Video: "Break the Bill"
This is something very cool and I'm glad the new rules allow me to do a diary just to share this. Here's break dancers in a video from the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol building. It's moments...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Confessions of a Thought Criminal
I am, and acknowledge it openly, a Thought Criminal. When I think about what I believe in, I commit a criminal offense in 36 states. Now, it is true that certain court rulings in the period of the...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup Signpost
NY Brit Expat has written a major piece on the national question, which seems to be gaining importance as we look out at the world, either predictably or paradoxically in a world that is moving rapidly...
View ArticleFind a Workers' Day Event Near You
Below the doodle-bug, the DK Anticapitalist Group has assembled a list of over 50 international Workers Day events being held in the US in all regions and communities great and small, from New York...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Copenhagen
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Istanbul
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Lisbon
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Manila
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Milan
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleSights and Sounds of Workers Day: Quito
Throughout the day today, the DK Anti-Capitalist Group is presenting the sights and sounds of International Workers day, a holiday almost universally celebrated by the working people with the rather...
View ArticleWorkers Day Music
As the DK Anticapitalist Group wraps up its celebration of International Workers Day, we offer a few classic songs of the global struggle of working people. Feel free to add your own in the comments!
View ArticleYemeni President Saleh flees
Things appear to have come to a head in Yemen.According to the Washington Post:Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh transferred authority to his deputy Saturday and flew to Saudi Arabia,...
View ArticleTsunami Update: Fukushima Threat May Be Minimal
Just a quick breaking news story.Tsunami Alert Fukushima PrefectureA strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1 off north-eastern Japan has triggered a tsunami warning, reports say. Japan's meteorological...
View ArticleWhat the next stage looks like
"The economic occupation will be defeated in the streets.""Take the memorandum and leave.""They stole our future that was won by past generations. We want it back and with interest.""Continuous strike...
View ArticleMove your mortgage
We've seen the significant success of consumers moving their bank accounts out of major banks and into local banks and credit unions. I've seen estimates of as much as $60 billion in deposits being so...
View ArticleEverything is OK
Go shopping! Get back to work! Hug a police officer! Everything is OK!
View ArticleNYPD Occupying Liberty Square, Demands Unclear
This just in from OWS:New York, NY — The NYPD have been occupying Liberty Square since 1:00am Tuesday morning, with the brand new occupation now set to enter its second day in just a few short hours....
View ArticleOccupy99 Phase 2? The Issue is Power
There is a MoT diary up in which he lists a long laundry list of "issues", all valid in and of themselves, but this individual issue and that individual issue all add up to being right back where we...
View ArticleThe Declaration of Occupy DC
"But what does Occupy stand for?"I know I'm tired of having to answer this question, and I'm sure many of you are too. Our media, which loves to deal in sensationalism while perpetuating hegemony,...
View Article"My Body, My Rules"
There's a remarkable essay that went up at the up at the libertarian socialist website libcom.org, at once primal scream and call to action from the intersection of the oppression of women and the...
View ArticleHegemony v. Madison
The collapse of the 20th Century Synthesis and the rise of the 21st Century Social Crisis have less to do with partisanship than they have to do with the unchallenged hegemony of a single class. Call...
View ArticleVideo from Kazakhstan strike
When a government happily plays ball with the global strategic and economic agenda of hegemony, they are allowed to slaughter their own populations without notice in the western media. Here's some...
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Happy New Year! (Occupy 2012)
Bidding 2011 a tearful farewell:Occupy Oakland gets the New Year started on the right foot:Occupy 2012!
View ArticleNow That's a Surprise
I certainly didn't seem the likeliest candidate. My political views are, to put it mildly, well outside the mainstream of dailykos, and I've never had any reluctance to express them as clearly as I...
View Article100 Years Ago Today: Bread and Roses
100 years ago today:Polish women weavers at Everett Cotton Mills in Lawrence realized that their employer had reduced their pay by 32¢; they stopped their looms and left the mill, shouting "short pay,...
View ArticleReaganomics Architect Sued for Ponzi Scheme
I've always called it "the Laffable Curve". That is, the entirely bogus economic "theory" (less "theory" than assertion) that cutting marginal tax rates increases income tax revenues. It never was...
