Mark Maynard | Wall Street

On the origins of Occupy Wall Street and its continued evolution

By Mark | October 20, 2011

I’ve decided to spend tonight looking into the origins of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I knew that both anonymous and Adbusters played a role, but I wasn’t sure just how all of the pieces fit together… While I’m still not sure, I came across an interesting fact that I wanted to share. It seems […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged AdBusters, Anonymous, Arab Spring, commercials, corporatocracy, Kalle Lasn, LoudSauce, Occupy Wall Street, Operation Empire State Rebellion, protests, Robert S. Halper | 22 Comments

Chris Hedges on why Occupy Wall Street could “bring them all down”

By Mark | October 18, 2011

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, Chris Hedges, 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, we need a revolution | 69 Comments

So, what’s the Washtenaw Community Action Team?

By Mark | October 17, 2011

I’d heard mention of the Washtenaw Community Action Team over the past several months or so, but I never really took the time to figure out how they fit into the local ecosystem of left-leaning political organizations, or what their objectives were. Fortunately, however, I had the occasion this past weekend to exchange a few […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 40 hour work week, AAUP, Adam Warner, AFL-CIO, America Votes Labor Unity Fund, astroturf, banks, bridges, child labor, civil disobedience, collective bargaining, commencement, corporatocracy, Flint, Graduate Employees Organization, Great Flint Sit Down Strike, Gregg Barak, Howard Bunsis, Ian Robinson, infrastructure, Inside Job, Jane Slaughter, Koch brothers, labor, labor history, Martin Luther King, Maureen Taylor, Mehmet Yaya, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, Public Act 4, Right to Teach, right-to-work, Solidarity Forever, Stadium Bridge, Stand Against Snyder, Tom Weisskopf, UM Graduate Research Assistants, UMHS nurses, unions, Washtenaw Community Action Team, WCAT, We Are One, We Are The People, Wisconsin, With Babies and Banners: A Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | 10 Comments

Elizabeth Warren… the woman who knew too much

By Mark | October 11, 2011

Vanity Fair has a great feature on the troubled history of the Customer Financial Protection Bureau, and the forces on Wall Street, in Congress, and inside the White House that ultimately alligned against Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who had created the ambitious new agency charged with protecting the American people from the predatory […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Barney Frank, campaign finance reform, Center for Responsive Politics, Christopher Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Product Safety Commission, David Axelrod, demonic activity, Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, get the money out of Washington, Harry Reid, Jonathan Alter, JPMorgan Chase, Kirsten Gillibrand, Molly Erdman, possession, Richard Shelby, Scott Brown, Sean Duffy, Senate Banking Committee, Spencer Bachus, Timothy Geithner, Valerie Jarrett, William Daley | 8 Comments

Occupy Update… featuring Hedges, Grayson, Stiglitz, assorted agent provocateurs, and those vampire squid with their relentlessly jamming blood funnels

By Mark | October 9, 2011

The developments around the Occupy movement are occurring so quickly now that it’s hard to keep track. I’d like to be able to share things as they happen, but, given the realities of life, and the fact that this blog is just a one man operation, I don’t think that’s going to happen. With that […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged agent provocateurs, Alan Grayson, American Spectator, anarchists, anti-capitalist, bailout, Bill Maher, blood funnel, Canada, CBC, Chris Hedges, corporate media, Goldman Sachs, Inside the Business World, James O'Keefe school of journalism, John Ralston Saul, Joseph Stiglitz, Kevin O'Leary, left wing nutbar, manufacturing, Matt Taibbi, Molly Crabapple, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, octopi, Octopi Wall Street, P.J. O’Rourke, Patrick Howley, Peter King, socialized losses and privatized gains, speculation, the sad state of journalism, vampire squid, Wall Street bailouts, Wall Street bonuses | 43 Comments

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On the origins of Occupy Wall Street and its continued evolution

Chris Hedges on why Occupy Wall Street could “bring them all down”

So, what’s the Washtenaw Community Action Team?

Elizabeth Warren… the woman who knew too much

Occupy Update… featuring Hedges, Grayson, Stiglitz, assorted agent provocateurs, and those vampire squid with their relentlessly jamming blood funnels

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