Polar bear: 1 Wall Street: 0
Ten climate activists (and one polar bear) have been found "not guilty" of criminal charges stemming from the Flood Wall Street protest. The New York City Criminal Court Judge ruled that the NYPD's order to disperse violated the First Amendment.
Read MoreToday Exxon Mobil, one of the world's biggest polluters & contributors to man-made climate change, is in New York City. They will meet with financial analysts at the New York Stock Exchange to release its capital budget and to discuss how to distribute over $30 billion in long-term investments over 2015.
Working families and people of color have lost too much due to the extreme weather caused by corporations like EXXON. #ExxonShouldInvest in our planet & our communities! Here’s what Sandy survivors & community members have to tell Exxon:
Today Exxon Mobil, one of the world's biggest polluters & contributors to man-made climate change, is in New York City. They will meet with financial analysts at the New York Stock Exchange to release its capital budget and to discuss how to distribute over $30 billion in long-term investments over 2015.
Exxon’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, might discuss Exxon’s billions in earnings, risk investment, operational excellence, and profitable growth opportunities. But there’s one thing he will dismiss: the communities who are mostly affected by climate change, including those right here in New York City, who lost their homes, or their livelihoods due to SuperStorm Sandy.
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Today we have a tale of wage theft.
Read MoreThe debtors’ revolt has begun.
Read MoreOn September 22, three thousand climate justice protesters poured into the financial district in Lower Manhattan and occupied Broadway at the intersection of Wall Street for several hours. This direct action came one day after the historic People’s Climate March and sought to underscore the central role of capitalism in causing climate crisis.
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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
