Zorra
Zorra's JournalModern revolutions, and some modern definitions of revolution:
a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed
c : activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation
d : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm <the Copernican revolution>
Example(s) of successful revolution:
"In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong ... and we were right! I regret nothing!" ~ Abbie Hoffman
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. When all today's isms have become yesterday's ancient philosophy, there will still be reactionaries and there will still be revolutionaries. No amount of rationalization can avoid the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on the planet. I still believe in the fundamental injustice of the profit system and do not accept the proposition there will be rich and poor for all eternity." ~ Abbie Hoffman
Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
The only solution is WorldRevolution.
Part of what gave Occupy its particular beauty was the way the movement defined "we" as the 99%. That phrase (along with that contagious meme "the 1%"
entered our language, offering a far more inclusive way of imagining the world.
The encampments are now gone, but things that were born in them survive: coalitions and alliances and senses of possibility and frameworks for understanding what's wrong and what could be right.
On this, the second anniversary of that day in Lower Manhattan when people first sat down in outrage and then stayed in dedication and solidarity and hope, remember them. Remember how unpredictably the world changes; remember those doing heroic work whom you might hear little about but who are all around you; remember to hope; remember to build; remember that Parisian drummer girl. Remember that you are, most likely, part of the 99%, and take up the burden that is also an invitation to change the world and occupy your dreams.
Alec goes back to the future, channels Abbie Hoffman.
"Sacred cows make the best burgers"
"In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong ... and we were right! I regret nothing!"
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system."
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
"The duty of a revolutionary is to make love, and that means staying alive, and free."
(^^Abbie Hoffman Quotes^^)
The Third Way is in a tizzy! They're rallying the troops to stop this leftward movement!
FDR was a racist traitor commie Snowdeniteemotarian Paulista!!1!
Yeh. We need to make a focused, sustained effort at rooting out the PPI/Third Way
corporatists who are too shallow, myopic, and above all greed motivated, to care about the damage they are doing to the Democratic party, the country, democracy, humanity, and the planet.
Sure, they sometimes toss us a crumb and support constructive social policies, and that's a good thing, but this is only when constructive and necessary social policies don't conflict with the needs and desires of the insatiable global commercial interests of the 1%.
The truth is, we need to get all the fucking business people out of running our party and government because they are too damn selfish and shallow to see beyond the dollar signs on the money colored lenses of their glasses, and they flat out can't govern worth a shit. Republicans have already proven that over and over and over since the end of the Civil War.
Life is more than money, and the well being of human beings is far more important than a bunch of egotistical hoarders playing their ego driven games of business as usual while the rest of humanity suffers from it.
While Banksters fiddle, Fukushima burns.
Protests are being held across Brazil and the world this week against attempts by the Brazilian government to water down indigenous peoples’ constitutional rights in the name of the country’s push for industrialization and ‘development’.
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Several new projects are under discussion which, if passed into law, would drastically weaken indigenous peoples’ control over their lands and severely threaten the survival of many of Brazil’s tribes, including highly vulnerable uncontacted Indians.
A proposed constitutional amendment would give Brazil’s Congress – heavily influenced by the anti-indigenous farming lobby – the power to participate in the demarcation of indigenous lands. A draft bill under discussion would open up indigenous land for army bases, mining, dams and other industrial projects, and another would open up indigenous reserves to large-scale mining for the first time.
These changes would prove disastrous for Brazil’s tribes such as the Guarani, who already suffer extreme levels of violence by local ranchers and who are pushing for their ancestral land to be returned to them; and the Awá, who have become known as Earth’s most threatened tribe because of the large-scale invasion and destruction of their forest.
Scammer dupes Experian into selling Social Security Nos
Cybersecurity investigative blogger Brian Krebs is reporting that a Vietnamese hacker duped Experian into selling him valid social security numbers, probably paid for via hijacked online accounts.
