Occupy Louisville

Occupy Louisville Anti-austerity Rally

modestinferno — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:57:00 -0400

Occupy Louisville is taking BACK TO THE STREETS to mark the only 2012 Vice-Presidential Debate...

modestinferno: Occupy Louisville Anniversary (Taken with...

modestinferno — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:26:00 -0400

modestinferno:

Occupy Louisville Anniversary (Taken with Instagram)

Occupy Louisville Anniversary

modestinferno: Occupy Anniversary (Taken with...

modestinferno — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:25:14 -0400

modestinferno:

Occupy Anniversary (Taken with Instagram)

Occupy Louisville Anniversary

occupylouisville: A reminder from Occupy Louisville: ...

modestinferno — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:19:41 -0400

occupylouisville:

A reminder from Occupy Louisville:

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)!

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

A reminder from Occupy Louisville: Occupy Louisville’s...

modestinferno — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:41:11 -0400

A reminder from Occupy Louisville:

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)!

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

Greetings from Occupy Louisville, Occupy...

modestinferno — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:29:48 -0400

Greetings from Occupy Louisville,

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)! Please review the attached flyer.

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

weeptowaterthetrees: #OWS, please help! #NCPD deliberately run...

semanthics — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:01:16 -0400

weeptowaterthetrees:

#OWS, please help! #NCPD deliberately run over 13 boy on bicycle outside the Long Island #Hempstead food share today! #Police then try to cover up their crime, they confiscated cell phone memory cards, arrested the boy, are currently denyin

g him medical attention, a lawyer and were preventing his family from visiting him. Police also arrest LI #fnb volunteer who was trying to get the boy medical attention. #policebrutality http://instagr.am/p/Ppz8EkyUMr/

REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG!

stephenclark: To occupy or unoccupy?

modestinferno — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:38:37 -0400

stephenclark:

To occupy or unoccupy?

"Maybe Occupy was too successful a brand in that it sometimes disguised how much this movement was..."

modestinferno — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:06:58 -0400

“Maybe Occupy was too successful a brand in that it sometimes disguised how much this movement...

"[T]he one-year anniversary [of Occupy Wall Street] is likely to produce a lot of mainstream media..."

modestinferno — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:41:24 -0400

“[T]he one-year anniversary [of Occupy Wall Street] is likely to produce a lot of mainstream...

kimball12: #occupy seems to be scaring Bloomberg again (Taken...

modestinferno — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:10:00 -0400

kimball12:

#occupy seems to be scaring Bloomberg again (Taken with Instagram)

Watch the anniversary of OWS

modestinferno — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:09:09 -0400

Watch the anniversary of OWS

Twitter hands over Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:17:34 -0400

aliceincrohnsland: via RT: Twitter has delivered prosecutors in New York with a record of tweets...

thepeoplesrecord: As the one year anniversary of OWS...

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:52:42 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

As the one year anniversary of OWS approaches, where do we stand?

September 15, 2012

To put it in a nutshell: the Zuccotti encampment model might have passed its heyday, but the spirit of Occupy is still very much alive … evolving and inspiring, expanding our understanding of the possible, exploding our political imagination. Before S17 we relied on the same dinosaur paradigm of the dusty old left. We looked backward for inspiration instead of forward. With Occupy we jumped over that old dead goat. Now it’s time to leap fresh again.

Look at what’s happening in Quebec … the boldness of the media democracy movement in Mexico … the teenagers leading an education revolt in Chile … the Pussy Riot inspired art war unnerving Putin in Russia … and the new post-capitalist ways of living being forged in Greece and Spain. Witness the growing tempo of green riots across China, the South African miner strikes, the corruption protests of India, the freedom fight in Bahrain, the tremors of dissent in Saudi Arabia, the total loss of confidence in America’s corporate-funded Coke-Pepsi election show. Then, add to that the crippling droughts, looming food scarcity, the end of easy oil and the tipping points hovering ominously on the horizon …

Occupy began as a primal scream against the monied corruption of our democracy … but after a year of struggling against an unrepentant corporatocracy, our goals are now deeper, our dreams wilder. We see a common thread emerging — a blue-green-black hybrid politics — that unites and elevates our movement:

On the blue front, we eradicate the commercial virus infecting our culture – we liberate the flow of information, champion the leakers, protect anonymity, and break up the corporate media monopolies with outrageous creative hacks.

