Scott Olsen, U.S. Vet Who Nearly Lost Life at Occupy Protest, Brings Antiwar Message to NATO Summit
We’re joined at the NATO summit in Chicago by Scott Olsen, who survived two tours in Iraq but...
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Read Moremunicipal, county, state and federal ‘counter-terrorism’ agencies view citizens engaged in movements of political and social dissent, such as Occupy Wall Street, as nothing less than nascent, if not bona fide, ‘terrorist’ threats.”
Read MoreThe Occupy movement is not constrained by party ideology and partisan loyalty but is free to identify inequity on a national, regional and local level and to design grassroots movements to bring about change at home. What succeeds in Coos Bay migrates to Salem, Washington and beyond and bounces back and forth across the nation with its similar threads but unique regional signatures.
Read MoreOregon Humanities Conversation Project THIS SUNDAY! Join us on Sunday, September 16th, 2012 for a...
Read MoreWhereas, according to Long shore & Shipping News, within a month, the empty grain ship will be escorted by armed U.S. Coast Guard vessels and helicopters, from the mouth of the Columbia River to the EGT facility; and
Read MoreCoast Guard escort of empty SSA ship from the mouth of the Columbia River to the Port of Longview’s docks: It was reported that this is the first time since the 1970’s that armed forces are being brought out against workers during a labor dispute, and this is a terrible breach of our civil liberties. Dave suggested we contact ACLU for support. In the 1970’s President Nixon brought out the National Guard against the postal workers during a strike. But now, after 9/11 the Coast Guard was reorganized under the Navy as part of Homeland Security, the US Government will use a branch of the military, the Coast Guard, to protect a private corporation against US citizens fighting for their labor rights. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell may be supporting the use of the Coast Guard against the ILWU.
Read MoreAs the global revolution continues to gain momentum, it seems that Japanese Doro-Chiba railway workers are throwing their hats into the mix.
Read MoreStrategies for moving forward with the fight to regain control of fundamental rights to life, liberty and happiness from the corporatocracy.
Read MoreWe are the 99% – We are unstoppable, another world is possible – Occupy Earth!
Read MoreOccupy Coos Bay will be meeting at the Coos Bay Boardwalk at 11 AM to discuss national and local strategies for enacting changes our elected leaders can’t seem to make.
Read MoreEmbattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country.
Read MoreCountdown discusses the role of veterans in an all volunteer military defending their right to free speech and peaceable assembly. Keith Olbermann speaks with Jose Vasquez of Iraq Veterans Against The War
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