December 12, 2012

Naked Force used against Democracy in Michigan

Michigan really is an experiment in Fascism. Already, municipal governments are being shut down by state-appointed "emergency management" officials, and towns no longer have control over their own municipal budgets, over their own schools, over anything.



Now, this:

Protesters take the Capitol Building:





Protesters locked out of the capitol building:


Police use pepper spray against protesters:


Michigan Union Member peppersprayed, stepped on by a horse:


via the Michigan ACLU

December 5, 2012

Thomas Cox: Former Banking Lawyer, now helping people keep their homes



via the Portland Press Herald:

Cox, 68, uncovered the practice of "robo-signing," in which mortgage servicer employees
signed affidavits in support of foreclosure without reviewing the relevant records. He had previously worked in private practice for banks that specialized in debt collection and foreclosures.

Cox was volunteering with Pine Tree Legal Assistance in 2009 when he took of the case of Nicolle Bradbury, a Denmark woman whose home was being foreclosed upon by GMAC Mortgage. Cox figured out that the company's "limited signing officer" had signed thousands of foreclosure affidavits in 23 states without knowing about the cases.

GMAC suspended foreclosure activity in September 2010 and JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank and PNC Bank followed suit. Earlier this year, the country's five largest mortgage services agreed to a $25 billion settlement.

Cox is now building a network of lawyers to do pro bono work. He works in Portland at Maine Attorneys Saving Homes, a joint project of Pine Tree Legal Assistance and the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project.

December 2, 2012

NYPD Officer Speaks Out Against Police Corruption

Top NYPD Cop tells his officers that in a perfect world, the community would be a ghost town with all the bodies in jail.

NYPD cop secretly records evidence of a ticket and arrest quota system .... A must see:

November 30, 2012

Why Bradley Manning Should Be Free



via AcroynmTV

Bradley Manning Support Network http://www.bradleymanning.org
Sign and share this: http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/sign-daniel-ellsbergs-petition-to-free-bra...

Julian Assange writing about the trail, said "Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables -- messages sent between the State Department and its embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world. In collaboration with a network of more than 100 press outlets we revealed the full spectrum of techniques used by the United States to exert itself around the world. The young intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was detained as an alleged source."

Henry Rollins: DIY Life



Henry Rollins: Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism

Lee Camp: The Most Powerful Psychopaths in the World

November 29, 2012

Josh Fox: Occupy Sandy

via acronymTV



For the past month we have come together to support and rebuild communities broken by Hurricane Sandy. As Sharon Lerner wrote in the American Prospect, “the storm handed inequality activists an almost eerily perfect illustration of exactly what they see as wrong with our world.”
In this vein, over Thanksgiving Occupy Sandy joined with communities to share over 10,000 meals. Now we begin to come together to connect the dots from the storm, to climate change, to the reckless greed of the 1%-ers at the forefront of the fossil fuel industry. 
The work is far from over, so join us. You can check out the Occupy Sandy Relief NYC Facebook page to get started, or follow @OccupySandy on Twitter.