#UNION #IWW #OCCUPY #OWS #P2 #P21 #TLOT Who Can Stop the Koch Brothers From Buying the Tribune Papers? Unions Can, and Should http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/who-can-stop-the-koch-brothers-from-buying-the-tribune-papers-unions-can-and-should-20130510 A few weeks ago, we did a story about hedge fund king Dan Loeb's plans to address a conference of institutional investors and perhaps solicit new clients among the public retirement funds in attendance, despite his involvement with a political lobbying group that campaigns against those very types of defined benefit plans. When stories by Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly and the New York Post came out about Loeb's affiliations, Loeb canceled his scheduled speech at the Conference of Institutional Investors and fled the event, reinforcing the simple idea that powerful interests can…http://www.twitpic.com/csss1w
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Occupy Arrests Near 8,000 As Wall Street Eludes Prosecution http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/occupy-wall-street-arrests_n_3326640.html?utm_hp_ref=business Here's a fact that may make your blood boil: Nearly 8,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested in association with the activist movement, while not one banker has been prosecuted for the actions that lead up to the country's financial meltdown. The website OccupyArrests.com has tracked 7,736 in 122 cities nationwide since the Occupy movement began in September 2011. On Monday, hundreds of members of Occupy Our Homes, an organization that supports homeowners facing foreclosure, protested outside of the Justice Department to speak out against homeowner abuses in the wake of the housing c…http://www.twitpic.com/csq2aq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] The Last Internationale Demand That 'Workers of the World Unite!' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/the-last-internationale-demand-that-workers-of-the-world-unite-20130501 Folk-rockers rally for protest anthem New York's counterculture spirit lives on in the Last Internationale, a group of impassioned folk-rockers, and the new video for their fiery protest song “Workers of the World Unite!” In it, the band plays through the stripped-down track in an isolated shack, and images of hard-working farmers filter throughout the video (which you can watch here exclusively). “[The song] is about poverty, oppression, injustice, the myth of the American dream and the need for workers' revolution against capitalism,” the Last Internationale… RELATED: http://www.rockencanarias.com/2012/06/the-last-internationale-desde-nyc-al-mojo-club/http://www.twitpic.com/cspivg
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Free Mahmoud Bouneb http://atunisiangirl.blogspot.com/2013/04/free-mahmoud-bouneb.html Mahmoud Bouneb was the founder Executive Genral Manager of Al Jazeera Children's Channel and Baraem TV from 2004 to 2011/ The award winning Channels are internationally recognized for producing educational and societal content. Mahmoud is held in Qatar since September 27, 2011The allegations filed against him and his colleagues are totally unjustified, and the carried-out investigations and audits had proved their innocence from any indictable offenses. Mahmoud Bouneb a été Directeur Général d'Al Jazeera Children's Channel et Barem TV de 2004 à 2011. Ces deux chaines qui jouissent d'une reconnaissance internationale étaient honorées par de nombreux prix pour leur contenu sociétal et ludo-éducatif. Mahmoud est retenu au Qatar depuis le 27 Septembre 2011 faisant face à des allégations totalement injustifiées et sans fondement. Les enquêtes menées par les différents audits ont démontré son innocence de tout acte répréhensible شغل محمود بوناب وظيفة المدير العام التنفيذي لقناتي الجزيرة للاطفال و براعم من 2004 الى 2011. و قد اكتسبت القناتان تحت ادارته سمعة دولية و حصلتا على العديد من الجوائز تقديرا لمضمونهما الاجتماعي و التربوي و الترفيهي. غير أنّ محمود محتجز في قطر و ممنوع من السفر منذ 27 سبتمبر 2011 حيث يواده اليوم تهما غير مبرّرة و لا أساس لها من الصحّة . و قد أظهرت التحقيقات براؤة محمود و زملائه من أيّ تهمة جنائية.http://www.twitpic.com/csickv
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Occupy Justice Department: Labor Leaders Hold Event To Support Arrested Protesters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/occupy-justice-department_n_3315103.html Labor leaders spoke out Tuesday afternoon in support of foreclosed homeowners protesting outside the Department of Justice, a day after many of the protesters were arrested. Union leaders lauded the actions of those arrested, and condemned the DOJ and the practices of the largest banks in the country during a press conference. The leaders were flanked by about 25 protesters and foreclosed homeowners, who stood in the same place where men and women were arrested Monday afternoon as they demonstrated against the DOJ… RELATED: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-7-weeks-in/100183/http://www.twitpic.com/csbee3
