The spiritual crisis of humanity and the endless struggle
by Jérôme E. Roos on November 7, 2011
From Europe to the world, it is time to break the chains of weariness and rise to the challenge of our times. The future of humanity depends on it.
The capitalist endgame that is being played out in Greece – and Europe more broadly – is a microcosm of the challenges facing humanity as a whole. As the world economy teeters on the brink of collapse, we are reminded every day that Europe’s crisis is much more than merely a financial, economic or even political crisis. At rock bottom, the tragedy of the failing European project is a symptom of the profound spiritual crisis facing humanity today.
The European Union, which despite its many troubles remains the largest economy in the world, has often been portrayed as the very pinnacle of modern progress. Francis Fukuyama, author of the End of History, once argued that he saw the European model of economically integrated social welfare states as the single greatest achievement of human evolution. But today, this rudderless behemoth is steadily drifting towards the abyss of its own destruction. Not since the days of WWII has its future looked so bleak. Read Full Article Here | Reflections on a Revolution ROAR
In the Tactical Urbanism approach, knowledge is shared. Failure is expected and seen as a creative force, rather than as something to be feared. Input from others is welcome. Want to brainstorm about vertical farming? Share ideas about bus-top gardens? You're welcome to contribute. In a significant departure from the attitude of previous generations of entrepreneurs and activists, there's not a lot of proprietary grasping going on. It's a creative commons approach to the physical commons.
Frome the Occupy Toledo Facebook page: 5 Occupy Toledo supporters tried to enter City Council chambers today. Two were prevented from doing so because they h...
Interesting. Important. This is what is happening down on Wall St. This article is an eyewitness account of the newly founded "Spokes Council". I obviously wasn't there, so i can't comment on whether i agree or disagree with what this article states, nor can I determine what is spin and what is not. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27479
On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street. Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation, the organization was incapable of making sound financial decisions. The proposed solution was not to sp...Read More Here
Maca Petrović via Scott Walker Is a Douchebag A group of Capitol protesters sued the state Department of Administration on Friday alleging that a state administrative rule that bans signs and banners from state buildings is unconstitutional.
Anyone have thoughts on how to organize an action around this? In the Declaration put out by OWS, food/farming policy was on the list of issues. I know lots of occupiers that see this as a big issue. From this article the Congress is using the fact that we are so focused on the banks to get this horrible plan through. Not that being focused on the banks is not hugely important, just hoping someone has some wonderful ideas to take to the GA.
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Rick Barnes VanLandingham III Bev Likehood Richeybev: meghan and I were attacked by two cops, and jailed, on Tuesday. Our "crime"? Carrying a sign with the First Amendment on it into an open meeting of the Toledo City Council. Meghan is still in jail, facing false charges including a ridiculous felony charge! She is alone, and in need of as much support from all quarters that we can generate. Perhaps you could read and re-post the following? and generate a few notes of support to her? ty!!!
Thank you all for your kind support and comments following the recent attacks by two BIG cops who assaulting my girlfriend, Meghan, and I. Although the COPS were the attackers, and the only ones who committed any crime, we were falsely cha...rged and jailed. I was charged with misdemeanors, and so able to secure my release after nearly four days. But Meghan was charged with a FELONY, assaulting a police officer, when according to eye witnesses she never touched the TPD officer as alleged, but merely reached out to me as I was being strangled by the cop.
The actual assault was by the State DHP officer, who grabbed and body slammed Meghan onto the hard floor, hurting and scaring her, then driving his knees into her back and abdomen, bruising both her back and ribs. This guy should be fired and jailed, as what he did is a crime, while she did nothing wrong.
She is still in jail, being held on a very excessive $10,000 bond, even though she is a first time offender with no criminal history whatsoever. We are trying to raise the $1,000 needed to have her bonded out. But in the mean time, she is need of prayers and community support. All are asked to take a moment and send her a note or card of encouragement and support. Send to:
Meghan E. Link, Unit 3E Lucas County Correctional Center 1622 Spielbusch Avenue Toledo, Ohio 43624
Additionally, comments can be posted on Meghan's facebook page, for her to see when we secure her release.
Please also include her in your thoughts and prayers. Although she is a brave and determined young woman, she is in a scary and dehumanizing place. She doesn't belong there! Thank you so much for your caring and concern!
Will the 1% steal Ohio’s labor rights referendum? by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman November 6, 2011 Tuesday’s most important vote is the repeal of Ohio’s vicious anti-labor Issue 2.
Polls show the repeal winning by 25% or more. But will it—like the 2004 presidential election—be stolen by the 1% intent on crushing working people and stealing huge sums of money?
Like Wisconsin’s millionaire assault on the bargaining rights of public unions, the thoroughly bought Ohio legislature has passed a draconian law aimed at crippling the organizing ability of working people. Read More Here it!
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On Nov. 1, the Economic Policy Institute presented New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman with EPI’s first ever Distinguished Economist Award. EPI also produced a candid video in which Krugman shared his vision for a decent society, discussed the radicalizing impact of the policy d...
