February 2012
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WatchOccupy Cinema: Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Collaborative Documentary
By Jared Keller
Jan 5 2012, 11:50 AM ET 2 A new documentary seeks to capture the spirit of Occupy Wall Street by embodying the movement’s open, collaborative structure.
On October 2nd, filmmaker Audrey Ewell suddenly found herself in the middle of a new project. The previous day, nearly 1,500 protesters made their way...
Voices From the Occupy Movement →
Across the country, the Occupy Movement is developing new forms of exposing the 1%
Occupy Wall Street: Soundtrack for a Revolution →
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Bill Moyers answers: How can ordinary people fight Citizens United?
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Virginia House Passes NDAA-Nullifying Bill; Other... →
Six local governments have passed resolutions condemning sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA. Earlier this week, the Town Council of Macomb, N.Y. unanimously passed a resolution, and Fairfax, Calif. approved a similar resolution 4-1. On Wednesday, New Shoreham, R.I. also passed a resolution opposing NDAA detention.
oldenough2burmom asked: I LOVE your blog. I consider myself a social democrat. It's nice to see blogs with gravitas.
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56% of registered voters said they'd vote yes if... →
#Anonymous Takes Down #Monsanto.com - →
debtparty:
#OurFood #TooLongToWait #RightToKnow #GMOcats
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Hot Topics – Food Sovereignty (Rights to Raw... →
OCCUPY NIGERIA In Photos
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Global Day of Action to Occupy our Food Supply on...
A powerful alliance of sustainable agriculture advocates and food justice networks, including over 60 Occupy Wall Street groups as well as environmental and corporate accountability organizations are joining together with a theme of creating local solutions and resisting Big Ag and its destructive practices of placing profits over people and the planet.
Will you join us? Here are a couple of ways:
1. If you are a blogger, consider amplifying this story by spreading the word and saving the date to cover these issues as part of a coordinated effort to set the blogosphere abuzz with a conversation about the urgent need to end corporate exploitation of our food systems.
Writers and thought leaders including Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Michael Ableman, Robert Kenner and Anna Lappe will be adding their voices in support of a wide-ranging series of actions across the US and the globe.
2. Whether you’re an individual or represent an organization, you can organize your own event for the Day of Action. Planned activities so far range from reclaiming unused bank-owned lots to create community gardens; identifying GMO and destructive products in grocery stores with stickers; protesting at Cargill-owned hedge fund offices; doing seed exchanges in front of stock exchanges; supporting community alliances to drive away WalMart and dangerous, unethical food distributors; and fighting back against Monsanto’s revolving door into the FDA via Obama.
You can learn more and see an evolving map of actions by visiting www.occupyourfoodsupply.org.
3. If you are interested in helping to spread the word about the day of action on social media, we will be using the Twitter hashtags #F27 and #occupyourfoodsupply. The social media guide can be found here:
http: //understory.ran.org/2012/02/14/occupy-our-food-supply-f27-social-media-guide/
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A Spit in the Ocean
I’m going to reach 1000 followers soon. To all of you, I want to say thank you for the conversations we’ve had and the attention you gave to me. But I’m going to close my Google+ account, as well as my GMail account, because I don’t like the idea of having a corporation, however well intended it could be, have me as a Guinea pig for their social...
call 4 coders - the first massive decentralized... →
occupyapps:
TheGlobalSquare aims to be the first massive decentralized social network in the history of the Internet. We are aware of the difficulties we must overcome, but we believe the Internet Community has reached a point where such an initiative is possible. It is possible because we are more united; censorship and repression have created stronger bonds between those who care about freedom...
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Hundreds of same-sex marriage campaigners across... →
Occupy Austin joins Grassroots Alliance for... →
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Occupy Chicago Principles →
Chicago Principles
Chicago Principles
• Our solidarity will be based on respect for a political diversity within the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice. As individuals and groups, we may choose to engage in a diversity of tactics and plans of action but are committed to treating each other with respect and working towards a common goal of peace and justice.
• As we plan...
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the... →
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America's homeless resort to tent cities →
The BBC’s Panorama looks at the rise of semi-official homeless tent-camps in American cities. These are springing up in states where austerity “balanced budget” drives are severely cutting services. Especially concerning is the report of homeless children who are going hungry, going to bed hungry, getting dizzy from hunger, waiting through the weekend to go to school (with...
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Arianna Huffington: HuffPost's Latest e-Book:... →
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43% Say Random Choices From Phone Book Better Than... →
rev-rev-revolution:
Hehehe now that’s gotta be humiliating!
rosinhabela:
My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos...
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OCCUPY MONSANTO!
Secret Video Shows CEO Hugh Grant’s Response to GMO Labeling
On January 24, Monsanto shareholders gathering for their annual meeting were greeted by 50 protesters calling for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to be labeled in the marketplace. While “Occupy-Monsanto” events are becoming more common worldwide, one activist working on behalf of socially responsible shareholders...
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News from the Occupation
Occupy Protesters Interrupt State Budget Hearing - NYTimes.com Lawmakers did not try to stop the protesters, and one legislator, Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, a Democrat of Sullivan County, even took out her smartphone to capture the moment.
How the Occupy Movement Changed Urban Government - Politics … In an increasingly globalized world, Occupy Wall Street reinforced the primacy of...
