Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: 'Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year - with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society. I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state.'
http://www.truth-out.org/letter-dead-man-about-occupation-hope/1318949571
Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then '#occupy' protesters around the world this weekend just gave the Arab Spring an Academy Award. Of course, the chain of inspiration of freedom and justice seekers is unending in history, but theres' no question that the Arab Spring opened a new chapter which is inspiring people to protest for justice worldwide.'
http://www.truth-out.org/WalkingLikeanEgyptianFoodFarmingandForeignPolicy/1318951270
Wall Streets' Moneymen Shower Cash on Candidates
David Goldstein, McClatchy: 'Even as protests over its political influence grow louder, Wall Street is one of the leading sources of money so far in the 2012 race for the White House. Not surprisingly, the biggest beneficiary has been Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, according to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog group.'
http://www.truth-out.org/rage-wall-street-rises-its-moneymen-shower-cash-candidates/1318945201
Rediscovering Civil Disobedience
George Goehl, The Nation: 'There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal,' proclaimed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he took a risk and spoke out forcefully against the War in Vietnam. As more Americans debate whether to leave the sidelines and join the Occupy Wall Street movement, we should heed Dr. Kings' words. Our individual silence is a form of acquiescence, and we speak volumes not only through our action but also through our lack of it. Silence signals that we are okay with whats' happening, or that we have simply given up. While Occupy Wall Street has inspired a new level of consciousness in America, we have only just scratched the surface of what will be needed to shift the political economy of our country.'
http://www.truth-out.org/rediscovering-civil-disobedience/1318944426
Sounds of Outrage Heard on Wall Street
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: 'Harvards' Nieman Watchdog Web site recently featured a very good piece by John Hanrahan, a former reporter at The Washington Post, about press coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. 'There has been an outpouring of well-informed criticism of the mainstream news medias' initial coverage and non-coverage of the Wall Street protests,' Mr. Hanrahan wrote. Coverage was initially dismissive and minimal - and mea culpa, I wasnt' paying attention myself. But it's becoming clear that theres' something important happening: finally, after three years in which the Very Serious People refused to hold the financial industry accountable, theres' a real grass-roots uprising against the Masters of the Universe.'
http://www.truth-out.org/sounds-outrage-heard-wall-street/1318958460
Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf of Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'Increasingly, citizens of democratic nations are setting aside labels like Republican, Democrat, Tory, and Labour when considering their politicians. Instead the labels in peoples' minds are: working in the interests of corporations and working in the interests of individual citizens.'
http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-influence/1318963129
Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas Discuses Occupy Times Square and the Role of Veterans' Rights Within the Economic Justice Movement
Video
Keith Olbermann, Countdown: Made famous by his poignant message to police while protesting at New Yorks' Occupy Time Square, Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas speaks with Keith Olbermann about the role of veterans' rights within the occupy movement.
http://www.truth-out.org/keith-olbermann-marine-corps-veteran-sgt-shamar-thomas-occupy-times-square-veterans-rights/13189488
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US, Euro arms used against Arab protesters
Loveland Reporter-Herald
10/18/11
The United States, Russia and many European countries that have supported the swell of protests across the Middle East and North Africa this year also supplied some of the weapons used against demonstrators, Amnesty International said in a new report Tuesday. The report comes as the human rights group urges the U.S. Congress to block a $53 million proposed U.S. arms sale to Bahrain, where more than 30 people have been killed as the ruling Sunni Muslim monarchy has waged sweeping crackdowns against mostly Shiite Muslim protesters who have demanded greater rights...
http://tinyurl.com/3wgfshw
The paradox of the outraged
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Axel Kaiser
10/17/11
A wave of social upheaval is shaking the world. In the West, the press has called the protesters 'the outraged.' The name is taken from the pamphlet Time for Outrage! (Indignez-vous!) by French intellectual Stéphane Hessel. The outrage by the political and economic situation in the Western world is justified.'
http://mises.org/daily/5762/The-Paradox-of-the-Outraged
Mitt Romneys? lying problem
Reason
by Matt Welch
10/19/11
Is the GOP really ready to replace one truth-challenged president with another?
http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/19/mitt-romneys-lying-problem
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas on Countdown
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/good-guys/marine-sgt-shamar-thomas-on-countdown.html
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