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Direct Action Fashion Show 2013
During Fashion Week in New York City, an alternative fashion show was held at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A DIRECT ACTION FASHION SHOW, ANYWAY?
Occupy HSBC: Valentine’s Day protest at noon
Protest with #OWS Alternative Banking Group
By Cathy O'Neil
[This is what Matt Taibbi had to say about the HSBC settlement:
On the other hand, if you are an important person, and you work for a big international bank, you won’t be prosecuted even if you launder nine billion dollars. Even if you actively collude with the people at the very top of the international narcotics trade, your punishment will be far smaller than that of the person at the very bottom of the world drug pyramid. You will be treated with more deference and sympathy than a junkie passing out on a subway car in Manhattan (using two seats of a subway car is a common prosecutable offense in this city). An international drug trafficker is a criminal and usually a murderer; the drug addict walking the street is one of his victims. But thanks to Breuer, we’re now in the business, officially, of jailing the victims and enabling the criminals.]
Amendment to Abolish Corporate Personhood Introduced
Yesterday in DC, Move to Amend held a press conference in Washington, DC to announce the introduction of an amendment to aboish corporate personhood. This represents a new phase in the campaign!
A Terrible Normality
"These occurrences must be seen as something more than just historic abnormalities floating aimlessly in time and space, driven only by overweening impulse or happenstance. It is not enough to condemn monstrous events and bad times, we also must try to understand them. They must be contextualized in the larger framework of historical social relations."
A Terrible Normality by Michael Parenti
Through much of history the abnormal has been the norm. This is a paradox to which we should attend. Aberrations, so plentiful as to form a terrible normality of their own, descend upon us with frightful consistency.
Weekly Update: Americans in Revolt
The corporate media ignores it, but America is in revolt.
Big Steps Forward for US Climate Movement
Future Hope column, February 5, 2013
By Ted Glick
There are two major events being organized by the US climate movement over the next month.
Weekly Update: Unity Increases our Effectiveness
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Getting to the Next Level of Constructing a New Society
Once again the corporate mass media got the story wrong. The headlines across the country were that occupiers in New York came from households with incomes of over $100,000. The movement writer for The Nation, Allison Kilkenny, interviewed one of the researchers who points out that a lot of these were young people earning under $15,000 per year who were still in school and living with their parents.
The most important takeaway from the researcher’s point of view:
"The takeaway for me is that this is part of an arch of social movement activity that built on previous work, and is building into continuing work."
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