This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Wall Street Journal. by Simon Critchley The truth is we are not in control. But that’s not the worst of it. We suspect, indeed we know, that no one is in control: no God, no glorious leader, no benevolent dictator,…
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Learning from Success: Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Power in the Northwest
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by Sandy Polishuk During the national wave of anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s, Oregon’s Trojan Decommissioning Alliance (TDA) was the only group to target an operating nuclear plant for non-violent civil disobedience. Claiming headlines both for its demonstrations and its analysis of Trojan’s safety and costs, the work of the TDA was complemented by that…
The NYPD’s New Strategy: Sexually Assaulting Peaceful Protestors
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This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It originally appeared in the Occupied Wall Street Journal. by David Graeber A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend—I’ll call her Eileen—passed through, her hand in a cast. “What happened to you?” I…
RIP Ecotopia Author Ernest Callenbach, Good Morning Cascadia
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by Little Bear Cascadia, our bioregion here in the Pacific Northwest, stretches from the mighty Rocky and Kootenay mountains in the east to the Pacific Ocean, from the edge of the Northern Tundra to the deserts of the south. It’s the land of the Salmon. It’s the home of the fir. It’s our culture of…
No School, No Work, but in Chicago, No General Strike
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This story is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Chicago Tribune. by Joe Macaré Before there was the NATO summit or the Occupy movement, there was May Day, born and bred in Chicago. This year, with leftists across the country crossing their fingers for an American Spring, Chicago’s May Day…
What Really Happened at the Montréal May Day Protest? From Peaceful Protest to Police Brutality
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by Andrew Gavin Marshall On May 1, 2012, thousands of students and other protesters took to the streets for the Anti-Capitalist rally in downtown Montréal. I attended the protest with a couple friends, and having read the “news” emanating from the “stenographers of power” (the mainstream media), it’s important to set the record straight about…
Community Responds to May Day Police Brutality
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by Mungen Cakes Members of the May Day Coalition and Portland Liberation Organizing Council held a press conference May 4th on the steps of the Justice Center in downtown Portland to denounce the police brutality perpetrated by the Portland Police Bureau during the May Day protests. Led by PLOC spokeswoman Kari Koch, representatives of six…
An Open Letter to the Reformists Within Occupy Portland
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David “Däv” O’Bryant “The notion of “policy” presumes a state or governing apparatus which imposes its will on others. ‘Policy’ is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presumes it knows better than others how their affairs are to be conducted. By participating in policy debates,…
M1: Striking Students Provide a Lesson in Democracy
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This story is part of our feature about the many protest events on May 1, 2012. Visit the feature page to see more. by Vargus Pike Since the Great Recession began as a result of the avarice and criminal behavior exhibited by those in the banking and mortgage sectors, one of the vital segments of…
M1: A First Hand Account of the Heinous Crime of Jaywalking
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(or) How Flying Pigs Turned Me into a Believer This story is part of our feature about the many protest events on May 1, 2012. Visit the feature page to see more. by Little Bear During the main May Day march, leaflets were being handed out calling for a Dance Dance Revolution – a roaming…
