Further to last night’s post. Pretty hard to get decent video at night with an inexpensive camera, so I stripped out the audio. I’m not especially religious, but for whatever it’s worth, I thought it was incredibly moving. Bearing witness, in the …
Tag: occupytoronto
November 15, 2011. Occupy Toronto wins a round in court after the city’s move to evict the camp is put on hold. That evening, Occupiers and supporters gather in solidarity and celebration … So it’s not that easy to get good visuals at night with…
This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual …
Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City???s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning during the People???s Hearing on Goldman Sachs, which he chaired with Dr. Cornel West. The activist and Truthdig columnist then joined a march of several hundred p…
Not sure at this point whether Papandreou’s Eurozone referendum is a go or not, but I’ll settle for this in the meantime. Well, look … no one said changing the narrative was going to be easy. Baby steps … Also, this #FTW. Related posts: This w…
It is telling that our founders recognized the need for a semblance of democratic governance, if only to establish the legitimacy of the regime they established. This is why capitalists and their political representatives have always been reluctan…
Should we confine the expression of our opposition to the channels that are made available to us by the same media institutions that overwhelmingly support the Conservatives? And if so, why? So we can avoid causing any inconvenience? The obvious r…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8agbUBG94] Zombie fest: Mindless, flesh-eating armies of the Undead take over…
Got a flurry of emails yesterday after the inimitable Rush Limbaugh lumped me and Dylan Ratigan in with the behind-the-scenes power structure. Apparently Rush got hold of Breitbart???s story about the email list and decided to run with it: Journalis…