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The Global #LaughRiot begins on Friday. The G8 -- chased out of Chicago, hiding in the Maryland mountains surrounded by military protectors and barbed wire. These 8 people think they can plan the future for 6.8 billion of us. What a joke!

With the highest unemployment rate in Europe, the Spanish people take to the streets in Madrid and elsewhere to mark one year since the massive demonstrations that caused ripples around the world. They're calling for a global revolution, but who will respond?

About 30,000 off-duty police officers joined a massive protest in London against austerity. Review of resistance efforts over the last 100 years shows that when police or military join the protests it increases the likelihood of the protests succeeding by almost 60%. Indeed, law enforcement switching sides is the most important pillar as far as determining the outcome. So, this could be the beginning of an important development.

For more information
The Global Nonviolence Action Database, http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/

Nonviolent Conflict, Resistance Through Nonviolence
http://nonviolentconflict.wordpress.com/

Lakey's Article, Five Stages of Social Movements can be seen at http://www.trainingforchange.org/node/181.

"You can cut the flowers, but you can't stop the Spring."

This Is A Must Watch Short Video!A brief and crucial history of the United States.

A new movie produced by Class War Films that lays out the grim reality of the current situation. There is good news: people from all over are awakening and rising up and they are using creativity and community and love to combat this capitalist monster. The Occupy Movement is an important part of this.

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Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

A decade ago, in the run up to the war w. Iraq, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in New York and cities all across the country and the world … and war happened anyway.

But was before occupy.

Our creativity, our new way of thinking about protesting, and our crowdsourcing of ideas that make us collectively so much greater than the individual sum of our parts came into being.