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In the wake of a violent, night-time confrontation with Occupy Oakland demonstrators last week by the Oakland Police Department (OPD) and some 15 other law enforcement agencies, questions have arisen about the legality of the tactics used by the agency during mass arrests which led to serious injuries, including the fractured skull of a two-tour Iraq vet.
Oakland's Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan has maintained that the use of chemical agents and other so-called "less than lethal" weapons were required in order to defend law enforcement officials from demonstrators.
However, a forensic analysis by The BRAD BLOG of video taken immediately prior to and during last week's raid and confrontation with Occupy Oakland demonstrators, creates doubt about the legality of the OPD decision to declare the demonstration to be an "unlawful assembly," and, in particular, raises serious questions about the veracity of the Interim Oakland Police Chief's claim that police "had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks." Full Article Here
NOTE: This is a guest post from Siena Chrisman, Manager of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances at WhyHunger.
On Saturday, Occupy Against Big Food will converge on Zuccotti Park, home base of Occupy Wall Street. It’s an exciting step, coming after several weeks of discussion among food justice advocates about our common cause with the Occupy movement. Back in the second week of protests, I joined a march to Wall Street as part of a food justice delegation. The baskets of local vegetables we carried attracted a lot of attention, but we were surprised by all of the puzzled looks. “What’s the connection here with food?” people kept asking us.
Senators on the committee are Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine), Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie), and Sen. Jessica King (D-Oshkosh).
Rough AcresHe shoulda brought his gun... IT is permitted in the gallery, on the Assembly floor, ANYWHERE in the Capitol in Madison. Instead, he brought his camera.Guess once a vet defending freedom, ALWAYS a vet defending freedom.
"What Walker and these Republicans are doing to this state is astonishingly brazen. They are like a pack of Cheneys. They do not respect democracy. The people are a nuisance to them. So are the laws. All they care about is power, and grabbing everything they can—for themselves, and their corporate cronies—while they still have it.
Every day that it’s in session, the Republican-dominated legislature has been pushing through one retrograde bill after another.
This, on top of the vicious assault on workers’ rights that we saw this spring, and the illegal way they did it, without proper notice, and the sham of a state supreme court ruling that validated the bill, and the illegal shutting down of the capitol to the public, and the attack on public education, Medicaid, racial justice, and the environment, to name just a few." Read Full Article Here
I met this great group of people from Occupy Milwaukee today! Many of them testified against SB 207. Video of their testimony is being posted on youtube @ ladyforward1.
Civil Rights activist Angela Davis spoke to a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Occupy Philly in People’s Plaza at City Hall on Friday night, Oct. 28. Her speech inspired the crowd to continue working for a “better political universe.” She read a message from Occupy Oakland calling for a General Strike on Nov. 2. The crowd cheered continuously throughout her speech.
On November 5, black social justice activists will be joined by peace groups, environmentalists, artists and students in a national “Occupy Philadelphia” march entitled “Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance.”
Called by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, the November 5 mobilization will demand an end to the wars throughout the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and against oppressed communities inside the U.S., which they say are driven by Wall Street interests.
Protesters will rally at noon at Broad and Susquehanna, march down Broad to Thompson, and then go inside for an afternoon conference at 1310 N. Broad Street.
Participants include a diverse list of groups and individuals such as the Green Party of Philadelphia, the Brandywine Peace Community, the ANSWER Coalition Philly Branch, Philly Against the War, Philadelphia independent mayoral candidate Wali “Diop” Rahman, Black and Nobel Bookstore, Attorney Leon Williams, Askia Coalition Against Police Brutality, African American Freedom and Reconstruction League, the Hip Hop Party for the People, Pam Africa of International Friends and Family of Mumia, DC Troy Davis Alliance, New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, Malcolm X Center for Self Determination Director Efia Nwangaza, and the United National Antiwar Coalition.
This rare cooperation amongst diverse groups may signal a new day for social change movements in the U.S. with the new predominately white middle class victims of Wall Street excesses joining hands with the long-time victims of economic exploitation and police abuse in the black community.
Philadelphia was chosen as the site for this national convergence because “Philadelphia is prototypical of the war being waged against the internal colonies of the U.S. It is the city where police, under the leadership of the first African mayor, dropped a bomb in 1985 that incinerated an entire African community, killing 11 men, women and children. We will draw the connection between the neo-colonial bombing of 1985 in Philadelphia by the city’s black mayor and the neo-colonial bombing of Libya in Africa by the first black U.S. president.” Read Full Article Here
Civil Rights activist Angela Davis spoke to a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Occupy Philly in People’s Plaza at City Hall on Friday night, Oct. 28. Her speech inspired the crowd to continue working for a “better political universe.” She read a message from Occupy Oakland calling for a General Strike on Nov. 2. The crowd cheered continuously throughout her View Original Article Here
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