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  • Occupy Wall Street Live-- 24/7...


    Monkeyfister — Authority Authority: 79
    This Live Feed thread is pinned for the duration. New posts start below this one. Thank you for being here! Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com My dear friend MadSat reminds me that K Street is every bit as big a part of the problem as Wall Street. Here are two proposals for ...
    1 week ago

  • LA occupier charged with ‘lynching’


    Lake Minnetonka Liberty — Authority Authority: 135
    From US News Sergio Ballesteros, 30, has been involved in Occupy LA since the movement had its California launch in October. But this week, his activism took an abrupt turn when he was arrested on a felony charge — lynching. Under the California penal code, lynching is “taking by means of a riot of any person ...
    1 week ago

  • Keystone dead for now


    Where's the Outrage? — Authority Authority: 117
    Just because it looks like the Keystone Pipeline is dead, don’t think that this fight is over. Some very powerful people stand to make tons of money for this project to simply die. It will be back, I promise. From The Nation : For the second time in as many months, the Obama administration has rejected the ...
    1 week ago

  • Getting around Wikipedia blackout


    This page intentionally left ugly — Authority Authority: 108
    Well, unless you’ve been under a rock, you may have noticed that the English pages on Wikipedia are currently blacked out with the following… Wikipedia protest What you may not know is that the blackout is actually courtesy of a script that is loaded after you actually visit the page so you may see the ...
    1 week ago

  • In Solidarity with Poor Churches: Embodying the Faith of Dr. King


    God's Politics Blog — Authority Authority: 124
    Last Thursday, Jan. 12, I was arrested in the Bronx for civil disobedience along with 43 others. It was a group that consisted mainly of clergy and church laity, a grassroots evangelical effort led by Bronx Councilmen Fernando Cabrera. Our protest was aimed at the city’s decision to prevent 160 churches from renting ...
    1 week ago

  • Closed for the Day: OB Rag To Join Internet Strike on Wednesday, January 18


    OB Rag Blog — Authority Authority: 121
    There comes a time when you have to take a stand.For twenty four hours, starting at midnight tonight, the OB Rag will shut down as part of a growing protest against Congressional schemes to place harsh and unnecessary restrictions on the flow of information on the internet. We’ve been reporting on this for a ...
    1 week ago

  • ‘They took my place!’ says single Brooklyn dad trying to take back home occupied by OWS


    Lake Minnetonka Liberty — Authority Authority: 135
    From NY Post They’re occupying his home. Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post ...
    1 week ago

  • Arrest made at Occupy Congress protest


    Lake Minnetonka Liberty — Authority Authority: 135
    From Politico One man was arrested for assault on a police officer Tuesday during day-long ‘Occupy Congress” protests on Capitol Hill. Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider confirmed the arrest, but did not have a name for the man, who was being processed at Capitol Police headquarters. Demonstrators ...
    1 week ago

  • Occupy DC won’t be driven from their filthy, rat-infested encampments, you fascists


    Lake Minnetonka Liberty — Authority Authority: 135
    From Daily Caller It’ll take more than exasperated politicians and appeals to institute rudimentary sanitary practices to stop the violent, dimwitted dirtballs of Occupy DC from ruining public spaces for everybody else. And they even put out a press release about it. Isn’t that cute? They can’t clean up after ...
    1 week ago

  • 6 Books Banned In the Tucson Unified School District (slideshow)


    Civil Rights Blog — Authority Authority: 121
    Last week, the Tucson school district released a list of books that will be banned from its schools.
    1 week ago

  • COMMENTARY:The Wisdom and Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 758.3


    Michael Josephson Commentary — Authority Authority: 122
    For a man who never reached the age of 40, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., left a powerful and important body of thought. He was a preacher and orator, so rather than writing in the form of books or treatises, Dr. King spoke to the world in sermons and speeches and a few articles. His [...]
    1 week ago

  • Bloomberg and protesters grapple over MLK’s education legacy


    GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority Authority: 616
    Mayor Bloomberg was greeted with boos as he tried to tie the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. to his own education policies Monday during a speech at the city’s largest celebration for the slain civil rights hero. A small group of parents and students gathered outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House in ...
    1 week ago

  • The Sad Irony of this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


    The Democratic Daily — Authority Authority: 461
    First, an observation which I seldom see in print: King remembered going to a lecture on the principles of Gandhi, and how it changed his thinking. And Gandhi remembered reading Henry David Thoreau ‘s “Civil Disobedience” while in jail in South Africa. Now, of course, we know that another South African ...
    1 week ago

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day


    iheardin — Authority Authority: 422
    On this Holiday, we should all sit and remember one of the greatest leaders that America has ever produced, Martin Luther King Jr. , who in the tradition on Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi sought to bring about change not through violence, but through peaceful civil disobedience. Therefore, I’m putting up ...
    1 week ago

  • Martin Luther King, Jr: Just Vs. Unjust Law


    Samuel at Gilgal — Authority Authority: 469
    While serving time in the Birmingham city jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter to some of his fellow clergymen who had found fault with his activities in Alabama. I think this letter is a remarkable piece of literature which is carefully reasoned and extremely well written. I hope you will read the few [...]
    1 week ago

  • The King Of Disobedience


    Strength Training Workouts - Strongman Routines - Strength Conditioning — Authority Authority: 106
    Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~Erich Fromm Benjamin, my son is only 17 months old. It was only about 6 months ago that he began the rebellious act of swatting my hand when I approached [...]
    1 week ago

  • In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


    The Wild Hunt — Authority Authority: 110
    “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever ...
    1 week ago

  • He Went to the Promised Land


    Endangered Spaces blog — Authority Authority: 94
    Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a wonderful orator with the booming voice of a minister. He gave  mesmerizing speeches that touched the heart and minds of all Americans. A proponent of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance, King made even diehard racists look again at their beliefs. His last speech in ...
    1 week ago

  • Dream on Monday for Those Who Can No Longer Dream


    CoolAdzine for Marketers — Authority Authority: 92
    Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., studied Gandhis teachings in college and visited India to gain experience with civil disobedience. From Gandhi, he learned that nonviolent resistance was the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom. The principles of passive resistance and civil ...
    1 week ago

  • Occupy Activists Charged With Felonies for Interrupting Mayor Sanders’ State of City Address


    OB Rag Blog — Authority Authority: 121
    Local News Website Denies Police Claims That Activists Were Warned Before Being Arrested The most disturbing thing during Mayor Sanders "State of the City" address that he delivered last Wednesday night (Jan. 11th), was not the swam song of a lame duck politician, but that four Occupy San Diego activists who ...
    1 week ago

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