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Why Atheists Have Become a Kick-Ass Movement You Want on Your Side

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Greta Christina - May. 12 (Special Report) - Atheists are becoming a force to be reckoned with. They are a powerful ally when inspired to take action -- and a powerful opponent when they're treated like dirt.

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May Day Protests Span the Globe With Calls for Economic Justice, International Solidarity

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 02 (News Report) - Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker's Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout the United States. "This is brutal and dictatorial,” says Mariano, a member of Spain's General Union of Workers who denounced his country’s conservative government for recently announcing job cuts in the health and education sectors as well as tax increases. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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"Festive, Righteous Anger": Occupy Makes a May Day Comeback With Massive Demonstrations

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Jaffe, - May. 02 (News Report) - The largest action of the day took place in Oakland during the evening, as an estimated 3,000 people took to the streets around City Hall. The protest was largely uneventful until after nightfall when, in a scene that has come to be all-too-familiar, Oakland police ended up dispersing occupiers with tear gas and "flash-bang" grenades. As of press time, arrests were ongoin

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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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Police Arrest 73 in Occupy Wall Street Crackdown As Protesters Mark Six Months Since Uprising Began

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Michael Moore led hundreds of people from the Left Forum conference to Zuccotti Park on Saturday where hundreds had gathered to re-occupy the park to mark six months since the launch of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began last September and launched protests around the world that gave voice to "the 99 percent." That night, New York City police officers cleared the park making at least 73 arrests. Many people reported excessive use of force by officers, several cases were caught on camera. In one widely reported incident, a young woman suffered a seizure after she was pulled from the crowd and arrested. Witnesses say police initially ignored Cecily McMillan as she flopped about on the sidewalk with her hands zip-tied behind her back, but she was eventually taken away in an ambulance. For more we talk to Guardian reporter Ryan Devereaux, who has been following the Occupy movement closely.

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Strategic Directions for Occupy Wall Street: Foreclosing Banks, Defending Homes, Making History

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - Famed sociologist Frances Fox Piven and labor organizer Stephen Lerner discuss how Occupy Wall Street could grow into a major political movement that draws millions into the streets. Fox Piven is professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author if "Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America." Lerner is a labor organizer who was the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign. He is on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union and has been working with labor and community groups nationally on how to hold Wall Street accountable. We are also joined by Guardian reporter Ryan Devereaux, who has been reporting on Occupy Wall Street extensively.

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Wikileaks Publishes Millions Of Confidential Emails From Security Firm

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 27 (News Report) - The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA.

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One Town's War on Gay Teens

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Sabrina Rubin Erdely - Feb. 04 (News Report) - Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a "suicide cluster," adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus.

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Here comes everybuddy

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Harper's - By Andy Merrifield - Dec. 15 (News Analysis) - The crucial factor is not working in a factory, or with your hands; not is it necessarily anything to do with being poor. Rather, as Berman writes, it is the need "to sell your labor in order to live" -- "to look at yourself in the mirror and think, 'Now what have I got that I can sell?' " One virtue of this definition of the working class is its inclusiveness, its flexibility. By this reckoning, the working class is practically "here comes everybody."

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"Hancock 38" Defendants Found Guilty for Bold Army Base Protest Against U.S. Drone Attacks Abroad

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 02 (News Report) - Thirty-one of 38 accused activists were found guilty on Thursday for their role in a protest against U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The activists were arrested on April 22 at the New York Air National Guard base at Hancock Field near Syracuse, New York, after trespassing to protest the MQ-9 Reaper drones, which the 174th Fighter Wing of the Guard has remotely flown over Afghanistan since late 2009

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Democracy Now! Correspondent Anjali Kamat on Reporting the Revolutions in Egypt and Libya

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Dec. 01 (Special Report) - Democracy Now! special correspondent Anjali Kamat has just returned from Cairo after nearly a year reporting on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Anjali was on the ground in Cairo covering the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak and the ensuing crackdowns on protesters opposed to military rule. Kamat also made two trips to Libya to cover the uprising and ultimate overthrow, with the aid of NATO forces, of the Gaddafi regime. "One of the things that was really remarkable over the past year that I saw in both Egypt and Libya is the fearlessness of people," Kamat says. "I was really taken aback by—you know, we’ve seen visually the scenes of crowds of people running into armed tanks, running into vehicles towards them that are opening fire, people just without any fear."