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Experian declined Krebs' interview request, instead sending him a carefully vetted statement acknowledging that Court Ventures sold data to Ngo. Here's the statement Krebs received:
"Experian acquired Court Ventures in March, 2012 because of its national public records database. After the acquisition, the US Secret Service notified Experian that Court Ventures had been and was continuing to resell data from US Info Search to a third party possibly engaged in illegal activity. Following notice by the US Secret Service, Experian discontinued reselling US Info Search data and worked closely and in full cooperation with law enforcement to bring Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo, the alleged perpetrator, to justice. Experian's credit files were not accessed. Because of the ongoing federal investigation, we are not free to say anything further at this time."
This disclosure supplies more evidence of the tenuous nature of the online credit -checking and loan-selling system ported to the Internet by the financial sector to save costs. It's much cheaper to conduct sensitive transactions online that it is hiring staff and erecting buildings to needed to conduct transactions face-to-face.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/10/21/scammer-dupes-experian-into-selling-social-security-nos/3144069/
Does it say "Identity Verification Pending" on your profile, but you still keep getting a
message about how your identity could not be verified, and that you need to send in documentation?
That's what keeps happening to me. Also, every time I would complete an online application (maybe 20 or more times so far, lol) the next time I would access the application it would tell me that my application was in progress and needed to be completed. Each time I accessed my application, some of the information that I had already provided was missing. Sometimes it was my address, sometimes my income info, sometimes it was my gender, sometimes it was my employer info, yada yada yada.
I swear, Hannibal Lechner is a real person, and the RW hired him to design healthcare.gov in order to send us all to the psych ward with Obamacare Frustration Psychosis.
So, anyway, I completed my application over the phone (for the fifth time, lol), and I checked today and they actually still had a completed application on record. But that it will take 2 - 3 weeks to find out (through the mail!) if my identity was verified, and if I am indeed eligible for subsidized insurance, which I obviously am.
But I'm skeptical, and believe this is just another unspeakably wicked part of the sadistic genius plan of Hannibal Lechner and his healthcare.gov website to drive us all off the rails for good - in 2 weeks I suspect that they will tell me that I never filed an application, and that I need to fill out a new one, as well as send in my identity documents (for the tenth time, lol)
At which point, I will be so psychologically traumatized that I will no longer be mentally and emotionally competent to fill out an application for anything, and will not be able to get the insurance to pay for the mental health treatment I will so desperately need after being thoroughly tortured by Hannibal Lechner and his healthcare.gov torture machine.
please, please, somebody help me!
Sincerely,
Agent Clarice Starling
Centrists are oblivious and uncaring about all the pain and suffering that is happening right now.
Y'all seem to be perfectly content to live in some warm and fuzzy dream world while wealthy, unscrupulous laissez faire capitalist wealthy private interests control all of our governments to the point where the people, the 99%, continually lose power, and have no ability to maintain or gain power,
We don't even have enough say to stop fucking-richer-than-god global capitalists from destroying the world.
Everything is simply not just fine and dandy for most folks who live outside of the intoxicating warm and fuzzy great white gated plastic bubbles of Yuppieville Center and Elysium.
A typhoon that swept through Japan has caused more radioactive leaks at the troubled Fukushima plant.
Workers there say they have detected high levels of radiation in a ditch leading to the Pacific Ocean and suspect heavy rains lifted contaminated soil.
Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well
Brazil's Articulation of Indigenous People's (APIB) called the mobilizations – staged simultaneously in various cities across the country such as São Paulo, Belém, Rio Branco – to protest the attack against territorial rights of native peoples. Emanating from the Brazilian government and backed by a powerful congressional bloc representing agribusiness known as the bancada ruralista as well as large mining and energy interests, a series of new proposed laws seek to undermine Article 231 of the Brazilian Constitution, which assures the indigenous right to an exclusive and permanent usufruct to resources on their ancestral territories.
"We are here because Congress wants to take our rights and extinguish our people," said Chief Raoni Metuktire, a legendary Kayapó leader from the Amazon. "This assembly is important because it aims to unite our peoples against this threat."
Hundreds of planned laws and constitutional amendments targeting the rights of indigenous and traditional communities are under debate in Brazil's Congress and risk being passed this month before lawmakers go into recess, making this week's mobilizations both urgent and timely.