View ArticleBreitbart's place in history
Nobody better exemplifies American journalism in the 21st century than Andrew Breitbart. The standards he has established will define the way news and opinion are communicated to the American people...
View ArticleTime Has Come Today
A letter from Lester Chambers: I AM the former Lead Singer of a 60’s BAND. I performed before thousands at Atlanta Pop 2, Miami Pop, Newport Pop, Atlantic Pop. I did NOT squander my money on drugs or...
View ArticleI am an agnostic
I am an agnostic. There's only two things that I know for certain about this whole kerfuffle.1. I don't know the answer. 2. Neither do you.Thanks, and have a good evening.
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The difference between Spain and the US
They can do this in Spain:In the US, police would have rushed to the rescue of proper law and order by repeatedly beating the singer in the mouth and groin with truncheons while berating him with...
View ArticleSome Characteristics of Hegemony
Derived from some jailbird's scribblings:i) Passage of the dominant class from economic to political class consciousness;ii) Superstructure of domination built up out of the base or structure of...
View ArticleStill nobody expects the Spanish Revolution (Video diary)
Despite the US election campaign, other events of global significance continue to take place.The early chaotic images of yesterday's unrest in Madrid are now being rounded into form with real reporting...
View Article"The civilian population is being hunted"
Stop & frisk, how it plays in real life:I'm sure there are some who will chant the mantra, "It's just a few bad apples". That will mean among other things that they paid no attention to the...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy petition to Bloomberg
Occupy Sandy Relief has just posted a request on Facebook for petition signatures demanding power restoration for NYC Housing Authority residents. I know what people's first question is going to be,...
View ArticleMy world grows darker
I have contracted a condition alternatively known as intercranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri. In most cases it responds to treatment, either with the quite venerable drug acetazolamide, or if...
View ArticleCIW March for Fair Food
The video above begins with words from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Gerardo Reyes to the congregration at Ft. Myers' Jesus Obrero church. Here below is how he concluded those...
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Supersize this strike!
Thousands of fast-food workers from hundreds of chain restaurants in five najor American cities have walked off the job over the last several days. Demanding living wages, more respect on the job, and...
View ArticleMemorial Day for Steelworkers
Courtesy of the Bread & Roses Labor Memorial Committee:“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”― George Orwell The Memorial Day...
View ArticleVideo diary: Turkish pop culture and the Uprising
Just a video from a Turkish video artist that was passed around in my local Occupy group:
View ArticleVideo Diary: Turkish Pop Culture and the Uprising (II)
Put up a Turkey video diary a week ago, here's another that came through my FB connections earlier today. Here we see Turkish young people in one of those overlooked moments in an uprising when...
View ArticleSyria: Kurdish leader says Assad NOT to blame for gas
A decade ago, many Americans chose to be fooled by the Lying Squad of Bush, Cheney, and Powell, into rallying 'round for Operation Iraq Liberation. Mission Accomplished! The facts were there, the...
View ArticleWhat I want to know is...
What's with the fricking rush to war? Did the Kaiser and von Moltke request it? Maybe Clemenceau?Syria will still be there in a month or two, and so will its civil war. Our "pro-western" heroes in...
View ArticleThe Single Bullet Theory
They say those of us who question the Warren Commission official finding that OSWALD ACTED ALONE are crazy, creepy Conspiracy Theorists. They say it's CT, because "extreordinary claims require...
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Sych a liberation hero
The Kyiv Post has published a rundown of the initial appointments to the new government of Ukraine. My sources had been very insistent that the great "revolution" was deeply penetrated by...
View ArticleAmerica's Largest Street Gang
I'm sure very few of you have seen this video. It's pretty chilling. It's about 56 minutes long. In the context of recent events, it makes eminently clear that there are not coincidences or "bad...
View ArticleLearning the wrong lessons?
In the wake of the Michael Brown killing, many are pointing to the "militarization" of the police as the problem. That the distribution of military-grade goods to local police departments as part of...
View ArticleTotally DIY: 242 Main St., Burlington
It's not a famous venue, but unless you live somewhere like New York or San Francisco, it's like the best of the all-ages youth centers in your area. And it has successfully hosted "name acts" such as...
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