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Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 25 (News Analysis) - How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from "the outrage phase" to the "hope phase," and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power," a panel discussion hosted by The Nation magazine and The New School in New York City, features Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore; Naomi Klein, best-selling author of the "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"; Rinku Sen of the Applied Research Center and publisher of ColorLines; Occupy Wall Street organizer Patrick Bruner; and veteran journalist William Greider, author of "Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country." [includes rush transcript]

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Egyptian Revolution Enters New Phase As Thousands Brave Violence to Protest Military Rule

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Amy Goodman - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - Activists in Egypt are holding their fourth day of massive demonstrations to demand an end to military rule and a transition to a civilian government. The protests continue amidst a massive crackdown and an offer to resign from Egypt’s interim cabinet. Reports from Cairo’s main morgue said at least 33 people have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded in the military government’s crackdown. The turmoil comes as Egypt is scheduled to begin holding parliamentary elections on Monday. "I can’t see how a legitimate election can take place when you have such state-sponsored brutality happening in the heart of the capital city of the country,” says Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who joins us for an update from Cairo. "What many Egyptians have been seeing over these past 10 months has been that the revolution has been abused and stolen and deformed, and that the military council in Egypt has really not lived up to any of its promises in this transitional period, from human rights abuses to just their complete grip on power."

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More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls?

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - Nov. 19 (Investigative Report) - a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events....

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What to Make of New Polling on Support for the Occupy Movement?

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Nov. 18 (News Analysis) - All over the country people are hearing that the Occupiers are animals who are masturbating in public and shitting in the streets. The local news is luridly portraying the protests as hotbeds of crime infested with lunatics and drug addicts. That stuff isn't disseminated just for kicks. It's done to poison the minds of the public before they have a chance to identify with the protesters. This is an important point.

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Occupy Wall Street November 17: Journalists Arrested, Beaten By Police

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

Huffington Post - By Jack Mirkinson - Nov. 17 (News Report) - As thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets on Thursday, journalists once again found themselves a target of police violence and arrests. Reporters took to Twitter and, in some cases, to television to spread the word of the heavy hand police were using against them.

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Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the "New Military Urbanism"

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 16 (News Analysis) - After a wave of raids across the country in which police in riot gear broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments and arrested protesters, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan acknowledged in an interview with the BBC that she participated in a conference call with officials from 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy movement. As police forces violently crack down on protests across the United States and Europe, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces. Stephen Graham is professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K. His book is, "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism." "Why the Occupy movement is so powerful, what it's demonstrating, is that by occupying public spaces around the world — and particularly these extremely symbolic public spaces — it's reasserting that the city is the foundation space for democracy," Graham says. [includes rush transcript - partial]

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Legendary Folk Duo Crosby & Nash on Soundtracking Movements From the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Just days after performing at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan, the legendary musicians David Crosby and Graham Nash join us live in our studio. For the duo, Occupy Wall Street is the latest in a number of causes they have supported in their historic careers stretching back nearly five decades. They are best known as founding members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, a supergroup that performed at Woodstock and sold millions of records. Both are two-time inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Throughout their careers, politics has played a central role in their music. About the Occupy Wall Street movement, Crosby says: “There's an awful lot of people who feel that they are not represented in Congress, that Congress has been bought by the large corporations, and that they are powerless and are getting the short end of the stick.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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The Moral Force of OWS is Tackling the Devastating War on the Poor

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Frances Fox Piven - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - We’ve been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. ... The Occupy Wall Street movement has already made the concentration of wealth at the top of this society a central issue in American politics. Now, it promises to do something similar when it comes to the realities of poverty in this country.

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Occupy Oakland Prepares for General Strike as War Veterans Organize Day of Action at Occupy Camps

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

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 02 (News Report) - Protesters in Oakland, California, are launching a citywide general strike today that will include an attempt to shut down the nation’s fifth-busiest shipping port. The strike is expected to draw thousands of people to downtown Oakland, many responding to police attacks last week on nonviolent protesters with Occupy Oakland, including two-time Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen.

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The New Libya: Exclusive Video on Challenges Facing a Nation Emerging From Gaddafi's 42-Year Rule

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - Eight months into the uprising, Libya is peering into an uncertain future. After 42 years under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans long repressed under his regime are publicly speaking out. However, even Gaddafi’s most consistent critics say the road ahead is paved with serious challenges. In this exclusive report from inside Libya, Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films speak with former Libyan exiles, Libyan human rights activists, NTC chair Mustafa Abdul Jalil, prisoners held by the rebel forces, and others.

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The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Reich - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy. Regressives take the opposite positions.

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Citibank Arrests Customers for Trying to Close Accounts

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

economicvoice.com - By Richard Henley Davis - Oct. 17 (News Report) - This notion of removing money from the banks in order to bring them down is a genuine threat to the banking industry and we can expect more arrests by banks who are using the police force as their private security to prevent a collapse in their interests through mass deposit withdrawal.

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Occupy Times Square: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm Midtown

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Whitney Snyder - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York City's Times Square Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their monthlong campaign against corporate greed.

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Bank Of America Branch In California Reportedly Refuses To Allow Protesters To Close Accounts (VIDEO)

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 16 (News Report) - two women involved with the Occupy Santa Cruz movement in California walked into a Bank of America branch earlier this week and attempted to close their bank accounts. In response, the bank manager threatened to lock the doors and call the police on them. Her reasoning? You can't be a customer and a protester at the same time, the manager said.

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