Excuse the Inconvenience, But We’re Trying to Change the World
pdf file: Anonymous – Survival Guide for Citizens in a Revolution.pdf
Register for Occupy College Call
Occupy Colleges is an organization in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, which has become a haven for university activists around the country. This call is open
to all college students interested in Occupy Wall Street, fighting against tuition hikes and student loan issues.
Sunday, January 29, 2012 3:15pm PT / 6:15pm ET – 2 hours 15 minutes
Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:15pm PT / 6:15pm ET – 2 hours 15 minutes
Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:15pm PT / 6:15pm ET – 2 hours 15 minutes
EDUCATE YOURSELF
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There are no clocks: increases the sense of freedom, a disconnect from reality
There are no windows: people don’t know if it’s day or night outside.
They design casinos to be like mazes: it’s hard to find your way out.
They give free alcohol to the gamblers: they continue to gamble.
{via omg-facts.com}
In case your always-politically-angry friend hasn’t talked your ear off about the National Defense Authorization Act yet, here are the details:
From Democracy Now: “A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial. The measure would effectively extend the definition of what’s considered the U.S. military’s battlefield to anywhere in the world, even the United States.” Section 1031 allows the military to arrest American citizens on American soil who are suspected of “supporting terrorism” and detain them without trial until the “end of hostilities,” a.k.a. forever.
Why does it matter to you? See how you do on the following test:
Which of the following is NOT a suspected terrorist?
A. A person wearing a bandana
B. A person bludgeoning a baby pig to death
C. A person with more than three months of food stocked up
D. A person videotaping animal cruelty
If you guessed A, C, or D: Go straight to indefinite detention. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
We’re hella screwed if NDAA becomes the law of the land. The FBI already classifies people who go undercover to investigate factory farming cruelty as terrorists. So with the NDAA and Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act combined, it’s easy to foresee animal rights activists being indefinitely imprisoned, without trial, as terrorists.
In a bipartisan effort, Congress passed the NDAA in December, and Obama has already signed it into law. But wait, there’s still a slight hope that we won’t all end up eating borscht in the gulags! Sen. Feinstein has introduced the Due Process Guarantee Act, which would clarify that U.S. citizens or lawful residents cannot be indefinitely detained without trial.
What you can do:
- Urge your representatives to support the Due Process Guarantee Act. Tell them that you feel so strongly about this that you will not vote for them again unless they pass this.
- Tell President Obama that you will not vote for him unless he makes passage of the Due Process Guarantee Act a priority.
- Check the list of representatives who voted for and against the bill. If you have one of the few who voted against (like Rep. Barbara Lee or Sen. Ron Wyden), call to thank them. If you have one of the many (both Democrats and Republicans) who voted for it, call to express your outrage.
{adapted via vegansaurus! via Katie Cantrell who founded the Coalition to Fight Factory Farming, a Bay Area group that gives presentations on the harmful effects of industrial animal agriculture.}
Related articles
- Happy New Year: Don’t Bother Asking for an Attorney When You’re Detained (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
- Don’t Allow Congress to Strip Americans of their Citizenship Without Due Process (forcechange.com)
- Monique Ruffin: President Obama Is His Brother’s Keeper, Indefinitely (huffingtonpost.com)
- Threat of Indefinite Detention (gabrielconstans.wordpress.com)
- NDAA: One Provision Would Allow Gov. to Detain Americans Indefinitely (gloucestercitynews.net)
Click image to find out what’s inside – NASTY
Our electoral process is rigged in the following ways:
- Corporate personhood and the legal determination that money equals speech.
- Corporate campaign financing and lobbying; billions to buy our elected representatives.
- Corporate restriction of candidate access to the media and to participation in vital debates.
- Corporate media exit polling, which often alters results to manufacture a false “red shift” of rightward-moving electoral outcomes.
- Manipulation of electoral structures and mechanisms
- Partisan redistricting, which re-draws electoral district maps that favor a particular party.
- Voter ID laws that disenfranchise young, poor and minority voters.
- Fraudulent purging of voter rolls, including “caging” – removing a voter from the rolls or discarding their vote based on the return of direct mail to their listed address, a practice found to be used fraudulently and with racial bias, making it illegal under the Voting Rights Act.
- Disenfranchisement of felons, many poor, black or Hispanic, and convicted on drug offenses.
- The centralized rigging of computerized voting machines.
Read the entire article from Truthout - Occupy Rigged Elections: A Call for the Second American Revolution in 2012
"Be home by ten, dear"
The 10 Richest Multinational Corporations
{Click link for details}
- Walmart (retail) – US
- Exxon Mobile (oil and gas) – US
- Royal Dutch Shell (oil and gas) – Netherlands & UK
- British Petroleum (oil and gas) – UK
- Sinopec (oil and gas) – China
- Toyota (automotive) – Japan
- PetroChina (oil and gas) – China
- Total (oil and gas) – France
- Chevron (oil and gas) – US
- Japan Post Holdings (oil and gas) – Japan
we are legion
CORPORATIONS AREN’T PEOPLE AND MONEY ISN’T FREE SPEECH
Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision in a case called Citizens United vs. FEC. Click on the banner for a brief explanation and video including a place to sign the petition.
The Saving American Democracy Amendment states that:
- Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights equal to real people.
- Corporations are subject to regulation by the people.
- Corporations may not make campaign contributions or any election expenditures.
- Congress and states have the power to regulate campaign finances.
Join the list of co-signers. Click on the banner to follow the link and sign the petition if you support a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Citizens United decision.
Related articles
- Five Constitutional Amendments That Could Overturn Citizens United – How Are They Different? (ibtimes.com)
- Bernie Sanders: ‘A Corporation is Not a Person’ (crooksandliars.com)
