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The Zeitgeist Of Tahrir And Occupy

February 10, 2014 Ahmed R Teleb, www.truth-out.org Educate! Egypt, Occupy, Revolution

The 21st Century spirit that fueled Tahrir - that made these possibilities visible, palpable and global - appears not yet to have said all that it has to say. January 25th's and Occupy Wall Street's political failure may in fact be their triumph. In demonstrating the inability of representative governments to meet the ambitions and ideals of the 21st Century mind, protestors in Cairo and in New York achieved a cultural coup. They educated the broader public about what is not possible within current political-economic structures and what alternative structures could be. Moreover, their use of technology to democratize information and liberate ideas not only makes citizen outrage more recognized but also makes the alternatives generally available beyond geographical barriers. In effect, just as political innovation seems more urgent than ever (with the weak global economy, degrading environment, rapid change), it has also never been more likely.

VIDEO: Massive Resistance Building to Stop KXL

February 7, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Government, Indigenous Rights, Occupy, Tar Sands

Last week, the State Department has released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed northern leg of the controversial and long-embattled TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. As Steve Horn, of DeSmog Blog notes: “In a familiar “Friday trash dump” — a move many expected the Obama administration to shun — John Kerry’s State Department chose to “carefully stage-manage the report’s release” on Super Bowl Friday when most Americans are switching focus to football instead of political scandals.” Even with the Super Bowl weekend serving as a distraction, over 200 events took place from coast to coast the day after the Super Bowl aimed at sending a message to President Obama, that – according to 350.org: “it’s time for President Obama to be a climate champion, not the pipeline president, and reject Keystone XL. Standing together, we can be heard.”

Privacy Advocates Plan To Sue Oakland Over City ‘Spy’ Center

February 6, 2014 Katie Rucke, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Oakland, Occupy, Police abuse, Surveillance

The Oakland Privacy Working Group, a coalition of civil liberties advocates, announced on Monday it would file a taxpayer lawsuit against the city of Oakland, Calif., if city officials continued to construct the Department of Homeland Security-funded Domain Awareness Center, which it says violates the First and Fourth Amendment rights of Oakland residents. Scheduled to go live in July 2014 and funded almost exclusively by a $10.9 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security, the DAC will link cameras around the city with ShotSpotter gunshot detectors, license plate readers, Geographic Information Systems mapping, social media feeds and more. “We have access to a large group of internal documents obtained through a Public Records Act request,” Hofer said, adding that thousands of internal emails from City of Oakland staff show that the true intent of the DAC is monitoring political demonstrations.

The Roots Of Revolutionary Moments Are Not Always Obvious

February 6, 2014 Sam Smith, www.prorevnews.blogspot.com Educate! Occupy, Revolution

Ira Chernus, History News Network - "The '60s" as a real political-cultural phenomenon was not evident to most Americans until 1967 or maybe even 1968. It's only in retrospect that so many events of 1964 seem so obviously intertwined. That's what historians do: look back and see things that people at the time couldn't see. It's a job well worth doing. But it's equally important that we don't confuse the early seeds of a major political, social, and cultural change with the substance of the change itself. ... Historians face a methodological problem here. If you're going to decide that the key to understanding any historical era is to track down its roots -- as '60s scholars so often do -- where do you stop? Everything that happened in 1964 -- or any other year, for that matter -- was the fruit of things that happened earlier. It's well known by now that the roots of "the '60s" really lie in the supposedly so opposite era of "the '50s."

Radical Kindness: Inspiration From A Fearless Rebel

January 30, 2014 Rivera Sun, Educate! Nonviolence, Occupy

There is nothing rebellious about violence at this point in human history; it has been normal, accepted, and constant for centuries. Rage and violence are the status quo of a socio-economic system built from exploitation and maintained by cruelty, greed, and destruction of the planet. If we wish to truly rebel against a greedy, warmongering, fear-inducing, corrupt, controlling socio-economic and political system that thrives on keeping its populace isolated, competitive, and antagonistic towards each other and the rest of the world, that rebellion requires not rage or violence, but kindness. Kindness cannot be equated with passivity, however. There is nothing kind about being passive when life-as-usual has become a march toward death. As lovers of humanity, we must admit that our leaders have severe addictions and abusive tendencies. It is an act of kindness - toward ourselves and our opponents - to stand up firmly and put an end to such abuse.

