Tickle Me Goldman Sachs
My friend Jay sez Occupy protesters should show up at Goldman Sachs dressed as Muppets and try to open accounts…
My friend Jay sez Occupy protesters should show up at Goldman Sachs dressed as Muppets and try to open accounts…
Chancellor Linda Katehi of UC Davis wound up doing a perp walk in front of what looks like many dozens (or more?) of silent protesters, in the dead of night. It is astonishing how little of a clue she had. How hard would it have been to actually say something…
Says one of the pepper-sprayed UC Davis students The whole article – including the video of the “perp walk” the UCD chancellor did the next day – is amazing. If she had had any brains or spine (or heart?) she would have tried to engage them. As it is, she…
From Balloon Juice – Today at Occupy Davis, a police officer approached a group of students sitting in a line peacefully on the ground, walked up and down the line and pepper-sprayed them directly in the face—as one would spray pesticide on weeds. What you’ll see in this video is…
From Digby The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Karen Piper, a bystander who suffered permanent hearing loss after Pittsburgh police deployed a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) against protestors during the 2009 G-20 Summit. An LRAD emits harmful, pain-inducing sounds over…
Great points from The Rude Pundit “But, as ever, as ever, since it’s started, everyone, from The Daily Show to Diane Rehm, right, left, and middle, has insisted that Occupy Wall Street conform to some readily defined paradigm of what a protest movement needs to be. Essentially, they are echoing…
The Dollars & Sense blog is becoming a favored source of good info on not just the Occupy movement it, but the underlying economic issues fueling it. And don’t forget Democracy Now, for fantastic news coverage.
Time to have fun ditching Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citizens and other bad actors in favor of community banks, credit unions, etc. A quick and easy way to send a powerful message. Link
One of my favorite activists and bloggers. Occupy the roadside! Link
Recent college graduate Molly Katchpole has $2,200 to her name, holds down two part-time jobs — one of them as a nanny — and describes her financial situation as paycheck-to-paycheck. So when Bank of America announced that it would begin charging debit card users a $5 monthly fee, Katchpole got…