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Video: NYPD Wrongfully Arrested Participants of Occupy The Bronx Festivities

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:30:18 -0800

Please, view this video of the arrests made in the Bronx, share and invite others...

On Saturday, December 3, 2011, Occupy the Bronx was scheduled to conduct its roving General Assembly in solidarity with Morning Glory Garden gardeners at 11 am. However, upon arriving we were preempted by NYPD Captain Garcia and his legal gang – including some in “community” affairs attire – under his command from the 40th Precinct who began randomly arresting Bronxites, including Shaun Lin, Carlos Sabater, David Suker, Alex, and a sister who was merely there as an independent writer for allegedly “blocking pedestrian traffic” and congregating without a permit.

At the time of the arrest, there weren’t many of us there, but we were as vulnerable to arrest as anyone else and as vulnerable as those who were indeed wrongfully arrested without cause.
JOIN US!
THIS WEDNESDAY at 6PM at Lincoln Hospital, we invite you to confront the 40th Precinct at the precinct council’s monthly meeting to expose the inconsistency of this precinct’s policing practices within the Mott Haven, Melrose, Port Morris sections of the Bronx; to stand up for Shaun’s, Carlos’, David’s, Alex’s, and the sister’s, and the Bronx’ collective dignity; and to demand Deputy Inspector Christopher J. McCormack reign in his crew in all shades of blue!
JOIN US!
At the Bronx general assembly, there are numerous causes being fought for, all spearheaded by a single principle of community control and self-governance. The people in the Bronx should decide how things are run in the Bronx–in our schools, hospitals, streets and neighborhoods.
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES take place every Saturday at 11am, rotating locations each week:
1st weekend of every month: Fordham Plaza
2nd weekend of every month: 149th & 3rd Ave aka The Hub
3rd weekend of every month: Plaza by the Hunts Point Ave 6 train station
4th weekend of every month: Gun Hill Rd and White Plains Ave
Visit: http://www.occupythebronx.org/

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Police Beating Iraq War Veteran in Oakland

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:07:19 -0800

In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police.
Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.
http://occupymedfordoregon.org/2011/11/oakland-video-footage-shows-police-bea...

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Run (The Occupy Movement Endures)

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:33:00 -0800

"Run" by The Verge of Change Single available on iTunes and CD Baby

Nothing comes easy, you gotta fight for the right It doesn't seem fair for tax to reach heights People who cannot even afford to live life And the rich sit back, relax, remain ni

Banks no longer a friend, they're disliked For their blood sucking ways whenever your card swipes Robbed by the so-called good, and that's life No way, we're making a change man, don't take it light

Add a little rhythm, until they cut the ribbon Big brother stop fibbing, we all gotta make a living And for those that live in riches, do you understand the vision Maybe not, because you're too selfish to take a listen

You know the left is barely left, and the right is never right Now it's time for an election, and the people wanna fight The FOX is in the henhouse, and the chickens are uptight We're no closer to an answer, 'cause the questions have no bite It's all a corporate selection, and tonight may be the night

So I say run, baby, run, yeah run, just run So I say run, baby, run, run, just run So I say run, baby, run, yeah run, just run Run, baby, run, run, just run

The kids way down on Wall Street say it's 99-to-1 We'll ever find that someone who's fit enough to run

Run baby run, don't stop until you reach your goals Make a lifelong change, build a future home Young kids are in school, unemployment grows Let's do it for the world, that's what youth holds

We all breathe the same air, don't remain fair That is why educated people need the welfare Help, yeah, that is what we need Let's all get together, let the peace increase

Get outta bed, the talkin' heads are beating at their gums It's this one, no it's that one whose day has finally come

So I say run, baby, run, yeah run, just run Run, baby, run, run, just run It's 99-to-1, keep searching for the one 'Cause he might be the one, hey she can't be the one

The kids way down on Wall Street are beating on their drums Look forwards, not backwards, a change is gonna come

So I say run Run, 'cause a change is gonna come Run, yeah run Nothing comes easy, you gotta fight for the right

Keep running towards the sun, run, baby run And the rich sit back, relax, remain nice Keep running towards the sun, run, just run, 'Cause a change is gonna come

Robbed by the so-called good via youtube.com

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#OccupyWallStreet – Live streaming since September 17th

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:55:00 -0800

Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

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» BREAKING NEWS – Judge Orders Protesters Be Allowed Back in Park With Their Belongings

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:51:00 -0800

For Immediate Release: November 15, 2011

Contact:

Yetta Kurland – 917-701-9590
Daniel Alterman – 917-945-2599
Gideon Oliver – 646-263-3495
Margaret Kunstler – 917-331-8012

New York, NY: At around 6 AM on November 15, 2011, attorneys associated with the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild working as the Liberty Park Legal Working Group obtained a temporary restraining order against the City of New York, various City agencies, and Brookfield properties directing that occupiers be allowed back on the premises with their belongings.