Sawant Responds To The State Of The Union Address

January 29, 2014 Kshama Sawant, www.youtube.com Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Occupy, Pipelines, Poverty, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

Obama talked about the deepening inequality. But that is a testament of his own presidency. A presidency that has betrayed the hopes of tens of millions of people who voted for him out of a genuine desire for fundamental change away from corporate politics and war mongering. Poverty is at record-high numbers - 95% of the gains in productivity during the so-called recovery have gone to the top 1%. The president’s focus on income inequality was an admission of the failure of his policies. An admission forced by rallies, demonstrations, and strikes by fast food and low wage workers demanding a minimum wage of $15. It has been forced by the outrage over the widening gulf between the super-rich and those of us working to create this wealth in society. While the criminals on Wall Street are bailed out, courageous whistleblowers like Edward Snowden are hunted down and the unconstitutional acts he exposed are allowed to continue.

Haitian Peasant Movement Creates Food Security, Protests Monsanto

January 29, 2014 Mina Remy, www.grassrootsonline.org Create! Food and Agriculture, Haiti, Occupy, Video

Haiti’s peasant movements are reforesting the countryside, building irrigation systems, feeding communities – just to name a few activites that are improving lives for rural communities across the nation. In the video below, members of Haiti’s Group of Four (G4) and the Dessalines Brigade describe how Haiti’s peasant movement connects with the struggle for food sovereignty in the United States, and globally. The video includes Grassroots International partners from Haiti and Brazil speaking at an Occupy the Food Prize rally on October 17, 2013 in Des Moines. Haiti’s social movements, and its peasant movements in particular, have stepped up to the challenge of re-envisioning Haiti and putting that vision into practice. For Haiti’s peasant movements, agriculture – and the peasants who make it possible – is central to Haiti’s just development. Late last year, a union of the country’s four largest peasant movements known as the G4 (all supported by Grassroots International) shared the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize with the Dessalines Brigade for their accompaniment of peasant farmers and zealous advocacy of peasant rights.

7 Lessons For Social Justice Activists From The Zapatistas

January 27, 2014 Justin Wedes, www.occupywallst.org Educate! Occupy, Zapatistas

The Zapatistas are not here in town but rather deep in the Lacandon Jungle surrounding us, and they’ve convened a Zapatista Freedom School on the 20th anniversary of their uprising to show activists, journalists and academics from around the world how they’ve progressed in building their Gobierno Autónomo in Chiapas. After the armed uprising of ’94 and the success of the Zapatistas in reclaiming and defending huge swaths of land from rancheros(Mexican ranchers, or large land-holders), the Mexican government began a strategy of low-intensity military and economic warfare to attempt to isolate, divide and ultimately conquer the growing rebel insurrection. The Zapatistas responded by shifting strategy from armed conflict to non-violent civil resistance, while bolstering and tightening their organizational structures “with a civil and peaceful movement”, as they proclaimed in their 2000 Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. This movement, in all of its intricate detail, is what I have come down to see in action.

Fight For 15 Continues Occupy Challenge To The 1%

January 27, 2014 Rose Hackman, www.theguardian.com Resist! Occupy, Worker Rights and Jobs

One in two college graduates are now either unemployed or underemployed. Millennials – even those from the middle class – are experiencing income inequality and America’s failed dream of upward mobility first-hand. The mismatch of college-educated young workers with low-wage, unskilled, precarious jobs is creating a new face of the once-dwindling American labor movement: young, diverse, led by millennials in their twenties and thirties, and fighting what they see as an unfair labor market. Their modest cause? Pushing for a higher minimum wage. Because of too many young people interested looking for work, these millennials reason that the labor movement is the only way to address large-scale poverty and income inequality – starting with their own. The "Fight for 15" movement is the most visible of these.

