Dear Fellow Workers, Comrades, Brothers & Sisters, Compañeros y Compañeras, Friends, Allies,and Observers as well as everybody else, In the past 18 months, the workers of the world have risen up against globalized capitalist exploitation on a mass scale we have not seen in many years. The fall of Mubarak in Egypt was seen as […]
December 11, 2012
(a passage from the book Death Blossoms) In each year’s wintery season comes the great festival in the West alleged to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth some two thousand years ago. To many, however, it is a time of utter hypocrisy. To those many millions mired in poverty, it is a time of […]
October 23, 2012
This past September, Workers at the Hot n Crusty coffee shop on 63rd St and 2nd Ave. In New York successfully struck for better wages and working conditions.Two weeks ago, 88 Walmart workers around America went on strike in response to the conglomerate’s history of retaliation against anyone that expresses a desire to organize; which […]
September 15, 2012
First of all, don’t call it the Republican party anymore. The Republican party WAS dedicated to granting Americans rights that they didn’t have before, at one point in this nation’s history. Sometimes even if the Congressman and Senators in Washington didn’t personally agree with it, it was about real and actual freedom. Back then, it […]
September 2, 2012
-Occupy Fast Food (Daytona)- Fast food workers are some of the most disenfranchised and abused workers in our economy. Low wages, irregular hours and ever changing schedules, unsafe conditions, lack of bargaining power, (AND sometimes working while sick) make fast food work insecure, dangerous, and soul-destroying. For many communities in the greater Daytona Beach area, […]
August 9, 2012
Let me begin by saying, I can’t say I’ll be addressing a certain category of consumers in detail because of the fact that I said the parenthesized portion of my title out loud, and then let it process in my head. Anyhow, to the rest of those against gay marriage & LBGT rights- I really […]
August 3, 2012
August 9 – #A9 – Occupy LA’s Global Day of Action – Chalkupy the World – “A Better World is Possible” August 30 – #A30 Shut Down Bain Capital! Occupy Tampa & the Tampa Bay Regional General Assembly passed through consensus, “Shut Down Bain Capital!”, a national call to action on the day that Mitt […]
August 3, 2012
August 3 – National Same-Sex Kiss Day – People around the nation will show Chick Fil A their thanks for Chick Fil A’s support of love, equality, and the real definition of marriage, at 8:00PM Eastern (7:00 PM Central; 5:00 PM Pacific) at your local Chick Fil A. Twitter: @ntlsamesexkissday August 4 – Hands Across […]
August 3, 2012
The White Plains, NY police officer accused of calling 68 year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. a racial slur in the moments before Chamberlain was fatally shot in his own home by police, has been suspended without pay. Chamberlain’s family has filed a $21 million civil rights lawsuit against the City of White Plains, the White Plains […]
August 3, 2012
The weekend of July 21, 2012, amounted to be a tragic one. At the midnight showing of the latest Batman film in Aurora, Colorado, 24 year old James Holmes allegedly tear gassed and opened fire on a theater full of people, some of which were children. At the end of Holmes’s rampage, 12 people – […]
August 3, 2012
The Olympics are often characterized as a time where politics ends and the games being. Where borders seize to exist and the world comes together to watch athletes compete on fair and level playing fields free of daily injustices imposed upon them for corporate greed. NBC this year has offered 16+ hours a day of […]
August 3, 2012
On the evening of July 12, 2012, some Occupy Los Angeles participants met at DTLA Art Walk, a monthly art-walk in Downtown Los Angeles. The Occupiers met with the intent to raise awareness of the unlawful arrests of activists that had been protesting a local lobbing group, Central City Association (CCA). Many of the arrests […]
August 3, 2012
Everything around us moves at the speed of light leaving not much more than a dim blur quickly fading away. Since #S17 so much has happened in the world around us but the media still strategically ignores us and somehow still can’t get the message. We have change the discussion of politics yet it is […]
August 3, 2012
July 29th, 2012 the Piccadilly Circus came to the Daytona Beach Ocean Center. The circus was met by a group of 20 or so protesters who braved the heat all day to hold informative signs, hand out literature, and engage in enlightening conversation with circus goers. One protester would ask people, “Please make this your […]
July 26, 2012
July 27 – Critical Mass Daytona Beach, Meet at City Island Library at 6:00 PM, ride at 6:30 PM, potluck dinner after ride (bring a dish to share). July 27 – Orlando Critical Mass: July Critical Blast!, Meet at 5:30 PM, ride at 6:00 PM, Loch Haven Park/Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St., Orlando […]
July 24, 2012
June 30 – Tampa Bay Regional Occupy General Assembly, at Munn Park, 201 E. Main St., Lakeland, FL. 11:00 AM Meet & Greet, 12:00 AM General Assembly. For more information visit occupytampa.org June 30 – July 4 – The Occupy National Gathering 2012 (NATGAT), Philadelphia, PA . For more information visit occupynationalgathering.com July 1-7 – […]
February 28, 2013
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