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty MPs pay activists refuse to take plea http://www.nation.co.ke/News/MPs-pay-activists-refuse-to-take-plea/-/1056/1858064/-/vldyfxz/-/index.html Seventeen protesters arrested during last week’s anti-MPs-pay-increase demo in Nairobi have refused to plead to criminal charges pressed against them. The activists have been slapped with several charges including taking part in an illegal procession and cruelty against animals. The group Monday said the charges “lacked sufficient disclosure” and asked the court to declare the case “unconstitutional”, and set them free. “The Constitution demands that anyone arrested should be informed of the charge, given sufficient details, understand it first before pleading,” Lawyer Harun Ndumbi for the accused said. The accused, he said,…http://www.twitpic.com/cs1dzw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Public speaks out against Xcel request for natural gas rate increase http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23285894/public-speaks-out-against-xcel-request-natural-gas A handful of citizens spoke out Monday against Xcel Energy's request for 1 million in higher natural gas rates. “I think it's outrageous,” said Deborah Quintana Hegtvedt of Arvada. “This is definitely going to hurt the low-income and the middle-income. Xcel is asking time and time again for rate increases. It's time for the public to stand up and say enough is enough.” Hegtvedt and others spoke at a public-comment hearing at the offices of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. At issue was the rate hike application that Xcel said is necessary to overhaul its Colorado natural gas pipeline …http://www.twitpic.com/cs2tdl
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Collect calls to key in # 15M | Monday 20 Sunday May 26 http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/2013/05/20/recull-20-a-26-maig/ TRANSLATED FROM CATALAN SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR We present a new 'key picks in # 15M' of calls. It features lectures, screenings, information tables (and help), round tables, presentations … all types . You can send announcements appearing in this 'collection' or the next day to email comunicacio.acampadabcn @ gmail.com. We invite you to read this 'collection' and make it spread. This publication compiles all the calls of the week , we invite you to find more information by following the links below: – Barcelona neighborhood assemblies – assemblies of towns and villages in the province of Barcelona (1) – Committees, groups and groups fighting (1) Some assemblies villages are inactive now. They keep the list for reasons of historical memory. Monday May 20 [St. Andrew House] meeting point affected by the crisis (PTAC) – every Monday from 18 to 20h in the CSO's Gordisima. c. Pons and Gallarza 10 (Barcelona). | Travel – Information and mutual support on issues related to labor (labor reform, foreclosures, banking problems ..). – More information on PTAC blog . Open meeting to consider new tools to combat rubber bullets – At 18h30 the Ateneo de Flor de Mayo. c. Dr.. Trueta 195 (Barcelona). | Travel – More Blog of Stop rubber bullets . Tuesday May 21 [Human Rights Film Festival] Screening of “Inigo Cabacas. Chronicle of a herida abierta ” – At the Cinema Malda 18.30. c. 5 Pi (Barcelona). | Travel – Screening and panel discussion. – More Blog of Stop rubber bullets . [New People's Assembly] Table Information about tax resistance in military spending – From 19h30 to 20h30 at the Ateneo Flower of May. c. Dr.. Trueta 195 (Barcelona). | Getting there Wednesday May 22 [Assembly Poble Sec] Documentary Screening 'Enough reasons, close the CIES' + debate – at 20pm at Civic Center Fountain. Pl. Fountain (Barcelona). | Getting there – more by following this link . Thursday 23 M Stops and Assembly Standing Barcelona – Every Thursday from 10am to c. Peter Lowest 70 (Barcelona). | Travel – For more information, visit the blog of the Assembly Standing Stops and Barcelona . [Roundtable] ” New models for the creation and production technology free ” – A Social 19h Aurea. c. 263 Sardinia (Barcelona). | Travel – With the participation FabLab BCN, hangar, and citilab domothings (Helena Lopez, Antonio Lopez, Raul Nieves …). – Around new manufacturing technologies, the FabLabs and 3D printers. – More Information following this link . [Chat] “A look on his childhood nursery