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Trader Joe’s signs a fair food agreement with Florida tomato workers. Bookmark It
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Occupy our homes
I love you, Occupy. Oh yes I do: Brooklyn, NY — This afternoon approximately one hundred people peacefully and powerfully disrupted a foreclosure auction by bursting into song. At 3pm the foreclosure auctioneer attempted to start bidding on homes that had been foreclosed upon. When the bidding started, the courtroom burst into song: “Mr. Auctioneer [...]
AP Ticker’s Life Lesson for January 16: Global Minimum Wage and a Capitalist Utopia
Imagine if someone at the ipod factory could afford to own an ipod… Bookmark It
Bank of America
Gets a makeover of 85 ATMs, thanks to some San Francisco activists! Bookmark It
Banksters spooked by ‘Occupy Our Homes’
#OccupyWallStreet Class War Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fuck the Poor Media Power to the People The New Depression
Resistance to foreclosures and evictions is having an effect, as a leaked memo from Bank of America indicates. More here. Bookmark It
Matt Stoller
Go read. It’ll cheer you up! Also, many good points in the comments. Bookmark It
R.I.P.
What an excellent sister: (NEWSER) – Martina Davis-Correia died yesterday after a long battle with breast cancer—much of which coincided with her battle on behalf of her brother, controversial death row inmate Troy Davis, who was put to death in September. Davis-Correia, 42, had campaigned for Troy, delivering speeches and attending rallies in between her [...]
Austerity measures = medieval bleeding
#OccupyWallStreet Class War Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fuck the Poor Power to the People The New Depression
Millions are protesting in Britain, and it’s no wonder — the government is making an already sick economy even sicker. Paul Krugman provides a good analogy. More here. Bookmark It
‘Just you f*ckers wait’
Mona Eltahaway, who is an amazing Egyptian journalist, was arrested and assaulted in Egypt yesterday, and her reaction is pretty much what I suspect mine would be: “Wait until I get out of here and write about it.” Bookmark It
Tahrir Square
All hell breaking loose, 28 dead so far in the “million man” protest. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Kouddous tweets: Protesters go to front lines, get gassed, and shot at, come back gasping, stumbling & wounded, recover, then go back Look at the size of this crowd. Livestream at 8 a.m.: Bookmark It
They took the books – again
Why didn’t they just Tase the books if they were so dangerous? Last night: The NYPD seized the People’s Library again tonight. We set up the library again today with 100 books, and the police came over this evening and stood in a line around the books, blocking anyone from reaching the books by creating [...]
Dorli Rainey
Just want to make sure everyone sees this remarkable interview with the 84-year-old activist who was pepper-sprayed at Occupy Seattle. She’s a real hero: Bookmark It
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