Portland Seeks $7,116 From Occupier Who Sued Over Pepper Spray

January 26, 2014 Aimee Green, www.oregonlive.com Educate! Occupy, Police abuse

Liz Nichols is the Occupy Portland protester whose image became widely known for being blasted in the face with pepper spray by a Portland police officer in fall 2011. She sued the city for excessive force but lost after a four-day trial in August in U.S. District Court in Portland. She had sought $30,000, noting the excruciating pain of pepper spray in her eyes and throat -- and the ensuing nightmares, depression and worsening eczema. But the jury sided with Portland, and so the city was entitled to recover its costs of defending itself. Deputy city attorney David Landrum said he offered to drop the city's pursuit of costs if Nichols agreed to waive an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He called one of Nichols' attorneys with the offer. Nichols, 23, is a college student at Portland State University. At the time of her federal trial, she also was working as a janitor. Nichols decided to appeal. So the city sought its payback. On Oct. 18, federal judge Michael Mosman signed off on the $7,116 that Nichols now owes.

What I Learned About Obama’s Surveillance State at the NATO3 Show Trial

January 24, 2014 Joe Scarry, comehomeamerica.wordpress.com Educate! Nato 3, Occupy, Surveillance

OK, we’re getting used to our government conducting their affairs in secret. (By the way, that is one of the bizarre features of a “show trial” — it is conducted for maximum publicity but there is nothing truly “public” about it.) Under our increasingly secret-driven government, the people get to see NOTHING about the conduct of the government. On the other hand, the government sees EVERYTHING about us. And so, if just one shred of truth manages to get into the public view as a result of this trial, it should be the way surveillance was used by the Obama administration against the Occupy movement.

Occupy Christie #OccupySandygate

January 19, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! New Jersey (NJ), Occupy

DAY ONE, SandyGate #SandyGate #OccupyChristie is a 4 day occupation, in 20 degree weather, Jan 18 thru Gov Christy getting sworn in, on Jan 21, 2014. If people think the Bridge thing is a scandal, wait til our Hurricane Sandy Survivors get to telling their stories about Christy funneling the Relief $$$ to the wealthy, and BURNING the Working Class, & poor folks. The photo gallery below of Day One of Occupy Sandygate was taken by Bill Perry.

Time to Rethink Emergency Response

January 14, 2014 Occupy Sandy, www.occupysandy.net Organize! Occupy, Video

Sofia Gallisa Muriente describes how the Occupy Wall Street movement established a horizontal, community-based network that served as an optimal model for citizen-centric emergency response in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Occupy Fredericton Protesters Get Apology, $14K From City

January 7, 2014 Staff, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy

Three Occupy Fredericton protesters have won an apology and $14,350 in damages from the city, after their protest camp was removed by city staff two years ago. Julian Renaud, Dana Hartt, and Alex Davenport had filed a small claims lawsuit against the city, Mayor Brad Woodside, and the city's director of engineering and public works Murray Jamer in April 2012. But the parties reached an out-of-court settlement last month and the details were just released on Monday. The mayor refused to read the written apology aloud, but acknowledged that due to the Charter right to protest, the city's bylaw did not give it the authority to tear down the Occupy Fredericton camp, without a court order. "Legally, it was not the right thing to do. I accept that, I apologize," Woodside told CBC News.

The Tasks Of The People-Powered Movement For 2014

January 5, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Chelsea Manning, Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Edward Snowden, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Fracking, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Health Care, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, NSA, Occupy, Solidarity, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

In this stage of movement development, which can take many years, the primary task of the people-powered social movement is to build national consensus through broad and deep grassroots organizing. The power holders are currently in a crisis management mode. They continue to defend their policies while shifting positions and taking countermeasures to undermine people power. During this stage public opinion is shifting, majorities oppose the current situation and are beginning to see that new alternative solutions must be put in place. People-powered activists are in a battle with the power holders for the hearts and minds of super-majorities of the people. We ended our last article with a key point that we need to highlight here: our goal is to build a mass movement, which has the support of super-majorities of Americans and has mobilized up to 3.5% of the population. Therefore, the target of our protests is not the government or a corporation, the target is the people: to educate and mobilize them. We want to show that there is an effective movement speaking to the people’s concerns and putting forth views that they support. We protest the power holders to expose their actions but do not expect them to be capable of addressing our concerns adequately in this stage.

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