Occupy: The Tour with Original Occupier Michael Pellagatti starts where the city began at Bowling Green in front of the National Museum of the American Indian. Group size will be limited to 30 participants for a fact-filled 2 1/2-hour tour of OWS’ most important sites.
Read MoreBanksy in Gaza: “If we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful – we don’t remain neutral.”
Your weekend theater plans are here, Zuccotti Park, in NYC.
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This free public program, co-sponsored by the Nation Institute, is inspired by the publication of Scheer’s new book--They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy.
Read MoreThat the insane rich are killing us is not poetry or hyperbole, it is a fact supported by scientific research and our subjective experience; inequality results in lower life expectancy and higher rates of violence.
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Join this public discussion on how communities need support from Labor to fight back agains systemic rascism.
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We assert that #BlackLivesMatter, that our babies lives matter, and that we will no longer tolerate the abuses thrust upon us by those who are sworn to serve and protect.
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Internet trolls have spewed a tremendous amount of vile hate at me since I began participating in the #BlackLivesMatter movement after the murders of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, but none of it has been so openly hateful of an entire group of people as what I experienced during the #MuslimLivesMatter demonstrations over the weekend.
Read MorePussy Riot's first song in English is dedicated to Eric Garner and the words he repeated eleven times before his death. This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror - killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds - for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We stand in solidarity.
Read MoreComrades Pablo Iglesias of PODEMOS, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Rob Robinson of Left Forum. This is what DEMOCRACY looks like.
On March 18th, brothers and sisters from all over Europe will converge in Frankfurt and join #Blockupy organizers in a day of transnational direct actions against against the opening of the European Central Bank. Listen to what some are saying about why they are choosing to participate:
By Nyle Fort
The Crisis
Every 28 hours in America, a black person is shot and killed by police, security personnel, or vigilantes. This epidemic of racialized state violence has a long history in this country, from slavery and lynchings to Jim Crow and mass incarceration. As theologian James Cone writes in his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, "Every time a white mob lynched a black person, they lynched Jesus." The state-sponsored execution of Jesus can be directly linked, both theologically and politically, to the execution of black bodies in America. What is our response to the deaths of Amadou Diallo, Shantel Davis, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and Sean Bell, just to name a few? Silence is not an option because silence in the face of injustice is sin.
The Call
How are we to express our righteous indignation? How can we respond, with integrity, to racialized violence? As Jesus calls on us to remember his death, so are we to remember the deaths of those "crucified" in our midst. The voices of the executed are crying from the ground, calling us as disciples of Jesus to remember them and advocate for justice. How may we do this? The Church is in desperate need of a political theology that speaks to our theological convictions as well as articulates our political commitments. We pray that this service will be one step in that direction. And the voluntary offering collected during the service will be donated to local organizations working to end police brutality and other forms of state violence.
The Event
Similar to the "Seven Last Words of Jesus" traditionally preached on Good Friday, we will convene a "Seven Last Words: Strange Fruit Speaks" service with a focus on the final words uttered by seven black people slain by police, security personnel, or vigilantes. These words will be the preaching "texts" for sermons on Eric Garner ("I Can't Breathe); Renisha McBride ("I Want to Go Home”), and Michael Brown ("Don't Shoot!”), among others.
The program will be live-streamed directly on the church's website: http://theriversidechurchny.org/
Tweet to show your support with the hashtag:
#7LastWordsRiverside
Our friends at CUNY are live-streaming today's much anticipated conversation between Pablo Iglesias of PODEMOS and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
To watch the LIVESTREAM: Go to videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu and click on the link in the "Live Videos" box on the upper right hand side of the page. The talk is titled "Hope Is Changing Sides".
Follow us on Twitter @OccupyWallStNYC for tweets of us looking at Pablo Iglesias and Amy Goodman looking at REVOLUTION things.
Piercing winds and negative wind chills were not enough to keep hundreds of Wisconsinites from attending two actions against Governor Walker’s proposed budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin’s campus on Saturday, February 14. It was a cold, cold way to spend Valentine’s Day, with the wind in Madison whipping off of Lake Mendota, bringing the already frigid temperatures down to a danger zone of twenty-five degrees below zero. But this is Wisconsin, and in spite of the polar vortex, four or five hundred winter warriors arrived to rally. If these numbers, despite the cold, are any indication, Walker’s budget is drawing a lot of heat.
By all accounts, three particularly incredible human beings were murdered by a lone gunman about 36 hours ago in Chapel Hill. The victims were Muslim and the murderer was white.
In reflecting on this senseless killing, the oft-repeated statistic that 87% of mass shooters are white men between the age of 13 and 56 came to mind, as did the fact that America admittedly spends a disproportionate amount of resources spying on Muslim communities to prevent “violent extremism.” [Read the full Article on Keegan.NYC]
Yesterday, tens of thousands of people marched on the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage, voting rights, environmental justice, affordable healthcare, reproductive rights, and racial justice. This is just the beginning.
(Photo by Kaitlyn Barlow * Photographer | Cinematographer *)
Syriza had 22 days to make history. This is how they did it.
Filmmaker, Theopi Skarlatos followed Syriza's activists, candidates and leadership from the waterfront, to remote mountain villages, to the nail biting final days.
At this time, Theopi and her team are in the process of raising funds to make the follow-up documentary.
