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It’s Time To Occupy Mainstream Media

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:26:12 +0000

By Dustin M. Slaughter Photo by Coal Dubya “Between the public sector and the private sector, we have wreaked untold havoc on the media environment.” These aren’t the words of a progressive media advocate such as University of Illinois professor Robert McChesney or The Nation’s John Nichols, but of ex-FCC commissioner Michael Copps in January. [...]

Super Bowl and Election 2012: Panem, Circenses and Brainwashing

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:51:03 +0000

Panem and Circenses ( Bread and Circuses) described the methods used by Roman Caesars to exert control on the populace and distract the masses from important matters of public affairs, policies and society by having them feast and watch gladiators fight to the death in Roman arenas. Little has changed in 2,000 years, and if  [...]

Born Behind Bars: Powerful Memoir Chronicles Woman’s Quest to Break Out Of Emotional Prison

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:56:54 +0000

Nature and nurture dance a full-tilt rock ‘n’ roll tango in Deborah Jiang Stein’s adrenaline pumping memoir,”Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus.” As a multi-racial child, adopted by Jewish academics in the early ’60′s, Deborah’s feelings of isolated “otherness” are ratcheted up to mythic proportions when at the tender and tumultuous age of 12 she discovers [...]

Has Occupy Forgotten Why?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:54:28 +0000

By Gilbert Mercier and Liam Fox Even though the revolution in Egypt is still at an uncertain, fluid stage, they’ve already made an irreversible geopolitical impact in the Middle-East, and beyond. If 9/11/2001 marked the start of a dark chapter in world history, 2/11/2011 may have been the beginning of a new era of positive [...]

The Occupy Movement And Those That Would Love It To Death

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:38:40 +0000

While the 99% have occupied Wall Street, Wall Street has occupied the Democratic Party. The Occupation movement is currently struggling with the same challenges of any grass-roots, populous movement. Well-meaning activists that have been pursuing these and associated goals (in the case of ‘Occupy’ this would be a myriad of labor, economic justice, and social [...]

Has Ex Goldman Sachs Staff turned Democrat Campaigner Infiltrated Occupy?

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:47:15 +0000

Through the revolving door from Goldman Sachs to the Democrat Party, an experienced campaigner has maneuvered themselves into a position of influence with the Occupation Movement in the nations capitol.  Connections with MoveOn.org, and Van Jones’ Rebuild the Dream, seem to be only the tip of the iceberg.  For a movement that considers itself not [...]

Our Broken World: The Toxic Nexus of Power and Money

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:41:28 +0000

A Crisis of Ontology The deadly disease of our global capitalist system is rather easy to understand from a philosophical standpoint. The crisis is ontological, a profound existential turmoil. Human beings are currently defined and valued  by what they have, not by what they are. The quantitative aspect of  our lives is in the forefront [...]

Occupy: Expanding the Legacy of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:40:20 +0000

Almost half a century ago, Martin Luther King took on the herculean task to speak out and fight for the civil rights of America’s disenfranchised. Even so the accent of this struggle-starting in the early 1960s- was focused on putting an end to the odious state of segregation between whites and African-Americans prevalent in the [...]

A Message To Occupy: It’s Time To Move Forward

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:58:18 +0000

Occupy movements across Canada achieved great public attention and worked as the trigger for a paradigm shift. It is the Canadian chapter of a much required global wake up call. Occupy Canada has, through all its chapters and camps, successfully shaken the foundations of our status quo. Last night, a vast majority of participants referred [...]

Occupy: A First Step Towards a Revolution of Our Collective Consciousness

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:20:27 +0000

When talking to people who are not involved or even informed about the Occupy movement-thanks to the lack of coverage by mainstream corporate controlled media outlets-they still feel that something out of the ordinary is going on. Even some people belonging to the so called “intelligentsia” are cynical about a movement which they view as  [...]

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