Earlier, at approximately 1 AM, the NYPD began massing around Zuccotti Park “aka Liberty Park.” In the following hours reports surfaced that the NYPD entered the park with police in riot gear backed up by numerous police vehicles, including a bulldozer, evicting occupiers. In the process they destroyed property and arrested dozens of occupiers and protestors including NYC Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez and District Leader Paul Newell.

In the coming hours, days and weeks the LPLWG will pursue all legal options to enable the occupiers to continue to exercise their first amendment rights to speech and assembly for speech. Attorney Yetta Kurland, one of the attorneys from the LPLWG, said, “This is a victory for everyone who believes in the First Amendment. We will continue to fight for everyone’s right to continue the occupation.” In response to the injunction, Daniel Alterman, also an attorney with the LPLWG, stated that, “This is a victory for all Americans, for the constitution and for the 99%.” Gideon Oliver, another attorney with the LPLWG reacted by saying, “The LPLWG has been fighting to ensure their right to free speech from day one of the occupation. The occupiers right to free speech is based in our most core legal principles and we will be here till the end to fight for those rights.”

The order is available for download here.

The Liberty Park Legal Working Group is a group of volunteer attorneys and legal workers dedicated to defending the rights of those engaged in constitutionally-protected assembly or protest.

via nlgnyc.org

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A Call to Occupy | OccupyWallSt.org

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:45:00 -0800

#OccupyWallStreet Convening 9 a.m. Sixth Avenue and Canal Street.

New York, NY — We are a global movement that is reclaiming our humanity and our future. We have stepped into a revitalizing civic process, realizing that we cannot fix our crises isolated from one another. We need collective action, and we need civic space. We are creating that civic space.

To occupy is to embody the spirit of liberation that we wish to manifest in our society. It is to exercise our freedom to assemble. We are creating space for community, values, ideas, and a level of meaningful dialogue that is absent in the present discourse.

Liberated space is breaking free of isolation, breaking down the walls that literally and figuratively separate us from one another. It is a new focus on community, trust, love and hope. We occupy to create a vision of equality, liberty and social justice onto the blank paving stones of public parks, in the silent hallways of abandoned schools, banks, and beyond. Public space plays a crucial role in this civic process and encourages open, transparent organizing in our movement. As we have seen in Liberty Square, outdoor space invites people to listen, speak, share, learn, and act.

Last night, billionaire Michael Bloomberg sent a massive police force to evict members of the public from Liberty Square—home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months. People who were part of a dynamic civic process were beaten and pepper-sprayed, their personal property destroyed.

Supporters of this rapidly growing movement were mobilized in the middle of the night, making phone calls, taking the streets en masse, and planning next steps. Americans and people around the world are appalled at Bloomberg's treatment of people who peacefully assemble. We are appalled, but not deterred. Liberty Square was dispersed, but its spirit not defeated. Today we are stronger than we were yesterday. Tomorrow we will be stronger still. We are breaking free of the fear that constricts and confines us. We occupy to liberate.

We move forward in the grand tradition of the transformative social movements that have defined American history. We stand on the shoulders of those who have struggled before us, and we pick up where others have left off. We are creating a better society for us all.

Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope. It has revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced. Join us as we liberate space and build a movement. 9 a.m. Tuesday morning at Sixth Avenue and Canal we continue.

Global actions will be posted on this page.

via occupywallst.org

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Occupy Wallstreet Nov. 15th Riot Police Raid, Videos and More. Stop The Repression!

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:37:00 -0800

November 15, 2011 OWS

tear gassing of the kitchen. - Violent arrests pepper spray #OWS #occuppywallstreet Occupy Wall Street November 15, 2011 - Police Eviction NYPD Raid OWS Zuccotti Park Raw Video: Piles of Trash Near Zuccotti Park NYPD raid video: OWS protesters arrested at Zuccotti Park

Police raiding Zuccotti Park in the middle of the night: early news reports and footage -- 11/15/11 Occupy Wall Street: Cops clear Zuccotti Park - November-15-2011 - #occupytogether

ABC World News Now: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Cleared From Zuccotti Park

Watch livestream of Zuccotti Park here: http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc .

Go to 'Occupy Wall Street News and Videos' here: http://paper.li/f-1319837259 -- a daily paper to keep up with and support OWS movement!; and visit my Youtube channel -- 'Munderlarkst' -- for more OWS-related videos!

Please feel free to share any news or videos to spread the word and information. That's what it's there for! Thanks! -Munderlarkst

Thanks to people filming down at Zuccotti Park and everywhere!

