March 2012
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The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American... →
Yes, the worst things you may have heard about the National Defense Authorization Act, which has formally ended 254 years of democracy in the United States of America, and driven a stake through the heart of the bill of rights, are all really true. The act passed with large margins in both the House and the Senate on the last day of last year – even as tens of thousands of Americans were...
February 2012
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“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only the publishers who think that people...”
– John Lennon (via occupyallstreets)
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
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New Objections to N.Y.P.D.’s Iris Photographing... →
After her arrest at an Occupy Wall Street protest in December, Samantha Wilson expected to be booked, fingerprinted and subjected to a mug shot. But when a police officer raised a small device to her face and began photographing her eyes, she declined.
Ms. Wilson, 32, said her refusal resulted in a threat from the officer.
“He said: ‘It’s not really optional. It’ll take you longer to get out...
“When the film was made during the peak period of anti-terrorist legislation the...”
– Alan Moore
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Viewpoint: V for Vendetta and the rise of... →
First published in 1982, the comic series V for Vendetta charted a masked vigilante’s attempt to bring down a fascist British government and its complicit media. Many of the demonstrators are expected to wear masks based on the book’s central character.
Ahead of the protests, the BBC asked V for Vendetta’s writer, Alan Moore, for his thoughts on how his creation had become an...
Faces of Occupy Wall Street
occupyonline:
Tirsa: I’m here to stop corruption of Big Banks, Big Company, Big Gasoline. To take on and break the code to return our money. It’s said there are $600 Trillion around and across our country alone. We need that for all the people.
Taylor: This world is corrupt. Maybe we can do something about the evil selfish nature of the human race.
Daryl: I’m here to protest against...
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The Illusion of Choice
Source: Frugal dad
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Is the “Black Bloc” hijacking Occupy Oakland?
I remember when people were saying that the Obama Campaign and MoveOn.org were going to hijack Occupy. Seems like anarchists skirmishing with police are stealing the spotlight in Oakland. I wonder if Occupy Oakland will be able to get past this and continue existing. I’ve also always been very touch and go with Anarchists, not sure how...
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Never Call the Police: Single Mother in Milwaukee... →
One [police officer] took her 15-year-old brother outside to speak to him. The other cop, Police Officer Ladmarald Cates, gave her boyfriend $10 and told him to go the store and get some water. She told him that he was welcome to chilled water from her refrigerator.
“I only drink bottled water,” Cates said.
Her boyfriend has a pronounced limp and set off with no promise of returning soon. ...
January 2012
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Tactical Briefing #25 | Adbusters Culturejammer... →
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.
And so will...
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File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in... →
Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds...
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'V for Vendetta' Writer Alan Moore Comes... →
Contemplating the sheer volume of people who’ve sustained the Occupy movement for these many months, Moore compared the protestors to a tidal wave. “I don’t think that they are the cause of the wave,” he said. “They are simply the medium it is moving through. A tidal wave cannot be said to have succeeded or failed. All that it can be said to have done is to have...
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December 2011
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How to Write an Important Novel
wwnorton:
“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
-P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
Thousands of Women Mass in Major March in Cairo →
anonymissexpress:
CAIRO — Thousands of women massed in Tahrir Square here on Tuesday afternoon and marched to a journalists’ syndicate and back in a demonstration that grew by the minute into an extraordinary expression of anger at the treatment of women by the military police as they protested against continued military rule.
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