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September 21, 2013 Denis Trainor, Jr, and AcronymTV, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Fukushima, Occupy, Petraeus

Stories covered in this episode of the Resistance Report: 1) NYPD Sucker Punches Protester Calling For CUNY To Drop Gen. David Petraeus, 2) Occupy Wall Street Celebrates 2nd Birthday, 3) Fukushima, two Months To Save the World, 4) Can We End The U.S. Empire?, 5) The Class War Escalates - The Resistance Report is a trusted and growing outlet for movement building news, analysis, interviews and editorial commentary. Creator and host Dennis Trainor, Jr was active in the Occupy movement and helped plan the Occupation of Washington, DC at Freedom Plaza.

TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy

September 20, 2013 William Rivers Pitt, www.truth-out.org Educate! Occupy, TPP

The second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street came and went on Tuesday with a fair degree of introspection in the socially conscious corners of social media. What did it mean? What did it accomplish? Is it over or just beginning? More than a few voices suggested the whole thing was nothing more or less than a body-odor ego trip for righteousness junkies looking to lord it over their less-invested activist counterparts. For some of the people in those very large crowds, I'm sure that characterization is true; shake a tree full of activists, and a few rotten gourds are sure to fall and splatter.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Celebrate The Culture Of Resistance

September 20, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Newsletter Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Immigration, Occupy, Poverty, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week we reflect on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse. There are reasons to celebrate despite continued economic stagnation and growing debt: the culture of resistance in the US is here and it’s having an effect. There are cracks in the pillars of power, and it’s up to us to pry them open and shine light on the lies and corruption that have been used to steal our future. We see a movement that is building momentum. We look back over the events of the past two years and feel cautiously optimistic. As we met to organize the occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, there was a strong sense of suspense. Some said that Americans weren’t feeling enough pain, that we hadn’t reached the tipping point. Similarly, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street acted out of anticipation.

We Are A Super Majority

September 18, 2013 David DeGraw, www.evolvesociety.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Occupy

It’s been two years since years of hard work, dedication and frustration finally erupted into mass protests that swept across the globe on an unprecedented scale, and briefly awakened the propagandized masses. Our unjust economic system and the corrupt forces on Wall Street and in Washington were exposed in grand fashion. For once, the people became too powerful to ignore. We finally crashed through the corporate gates of the colossus mainstream media. We penetrated the very leviathan that had divided, isolated and enslaved us. Those robotic, teleprompter reading, paid off propagandist talking heads had no choice, they finally had to acknowledge us.

Thoughts For The Second Anniversary Of Occupy Wall Street

September 18, 2013 Rebecca Solnit, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Occupy

Transformative moments have happened in many times and many places -- sometimes as celebratory revolution, sometimes as terrible calamity, sometimes as both, and they are sometimes reenacted as festivals and carnivals. In these moments, the old order is shattered, governments and elites tremble, and in that rupture civil society is born -- or reborn. In the new space that appears, however briefly, the old rules no longer apply. New rules may be written or a counterrevolution may be launched to take back the city or the society, but the moment that counts, the moment never to forget, is the one where civil society is its own rule, taking care of the needy, discussing what is necessary and desirable, improvising the terms of an ideal society for a day, a month, the 10-week duration of the Paris Commune of 1871, or the several weeks’ encampment and several-month aftermath of Occupy Oakland, proudly proclaimed on banners as the Oakland Commune.

Seven Ways Occupy Changed America—And Is Still Changing It

September 18, 2013 David Callahan, www.demos.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Government, Occupy

Occupy Wall Street was born exactly two years ago today, and even as that movement reached its zenith later in the fall of 2011, it was easy to dismiss the activists who took over financial centers around the nation. Their policy agenda was amorphous and their organizational processes seemed maddening. Compared to the Tea Party, with its disciplined focus on winning elections, Occupy appeared fleeting and ineffective. Yet Occupy changed America in major ways, and is still changing it. Here are seven big ways Occupy influenced both U.S. politics and culture.

Occupy Wall Street, Two Years On: We’re Still The 99%

September 18, 2013 Justin Wedes, www.theguardian.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Occupy

This week marks two years since I joined a ragtag crew of outraged young Americans in the streets of lower Manhattan. We had exhausted the list of available political remedies as we watched our stalemated Congress spiral into deeper indecision. We refused to be silent in the face of a teetering economy and captured political system. We occupied Wall Street, and were soon joined in solidarity by thousands across the country and around the world. We are the 99%! That became the clarion call of a new generation of students and workers, young and old.

Photo Galleries From S17 OWS Anniversary

September 17, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

Below is a photo gallery from the march on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2013. A major theme of the march was global justice with a particular focus on stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership. For more on stopping the TPP visis www.FlushTheTPP.org.

Happy Constitution Day! Happy OWS S17 and Happy TPP Tuesday!

