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Chris Hedges on why Occupy Wall Street could “bring them all down”
It takes a concerted effort on my part not to post videos here every night of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges. As I just posted video of him a few days ago, I hate to do it again, but, once you see this video of the former New York Times war correspondent being interviewed […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Bologna, Berlin Wall, Charlie Rangel, corporate media, corporate takeover of politics, corporatocracy, coup d’état, Democratic Party, East Germany, Eastern Europe, intifada, leaderless movements, Leipzig, MoveOn, New York, non-hierarchical structure, Occupy Wall Street, Prague, revolution, Slobodan Milošević, Teamsters, the fall of the Berlin wall, unions, Wall Street, we need a revolution 69 Comments
Is now the time to get off our asses and take to the street?
Say what you will about the topless girls and the incoherent boys who started everything rolling with their occupation of Wall Street, but it looks like what they set in motion might actually have not only legs but momentum. Today, 3,000 people marched on Bank of America in Boston. And, in New York, an estimated […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Other Also tagged Bank of America, Boston, Brooklyn Bridge, civil disobedience, corporatocracy, Demetrius, democracy, Martin Luther King, New York, Patrick Henry, Plutocracy, protests, revolution, Rosa Parks, Tim DeChristopher, Wall Street, Wall Street occupation 38 Comments
CEOs running our schools… what could possibly go wrong?
If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I posted some video here of State Senator Rebekah Warren commenting on Governor Rick Snyder’s Emergency Financial Manager Act. Warren noted, among other things, that there was no requirement that those emergency financial managers deployed to take over our State’s failing school systems have any background in […]
Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged critical thinking, Education, education reform, Eli Broad, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Finish school system, Finland, Leadership Academy, Michael Bloomberg, no child left behind, parasitic teachers, Rebekah Warren, Rick Snyder, Superintendents Academy, teachers and their evil agendas, Texas Miracle, trends in American education 12 Comments
