... the more they stay the same.
Showing posts with label civil disobedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil disobedience. Show all posts
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
JASC Members Arrested In Chicago
Nov 7th, 2011
This afternoon, members of the Jane Adams Senior Caucus joined with Occupy Chicago to protest threatened "austerity" measures that might cut Social Security and Medicare. Elderly protesters, some in wheelchairs, were arrested for their act of civil disobedience.
This afternoon, members of the Jane Adams Senior Caucus joined with Occupy Chicago to protest threatened "austerity" measures that might cut Social Security and Medicare. Elderly protesters, some in wheelchairs, were arrested for their act of civil disobedience.
Shot With Rubber Bullets For Filming?
Nov 7th, 2011
This video from last week's chaos in Oakland certainly seems to show just that.
This video from last week's chaos in Oakland certainly seems to show just that.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Quote Of The Day 2
Nov 5th, 2011
"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
-- Gandhi
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 16th, 2011
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
-- Mohandas Gandhi
Chicago... Yeah
Oct 16th, 2011
I really meant to edit this into slick, little and easily digestible clips first. However, it probaly should be seen in its raw form.
I really meant to edit this into slick, little and easily digestible clips first. However, it probaly should be seen in its raw form.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Papers Please? At The Occupation
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 11th, 2011
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-- Emiliano Zapata
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-- Emiliano Zapata
Monday, October 10, 2011
Faces Of The Occupation, cont...
Oct 10th, 2011
This photo is making the rounds and drawing a degree of snark from the occupy movement's detractors. Is it profane and inflammatory? Sure. Does it offer any concrete solutions? Nope. However, can anyone tell me with a straight face that it isn't an accurate diagnosis of pretty much the entire American experiment today?
This photo is making the rounds and drawing a degree of snark from the occupy movement's detractors. Is it profane and inflammatory? Sure. Does it offer any concrete solutions? Nope. However, can anyone tell me with a straight face that it isn't an accurate diagnosis of pretty much the entire American experiment today?
Monday, October 3, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 3rd, 2011
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Distorting The Narrative, part 3
Oct 2nd, 2011
Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal has now reported on the deceptive tactics we highlighted HERE and HERE.
I think he goes a little too easy on the NYPD. Nevertheless, he does raise an eyebrow.
"Some have apparently claimed entrapment by the police (who encouraged them to walk on the road), but the people we talked to last night mostly suggested that the police merely stood by and watched, not encouraging them, but not stopping them either.
So far we've seen no evidence of police actually encouraging protesters to go on the road, but there are videos that show police walking in front of the protesters, as they go up onto the road.
This isn't the same as encouraging them to go on the road, but on the other hand, you could see why people in a crowd would think that going on a bridge is kosher if the police are calmly walking in front of the crowd as they go up the road."
Weisenthal also included new video from the Brooklyn Bridge
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I think he goes a little too easy on the NYPD. Nevertheless, he does raise an eyebrow.
"Some have apparently claimed entrapment by the police (who encouraged them to walk on the road), but the people we talked to last night mostly suggested that the police merely stood by and watched, not encouraging them, but not stopping them either.
So far we've seen no evidence of police actually encouraging protesters to go on the road, but there are videos that show police walking in front of the protesters, as they go up onto the road.
This isn't the same as encouraging them to go on the road, but on the other hand, you could see why people in a crowd would think that going on a bridge is kosher if the police are calmly walking in front of the crowd as they go up the road."
Weisenthal also included new video from the Brooklyn Bridge
Quote Of The Day
Oct 2nd, 2011
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu
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| Robert Stolarik for The New York Times |
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 1st, 2011
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
-- Abbie Hoffman
-- Abbie Hoffman
Friday, September 30, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 30th, 2011
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
-- Clarence Darrow
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-- Clarence Darrow
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 29th, 2011
"We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them."
-- Alexander Bickel
-- Alexander Bickel
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 28th, 2011
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
-- Voltaire
-- Voltaire
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 27th, 2011
"Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen.
Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool."
-- John J. Miller
Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool."
-- John J. Miller
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Continuing Decline...
Sept 26th, 2011
The screenshot below is just the current result (6:30am EDT 9/26/11) of a totally unscientific web poll regarding police behavior this past Saturday from the NY Daily News. There is no way of discerning the actual demographics of the respondents. All this really shows is that 46% of them are nuts.
The screenshot below is just the current result (6:30am EDT 9/26/11) of a totally unscientific web poll regarding police behavior this past Saturday from the NY Daily News. There is no way of discerning the actual demographics of the respondents. All this really shows is that 46% of them are nuts.
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