On the deep green front, we push towards a decisive victory in the forty-year environmentalist struggle – we institute a binding international accord on climate change, pursue a worldwide de-growth economic agenda funded by a Robin Hood Tax and establish an across the board true cost market regime in which the price of every product tells the ecological truth.

On the black front, we restore the dominion of people over corporations by all nonviolent means necessary – we unleash a visceral wave of jams, meme wars and cultural interventions against the monied elite, the financial fraudsters, paid-for politicians and megacorporate outposts in our cities. We kill off criminal corporations like Goldman Sachs, Exxon, Pfizer, Monsanto, Philip Morris and others that have broken the public trust.

A radical blue-green-black transformation of the current global system might sound hopefully idealistic, foolishly utopian, even radically impossible, but remember that on July 13 2011, when the first call for occupying the iconic center of global capitalism went out, it sounded all too naively absurd as well.

#PIRATEPARTYUSA
#PIRATEPARTYUK
#PIRATEPARTYCANADA
#PIRATEPARTYAUSTRALIA

If you are in America, vote strategically but keep your eyes on the horizon. Our civilization remains steadfast on its economic, ecological and psychological crash course and sometime over the next few months, maybe in the new year, a galvanizing global moment of truth will happen … be ready for it … prepare yourself … stay loose, play jazz, keep the faith, wake up every morning ready to live without dead time … Capitalism is heaving and our movement has just begun.

On September 17, meet at dawn ready to rumble on Wall Street:
http://s17nyc.org/schedule/s17/

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

Occupywallstreet.org

Via Adbusters

thepeoplesrecord: Negotiations look promising for CTU; strike...

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:20:32 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Negotiations look promising for CTU; strike could end Monday
September 15, 2012

This weekend—after five days on strike, daily mass marches, and marathon negotiations—the fired-up, 29,000-member Chicago Teachers Union and its supporters are holding another, potentially bigger rally. And CTU president Karen Lewis once again is leading her team in long hours of negotiations.

But the weekend’s actions may have a new, celebratory edge: The strike may be over Sunday on terms that teachers can accept, Lewis announced on Friday afternoon. In statements to the press, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and public school officials described having reached a “tentative framework” for a deal.

Negotiators face one last hurdle: They must translate that framework into satisfactory concrete contractual language.

“They are very suspicious,” Lewis said of teachers (who also “like to read”). “We have been a little burnt by the Board in the past.” Last year Lewis and CTU legislative staff signed off on a bill without reading closely the final version, which contained language to which the union objected.

Lewis, a tough bargainer who appears to have strong support from union members (with help from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s provocative stance), would not detail the basic agreements for the framework of the proposed contract.

On one of the more contentious issues, how to evaluate teacher performance, Lewis said, ”I think we feel very comfortable” with the framework. But she said there was no decision on the length of the contract: CTU wants two years, the school board four.

At this point, despite the lack of confirmed details, the union appears to have substantially won some points, blunted the most antagonistic Chicago Public Schools demands, and reached tolerable compromises on the stickiest topics, like job security. The union did not apparently achieve many of its goals for improving the schools, such as more arts education and smaller classes (although unenforced guidelines for class size reportedly will remain in the contract), but thanks to a recent law, the Board of Education was not legally obliged to bargain on most of those school-improvement proposals.

Although public irritation with the strike could grow if it drags on, support is currently high. Teachers are coming to Saturday’s demonstration from other cities and states—including some from Madison, Wis., who are also celebrating Friday’s appellate court decision overturning the bulk of Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation.

And a new poll out Thursday showed 55.5 percent of Chicago households supporting the strike, including 66 percent of parents of public school children and nearly two-thirds of blacks and Latinos polled. Asked who was to blame, 53 percent blamed management—34 percent Emanuel, 19 percent the school board—and 29 percent blamed the teachers.

With the union still holding a strong position in the conflict, union leaders want to nail down the details of every provision before presenting the contract on Sunday to roughly 800 union delegates. If the delegates are satisfied, they could suspend the strike and send the contract to the members for ratification.

But with new costs—a result of Emanuel’s longer school day and the new contract’s compensation for that work—in a system that is already facing a budget shortfall and with the school system reportedly planning to close as many as 100 schools (and opening many new charters), teachers face tumultuous times ahead, even if they win a good contract now.

Source

The CTU strike really shows the power of collective action & a strike. Gains will not only be made for teachers, but Chicago students who deserve better learning environments, smaller classrooms & more resources.

thepeoplesrecord: anarcho-queer: Hundreds of people are at...