From: Russia Today OWS destroyed: Cops clear Zuccotti Park (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Published: 15 November, 2011, 11:58 Occupy Wall Street protesters have clashed with police at Zuccotti Park after being ordered to leave their longtime encampment in New York. At least 70 people have been arrested with the police said to have used pepper spray. Meanwhile, City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez, 51, has reportedly been beaten by the NYPD and is bleeding from head. The police operation commenced at approximately 1am Tuesday. Hundreds of police have mobilized around the park showing protesters letters informing them that they need to leave the encampment temporarily. The NYC Mayor's Office has also posted their demand on Twitter. The tweet read: "Occupants of Zuccotti should temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps. Protestors can return after the Park is cleared." A group of protesters estimates vary from 40 to 100 are refusing to leave the park. Peaceful protesters have been dragged out of the "kitchen" by their arms and legs while nonviolently resisting NYPD, which has also repeatedly tear-gassed people.

http://rt.com/news/ows-clear-zuccotti-park-347/

NOVEMBER 15, 2011, 5:39 A.M. ET Police Clear Zuccotti Park Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in Unannounced Raid By JESSICA FIRGER, MICHAEL AMON, AARON RUTKOFF and PERVAIZ SHALLWANI New York City police and sanitation workers swept in and cleared out the tents inside Zuccotti Park during an unannounced raid on the Occupy Wall Street encampment Tuesday morning, arresting 70 protesters who refused to leave. At least 400 New York Police Department officers dressed in riot gear surrounded the park at around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Officers used bull horns to warn the protesters who have been living in the small, privately owned plaza that the area would be temporarily evacuated and cleared of illegal structures, which were described as fire hazards.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190504577039253668863814.htm

Press Suppression at Occupy Wall Street Raid Around 1:00am on Tuesday, November 15th, the NYPD moved in to clear Zuccotti Park of all protestors and equipment. Members of the press, both independent and mainstream, were systematically prevented from covering the story " #BREAKING: Police in riot gear raid Zuccotti Park, order protesters to vacate bit.ly/uDycwr #OWS NBC New York 5 hours ago ReplyRetweet " "I'm press," I said. "Don't care," officer replied. #OWS Andrew Katz 2 hours ago ReplyRetweet Village Voice writer Rosie Gray sums up the theme of the night: " Me: "I'm press!" Lady cop: "not tonight" #ows

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From The Bronx We Are The 99%

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:08:00 -0800

At 161 Street in The Bronx protesting Chase bank...demanding that the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Standing against Corporate Greed! In Solidarity with the Occupation Movement. Occupy The Bronx! Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Everywhere! via youtube.com

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Take Back Morning Glory Garden - YouTube

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:57:00 -0800

Morning Glory is a garden created and maintained by youths for years on an abandoned lot. The week of Nov. 4th 2011 Housing and Preservation Development (HPD) came to the garden without any advance notice. They began destroying personal property belonging to the community. On Monday, the community were still angered by the disregard of those responsible for the destruction of the garden and their person property.via youtube.com

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People's Assembly, Sat. Nov. 5, to be LIVE STREAMED

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:31:18 -0700

Bail Out the People Movement / South Bronx Community Congress / Labor-Community Forum

Contact Information
Ramón Jimenez    or      Dee Knight                                                                              November 4, 2011
917-517-1320                 646-271-4158
LaborCommunityForum@gmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 2011
People’s Assembly Sat. Nov. 5 to be Live-Streamed from Hostos College, 12noon – 4pm
A People’s Assembly at Hostos College this Saturday, November 5, will be accessible as “live stream” online video at the following address:

www.ustream.com
Show: mumiaabujamalonamove (Cut and paste this into the search field and press enter.)

The People’s Assembly will bring together the Occupy movement with the South Bronx Community Congress, the Bail Out the People Movement and the Bronx Freedom Party. The People’s Assembly is scheduled from noon to 5pm.

Participants include members of Teamsters Local 808 at Woodlawn Cemetery, SEIU Local 32BJ/Schools Division, Transport Workers Union Local 100, Picture the Homeless, Occupy the Bronx, District 12 Parents Association Presidents’ Council, the CASA tenants organizations, La Peña del Bronx, Labor-Community Forum, the May 1 Coalition for Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights, Bail Out the People Movement, and others.

A video from People’s Video Network (online now) conveys some of the message of the People’s Assembly: http://www.youtube.com/peoplesvideo#p/a/u/0/jk_aQ_zOz9s

The People’s Assembly will focus on action plans, including:

A Nov. 12 march & rally at Woodlawn Cemetery against racist anti-union abuse on the job

Actions on Nov. 17 both in the Bronx and Manhattan to demand jobs

A March Against Poverty & Violence in the South Bronx on Nov. 19

Hearings, marches and picketlines to save the U.S. Postal Service, and occupy post offices

Support for efforts to defend the right to education and community control of the schools

Immigrants' rights actions to be announced

Co-Chair Ramon Jimenez, a founder of the South Bronx Community Congress and Freedom Party candidate for New York State Attorney General in 2010, emphasized the “people power” message of the event. “Just like the Occupy movement as a whole, this Bronx People’s Assembly offers a way for ordinary people to make their voices heard,” he said. “We also want to find a way for ordinary working families to be part of this growing movement,” he added.

