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January 16, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Resolution exptected to pass Tuesday would give City Manager power to push austerity
- Common Dreams staff
The Associated Press reports that the city of Long Beach, New York is about to declare fiscal emergency.
From the Long Beach Patch:
When people accessed the City of Long Beach’s website to read the City Council agenda that's posted there each Friday before the following Tuesday's meeting, they found that City Manager Jack Schnirman proposes a resolution to formally declare a fiscal emergency that will give him greater authority to control and veto spending.
Rumblings of Shock Doctrine: Long Beach, NY to Declare 'Emergency'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/16-4Monday, January 16, 2012
Resolution exptected to pass Tuesday would give City Manager power to push austerity
- Common Dreams staff
The Associated Press reports that the city of Long Beach, New York is about to declare fiscal emergency.
From the Long Beach Patch:
When people accessed the City of Long Beach’s website to read the City Council agenda that's posted there each Friday before the following Tuesday's meeting, they found that City Manager Jack Schnirman proposes a resolution to formally declare a fiscal emergency that will give him greater authority to control and veto spending.
January 16, 2012
#Occupy Congress: The San Diego 13 who were kicked off a bus have arrived in DC. Livestream!
http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland
January 16, 2012
By Cory Doctorow at 7:22 am Monday, Jan 16
Updated: Commenters have pointed out that I've jumped the gun here. SOPA is shelved, but not killed. It could be put back into play at any time.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has killed SOPA, stopping all action on it. He didn't say why he killed it, but the overwhelming, widespread unpopularity of the bill and the threat of a presidential veto probably had something to do with it.
Before you get too excited, remember that the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the extremely similar Senate version of SOPA, is still steaming forward, and has to be stopped.
UPDATED: SOPA is DYING; its evil Senate twin, PIPA, lives on
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/16/sopa-is-dead-its-evil-senate.htmlBy Cory Doctorow at 7:22 am Monday, Jan 16
Updated: Commenters have pointed out that I've jumped the gun here. SOPA is shelved, but not killed. It could be put back into play at any time.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has killed SOPA, stopping all action on it. He didn't say why he killed it, but the overwhelming, widespread unpopularity of the bill and the threat of a presidential veto probably had something to do with it.
Before you get too excited, remember that the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the extremely similar Senate version of SOPA, is still steaming forward, and has to be stopped.
January 16, 2012
If all of the football fans and teams and sponsors and broadcasters and sports bars in the US
put the same amount of time, effort, technology and money into feeding the hungry children of the world...
January 16, 2012
If all of the football fans and teams and sponsors and broadcasters and sports bars
in the US put in the same amount of time, effort, technology and money they currently put into football, instead, into feeding the hungry children of the world...
January 16, 2012
"Who cares more about football than starving children."
Well, if all of the football fans and teams and sponsors and broadcasters and sports bars in the US put in the same amount of time, effort, and money they currently put into football, instead into feeding the hungry children of the world... It appears to me there is something to do with =effort=, whether it be in playing football or being a good samaritan. What do we want more? What we want more, is what we get.
January 15, 2012
(Two pages)
By Sarah Seltzer, Friday, January 13, 1:53 PM
Members of the Occupy movement are flocking to Capitol Hill to stage “Occupy Congress” on Tuesday, determined to confront the other 1 percent — politicians, not bankers — with grievances over student debt and the economic crisis.
But the marches, sit-ins and general assemblies that Occupiers plan to hold near the halls of power are as close as they will officially get to the Capitol. The movement doesn’t have ambitions for higher office in 2012. No one is dreaming of a Democratic Occupy caucus to match the House Republicans’ tea party group.
Occupy exists outside politics on purpose. Its decision-making processes are meant as a rebuke to the electoral system, in which both parties, activists say, are influenced by lobbying and corporate cash.
And yet, the movement can have a greater impact on American politics than an Occupy caucus ever could. Putting its concerns at the forefront of the debate this campaign season through nonpartisan tactics is a stronger strategy than backing a flash-in-the-pan candidate — as the tea party found with Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, who attracted fascination but then faded in 2010. Occupy will push candidates to embrace its positions but won’t rely on them to be leaders of the movement — leaders who can fail, compromise or be toppled in a vote.
Occupiers aren’t running for office. They have their sights set higher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/occupiers-arent-running-for-office-they-have-their-sights-set-higher/2012/01/12/gIQA0rPwwP_story.html(Two pages)
By Sarah Seltzer, Friday, January 13, 1:53 PM
Members of the Occupy movement are flocking to Capitol Hill to stage “Occupy Congress” on Tuesday, determined to confront the other 1 percent — politicians, not bankers — with grievances over student debt and the economic crisis.
But the marches, sit-ins and general assemblies that Occupiers plan to hold near the halls of power are as close as they will officially get to the Capitol. The movement doesn’t have ambitions for higher office in 2012. No one is dreaming of a Democratic Occupy caucus to match the House Republicans’ tea party group.
Occupy exists outside politics on purpose. Its decision-making processes are meant as a rebuke to the electoral system, in which both parties, activists say, are influenced by lobbying and corporate cash.
And yet, the movement can have a greater impact on American politics than an Occupy caucus ever could. Putting its concerns at the forefront of the debate this campaign season through nonpartisan tactics is a stronger strategy than backing a flash-in-the-pan candidate — as the tea party found with Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, who attracted fascination but then faded in 2010. Occupy will push candidates to embrace its positions but won’t rely on them to be leaders of the movement — leaders who can fail, compromise or be toppled in a vote.
January 15, 2012
By Antonio Castelan
Jan 13, 2012
The Occupy movement disrupted a foreclosure auction in downtown Los Angeles and then protested at a bank issuing foreclosures.
(This is an update on the following story: )
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002121130
#Occupy Los Angeles protest foreclosures (Update of Faith)
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Occupy-LA-Protest-Foreclosures/137328158By Antonio Castelan
Jan 13, 2012
The Occupy movement disrupted a foreclosure auction in downtown Los Angeles and then protested at a bank issuing foreclosures.
(This is an update on the following story: )
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002121130
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