much better than this.

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Rhetoricians (and others) on Occupy Wall Street

Of American Revolutionaries and American Occupiers Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University

Demand the Impossible Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now Naomi Klein, Canadian author and social activist

Occupy First. Demands Come Later Slavoj Žižek, Senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Architecture of Oppression Kevin DeLuca, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Utah

Occupy the Future Noam Chomsky, Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT

How Wall Street Occupied America Bill Moyers, President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy

Occupy Wall Street as a Fight for “Real Democracy” Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature at Duke University. Antonio Negri is former Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua and the University of Paris 8.

My Evening with Occupy Pittsburgh: Observations from an On-the-Ground Rhetorician Doug Cloud, PhD candidate in rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University

Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr Mike Konczal, fellow with the Roosevelt Institute

What Is a Revolutionary Idea? Robert Hariman, Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University

Naomi Wolf: how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street Naomi Wolf, American author and political consultant

Occupy Wall Street — “We Are What Democracy Looks Like!” Benjamin Barber, Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy

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