Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Lee Camp, and the Transpacific Partnership

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

Dr Margaret Flowers at Think Tank in Maine

"The United States Government, because of corporate involvement, has proven itsself incapable of making decisions based on evidence, or the public interest"

Leah Bolger on Thomas Hartmann Show

via Thomas Hartmann


Navy Commander Leah Bolger, Veterans for Peace, joins Thom Hartmann. Last year - a courageous war veteran gave a dose of reality and common sense to the infamous Congressional Supercommittee - and she was arrested for her actions. We'll talk to her about her activism - her upcoming trial - and how to get this country back on track.

Leah Bolger Pleads Guilty to Telling the Truth

More: In 45 Seconds Leah Bolger Did More to Represent the Views of Americans then the Supercommittee Ever Did: Now She Faces Jail

20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience

CPAC has thoughts on #OWS; but #OWS has thoughts on CPAC

So the Conservative Political Action Committee had a panel in which they discussed the Occupy Movement vs the Tea Party.

It's on C-SPAN, and is currently not available for embedded playing. So here's a link: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304376-8

I would say, "Enjoy!" but I think you're going to have a REALLY hard time doing so. It's extremely cringeworthy.

Thankfully:

The Occupy Movement Shared Their Thoughts about CPAC

via Teamster Nation

The annual corporate greedfest known as CPAC was turned upside down today by thousands upon thousands of union members, community activists, unemployed workers and our good friend the giant Fat Cat. Dozens of reporters trained cameras on the sprited Washington, D.C. scene. Union banners waved as throngs of marchers surged into the street and up the hill to the hotel entrance. Protesters chanted, sang, drummed and danced while grandmothers sat down in the street to protest attacks on Medicare.


Police gave up trying to keep the huge crowd on the sidewalks. They blocked off the street as the peaceful protesters vented their thoughts about greed, tax dodging, unemployment and the war waged on working families.


Teamsters with "Stop the War on Worker" signs joined autoworkers, sheetmetal workers, firefighters, elevator constructors, UFCW, SEIU, AFSCME, UNITE. Community groups from as far away as Baltimore showed up by the busload.

Some of the entitled jerks attending CPAC had gleefully predicted violence, the way they always do, then did their best to provoke it. With expensive suits and camera equipment, they waded into the crowd hurling belligerent questions at the protesters. A security official -- was it a Secret Service agent -- took one entitled jerk away from the group he was badgering and gave him a talking-to.

The rally got off to a slow start around noon, as steelworkers, UAW members and Teamsters formed a picket line around the Fat Cat chanting, "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Union busting's got to go." But at 12:30 someone shouted "Oh my God, thousands of marchers!" Led by drummers they filled the street, waving signs and banners as cars honked and police officers tried to herd them onto the sidewalks. "Our DC" and "We Are The 99%" signs joined "Recall Walker" and "Greed is Good--Romney-Gekko."

Soon the huge crowd surged up the hill, past the police and security, bellowing, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" Then they peacefully marched down again and regrouped in the street. Two women sat down on the pavement, soon to be joined by many more. Some gave speeches, some chanted and some sang along with pro-movement songs made up on the spot.

The CPAC one percenters had some charming things to say: @BossyMother called them "mutant scum." The delightful @stephenww tweeted, "I think we all can agree that the #OccupyCPAC crowd should get free contraception." @JimForbes_Pasco refers to the peaceful protesters as "OccupyCPAC goons."

Bill Moyer: What Does It Mean to be an Organizer?

Irony Free, Corporate Bi-Partisanship

This was a real ad. It's supposed to be an advert for Coca-Cola, but it seems more like an ad for the Green Party or Occupy Movement:



Yup. The Democrats and Republicans get together to celebrate their loyalty to corporate America.

Not only that, but a corporation that HIRED ASSASSINS TO MURDER UNION LEADERS.

It's like a political cartoon, except... it's not.

Meet Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign

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The State of the Union- Occupy Wall Street Style

Here we have a group of Occupy DC people from Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square protesting the Presidents speech. To summarize: Words from the President usually do not reach the average individual on the street. The neglect of this nation needs courage, leadership, and committment... Obama in his first 3 years displays none of these qualities.

