November 2011
18 posts
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“Corporate chain retailers homogenize communities, taking what was once local...”
– Beyond the Banks: 3 More Ways to Move Your Money Away from Corporations | | AlterNet
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“Imagine how much harder the last three years would have been without the...”
– Compassionate Conservatism? 4 Popular Safety-Net Programs Tea Party Republicans Have Turned Against in the Age of Obama | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
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“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living...”
– Extreme Poverty Is Now at Record Levels — 19 Statistics About the Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You | | AlterNet
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“The pressure from Occupy Wall Street on the big banks, combined with organizing...”
– Move Your Money Day a Success; Over $50 Million Withdrawn From Big Banks | | AlterNet
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“The New Bottom Line reports that in California alone there are 2,107,984...”
– OWS and Unions: How to Defend People About to Lose Their Homes | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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““That’s one of the things, debt really does tie the 99 percent together....”
– Debtor’s Revolution: Are Debt Strikes Another Possible Tactic in the Fight Against the Big Banks? | | AlterNet
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“There’s no doubt that this economy is especially grim for young people....”
– Pew Report on Young-Old Wealth Gap is Misleading and Divisive; Could Fuel Intergenerational Class War | Economy | AlterNet
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“You really have to start with the money. The labor side has raised more than $30...”
– 5 Things You Should Know About Tuesday’s Vote on Ohio’s Anti-Union Bill (Labor’s Winning) | | AlterNet
Don’t mess with teachers and firefighters—and also, look what happens when you put the police on the side of working people.
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“A moral economy for our own time would certainly take on the unbridled...”
– The Moral Force of OWS is Tackling the Devastating War on the Poor | | AlterNet
Frances Fox Piven on Occupy Wall Street.
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“I interviewed one of Olsen’s friends, Aaron Hinde, also an Iraq War veteran. He...”
– “We’ve Had Our Eyes Opened … ” Veterans Joining the 99% Movement | | AlterNet
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“At last count, Steven Katz owed $80,000 on his six credit cards, and he has no...”
– 50 Ways to Leave Your Banker: What Happened When One Man Just Refused to Pay $80,000 in Credit Card Debt | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“Nurses from around the world will rally in four cities today, November 3, with...”
– ‘Tax Timmy’s Friends’: Nurses Follow Obama to France Demanding He Tax Geithner’s Wall Street Cronies | | AlterNet
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“The response of the country’s financial elites to the protests in Liberty...”
– Biometric Door Locks and Bulletproof Windows: How Occupy Wall Street Is Scaring the Heck out of the 1% | | AlterNet
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“The strike, said activist Louise Michel at an October 31 press conference, was...”
– Occupy Oakland Attempts to Shut Down City with America’s First General Strike in 65 Years | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“I’m just old enough to remember the Great Depression. After the first few...”
– Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy: If We Want a Chance at a Decent Future, the Movement Here and Around the World Must Grow | | AlterNet
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“Here’s where we are in the course of human events right now: 14 million...”
– A New Declaration of Independence: 10 Ideas for Taking America Back from the 1% | | AlterNet
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“It actually hadn’t become clear to me how much the discourse had shifted...”
– Occupy Wall Street is Transforming its Participants, Our Country, and Democracy | | AlterNet
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“The event spotlighted a central paradox in American politics over the past two...”
– How the Austerity Class Rules Washington | | AlterNet
October 2011
55 posts
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““If our goal is not to offend anyone,” Lerner told me, echoing a...”
– What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Labor Strategist Stephen Lerner | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
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“Those were heady years, as heady, I have no doubt, as this moment is for you....”
– “I Wanted Something Productive to Do”: Creating Space for Books and Learning at Occupy Wall Street | | AlterNet
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“As the Occupy Wall Street movement has zeroed in on the wealthiest 1 percent of...”
– 5 Places Where the Rich Got Richer — Mostly on the Government’s Dime | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“I know. I decided to break up with my bank this week. The whole thing was an...”
– 4 Simple Steps for Taking Your Money Out of the Vampire Banks | | AlterNet
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“Senate Bill 5 proponents claim the bill will save tax dollars by allowing...”
– Out-of-State Corporate Money Floods Ohio Battle Over Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill | Economy | AlterNet
Fighting Ohio’s anti-worker bill
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“And so it has been during what some have dubbed the “American Fall.” There are...”
