Imagine if someone at the ipod factory could afford to own an ipod…
Category: Power to the People
Bank of America
Gets a makeover of 85 ATMs, thanks to some San Francisco activists!
Banksters spooked by ‘Occupy Our Homes’
Resistance to foreclosures and evictions is having an effect, as a leaked memo from Bank of America indicates. More here.
Matt Stoller
Go read. It’ll cheer you up! Also, many good points in the comments.
R.I.P.
(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 stints in the hospital, USA Today reports. She was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2000.
Austerity measures = medieval bleeding
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.
2 million people in the streets
Of England protesting austerity cuts:
Reminder
‘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.”
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.
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