September 17, 2013 FlushTheTPP, www.FlushTheTPP.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

There is much to celebrate because we are already having an effect. The Trans-Pacific Partnership process has been slowed - the bill to grant Fast Track to President Obama has not been introduced in Congress yet and TPP negotiators are struggling with the language in several chapters of the agreement. The initial goal of having the TPP signed by early October does not look achievable. And the AFL-CIO passed a resolution opposing the TPP at its convention last week. All of your hard work to shine a light on the TPP and to demand transparency and democracy is having an impact.

Activists Step Up For Flood Relief In Colorado

September 17, 2013 Christopher Mandel, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Mutual Aid, Occupy

At 9 or 10, I was invited to a page on Facebook named Occupy Boulder Flood Relief, and after joining the group I was invited to a Google Doc which contained a long list of relief organizations, relevant media sources, and other information. It also had a signup space for people who wanted to help organize relief efforts. I typed my contact information in and did a few edits on the shared document. By the time I went to bed at 2am the document also contained an invite to an open meeting for volunteers being held the next day in downtown Boulder. . . I walked to the building where the meeting was to be held and found a group of 10 or so people frantically typing on their computers and gesturing to one another as they desperately prepared for the meeting. An hour later I was facilitating a conversation with about 30 people, mostly college students, who were eager to go out into the community and help the thousands of Boulder residents affected by the flood. An hour after that, I left with the task of building a website for a budding organization vaguely associated with Occupy Boulder.

The Militant Research Handbook

September 13, 2013 the ROAR Collective, www.roarmag.org Educate! Occupy

Welcome to The Militant Research Handbook! It’s designed to help you answer the question: what is militant research? Let’s begin by saying that it’s the place where academia and activism meet in the search for new ways of acting that lead to new ways of thinking. Native American activist Andrea Smith quotes her mentor Judy Vaughn to this effect: “You don’t think your way into a different way of acting; you act your way into a different way of thinking.” . . . So it is not a comprehensive document, as no 32-page booklet could possibly be. It’s more of an invitation: what does militant research look like to you? How might you and those you care about engage in such practice? What else do we need to learn in order to begin? This can be a living document, or it might even be the beginnings of a publishing project.

Launch of the TPP Death Star

September 13, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

On September 17, 2013 the TPP [TransPacific Partnership) Death Star will launch. This is part of a day of actions against the TPP as part of the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in New York City. Money Warz will show the truth about the TPP and why we must stop it. There are 4 ways to join the team and perform or assist: EVENT 1) Sunday S-15 NOON meet at the Washington Square Arch - photo op, rehearsal EVENT 2) Tuesday S-17 9am to 11am Preview at Zuccotti - marching, posing, being admired EVENT 3) Tuesday S-17 NOON to 3pm The Big Times Square Puppet Spectacle - rehearsal, performance, visiting corporate HQs EVENT 4) ALL OF THE ABOVE EVENTS!

The Rise of the New New Left

September 13, 2013 Peter Beinart, www.thedailybeast.com Educate! Government, Occupy

If history is any guide, the sentiments behind Occupy will find their way into the political process, just as the anti-Vietnam movement helped create Eugene McCarthy’s presidential bid in 1968, and the civil-rights movement bred politicians like Andrew Young, Tom Bradley, and Jesse Jackson. That’s especially likely because Occupy’s message enjoys significant support among the young. A November 2011 Public Policy Polling survey found that while Americans over 30 opposed Occupy’s goals by close to 20 points, Millennials supported them by 12. Bill de Blasio’s mayoral campaign offers a glimpse into what an Occupy-inspired challenge to Clintonism might look like.

Does Occupy Have A Friend In Likely NYC Mayor de Blasio?

September 12, 2013 Nathan Schneider, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! De Blasio, Government, Occupy

The Democratic primary election has just about assured that de Blasio will be the next mayor of New York. De Blasio surged ahead to the front of a crowded race in recent weeks by fashioning himself as champion of the downtrodden — to the point of getting himself arrested in protest of a hospital closure. In his youth, he was active in struggles against U.S. military policy in Latin America and nuclear power plants, and more recently, he has made overtures to sympathizers of Occupy Wall Street. In August he told The Wall Street Journal that “As mayor … I would work to build spaces where OWS and government officials could communicate and discuss ways to address their demands.” He has also been highly critical of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s brute-force method of eliminating the occupation at Zuccotti Park, calling it, in an interview with The Nation, “a very troubling precedent.”

Occupy Labor Day

August 29, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Occupy

Occupy Action Council, a coalition of Bay Area Occupy groups that are part of the world wide Occupy Wall Street movement announces their plans for a convergence on Labor Day (September 2nd) 2013. The all-day gathering starts at 11 AM at Chelsea Manning Plaza (formerly Bradley Manning Plaza). The location is the rechristened Justin Herman Plaza at San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Notable events throughout the day will include a press conference at 1PM, a General Assembly at 3 PM and a march to the Federal Reserve building at 101 Market Street. Ruthie Sakheim, a member of OccupySF Environmental Justice group explained, “The convergence is needed because voting in elections is no longer enough to bring about political change. Regardless of party, our politicians have repeatedly proven themselves either unable or unwilling to challenge the corporate elite."

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