Among the proposed changes are Proposed Complementary Law (PLP) 227 which would modify Article 231, eliminating the indigenous right to resources in cases of "relevant public interest," clearing the way for industrial farming, dam-building, mining, road building and settlement construction on indigenous lands. Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) 215 would roll back the demarcation of new indigenous territories by passing the authority to demarcate lands from the Executive to a Legislative branch that is increasingly hostile to indigenous rights.
You want to stop people from advocating for change from outside the system, then fucking fix it, real soon, before it kills us all. Because centrist wackos are going to destroy the planet with their Third Way obliviousness to reality and their great love for destructive uncontrollable laissez faire global capitalists and capitalism.
You can start by helping all of us loony, dangerous leftists stop the TPP.
Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it
Fuck corporatism, centrism, and bipartisanship, all are nothing but malignant corporate cancers
in our party and country, waiting to metastasize and cause more periodic amputations of our economic well being, rights, safety nets, environmental health, and liberty.
Austerity, sequestration, disaster capitalism, all the product of centrism.
Centrism causes RW extremism to grow and flourish. 30 years of insidious Democratic party centrism is what led to our government being taken over by deranged teahadists.
And every second of every day the 1% cancer grows ever more wealthy and virulent as it spreads its rot spreads throughout the the 99%, a far RW revolution of the very worst sort, the revolutionary dictatorship of the plutocrat. The return of Feudalism.
Just say no to right wing ideas and policies, always.
Transgender women are classified as female by both the Social Security Administration
for Social Security identification purposes, and by the Department of State on passports, given that the transgender woman has taken appropriate steps to have her gender identification marker changed with these agencies.
Also, transgender women are federally protected from employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rghts Act of 1964. It is my understanding that they are not protected as transgender, but as women.
Title VII of the Act, codified as Subchapter VI of Chapter 21 of title 42 of the United States Code, prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin (see 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2[39]). Title VII applies to and covers an employer "who has fifteen (15) or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year" as written in the Definitions section under 42 U.S.C. §2000e(b). Title VII also prohibits discrimination against an individual because of his or her association with another individual of a particular race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. An employer cannot discriminate against a person because of his interracial association with another, such as by an interracial marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Title_VII
Macy v. Holder
,
7
the EEOC held that claims of
transgender discrimination are cognizable under Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of
1964
,
8
which prohibits employment discrimination be-
cause of sex.
9
Though the EEOC recognized that transgender women
are women, it articulated theories of discrimination that are in tension
with that recognition. Further, it overlooked a text-based approach to
including transgender discrimination within the scope of Title VII that
courts have not yet considered: th
at transgender discrimination is
based on sex because it is rooted in
aversion to or assumptions about
biological sex characteristics
(This is a pdf file)
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/media/pdf/vol126_macy_v_holder.pdf
This will be an interesting and possibly a landmark case, I hope we beat the fascists again.
Thanks for posting this!
Given the overall condition of western "civilization" at the time the Constitution was ratified,
you have no case. We have maintained many essential freedoms under law for the past 225 years.
Yes, we need some very thoroughly considered changes, and over the years, wealthy private interests have purchased government officials, lawyers, and religious leaders, etc, in order to subvert democracy and obscure the intention of much of the Constitution, in order to come to a position of anti-democratic political power and control over the government and people of the US. They have insidiously supplanted democracy with plutocracy, but we still have many rights existent primarily because of the Constitution.
Now that the ignorant, gullible RW slaves of wealthy private interests have effectively fucked themselves, and us, and subverted the Constitution in service to their malicious plutocratic masters, it is most likely that we must use alternative means, outside the political process, in order to subjugate the plutocrats and install a democratic process and democratic government. Many of the basic principles of the Constitution/Bill of Rights remain necessary, IMO.
But the revolutionaries who ratified the Constitution certainly never intended that corporations should be considered to be persons, any more than they intended that we should be ruled by a plutocratic noblesse.
http://occupywallst.org/
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