The police violence on display at UC Davis this Friday is not the first of its kind in response to the Occupy movement. As I wrote yesterday, a similar incident involving police beating protesters at UC Berkeley happened this past Tuesday. There have been numerous other incidents as well, from to to to City and […]
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Police at UC Davis maced a group of peaceful Occupy protesters in a gross display of excessive force Friday. The video, which I posted earlier today, has since gone viral. Police are not backing down from the action despite the police actions being widely criticized. “If you look at the video you are going to […]
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Events like the one in the above video have been far too common in the police response to Occupy protests across the country. I do believe that Occupy is at a tipping point, and that it must grow beyond and evolve away from the tent city occupations, but this police response is absurd and excessive. […]
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The new first-person-shooter from Activision may break sales records, but does it offer anything new? I sat down with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 last night – though due to some issues with the internet I didn’t play as much as I had hoped. Critics have been pretty uniformly positive about the game, but […]
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An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator protests in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. Slogans can be tricky. Occupy Wall Street is learning this. There’s always a balance to be struck between catchy, memorable slogans and meaningful ones. When you start using a slogan to actually talk policy, that’s when this balance becomes […]
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Occupy Wall Street is growing steadily, with cities across the country and in Canada seeing their own protesters hit the streets. Now unions are lending the movement their support. Transport Workers Union Local 100 spokesman Jim Gannon said the protests advocated issues that align with union interests like income inequality and worker’s rights. “Their goals are […]
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Occupy Wall Street is spreading across the country into Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore and other American cities. What began as a small group of disaffected protesters hunkered down near the financial district in New York City is quickly becoming a national, and potentially global, movement. Will it lead to workers of the world uniting, or […]
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New York City has been inundated with protests recently. Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining strength. Union pilots showed up on Wall Street to protest a hasty merger between United and Continental airlines. And yesterday over a thousand feminists held a scantily-clad rally, which they called SlutWalk, to protest blaming the victims of sexual assault […]
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Demonstrators gather to call for the occupation of Wall Street, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, in New York. (Via @daylife) I don’t have a lot to say about this latest anti-Wall Street protest movement. Certainly the anger is understandable. The financiers are making huge piles of cash while much of America remains unemployed or underemployed. The vast wealth […]
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