World-News

Preston Elrod, Truthout: 'What the Occupy movement makes evident, as most of us are painfully aware, is that the current political economy does not work for most Americans, nor does it work for our brothers and sisters around the world. Yet, it does not tell us what to think. Instead, it encourages us to think and to learn through the countless discussions that take place each day at occupation sites around the country and abroad.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-we-all-need-experience-occupy-wall-street/1323445491



Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'The Occupy Wall Street protests refuse a notion of society that embraces a definition of agency in which people are viewed only as commodities, bound together in a Darwinian nightmare that celebrates the logic of greed, unchecked individualism and a disdain for democratic values. Joining with students in the Occupy movement is not merely a career choice; it is a choice about what kind of society we all want to live in.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-faculty-should-join-occupy-movement-protesters-college-campuses/1324328832



Occupy Chanukah and Christmas

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun: 'Every political, economic, legal, and educational institution must be rebuilt with a New Bottom Line that judges efficiency, productivity and rationality based on how much they help develop in us our capacities to be loving and caring, kind and generous, ethically and ecologically sensitive, and responding with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur and mystery of the universe.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-chanukah-and-christmas/1324403400



Our Photographer and His Lens Busted at Occupy

Greg Palast, Truthout: 'On Saturday, our [photographer] ... along with a bishop of the Episcopalian Church and three ministers of various faiths ... were pushed face-first into the dirt at Duarte Park, handcuffed and hauled off in a police van to the lockup in Lower Manhattan ... [Police] weren t impressed by Bishop George Packard s red robes. His excellency was handcuffed and charged along with ... another newsman for trespassing on the property owned by the bishop s own church, Trinity.'

http://www.truth-out.org/our-photographer-and-his-lens-busted-occupy/1324416856



'The Protester' Becomes Time s Person of the Year, Wants More

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'This year s 'Protester' was not protesting government paralysis. Governments are not the primary bearers of power in the geopolitical landscape. Bigger things are at work, and the biggest of these is the globalization of capital ... 'The Protester' is focused on something bigger than Time Magazine s cover, bigger even than governments. 'The Protester' in 2011 is focused on saving the world by turning it over to the people who live here.'

http://www.truth-out.org/protester-becomes-times-person-year-wants-more/1324408608



With the Long Revolution Underway, We Need to Think Big

David Palumbo-Liu, Truthout: 'I attended the demonstration in Oxford, which drew the largest crowd in the southwestern part of the United Kingdom. I heard things one could never have imagined before at a labor strike ... The message overall was that it was time to think big - this global crisis demands a global response, and the suffering of one population in one spot on the globe connects intimately with that of others."

http://www.truth-out.org/long-revolution-underway-we-need-think-big/1324418230

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Plundering the American Dream: College Students Demonstrate the Idiocy of Our Education System
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo86.1.html

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The Careerists

By Chris Hedges

The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31969.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=greed
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+dream
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=globalization
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=education+system
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=OWS
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Occupy+Movement
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/slavo
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