Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA sticky icon

Judge finds the law failed to "pass constitutional muster" because its broad language could be used to quash political dissent

 

     MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.

Occupy Spring takes on the Looting Class sticky icon

This is the week that world leaders, those who represent the Looting Class, meet at Camp David and in Chicago to discuss more economic and military policies that drive people and the planet into further decline.

Occupy the Media

Occupy Needs to Create a Social Justice Media Network

Getting beyond the primary means for control: Mass media propaganda

If the Democracy Movement, now occupying cities and towns across America, concludes with a half dozen transnational media companies still allowing only one opinion to get to citizens, it will have lost.

Occupy G8 Peoples’ Summit

Below are several articles about the Occupy G8 People's Summit and protests in Frederick and Thurmont.

NDAA Terrorism Charges Used Against Three NATO Protesters in Chicago

These extremely serious terrorism charges against three NATO protesters seem highly exaggerated on their face. We will see what evidence the police put forward.  It will be important for the movement to stay on top of this case as the police show their evidence.  The three are the first charged under the NDAA terrorism provisions which could result in life sentences.

Why we protest the G-8

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Frederick News Post, May 18, 2012

Countries representing concentrated wealth will gather in remote Camp David this week to try to prop up a failing global economic system that has funneled wealth to the top, leaving everyone else behind. From its founding, the G-8 has been engaged in a struggle between the wealthiest people in a handful of nations and everyone else. The losing side of this corrupt bargain has increasingly come to include many people within those wealthy countries as well.

It Can Be Done. Now is the Time.

It Can Be Done. Now is the Time. Americans Can Stop the Corporate Machine and Create a New World

Across the Country Americans are in Revolt, now is the Time to Stand Together in Freedom Plaza

By Kevin Zeese

October2011.org seeks to Stop the Machine and Create a New World. It can be done. Indeed, it must be done and now is the time to do it. The thousands who have joined October2011.org know the challenges we face but we also know that the disastrous direction the country is going is unacceptable. We have seen that the normal tools - elections, lobbying and education - do not work. The U.S. is facing a crisis on many fronts - economic, environmental and in foreign relations - and the government does not respond or even makes things worse.

OPEN LETTER: THE U.S. OCTOBER 2011 MOVEMENT STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR GLOBAL ALLIES

Inspired by the courageous, nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, Spain, and elsewhere, people in the United States have come together to form the October2011 Movement. This fusion of peace, social justice, environmental, student, and immigrant rights organizations is in solidarity with all who seek a peaceful, just, and sustainable future and stands ready to engage in its own campaign of nonviolent resistance beginning in Washington, D.C., this October.

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