Key demands expected to be part of the People’s Assembly include:
1.       An end to racist and anti-union violence and abuse on the job, like Woodlawn Cemetery.
2.       A campaign to end the Taylor law and other restrictions on union rights, and support for upcoming contract battles in the public sector, eg PEF and TWU, + fights to restore cuts in the schools.
3.       Cancellation of the student debt.
4.       A large-scale public works program, and an end to efforts to wipe out the postal service
5.       Reversal of the attacks on Medicare, SNAP and Social Security

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Third International Anti-imperialist Conference of International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:38:00 -0700

Third International Anti-imperialist Conference of International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) Convened jointly with Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB) On the occasion of 94th Anniversary of November Revolution and 31st Anniversary of Foundation of SPB

Dhaka, November 27-29, 2011

A Call

1. Rise up in protest against aggression, occupation, looting and blockade by the imperialist powers led by USA in different corners of the globe, including, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Nepal, Latin America, Cuba and DPRK.

2. Strengthen the movement to protect and safeguard the national wealth of Bangladesh, including the natural resources of coal, gas, and petroleum.

3. Save the 140 million people of Bangladesh from capitalist oppression and exploitation; realize the people’s aspirations in the War of Liberation through the victory of socialist revolution.

Beloved People of Bangladesh,

7th November, 2011 marks the 31st Anniversary of Foundation of Socialist Party of Bangladesh, and the 94th Anniversary of the great Socialist Revolution in Soviet Russia. On this occasion we convey to you our revolutionary greetings.

Friends,

You are all experiencing the grinding oppression, exploitation and destitution that the ruling bourgeois class of Bangladesh has inflicted on the nation. Abandoning the objectives and ideals of the War of Liberation, they have perpetrated every conceivable anti-people act during the last 40 years. They have enacted one undemocratic Black Act after another; killing without any trial has become a common affair under the plea of Operation Clean Heart, Crossfire, Encounter etc. Abducting and assassinating persons, branding them as criminals and robbers, has become a daily affair. All state machineries have been made subservient to the ruling party and are used to cater to the interest and avarice of the party and its rapacious functionaries. The consumables’ market, share market, electricity supply, telecom and all the service sectors are under the tight control of a syndicate. Such unbridled looting has added 6000 more to the list of billionaires in one year alone, while in only one sub-district of Jaipurhat 200 people were forced to sell their kidneys in order to meet their debts. This one fact vividly brings out the tragic picture of disparity in our country. Rampant corruption has destroyed the transport system, so much so that broken-down roads have become the principal contributing factor for traffic accidents and loss of life. Crisis in supply of water-gas-electricity and traffic jams have made the urban life in capital Dhaka and other towns a nightmare. Along with this, cultural degradation has become all-pervasive. Teenagers and youths are getting addicted to drugs and pornography. Abuse of women and children and all forms of repulsive monstrosities are on the increase. All these appear to be separate problems but their root cause is one and the same. The capitalist society, whose sole concern is profit, is the progenitor of all these problems.

We note that added to the loot by the national capitalists our natural resources, including gas, oil and coal, are handed over to multinational companies of the imperialist countries. The terms of the contracts are kept secret from the people, and are not even discussed in the Parliament. The progressive, left-minded people involved in the movements for safeguarding the national wealth have become the targets of oppression, repression and persecution by the state.

Fighting countrymen of Bangladesh,

You are also witnessing how the imperialist countries led by USA are perpetrating wanton acts of aggression, war and occupation in different parts of the globe. To establish control over oil wealth they have killed many millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now they are trying to take advantage of the people’s awakening and their aspiration for democracy in Middle East and North Africa and are interfering with a view to expanding their territory of exploitation. To bring Libya with its rich petroleum resources under its control, direct military attacks were launched under the umbrella of NATO. Economic blockade and threats of military attack have been going on for more than 50 years against Cuba and North Korea, with the object of destroying their socialist system. USA is intimidating and hatching conspiracies against Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American countries who have declared to come out of imperialist exploitation and institute a new people-friendly economic system. After the overthrow of monarchy in Nepal, though the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) gained majority in the elections, India-US conspiratorial maneuvers are continuing unabated to unseat them from power.