– How Video of Police Behaving Badly Made Occupy Wall Street a Global Phenomenon | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“Yet this challenge has completely changed the dominant theme in Washington. Less...”
– Occupy Wall Street: The Primary the President Never Had? | | AlterNet
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“Gawker published a list of five types of recession sex, noting, “Remember the...”
– What Does the Recession Mean for Our Sex Lives? | | AlterNet
Recession sex?
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“On Saturday night, as promised, Occupy Chicago attempted for the second time to...”
– Occupy Chicago Activists Face Second Mass Arrest; Rahm Emanuel Sends Nurses to Jail With Protesters | | AlterNet
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“During this crisis, Ken Lewis went on a buying spree designed to allow him to...”
– Has the Dying Bank of America Managed to Ensure Its Next Taxpayer Bailout? | | AlterNet
A move by the giant bank to shift toxic assets to taxpayer-insured branches of the corporation may have set us all up to pay for the bank’s impending collapse.
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“As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a...”
– How Homelessness Became an Occupy Wall Street Issue | | AlterNet
From the always-brilliant Barbara Ehrenreich.
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“While Occupy Wall Street has been in the news of late, uprisings of the American...”
– Beyond Occupy Wall Street: 11 American Uprisings You’ve Never Heard of That Changed the World | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
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“AlterNet, in partnership with the Media Consortium, looked at the five banks...”
– Which Bank Is the Worst for America? 5 Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage | | AlterNet
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“What are the Occupy Wall Street protesters angry about? The same things we’re...”
– The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each...”
– Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“Thursday, October 6 marked the opening round of Occupy Philadelphia, just one...”
– Occupy Wall Street Strikes a Chord: NYC Action Inspires Hundreds of Occupations Around the World | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“According to statistics from the National Association for Colleges and...”
– How Unpaid Internships Perpetuate Rampant Inequality in the US | News & Politics | AlterNet
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““NYPD! NYPD! JP Morgan doesn’t give a f*ck about you!”
That was the chant of...”
– Wall St. Has Poured Millions into the NYPD — Are They Getting Their Pay Back Now? | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“im Hightower likes to tell the story of the moving company in Austin whose...”
– 5 New Rules for an Economy That Works | Economy | AlterNet
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“The Occupy Wall Street movement has so much more to do with Mohamed Bouazizi,...”
– Occupy Wall Street Trades in ‘The Whole World is Watching’ for Watching the Whole World | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“This is not your money we’re talking about. This is my money. You supposed to...”
– Message to Bank of America & the Rest: “It’s My Money! Hands Off!” | | AlterNet
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“With the Department of Education estimating that outstanding US student loan...”
– Sex Work to Pay Off College Loans? How the College Debt Racket Has Left Young People Desperate — And Led Many to Occupy Wall St. | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet
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“For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know...”
– The Reign of the One Percenters: How Income Inequality Is Destroying Our Culture | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“And yet the verdict couldn’t be more clear-cut. For the American middle class,...”
– 2000s: The Decade from Hell for Almost All Americans But The Richest | | AlterNet
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“Bank profits are highest since before the recession…: According to the Federal...”
– 11 Facts You Need To Know About The Nation’s Biggest Banks | Economy | AlterNet
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“1. Wall Street caused the crash: Unless you are suffering from financial...”
– 10 Things to Know About Wall Street’s Rapacious Attack on America | | AlterNet
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“A few months ago Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, an influential book...”
– Occupy Wall Street: ‘We’re Mad As Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore’ | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“At one point in the day, protesters formed the number “99” with...”
– ‘We Can’t Afford Not to Be Here’: Occupy DC Takes Off | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
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“Health care was also on the minds of the National Nurses United, which came out...”
– This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street | | AlterNet
Nurses and many other unions came out to support the Liberty Plaza occupation this week.
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“And that difference is key. Because beyond the unusual number of celebrity...”
– Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Russell Simmons, Jeff Mangum — Here Are Some of the Celebrities Embracing Occupy Wall Street | | AlterNet
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“First of all, the occupation has lasted more than two weeks and it’s...”
– How the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Can Defeat the Corporate Elite | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
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“And despite the handwringing about the movement’s supposed lack of focus,...”
– If Top 1% Hadn’t Ripped Off Trillions, You’d Likely Be Making Thousands of Dollars More Right Now | Economy | AlterNet 