#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #TeaParty #Occupy? A year after May Day 2012, a movement takes stock. http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/946640-129/occupy-movement-says-political-seattle-2012 It’s been nearly a year since thousands of peaceful protestors – and a handful of black-clad vandalizing ones – took to the streets of Seattle for May Day 2012. Since then, a police force has been repeatedly chastised for its response to the protests, a police chief has stepped down and four local activists spent months locked up without charges ever being filed – in and out of solitary confinement – for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury that many have described as a “political witch hunt.” But while Seattle police have said confidently that they are ready for whatever protestors throw at th…http://www.twitpic.com/clia9o
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #TeaParty Tel Rumeida settlers occupy Palestinian land by cutting down trees and farming the land http://palsolidarity.org/2013/04/tel-rumeida-settlers-occupy-palestinian-land-by-cutting-down-trees-and-farming-the-land/ Settlers from the Tel Rumeida area in Hebron gradually cut down 15 almond trees on privately owned Palestinian land over the last two weeks. The settlers also installed an irrigation system and planted seeds with the clear intention of taking over the land. The owner of the land has complained to the police and army on several occasions to no avail. “The police just showed up, watched the settlers and then went away.” “The trees are very close to my heart, my children used to play around them.” The Palestinian family Abu Heikel is renting the land from a Palestinian Jew called …http://www.twitpic.com/clhn7d
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] MONEY, POWER AND WALL STREET http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-power-wall-street/ FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the global financial crisis. SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATEShttp://www.twitpic.com/cl2r13
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Looting Main Street http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-main-street-20100331 How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 of her fellow public employees would have to take a little unpaid vacation for a while. The county, it turned out, was more than billion in debt — meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff's precincts had to be closed so that Wall …http://www.twitpic.com/ckap0l
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Austerity Is Dangerous http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/18/why-austerity-is-a-dangerous-idea/ Prof. Mark Blyth explains “Why Austerity Is a Dangerous Idea” in Time: “…for people to save, they need to have income from which to save. So if you are, for example, a state in the Eurozone today, and every similar state saves at the same time by cutting spending, the result is the shrinkage of everyone’s economy since they are each other’s trading partners and sources of income. Perversely, their debt goes up, not down, relative to their (shrinking) GDP, which is what has happened to every European country that has undergone an austerity program since 2010. They now have more debt, not less.”http://www.twitpic.com/ckalsf
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty House Passes Bill to Shut Down NLRB http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/House-Passes-Bill-to-Shut-Down-NLRB House Republican leadership rammed through a bill (H.R. 1120) earlier today that would effectively put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) out of business. The NLRB enforces rules established under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which protects the rights of workers to form unions, bargain collectively and have a voice on the job. RELATED: http://www.businessinsider.com/house-gop-retaliates-against-boeing-labor-suit-by-passing-bill-to-neuter-the-nlrb-2011-9http://www.twitpic.com/cjg8rb
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Not the Onion: Dennis Rodman to return to North Korea and his new BFF Kim Jong-un http://freakoutnation.com/2013/04/14/not-the-onion-dennis-rodman-to-return-to-north-korea-and-his-new-bff-kim-jong-un/ Everybody calm the fuck down. Dennis Rodman can take care of our little North Korea problem. The former Chicago Bulls star is headed back to Pyongyang this summer. “I’m going back August 1,” The Miami Herald reports. “We have no plans really, as far as what we’re going to do over there, but we’ll just hang and have some fun!” What could go wrong? The Atlantic reports: “I’m not a total idiot,” said Rodman. “I know what Kim Jong-un is threatening to do regarding his military muscle. I hope it doesn’t happen because America will take whatever actions to protect America and our allie…”…http://www.twitpic.com/cjfs3s
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Tell House Republicans 'No' to NLRB Shut Down http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Tell-House-Republicans-No-to-NLRB-Shut-Down Talk about team work. House and Senate Republicans have come together with a unique new strategy to attack workers’ rights and shut down the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). And their corporate sponsors are loving it…http://www.twitpic.com/cihk2s
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty At Occupy the DOE, A Push for Democratic, Not Corporate, Education Reform http://www.thenation.com/article/173728/occupy-doe-push-democratic-not-corporate-education-reform# Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, blogger and activist Diane Ravitch, educator and writer Deborah Meier, some of the brightest lights in a movement that seeks to shut down a brand of education reform that weakens unions, closes struggling schools, and evaluates teachers based on an endless cycle of student standardized tests, rallied in D.C. last weekend, for the second annual Occupy the Department of Education event April 4 to 7. The rhetoric was fiery, the crowd was energized, but the square in front of the Education Department was barely half full. At the rally’s height, around …http://www.twitpic.com/cihlfy
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty America’s Zombie Prison http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-guantanamo-bay-is-worse-than-alcatraz-by-naomi-wolf The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for which the Pentagon recently requested $49 million in extra funding. Despite Barack Obama’s promise in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut down “Gitmo,” the US evidently has no intention of doing so anytime soon. In fact, the only thing concerning Gitmo that the Obama administration has shut down is the office of the special envoy, Daniel Fried, who had been tasked with its closure. The US State Department reassigned Fried in late January, and he will not be replaced. CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphHow better to memorialize that decision tha…
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty America’s Zombie Prison http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-guantanamo-bay-is-worse-than-alcatraz-by-naomi-wolf The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for which the Pentagon recently requested million in extra funding. Despite Barack Obama’s promise in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut down “Gitmo,” the US evidently has no intention of doing so anytime soon. In fact, the only thing concerning Gitmo that the Obama administration has shut down is the office of the special envoy, Daniel Fried, who had been tasked with its closure. The US State Department reassigned Fried in late January, and he will not be replaced. CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphHow better to memorialize that decision tha…http://www.twitpic.com/cjh3t6