Compatriots in the struggle,

The imperialists have brought down the most acute crisis in the lives of their citizens, they have launched devastating wars to continue their looting of other countries. The common people all over the world have no other option but to resolutely fight the fascist imperialist powers to ensure advancement of the human civilization. So, the need of the hour is to organize militant anti-imperialist anti-war movements in different countries and to coordinate them to release a mighty global anti-imperialist struggle. In a convention held at Kolkata, India, in 1995, organized by progressive forces and attended by delegates from several countries, this necessity was stressed and a call was given for building up this coordination. Accordingly, at an International Anti-imperialist Conference held at Kolkata in 2007, attended by delegates from several countries and by the well-known anti-imperialist activist and former Attorney General of USA Ramsey Clark, a decision was taken to form the International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) with Ramsey Clark as President and Manik Mukherjee as General Secretary. A Central Secretariat was also elected with representatives from several countries. Khalekuzzaman of SPB was elected as the representative of Bangladesh in the Secretariat. The 2nd International Anti-imperialist Conference of IAPSCC was held at Beirut, Lebanon, on January 16-18, 2009, in collaboration with The Consultative Centre For Studies And Documentation, Beirut, Cairo Conference (Egypt), Stop The War Coalition (London), and National Gathering To Support The Choice Of Resistance (Lebanon). The 3rd IAPSCC International Anti-imperialist Conference is going to be held at Dhaka, Mahanagar Natyamancha, on November 27-29, 2011, being jointly convened with Socialist Party of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an apt venue for such a Conference in view of the militant struggle that the people of Bangladesh are now conducting against exploitation and looting of the natural resources including oil, gas and coal, and against the ruling national bourgeoisie of Bangladesh which is in league with the imperialists. Eminent personalities who would participate in this Conference are: IAPSCC President Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of USA; Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of IAPSCC and Member of Polit Bureau of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist); Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), former Prime Minister of Nepal and Chairman, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist); Carolus Wimmer, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, and Member of Polit Bureau of Communist Party of Venezuela; Sara Flounders IAPSCC Secretariat Member and leader of Workers World Party of USA; Heather Cottin of International Action Centre, USA; Hani Haddadin and Khaled Haddadin of Jordanian Communist Party; Jose Leje and Marcela Maspero of UNETE, Venezuela; Yahia Bakour of Arab Agriculture Union, Syria; Eddebbarh Abdessalem, Moroccan Agronomists Union, Morocco; Explo Nan Kofi, Kilombo Centre for Civil Society and African Self Determination, Ghana; Eliyathambi Thambiah, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, New Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party, Sri Lanka; Ramsurn Lohmus, Communist Party of Mauritius; Alexander Moumbaris, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, Editor, Democrite, France; Mohammad Kassem, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, Lebanon; Mohamed Tay, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, Professor, University of Lebanon; Gyula Thurmer, President, Hungarian Communist Workers Party; Ri Song, Secretary, Korean Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, DPRK; Moreno Pasquinelli, Anti-imperialist Camp, Italy; Ninu Chapagain, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, and Polit Bureau Member, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist); Paolo Babini, CARC Party, Italy; Mohammad Iqbal and Mohammad Qasim, Communist Party of Pakistan; Artuso Antonio, NorthStar Compass, Canada; Leila Ghanem, LIBAN/ FRANCE; Steven Riek Deng Mout, National Youth Union of South Sudan; Ibrahim Ghandour, IAPSCC Secretariat Member and President, SWTUF, Sudan; Roberto Gabriele, IAPSCC Secretariat Member, Movement for Peace and Socialism, Italy; Ali Fayyad, Consultative Centre for Studies and Documentation, Lebanon; Ma’an Bachour, International Arab Centre for Communication and Solidarity, Lebanon; Moataz Mahmoud Zaky Elhefnawy of Egypt; El Hadji Momar Sambe of Senegal, Africa.

Friends,

After a long history of fighting against the 200-year imperialist-colonial rule of Britain, and against the 23-year exploitative colonial rule of Pakistan, Bangladesh has emerged as a sovereign independent nation. We have a glorious history of fighting against imperialism. We appeal to you all to come forward to make this Conference a grand success, honouring the anti-imperialist fighting tradition of the people of Bangladesh. Your financial, material and moral support and active participation would strengthen the fight against the monster that is imperialism. Let us come forward to build up and strengthen the Left alternative political power in place of the bourgeois two-party alternative. Let us build up powerful, militant mass movements against capitalism-imperialism for protecting the people and the wealth of the nation. Let us raise the slogan: Down with capitalism-imperialism.

Long live Socialism.

Long live Proletarian Revolution.

via spb.org.bd

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Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor / TheTiny Dot

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:50:00 -0700

Commentary: What is found interesting is that if the root of many issues being faced by the 99% is caused by the two tiered (Democrate and Republican) political system and their Corporate Croonies rooted on economic monopololy what changes will be achieved in this world, if this incredible movement allows the same system to remain in place?

Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor

TheTiny Dot

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OCCUPY YOUR MORAL GROUND

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:18:00 -0700

The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same moral principles: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. An economic system that forces the people to bear the risks of the recklessness of a few powerful profiteers, to assume the burdens of others’ privilege, and to pay the real costs of destructive industries in the currency of their health and the hopes of their children -- that system is immoral. And when, to enrich a powerful few, that system threatens to disrupt forever the great planetary cycles that support all the lives on Earth? This is moral monstrosity on a cosmic scale.

        Both movements affirm that all flourishing is mutual. The world is deeply interconnected and interdependent; damage to any part undermines the thriving of the whole. Accordingly, every person, no matter how rich, and every system, no matter how entrenched, has the responsibility to honor affirmative obligations of justice and compassion to present and future generations of all beings. Not only in principle. On the ground.

