Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Arab Spring Marches for Occupy Oakland
Wow. Just. Wow.
Arab Spring Marches for Occupy Oakland
Egypt’s democracy activists, understandably, look at America’s Occupy Wall Street movement and see the Arab Spring leading by example. The toppling of President Hosni Mubarak began back in January, when tens of thousands of Egypt’s fed-up 99 percent filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a demonstration of unity and a demand for change.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2011/10/28/arab-spring-marches-occupy-oakland
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Egyptians Support #OccupyOakland
@TheBigPharaohThe Big Pharaoh
This is epic. Protesters in Tahrir tomorrow will march to the US embassy to protest the violent crackdown of #occupyoaklandprotests.
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MARINES TO OAKLAND POLICE: 'You Did This To My Brother.'
MARINES TO OAKLAND POLICE: 'You Did This To My Brother.'
Marines around the world are outraged by the injuries inflicted by police on Scott Olsen at Tuesday's Occupy Oakland protests
When you enlarge this image, the pain in his eyes for his fellow Marine that he does not even personally know, is just heartbreaking.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Occupy Victorious!
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
SPECIAL REPORT
SPECIAL REPORT: Out-of-State Corporate Money Floods Ohio Battle Over Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill
by: Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Workers' State of the State Response Rally, protesting against Senate Bill 5 on March 8, 2011 in Columbus, OH. (Photo: netzanette)
About 60 people gathered at the AFL-CIO office in downtown Columbus, Ohio, to rally and volunteer their time on a sunny Friday evening in early October. They came from a variety of backgrounds: white and black, urban and rural, young and old. Armed with a phone bank and canvassing clipboards, they participated in a campaign to rally Ohio voters to repeal legislation known as Senate Bill 5. If passed, the law would limit collective bargaining rights on issues like staffing levels for Ohio's 360,000 public workers and require some public workers to pay more in pension and health care costs. The volunteers, dressed in T-shirts and jeans, are labor's foot soldiers in a political battle attracting national attention and political spending. It is a bitter clash of class, ideology and political tactics, pitting the public sector against the private sector, and Ohio's labor movement against a web of Republican front groups that refuse to disclose their campaign finances.
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Worst Food Additive Ever?
On August 10, police and security for the massive palm oil corporation Wilmar International (of which Archer Daniels Midland owns a majority share) stormed a small, indigenous village on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They came with bulldozers and guns, destroying up to 70 homes, evicting 82 families, and arresting 18 people. Then they blockaded the village, keeping the villagers in -- and journalists out. (Wilmar claims it has done no wrong.)
The village, Suku Anak Dalam, was home to an indigenous group that observes their own traditional system of land rights on their ancestral land and, thus, lacks official legal titles to the land. This is common among indigenous peoples around the world -- so common, in fact, that it is protected by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Indonesia, for the record, voted in favor of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. Yet the government routinely sells indigenous peoples' ancestral land to corporations. Often the land sold is Indonesia's lowland rainforest, a biologically rich area home to endangered species like the orangutan, Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, Sumatran tiger, and the plantRafflesia arnoldii, which produces the world's largest flower.
So why all this destruction? Chances are you'll find the answer in your pantry. Or your refrigerator, your bathroom, or even under your sink. The palm oil industry is one of the largest drivers of deforestation in Indonesia. Palm oil and palm kernel oil, almost unheard of a decade or two ago, are now unbelievably found in half of all packaged foods in the grocery store (as well as body care and cleaning supplies). These oils, traditional in West Africa, now come overwhelmingly from Indonesia and Malaysia. They cause jawdropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) and human rights abuses.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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