A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? On the History of the US Economy in Decline by Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through [...]
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General strike?
“If you want a General Strike organize your co-workers” An Interview with Joe Burns, author of “Reviving the Strike” (review this blog) April 28th, 2012 by Camilo Viveiros https://t.co/qoRke0ut Introduction: Many in the Occupy movement have called for a general strike on May 1st but most Occupy activists aren’t involved in labor organizations or organized [...]
War or peace
War or Peace. My Report on the Basewatch meeting Saturday april 28 3.30 pm CDU Darwin With veteran whafie and NT political leader Brian Manning, I with 40 others attended Darwin’s public meeting on the US military machine in Australia. I applaud the Basewatch group for an informative meeting over 2 hours on this question [...]
Co-operative?
Follow the actions of these unionised workers in the US – now a cooperative is on the agenda in response to redundancies. http://www.truth-out.org/republic-windows-workers-consider-employee-owned-co-op/1330711182
World without nuclear weapons
Follow the campaign Global Zero for a world without nuclear weapons. http://www.globalzero.org/en/about-campaign
Occupy and black bloc debate
Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism? By Michael Albert Friday, February 10, 2012 from Z magazine “But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women [...]
Sit down strikes
Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement Sit-in strikers at General Motors’ Fisher No. 1 plant. By Don Fitz [See also With Babies & Banners, the classic 1977 documentary about the 1936-37 Flint sit-down strike, and the role of women in it.] January 3, 2012 – Links International Journal of [...]
Obama: detention
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law American Civil Liberties Union December 31, 2011 WASHINGTON – President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement [...]
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