school public” by Sara Brown – At 18h30 at La Fontana Youth Space. c. 190 Gran de Gràcia (Barcelona). | Travel – More Information follow this link . [ATTAC OK] Documentary Screening 'Black Block' (Carlo Bashmidt) – From 19 to 21h local Attac Agreement. c. Industry 65 (Barcelona). | Travel – Presented by Andrea Lotto, will screen this documentary (subtitles) on the repression of the police during demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. [Talk] Constru (A) ction: Cooperative production and consumption – At 19h30 Orlandai House. c. Jaume Piquet 23 (Barcelona). | Travel – With unions Germinal (Sarria) Can Slopes (Vallvidriera) and Ca Paca initiative. – more by following this link . Saturday May 25 [Agroecology and Health Association (ASIA)] Seminar “Food and Health. Alternatives to the current model ” – With the participation of Laia Fargas Furs (researcher Observatory DESC), Agustin Cruz (acupuncturist and fitoterapeuta), Monica Vargas (Delta Platform Live) and Esther Vivas (researcher at the Center for the Study of Movements Social UPF). – More e REGISTRATION (free but required) by following this link . [Lecture-discussion] Around the state of the anarchist movement in Greece – At 19pm the Fella. c. Joaquim Costa 34 (Barcelona). | Travel – Around the context, practices, repression, solidarity … the anarchist movement in Greece. – Learn more by following this link . Sunday May 26 [Bank expropriate Grace] Projection 'towards where we removes Progress' – At 19pm expropriate the Bank of Grace. c. Gracia traverse 181 (Barcelona). | Travel – The cycle of cinema forum “fight for territory” Month of May. – more by following this link . [Ateneo de Mayo Flower] 3rd Edition Vermutet Blossom: 'Two years of 15M … a collective glance' – 12 to 14.30 at the Ateneo Flower of May. c. Dr.. Trueta 195 (Barcelona). | Getting there – more by following this link . NOTE: You can send announcements appearing in this 'collection' or the next day to email comunicacio.acampadabcn @ gmail.com. Neither was standing before this will be 15M or so after , but the major media want to hide or minimize it whenever you have no choice. Learn and participate. We do not stop or pause, continue! Do you want to receive email announcements agenda? You can subscribe to the newsletter published by the Space Coordination of neighborhood assemblies in Barcelona following this link to your blog and giving you high.http://www.twitpic.com/cs2z0q
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Justice Department: Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested Protesting U.S. Refusal To Prosecute Big Banks http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/occupy-justice-department_n_3309305.html?utm_hp_ref=politics Owners of foreclosed houses were arrested during a protest outside Justice Department headquarters Monday, where they demonstrated against prosecutors' failure to take legal action against bankers. Seventeen former homeowners were arrested, according to Washington police. The demonstrators were seized outside the Justice Department building as they sat in groups behind a police barrier, singing protest songs largely invoking language from the Occupy Wall Street. They blocked traffic in front of the Robert F. Kennedy building beginning at 2 p.m. Five hours later,…http://www.twitpic.com/cs30ep
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/ Despite enormous progress in recent decades, women still have to deal with biases against them in the sciences. In April, National Geographic News published a story about the letter in which scientist Francis Crick described DNA to his 12-year-old son. In 1962, Crick was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA, along with fellow scientists James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Several people posted comments about our story that noted one name was missing from the Nobel roster: Rosalind Franklin, a British biophysicist who also studied DNA. Her data were critical to Crick and Watson's work. But it tur…
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/ Despite enormous progress in recent decades, women still have to deal with biases against them in the sciences. In April, National Geographic News published a story about the letter in which scientist Francis Crick described DNA to his 12-year-old son. In 1962, Crick was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA, along with fellow scientists James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Several people posted comments about our story that noted one name was missing from the Nobel roster: Rosalind Franklin, a British biophysicist who also studied DNA. Her data were critical to Crick and Watson's work. But it tur…http://www.twitpic.com/cs2s53