OWS
This is a guest post from Thomas Naylor, founder of The Second Vermont Republic. Their mission statement can be found here.
From the very outset I was an enthusiastic supporter of Occupy Wall Street. To me it represented the reawakening of the political left after four decades of uninterrupted slumber. Maybe the radicalization of America had finally begun. Americans might soon opt for jobs, health insurance, social security, better education, and a cleaner environment rather than drones, Navy Seals, and Delta Force death squads.
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I love the Occupy Movement’s “1% vs. 99%” frame. It speaks clearly and directly to the major problem holding back social progress in a wide range of areas: the control of obscene wealth and political and economic power by a tiny minority at the expense of everyone else.
The truth is, though, that there’s little chance that the “99%” is going to be united anytime soon to stop that “1%” from the society-suicidal path they’ve got us on. However, it is possible that a big chunk of it, a majority or even 2/3rds or more, could come together in some way in the not too far off future. This can happen if we in the Occupy and progressive movements do our work well, and the economic/political/climate/social crisis continues or deepens (...
It was typical Obama, taking credit for what should be condemned. He's a fraud, a crime boss, a war criminal multiple times over, a moral coward, and serial liar. His State of the Union address was beginning-to-end doublespeak, duplicity, coverup, and denial of failed policies complicit with Wall Street crooks, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites while popular needs go begging.
Not according to fawning New York Times writers, however. Suppressing truth and full disclosure, Helene Cooper headlined "Obama Speech Makes Pitch for Economic Fairness" saying Obama:
"pledged on Tuesday night to use...
I was doing some digging and I found a short essay I posted on facebook in early August of 2011. I thought Vermont Commons might find it relevant. I was responding to an article that suggested that the youth of America have been successfully pacified. I disagreed. I don't mean to brag, or suggest prophecy, but "occupy" started three weeks later.
Here's the article I was responding to:
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance...
How do we FREE VERMONT from this madness? Where is rule of law?
Insight: Top Justice officials connected to mortgage banks by Scot J. Paltrow
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows....
Occupiers march en masse on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
BURLINGTON- In the rainy mid-morning of January 17th, a group of Occupiers some 1,000 strong march down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the United States Capitol building. They are here to speak to their elected representatives on their first day of legislative session. Arriving at the capitol, the occupiers are initially met with about a dozen members of the...
Vermont residents protest outside of Senator Patrick Leahy's Burlington office
BURLINGTON: On the heels of Senator Patrick Leahy's vote in support of the National Defense Authorization Act residents of Burlington as well as Ferrisburg, Bristol, and other surrounding towns arrived outside Leahy's Main St. office building to protest his vote that supported, among other things, the codifying into law, the indefinite detention, without charge or...
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
BURLINGTON: Picking up from my post from yesterday, following a group of Occupiers from Burlington as they confront the GOP candidates and highlight the inequality of the corporate funded election system in America. The intrepid crew of Vermonters began the day by waking up at 5am and traveling to Concord to begin planning for the morning's GOP debate in that city. After scouting several buildings surrounding the debate hall, the Vermonters assisted in unfurling an Occupy banner proclaiming "THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN" that...
An Occupier from New Hampshire is identified and stared down by Rick Santorum's security force
BURLINGTON: This weekend a group of Vermonters and others from around the country journeyed to the series camps and locations that make up Occupy the Primary in an effort to both confront the GOP candidates about their positions, as well as highlight the tragic farse that the corporate funded election system has created and continues to perpetrate upon the...
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