OWS
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Video: Eviction Reinforces OWS Determination
Occupy Wall Street supporters will attempt to shut down Wall Street and New York subways Continue reading
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Flexing one's muscles?
…we are wrestling with the question that arises again and again in movements for social justice-how to struggle. Do we embrace nonviolence, or a ‘diversity of tactics?’ If we are a nonviolent movement, how do we define nonviolence? Is breaking a window violent? Continue reading
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OWS: Leading from behind? By William Bowles
What are Lefties to make of OWS? Is it ‘ours’? Where is it headed? Is it socialist? And what is it with occupations anyway? Continue reading
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VIDEO: Occupy Movement in Canada: Occupy Nova Scotia (ONS),The Role of the Top-Down OWS "Media Coordinators" By Amir Alwani
Contributor Amir Alwani was back at Occupy Nova Scotia to document some of the speakers and protesters. He made some interesting discoveries. In the first segment, a protester voices his concern over the structure of the General Assembly within the overall movement. He illustrates the irony that people have taken to the streets as the… Continue reading
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Turn the World Upside Down: From Occupation to Revolution By John Spritzler
If OWS decides explicitly that its goal is revolution, it would transform the OWS movement. It would be a qualitative leap and set the agenda for the coming years: a national and international conversation about how to make a revolution and what a post-revolutionary society can be like. If OWS does this, then folding the… Continue reading
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A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street; "The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement" By Fritz Tucker
On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street. Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation, the organization was incapable of making sound financial decisions. The proposed solution was not to spend the money educating their co-workers or… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 25-27 October 2011
27 October 2011 — williambowles.info 27 October 2011Amidst police crackdown, widespread public support for Occupy movementWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 16:22Recent polls show widespread popular support for the Occupy Wall Street movement and its basic aims, centered on opposition to inequality and corporate domination of politics. The growth of support comes as local governments,… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO By Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make of the powerful. However, ‘in many cases, there is no point in demanding anything from your enemy, except that he drop dead in a hurry.’ Continue reading
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ColdType, November 2011: OWS / Guantanamo / UK / South Africa / Libya…
Cover story this month is an 11-page section on the War on Wall Street with words by Tom Engelhardt and Richard Pithouse, accompanied by David Shankbone’s photo essay on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City and a full-page cartoon from Mark Hurwitt. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 October 2011: Gaddafi Butchered / OWS and Black Misleaders / Occupy Harlem! / Black Is Back
Moammar Gaddafi’s last minutes gave clarity to NATO’s war in Libya. It is a mission of mass murder and theft of sovereignty through the arming of savages. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 24-25 October 2011
25 October 2011 — williambowles.info 25 October 2011 Brutal arrests at Occupy Oakland Russiatoday.ruToday at 16:31 Police officers in Oakland, California arrested upwards of 75 protesters early this morning as they launched a crackdown on participants in the local Occupy Wall Street offshoot. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 20-21 October 2011
21 October 2011 — williambowles.info 21 October 2011 Wall Street and Student Debt Foregiveness GlobalResearch.ca Today at 11:21 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Class action: OWS first salvo in US class war? — RT
A class war once seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy is part of the national dream. But as thousands march on Wall Street and in other parts of America, digging in with anti-corporate protests, many ask whether US is facing one. Continue reading
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Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it expanded, much of it consisted of snide dismissals of demonstrators’ ignorance, hygiene and so on. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 19-20 October 2011
20 October 2011 — williambowles.info 20 October 2011 I could get used to winning Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 21:44 Occupy Wall Street is proving that solidarity is a powerful thing–even Mayor Michael Bloomberg is being forced to face it. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 18-19 October 2011
19 October 2011 — williambowles.info 19 October 2011 Occupy Wall Street protesters raise nearly $500,000 Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 07:55 Continue reading
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#OWS, Times Square, and the Global Labor Movement By Mark Nowak
Trade unionists I’ve spoken with around the world have related, over and again, how participating in the occupy movements have transformed their opinions. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 