October 2011

Pepper-Sprayed for Peace

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By David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/pepper

I’ve been coughing and vomiting, and my head aches from pepper spray.  I’ll post videos and photos of why at the link above.

We intended to hold signs and sing inside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, protesting its promotion of unmanned drones, missiles, and bombs, including its sponsorship by and promotion of weapons corporations.  We don’t have any museums promoting health coverage or education or retirement security.

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Mic Check! Freedom Plaza Day 2

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Friday was a good day for waking up in Freedom Plaza and for occupying the headquarters of the drone manufacturers.  Fast forward to minute 44 on this video http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17729809 Their intelligence about which way we were coming from was no better at keeping us out of their building than the CIA’s intelligence is at making sure the “right” people are murdered with the drones.

Friday was a good day for marching to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial and talking read more

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Can Resurrection City Be Reborn?

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Thursday morning, thousands of people moved into Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., site of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign’s Resurrection city.

Can a movement of the 99% of us who are living off the plutocrats’ crumbs pick up the cause of social justice?

Day 1 was largely speeches and music, but energized by the sense that something new is building. We went over to the Chamber of Commerce and shut that criminal operation down for a while, and as we marched through the streets, including read more

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What's Missing: Non-Electoral Politics

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Lately, the phrase “public servants” has struck me as ironic, not because government officials fail to serve the public, but because much of the public serves them.  The public is the servants.  Activist groups and individuals devote themselves to bettering the fortunes of political parties or politicians, at the expense of pressuring government officials to represent public demands.

Nobody favors eliminating elections, and nobody favors eliminating activism.  But there read more

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