       The Occupy Wall Street Movements are connecting the dots on a map of dysfunction and injustice. Climate change. Toxic neighborhoods. Financial recklessness. Jobs despair. Concentrated wealth. Pointless war. The dots all connect to one central social pathology, which is funding (one might say, buying and selling) of elections (and, of the elected) by powerful centers of wealth -- mostly corporations, mostly destructive and extractive corporations. Our erstwhile democracy has now developed a futures market in politicians. This has created a situation where the government is fundamentally controlled by those who would risk or wreck the (name your favorite: economy, environment, children’s futures) for their own short-term gain.

      The consequence is, of course, that the destructive few now control the regulatory agencies and potential regulations that might have limited their recklessness and greed. They have the consequent power to close off options for resolving the environmental and economic emergencies. They have the power to block federal actions that might prevent injustices. They have the power to bulldoze the natural systems that sustain our lives.

      This is what demonstrators' homemade signs are saying: Get the money out of politics (and politician’s pockets), so we can be a democracy again, so we can enact the measures that will save us from personal and global catastrophe. Self-created environmental catastrophe has taken down many civilizations before ours. But this time, the self-inflicted catastrophe of climate change will take down also the hydrological cycles and relative climate stability that have allowed the evolution of the world as we know and love it. We can draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide to livable levels. But not until we draw down the power of those who are enriched by destroying the conditions of human and ecological thriving.

     We are all in this together. The lines that connect climate change-jobs-environment-education-health-justice are strong and undeniable. The time has passed for an environmental movement. The time has passed for a climate change movement. The time has passed for isolated grassroots movements. We stand on ground that trembles with tectonic movement. Along the straining fault lines of our civilization, we feel the forces building for justice, sanity, and lasting ecological and cultural thriving. This, finally, is The Big One – the coming together of all of us who care about the future and do not want to gamble it away. The Big One will shake the world.

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Just in Pictures...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:18:00 -0700

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PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:38:41 -0700

As was unfortunately expected, the House version of PROTECT IP has been released (embedded below) and it's ridiculously bad. Despite promises from Rep. Goodlatte, there has been no serious effort to fix the problems of the Senate bill, and it's clear that absolutely no attention was paid to the significant concerns of the tech industry, legal professionals, investors and entrepreneurs. There are no two ways around this simple fact: this is an attempt to build the Great Firewall of America. The bill would require service providers to block access to certain websites, very much contrary to US official positions on censorship and internet freedom, and almost certainly in violation of the First Amendment.

Oh, and because PROTECT IP wasn't enough of a misleading and idiotic name, the House has upped the ante. The new bill is called: "the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act" or the E-PARASITE Act (though, they also say you can call it the "Stopping Online Piracy Act").

The bill is big, and has a bunch of problems. First off, it massively expands the sites that will be covered by the law. The Senate version at least tried to limit the targets of the law (but not the impact of the law) on sites that were "dedicated to infringing activities" with no other significant purposes (already ridiculously broad), the new one just targets "foreign infringing sites" and "has only limited purpose or use other than" infringement. They're also including an "inducement" claim not found elsewhere in US regulations -- and which greatly expands what is meant by inducement. The bill effectively takes what the entertainment industry wanted the Supreme Court to say in Grokster (which it did not say) and puts it into US law. In other words, any foreign site declared by the Attorney General to be "inducing" infringement, with a very broad definition of inducing, can now be censored by the US. With no adversarial hearing. Hello, Great Firewall of America.

And while defenders of this bill will insist it's only designed to target truly infringing sites, let's just recall a small list of sites and technologies the industry has insisted were all about infringement in the past: the player piano, the radio, the television, the photocopier, the phonograph, cable tv, the vcr, the mp3 player, the DVR, online video hosting sites like YouTube and more. All of these things turned out to be huge boons for the industry. And yet, with a law like this in place, the old industry gets to kill off technologies they don't understand. Scary stuff.

And it's not just foreign sites impacted by this law (despite what supporters would have you believe). It appears to expand who would have to take on the entire burdens of enforcing this blacklist -- broadly naming "service providers" as defined in the DMCA. That's significant, because a big part of this bill is to undermine and strip away the safe harbors of the DMCA. The DMCA set up an important balance that gave online service providers freedom from liability if they pulled down content upon notification. This new bill provides a massive and ridiculous burden: allowing the Attorney General to create an internet blacklist that all service providers will need to block access to:

A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States to the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof) that is subject to the order, including measures designed to prevent the domain name of the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof) from resolving to that domain name’s Internet Protocol address. Such actions shall be taken as expeditiously as possible, but in any case within 5 days after being served with a copy of the order, or within such time as the court may order.

On top of that, the bill says any attempt to get around such blocks can lead to liability. Would this put liability on things like MAFIAAfire? It sure sounds like it:

To ensure compliance with orders issued pursuant to this section, the Attorney General may bring an action for injunctive relief....
against any entity that knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed for the circumvention or bypassing of measures described in paragraph (2) and taken in response to a court order issued pursuant to this subsection, to enjoin such entity from interfering with the order by continuing to provide or offer to provide such product or service.

