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Where are the songs for Occupy's time in history? Who will write the words and music and poetry? Will we find our voice? These questions have been answered in full and emphatically with OccupyThisAlbum.
On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. I had no idea on that morning in Flint, Mich. what my life would be like after that, or what would happen to Flint, or to General Motors.
Despite the ceaseless spin, Vermont lawmakers last May demonstrated they could not be bought nor intimidated when they became the first in the nation to pass a bill that will probably establish a single-payer beachhead in the U.S.
Our nation deserves a better government, Michael Moore, and you are one of the few people with the ability to actually help make that happen.
Occupying Wall Street was not a crazy scheme that a group of activists did for attention. They did it for us. If Wall Street is king, then Wall Street is ours, and the activists were holding our spot.
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them.
For a non-election year, 2011 had way more than its fair share of ridiculous political moments.
When anyone asks me, "Who started Occupy Wall Street?" sometimes I say "Goldman Sachs" or "Chase" but mostly I just say, "Bradley Manning." It was his courageous action that was the tipping point.
Now that he's leading in the polls among the GOP presidential aspirants, the media and voters are taking his campaign more seriously. But Gingrich's most outrageous hypocrisy has not yet surfaced as a campaign issue.
And now it is winter. Wall Street rejoices, hoping that the change of seasons will mean a change in our spirit, our commitment to stop them. They couldn't be more wrong.
That the Occupiers lack leaders, legislation, and political candidates is irrelevant. What they have on their side is truth and a sense of justice. A society that cannot pay attention to those things is by definition an unjust society.
This week we discus Occupy Wall Street and the Homeland Security conspiracy theory; Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf rumor-mongering; progressive outrage; Twitter fights; and other issues.
Americans, no matter what side of the question they are on, appreciate freedom of speech and the right to actively dissent. Any obstruction of these will only create more sympathy for those who were forcibly removed from what has been renamed by Occupiers as Liberty Square.
We will all remember this week for the moment Rick Perry did something so stupid that it completely removed the focus from Herman Cain's ongoing sexua...
In the days ahead, despite the anger, one question is: Will the Occupy DC movement be able to remain non-violent as it has?
The rich would love nothing more than for everyone move up an income or wealth level. It is ridiculous to think the the richest 1% want to hold others...
