I had watched this video a several months ago and found it mildly interesting. I did not watch it in it’s entirety, though, as it is 30 minutes long. However, in light of all the recent Occupy Wall Street spreading like wildfire, this link came back to me once again. This time, I watched it from beginning to the end.
Daily Archives: October 14, 2011
Charts: And just who ARE the One Percent? 2
Occupy Wall Street has focused national attention on the vast majority of Americans who have been left behind by the economic growth of the past few decades. But if OWS isthe voice of the 99 percent, who exactly are the 1 percent?
A quick look at the numbers reveals that they aren’t all bailed-out Wall Street execs or brokers pulling down fat bonuses. That’s just some of them: More…
Alabama Law Makes It A Felony For Undocumented Immigrants To Have Water At Their Homes Reply
At least one utility company in Alabama posted a sign informing its customers that a section of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law prohibits them from providing water service to undocumented immigrants. According to the sign at Allgood Water Works in Blount County, Alabama, customers must have “an Alabama driver’s license or an Alabama picture ID card on file” by the date that the immigration law went into effect; otherwise, they risked losing their water service.
Photos from the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm Reply
October 20th, 2011, will be the twenty year anniversary of the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm of 1991. The fire has also been called the Oakland hills firestorm, the East Bay Hills Fire, and the Tunnel Fire (because of its origin above the west portal of the Caldecott Tunnel) in Oakland. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (6.2 km²) destroyed included 3,354 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units. The economic loss has been estimated at $1.5 billion. More…
Occupy Wall Street #ows photos from Friday Oct 14th Reply
Protesters claim victory as Brookfield properties, owners of Zuccotti Park in New York, call off their plans to clean the area. Demonstrators had mounted their own clean-up operation during the night. More…
Oct 15, 2011 | United for #GlobalChange Reply
On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares.
From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global non violent protest.
Occupy Wall Street #ows Clean-up postponed Reply
A cleaning planned for the Manhattan park where “Occupy Wall Street” protesters have camped out for weeks has been postponed, a move that averts a showdown between demonstrators and police.
The New York mayor’s office said Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, told the city late Thursday the scheduled cleaning is off for now and “for the time being” they are “withdrawing their request” made earlier in the week for police assistance during the cleaning operation.