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:53:18 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

anarcho-queer:

Hundreds of people are at Washington Square Park for an Opening Assembly. Hundreds more are a few blocks away at Zuccotti Park.

We’re on our way here. Really excited about all the one year stuff, starting now and continuing on for days. Come out if you can and look around your area to see if there are any 1 Year Anniversary events going on in your area.

jethroq: thepeoplesrecord: Egyptian anger at US goes beyond...

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:27:47 -0400

jethroq:

thepeoplesrecord:

Egyptian anger at US goes beyond one movie
September 15, 2012

I have been watching events in the Middle East unfold from the American heartland. The reaction among many of the people there was a mix of shock, anxiety, and fear. They also wanted to know why people are storming U.S. diplomatic compounds. Americans are in disbelief that this is happening over a movie that no one has ever heard of, much less seen. In that they are correct.; Events in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, and now Malaysia are far more complicated than an offensive movie and the madness of those who sought to provoke this violence by making it as well as those who have capitalized on it to encourage violence.

Consider Egypt, the place in the Muslim world that I know best. Many Egyptians—including, I am sure, President Mohammed Morsi—are deeply offended by The Innocence of Muslims but the resentment of the United States runs deep in Egypt. This is not an excuse, but Americans must understand the context in which their embassies and diplomats are being attacked. Yes, Washington has helped Egypt through infrastructure development, agricultural reform, public health, and myriad other areas; but the United States has, according to Egyptians, weakened their country through an alliance that subordinates Cairo’s interests to those of Washington (and by association those of Jerusalem). This sense of subordination is manifest in the U.S. embassy itself. To the average American it may seem innocuous enough, though it sits in a miniature “Green Zone”—which is actually at the insistence of the Egyptian government—a few blocks from Tahrir Square. That is Liberation Square. The embassy is easily spotted by just looking up from Tahrir because, at thirteen stories, it is one of the tallest buildings in the area. It looms over a traffic circle that features newsstands, travel agencies, formerly the Cairo Hilton, the Egyptian national museum, and the dregs of American fast food outlets—KFC, Hardee’s, and Pizza Hut. It would be hard for a proud Egyptian nationalist not to notice the irony of it all.

No, the protests are not just about a movie. They are about perceived insults on Egyptians’ national pride and collective dignity that the United States has perpetrated for the previous three decades. It ranges from everything such as support for President Mubarak and Anwar Sadat before him, to U.S. patronage of Israel at the expense of Egypt and Arab causes, to the invasion of Iraq, which the vast majority of Egyptians deeply opposed, though Mubarak provided important assistance in that effort, to little slights like Ambassador Ann Patterson’s visit to a polling station during parliamentary elections last fall/winter. The cognitive dissonance is hard to get over for Americans, however. Washington has sought to help Egypt to the tune of $65 billion. For Egyptians the mistrust runs so deep, there is no such thing as American altruism. Under these circumstances, President Obama was exactly right when he questioned the quality of the U.S.-Egypt alliance.

Source

The writer makes a great point that seems so obvious to everyone but Americans. Why are people the slightest bit surprised that countries we have torn apart with imperialistic policies, war, unmanned drones & military presence furious with the US impeding upon its sovereignty?

This goes much further back than this offensive Islamophobic film. The US has a long history of trampling on countries’ independence for its own gain. It’s what the US does best & has done since it began.

It’s pretty clear to anyone who doens’t wear Islamophobia goggles, that these riots are far less about blasphemy, more about Yankee Go Home.

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modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:57:42 -0400

thepeoplesrecord: Today downtown Madrid filled with thousands...

modestinferno — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:30:37 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Today downtown Madrid filled with thousands of Spaniards angry at austerity measures that have gutted social programs and pushed tax hikes even higher. The 102 billion euro cut will be introduced in 2014 to avoid an EU bailout and to reduce the country’s deficit.

“The rally represents a protest from all of our society against this unprecedented social fracture,” a spokesperson from the Social Summit, the organizing body of the protests said, adding that the “ideological regression of the conservatives bore worrying symptoms of political authoritarianism.”

dionthesocialist: Someone put a quote of mine on the blurry...

modestinferno — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:50:23 -0400

dionthesocialist:

Someone put a quote of mine on the blurry background of a cityscape. I am officially the internet.