While the text of the bill insists that nothing in it takes away the DMCA's safe harbors, once again this is a claim without the facts to back it up. A large part of the bill is an effective attempt to strip away the DMCA's safe harbors.

The only extraordinarily minor change against the interests of the entertainment industry is that the bill ever so slightly changes the "private right to action," which allows individual copyright holders to take action under this bill. This was a big problem in the old bill, and the only requirement here is that prior to making use of this private right to action, copyright holders have to provide "notice" to payment processors and ad providers. But then those service providers are expected to take action anyway, or face liability. So all this really does is take the court out of the process, and make it even easier for copyright holders to effectively kill off sites they don't like.

Think about this for a second: think how many bogus DMCA takedown notices are sent by copyright holders to take down content they don't like. With this new bill, should it become law, those same copyright holders will be able to cut off advertising and payment processing to such sites. Without court review.

And... because this bill wasn't already ridiculously bad enough, it also lumps in a House version of the felony streaming bill that will make huge swaths of Americans felons for streaming content online.

This bill is an abomination and an insult to the Constitution. It's unfortunate that Rep. Lamar Smith thinks this is worth introducing in its current state, and anyone who signs on to co-sponsor is effectively supporting mass censorship of the internet in the US, as well as the criminalization of huge numbers of Americans -- while putting a huge burden on the one part of the economy that actually is creating jobs. All because a few legacy companies in the entertainment industry refuse to adapt.

E-PARASITES Act

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With Generators Taken By The City - Time's Up! Energy Bike Powers Occupy Wall Street

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:59:18 -0700

Time's Up! New York City's Direct Action Environmental group has been working with Occupy Wall Street since its inception. Recently, they have focused on replacing all the gas generators in Liberty Park with Pedal Power Generators. We currently have one up and running, but need your help to build 11 more and power the whole park!

We've received funding for 5 bikes but need at least 6 more, and any donations above that will be used to build more energy bikes which will be sent to other occupations.

Go to http://times-up.org/
and push the donate button

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Sgt. Shamar Thomas Is Back And He Brought The Marines With Him To #OWS still Police Violence Ensued

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:39:00 -0700

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators marched in a show of solidarity with Occupy Oakland Wednesday night. Leading the march front and center was none other than Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas sporting his uniform proudly. At some point during this chaotic protest due to the overwhelming police presence Sgt. Thomas becomes lost in the crowd after the usual suspects (NYPD) hammered into the protesters which seems to be becoming all too common across America.

Incidents across the country of excessive force and violence against peaceful protesters has been circulating the Internet.

Approximately one thousand protesters turned up for this demonstration in New York specifically in a show of solidarity for the protesters who marched in Oakland only to end up besieged by police lobbing tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades which concluded in Scott Olson a U.S. Vet ending up with a fractured skull. Footage of what appears to be the police intentionally targeting the protesters has surfaced and this behavior is only increasing support for the Occupy movement.

Suddenly, confusion and angst set in during the march.

At one point, NYPD officers began arresting, shoving, intimidating, grabbing, and beating demonstrators, even after they were forced to the ground, with shouts of, ‘The whole world is watching!” surrounding them. As the crowd became more riled protesters yelled, “Shame, shame, shame!” in chorus while documenting each police instance of abusive behavior with cameras aimed at the officers in question. Some of the police appeared distraught with the protesters unrelenting cause overtaking the atmosphere as they stood their ground. Other officers were aggressive prompting mass confusion; some were the usual white shirted supervisory officers and one or two were seen wearing suits.

After the arrests, the march continued throughout the financial district with protesters chanting in unison and cheering at their success — and they were indeed successful as they marched proudly without backing down to authoritarian-type police state tactics. Instead they held their heads high chanting “Oakland!”

As they walked along a hand reached out of a New York cab, giving one protester a high five. Reportedly people came out of bars showing support for the movement.

As for Sargent Thomas, the police brutality we’re witnessing recently would not occur under his leadership. While we’re in the process of demanding money out of politics, we should also vote in ordinary righteous Americans to represent the 99% — ‘Representative’ Thomas has a certain ring to it. Sgt. Thomas if you recall recently gave an impromptu speech confronting 30 NYPD officers in Time Square denouncing their crowd control methods and police brutality. Considering his military record and apparent ease at confronting dozens of officers, I sincerely doubt Sgt. Thomas would not take issue with standing up to Corporate greed and political corruption.

As America grows weary of billionaire and millionaire politicians feigning an understanding of what life is like for the 99%, Sgt. Shamar Thomas would be a change we could all believe in.

via politicususa.com

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OWS Is For Real – America Has Lost Its Moral Bearings

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:39:00 -0700

by Allen L Roland

America has lost its moral bearings! Recent polls indicate that if Occupy Wall Street (OWS) were a candidate for President, it would decisively beat any candidate from either party. 86% of Americans think that Wall Street and its lobbyists have far too much power in Washington and those Americans are taking to the streets demanding real moral change.

