So we will be the opposition—but we’re not starting from scratch.... Heterodox economists like Ha-Joon Chang, Mariana Mazzucato, and Stephanie Kelton are reshaping their discipline.Julia Mead is a 22 year old.
To withstand and ultimately overcome the imminent Trump regime, “American activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary engagement by using the techniques of social movement creation to dominate elections,” says the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street.Thought Occupy had gone away?
“The message to people is don’t participate [in public dissent] because you may be considered a threat to the government or the corporate state,” Hetznecker said.
My twitter feed has been aroused into fierce anti-capitalist protest. Welcome to 2016 I guess.Fresh Economic Thinking
This situation gives me chance to flesh out some important points that cannot be made effectively on Twitter.…
Chief Executive CY Leung said that universal suffrage could turn Hong Kong into a welfare state.
It costs more to keep poverty than it would cost to eliminate it, says author and Occupy Wall Street organizer David DeGraw.
The writer told Acronym TV in a recent interview that his own research had convinced him that guaranteed income was the most effective way to fix wealth inequality.
DeGraw told host Dennis Trainor Jr. that it would cost just 0.5 percent of the wealth currently held by the top 1 percent “to eliminate poverty nationwide.”…Analysis wanting.
The United States and China openly clashed Wednesday over the pro-democracy protests sweeping Hong Kong, with Beijing angrily warning Washington to back off and saying it would not tolerate “illegal acts.”
“The Chinese government has very firmly and clearly stated its position. Hong Kong affairs are China’s internal affairs,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was standing next to him, just before they went into talks at the State Department.
“All countries should respect China’s sovereignty and this is a basic principle of governing international relations,” Wang said sternly.Double standard? The US pretty well tarnished its moral superiority with respect to civil liberties and human rights and diminished its soft power. It looks, sounds and feels just hypocritical now.
“I believe for any country, for any society, no one would allow those illegal acts that violate public order. That’s the situation in the United States and that’s the same situation in Hong Kong.”
Amid a tense standoff on the streets of Hong Kong, a Chinese territory, Kerry renewed US calls for restraint by the city’s police.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki reaffirmed the US position.
“It’s clear that we want the people of Hong Kong to have a broad choice of candidates,” she said.
“We believe human rights and the freedom of expression is something that’s important not just in China but countries around the world,” she insisted, asked about Wang’s assertion that Hong Kong was an internal Chinese matter."Not just in China but countries around the world” What about the US?
The intelligence reporting and communications apparatus was in full throttle over potential Occupy Black Friday boycotts. One sample document issued from the Baltimore police shows a distribution list ranging from the Maryland Fusion Center, the FBI, the DHS, the Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network, the Secret Service, the NYPD and other city and state law enforcement, the manager of corporate security for an energy company, university personnel, and the Federal Reserve.Corporate statism.
The “counter-terrorism” documents contain multiple references to Black Friday boycotts as well as potential negative impacts on retails sales.
Innovative group builds tiny homes that cost just $3,000, paid for by donations.AlterNet
Court finds S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley violated civil rights by arresting Occupy protesters (via Raw Story )The business classes are constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition.AlterNet
Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, the national, independent, inequality-focused political coalition sponsored by labor unions that helped elect Bill de Blasio to the position of mayor of New York City, tells“Democracy Now!” on Friday about the role Occupy Wall Street played in the latest election.
“We are living in the world Occupy made,” Cantor says. “We are the beneficiaries of what they did in terms of making this [about] inequality, which is from our point of view the core issue of our time.”Truthout
This is a very scary trend and I saw it first hand during the Occupy protests back in 2011, where heavily militarized NYPD units moved on peaceful protesters.
There is no "un-doing" this at this point and since the "owners" of our country (i.e. the 1-percent, corporations, billionaires, etc) control law enforcement and the justice system, they can pretty much get away with anything. The rest of us are slaves.
Part of what's known as the "1033 Program" passed by Congress in 1997 and meant to augment police departments fighting the drug war, military gear is showing up in large numbers, and in some unlikely places...
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has contacted US Secretary of State John Kerry to object to recent statements from Washington expressing concern over Turkey's handling of mass anti-government protests, a foreign ministry diplomat said....
Kerry on Monday said he was concerned by reports of excessive use of force by Turkish police to quell the biggest protests since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decade in power, urging all sides to "avoid any provocations or violence."
Davutoglu assured Kerry an investigation was under way into the police response, the ministry source said.
The diplomat added that the foreign minister told Kerry the protests were not "extraordinary", comparing them to the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprang up in the United States in 2011.Al Jazeera
The plan to destroy one of Istanbul's last green spaces is part of a globally tested neoliberal plan to clear the way for economic enrichment at the top.AlterNet
All it takes to form a co-op is a small group of determined people all set on an idea to cooperatively own and operate a facet of the economy and allow them to make decisions in a democratic process. By democratizing society through housing and work, we can start a new revolution in our politics, our economy, and even our environment by choosing to consume sustainably and minimize our impact on the planet.Truthout