Occupy The SEC

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Also, here's an online petition form to the SEC from Public Citizen you can use in the short term.

And while that's nice and all, you should really get your ass down to DC and complain in person.

So the SEC, if they had done their job, Wall Street would not have fucked up the entire world economy. Or at least not as badly as they did.

The Newsletter Version

The SEC, charged with regulating wall street, has largely not done their job, or worse, actively helped to cover up the crimes of wall street.

The SEC is a lynchpin intersection between Washington, DC and Wall Street.

On March 30th, there is a mass mobilization in DC that I'm sure you all know about. We should start planning now to occupy the SEC in March, and begin shining a light on how corrupt they are.

This is a critical target, and is a good target to utilize the "identity triangle" method of contrasting who our target is, and what they say they are, the conflict between what they say they do, and what they actually do. The conflict between what they say reality is, and what actual reality is.

If we can weaken the collusion at this juncture between Washington DC and Wall Street, we can start really making a massive dent in the power structure.

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Lee Camp at Occupy Congress on #j17

[MUSIC] - WAR CRY

Lyrics: 

I don’t know what I’ve been told

you can win the war but you’ll lose your soul

you can drop a bomb that will burn a hole

through everything you love and know

Brothers face down in the soil

your machine it runs on oil

brothers face down in the mud

your machine it runs on blood

you pretend that it’s anything but wrong

(war cry)

All this death and all this strife

so you can life your American life

we cannot quench our lust for more

we lost our soul but we won the war

Uncle sam can lend a hand

brothers face down in the sand

I don’t know what I’ve been told

you can win the war, but you lose your soul

you pretend that it’s anything but wrong  

(war cry)

OTHER STUFF:

* I'm headed back down to #OWS tonight, and I'll be there till very late Sunday night (actually 1:30am Sunday morning).  I'm doing some volunteer work for the documentary I worked on previously.  I really want to see the project through now that I've been working on it for so long.  If you're at OWS at anytime during that period, say hello!



* Yet another big thank you to PE Nolan for letting me crash on her couch.



* THIS is extremely exciting:  A contingent from #OWS is marching from NYC all the way to Washington DC, covering 20 miles a day for two weeks straight.  Holy smokes this is awesome.



* The next 16 people to order t-shirts from my Etsy store will get a copy of my band's cd FOR FREE!



* My band, Theodore Treehouse, just launched a kickstarter project for our second album.  We're trying to raise $8,000 to a) pay for recording b) pay for mastering c) pay for publishing and d) repair our van so we can e) go on a tour of all the Occupied cities in the USA.  Which is getting to be a larger number every day.  We're raising the money in $10 and $20 increments.  So that's a lot of people.

A message to all police officers by Mike Ruppert

A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street from CollapseNet.com on Vimeo.

When will the Revolution come? [Full Version]

When will the revolution come?
I don't know
but I bet it will be fun.

Didn't Jesus feed the poor?
I don't know
but he doesn't anymore (it's up to us now)

CHORUS:
My heart is filled with broken glass
and I know in my soul that this cannot last
kicking all the kids out in the street
but they land on their feet
and they're marching to the beat
of their own drum

Why are you willing to kill?
Son, I've got to kill
cuz I gotta pay my bills

When will we end all the wars?
The wars will end when we figure out
what the fuck we're fighting for

CHORUS

When will the empire fall?
I don't know, but when it does
I won't feel so small

When will the Revolution come?
I don't know, but I
bet it will be fun.

CHORUS

Freedom Plaza shuts down Citibank in Washington

"Occupy Everywhere" by Banjo and Friends at #occupyDC

Like/ FAV/ Share – make this go viral! Occupy Everywhere! (Performed by Banjo & Friends of OccupyDC)

Video shot by Dennis Trainor Jr, Kevin Egan and Asher platts. Additional footage sourced from occupations everywhere.

cut by dennis trainor jr and asher platts.

Cornel West speaks to the Occupation at Freedom Plaza, Washington DC #ows

Cornell West Arrested on the Steps of the Supreme Court

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Music:: When Will The Revolution Come?

OCCUPY DC - MUSIC