Exercise.

Lose weight.

Be nicer.

Work with not just this year but many future years and generations and centuries in mind.

Work with an international perspective as much as possible.  Collaborate internationally as much as possible.

Work to turn last year’s Arab Spring into this year’s Worldwide Spring-Summer-Fall-Winter.

Help to create a worldwide movement against plutocracy and violence.

Stop thinking of defeating horrendous proposals as the only kind read more

Actually, be there at 10:45 pm tonight.

It’s important.

Lee Park is right on Market Street in downtown.

It is the encampment of OccupyCville.

At 11 pm police may tell everyone to leave or be arrested.  If they do, you can certainly leave.  I’m not asking you to risk arrest unless you want to. 

Many are willing to risk arrest, and we should support them.

In cities across the country, police have backed off on threatened evictions because of the number of people present.  read more

Has the First Amendment expired in your public square?  Has your local park prioritized empty vistas over the right to petition your government for a redress of grievances, thereby adding one more grievance to the list?

Here’s a proposal.  Pack up all of your grievances in a bag and bring them to where the government responsible is located.  Move your protest and yourself and as much of your Occupy community as you can bring with you to Freedom read more

LISTEN

LISTEN

Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before — although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer reforms and less accountability than they used to — although that is also true and is getting closer; but fundamentally because the actions against which we need whistles blown are publicly acknowledged.

How would one expose war or indefinite imprisonment read more

Billionaire Bloomberg, Militarized Police Commanders, and the Editors of the Charlottesville Daily Progress Believe . . .

… permitting any exercise of First Amendment rights is an act of generosity, and all acts of generosity must end.

According to the Daily Progress, we’re even free in Charlottesville to insult presidents, although the “insults” may consist of attempted citizens arrests for openly confessed felonies, and although the “freedom” may consist read more

I’m thankful that a growing number of us reject the idea of a mysterious being to which we should be thankful, and for the concomitant growing assumption of responsibility for our own fate.

I’m thankful that there are so many people doing so many things for which I am thankful.

I’m thankful for the best family I can imagine. Scratch that. I’m thankful for a better family than I could merely imagine.

I’m thankful too for better employers than I could merely imagine.

I’m read more

Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media’s venom? Should they?

In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it’s certainly possible that for the first time in recent years an independent progressive populist campaign will survive the enmity of the corporate media.

In other cases, the cold, the communications assaults, fatigue, and read more

Last week, President Obama racked up several more broken campaign promises as he pushed through Congress three new job-killing corporate trade agreements.  The Senate Finance Committee was quite open about the fact that these agreements will kill off more jobs and eager to mitigate the damage with band aids attached to the treaties.  Some of us who were in the hearing room felt an obligation to speak up and ask why in the world the senators — with perfect bipartisan harmony — read more

Thanks in large part to the New York and national corporate media a massive campaign to shift power away from giant corporations and into the hands of the people is now afoot all across this continent. It was inspired by peoples’ nonviolent uprisings in other countries and sparked by courageous nonviolence on Wall Street.

Can we keep it going and growing despite the unreliability of the corporate media? When the television networks created Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, for us — following read more

And we’re never giving it back.  Our permit for Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., expired, we refused to leave, and the Park Police has just proposed to let us stay for four more months. 

We’ve agreed.  We have not said that when the four months are over and the American Spring is here we will leave.

In fact, we intend to make it possible for anyone to visit D.C. with free accommodations.  Just bring a sleeping bag and agree to work with us to pressure Congress, read more

Sunday night, our permit expired for occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. So, we threw a dance party, and when we could dance no more, we went to sleep in Freedom Plaza.

We have until 2 p.m. today to remove our possessions. We do not intend to do so. We suspect that if the police want to remove us by force they will wait until evening. So we’re throwing a dinner party, and 99% of the country is invited.

Our permit is now the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

“Congress read more

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