As I have mentioned before ~ there are evolutionary moral juices flowing through the Occupy Wall Street movement and they are social cooperation and altruism versus isolation and greed. A true shift in global consciousness is upon us for the OWS Movement is touching deeply felt evolutionary chords which will eventually break down the global walls of greed, separateness and war and will replace them with altruism, social cooperation and peace ~ the true driving forces of evolution. See my article ~

According to a recent CNN/ORC International poll, only 15% of Americans asked said that they trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time ~ and that is because Washington is out of sync with America’s grass roots moral values.

In a Press TV Interview this week I stress that the “Occupy” movements are seeking moral changes ~ both economic and political ~ which focus on social cooperation and altruism, not greed. I also stress that America has obviously lost its moral bearings / six minute video

I also mention the three stages of Occupy Wall Street;

Occupy and establish a visible presence and present a moral vision.

Demand the truth, including 9/11 truth, Fed Reserve transparency, full disclosure of Wall Street fraud and derivative indebtedness.

Strike, revolt and demand real change

The first step in regaining our moral bearings is the truth ~ which has yet to be fully revealed to Americans and which accounts for the deep mistrust of not only Wall Street but politicians in general ~ including President Obama. All of whom are obviously in bed with Wall Street and the corporate banking elite.

Have we forgotten the words of Carl Sandburg?

” For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or civilization perishes, one condition may always be found ~ they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.”

No where is this loss of moral bearings more evident than our illegal preemptive attack and occupation of Iraq, where we set up and implemented a U.S. controlled coalition government, where we stage managed a flawed election and judicial system and where we condoned the brutal hanging of Iraq’s sovereign leader after a mock U.S. managed monkey trial. The recent brutal assassination of Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi, by US backed NATO forces and rebels, is yet another example of our flawed moral vision.

Here’s the collective human cost of this flawed moral vision ~

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq 1,455,590

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,798

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan: 2,776

Here’s the financial Cost of War and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

$1,268,965,662,411

Please Note the wars will cost Americans between $3.2 and $4 trillion, including medical care and disability for current and future war veterans, according to a new report by the Eisenhower Research Project based at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

Obviously, we have lost our moral bearings and focus and that is what’s driving the Occupy Wall Street movement ~ and many others acknowledge this driving collective moral force of a country that wants to redeem itself from its past and continuing moral transgressions.

George Lakoff correctly writes in AlterNet ( How Occupy Wall Street’s Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative Worldview ) that OWS has a progressive moral vision and that they’re protesting the disastrous effects that have come from operating with a conservative moral, economic, and political worldview.
Excerpt: “It seems to me that the OWS movement is moral in nature, that occupiers want the country to change its moral focus. It is easy to find useful policies; hundreds have been suggested. It is harder to find a moral focus and stick to it. If the movement is to frame itself, it should be on the basis of its moral focus, not a particular agenda or list of policy demands. If the moral focus of America changes, new people will be elected and the policies will follow. Without a change of moral focus, the conservative worldview that has brought us to the present disastrous and dangerous moment will continue to prevail…. Remember: The Tea Party sees itself as stressing only individual responsibility. The Occupation Movement is stressing both individual and social responsibility.” See article ~

Former four star general and NATO commander Wesley Clark talks about that disastrous conservative world view and the resultant neocon plan to invade seven countries in five years ~ including an attack on Libya and eventually Iran. He calls it the neocon policy coup of the United States led by Dick Cheney and many others. Remember, there’s nothing moral or humanitarian about dropping bombs under the guise of a humanitarian intervention ~ Video: Eight minute Commonwealth Club Interview / 2007

In summary, OWS is a people’s movement with the moral power to change the world ~ because the need to unite and co-operate is a soul based moral need whereas the need to separate, control and destroy is an ego based immoral need and contrary to human evolution.

As I predicted several months ago, a grassroots people’s freedom movement that started in Egypt will end in America in 2012 when the people demand the moral change they voted for in 2008 and never got with Obama ~ but this time, we will get it by ourselves!

via veteranstoday.com

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Video: Chief of Oakland Police denies using flash grenades at Occupy Oakland protests

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:24:00 -0700

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Footage of Scott Olsen being shot in the head with a tear gas canister by Police at Occupy Oakland

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:16:00 -0700

via Vimeo.

This footage is proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25.

The moment leading up to the shooting, Olsen was standing completely still. He was then hit in the head with a tear gas canister, which is potentially fatal.

Also, no rocks or bottles were thrown before Olsen was shot, contrary to Police statements.

Two angles of footage confirm this.

Additional Footage courtesy of:
Matt Kresling
mattkresling.com

Rina Palta, Ali Winston
informant.kalwnews.org

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