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11 days ago

Nursing mothers seek social responsibility from Face Book

Press Release San Francisco, June 07, 2013: Nurse-in to be held at Facebook’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders at the Westin San Francisco Airport hotel in Millbrae, California; Worldwide virtual protest to call on Facebook to leave breastfeeding photos alone and to allow educators to place breastfeeding ads. – Daily image deletions and account suspensions continue. – Facebook blocks event organizers from sharing breastfeeding photos, event information, and posters. [...]

20 days ago

I Want to Believe

via @OccupyWallStNYC Just because we can hear the black helicopters doesn’t mean they don’t exist My old co-driver Nick and I would pass the time on interstate furniture deliveries by assessing the incipient mass movements taking off around the world. We debated the potential of the Arab Spring, Occupy, anti-austerity strikes in Europe, daily wildcats in Chinese factories, and other tantalizing glimpses of working class self-activity. And before long, [...]

34 days ago

To Big Oil

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To Big Oil Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Soon you’ll burn in hottest hell, All the oil that you desire Coating you to fuel the fire. “We the People” fast asleep Through the Crime of the Century. Wrecked our planet, slimed our seas Stole our sweet Democracy Occidental, AMOCO Thought the People didn’t know – Wouldn’t believe that it was true… We do, we do, we do, we do!! Cheating, bribing, [...]

40 days ago

LOCAL FIGHTS AGAINST AUSTERITY ARE GROWING ACROSS THE U.S.

BY MARK VORPAHL Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. [...]

43 days ago

The US government has been running a quantum Internet for over two years

It’s a perfectly secure Internet that by definition cannot be penetrated by wiretaps and eavesdropping — and the US government has been sitting on it for the last two-and-a-half years. A longtime goal among cryptologists has been to perfect the “quantum Internet” — which, in the most basic way possible, uses the main principle of quantum mechanics to transfer communications from one point to another. Still confused? Technology Review explained [...]

105 days ago

FARGO 14 OCCUPY PHILLY PROTESTERS FOUND NOT GUILTY!

By jackiews On March 5, 2013 · In the matter of The People V. Wells Fargo the jury has found us, the 12 Occupy Philly protesters arrested in November 2011 for a sit-in against the banks’ predatory lending practices and mafia-like policies, NOT GUILTY. We would all ask for you to please share this story with your networks and local press. Free speech just triumphed over property rights, even as [...]

107 days ago

Livestream Footage Saves OWS Activist from Police Set-up

In the police version of events, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy protestor Michael Premo charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer’s bone. That’s the story prosecutors told in Premo’s trial, and it’s the general story his arresting officer testified to under oath as well. But Premo, facing felony charges of assaulting an officer, maintained his innocence. [...]

131 days ago

LAPD Officer Allegedly Publishes Manifesto : Blue Line Broken

7 February 2013 This cover photo is of Christopher Dorner w/ Chief William Bratton, who was recently hired for a few months of ‘consulting’ for the OPD by the city of Oakland, for $250,000. Bratton’s history includes implementing racial profiling in the form of what has recently been judged as the unconstitutional policy of ‘stop and frisk.’ He was also instrumental in making it appear that crime in NYC was [...]

132 days ago

I Feel Dirty

I feel dirty. He touched me tonight. I did not want him to. She stood there watching as he touched me. She said they had the right. She also said I was lucky that I did not end up on the ground, face down. Yes, I got lucky tonight. I shut down my computer at 7pm after 10 hours at work; put on my cool black jacket, gray beanie cap, [...]

132 days ago

A. F. James MacArthur before his March 2009 trial. Image source: MacArthur International Media.

Informed and Dangerous: Why is A. F. James MacArthur in jail?

By Leo Zimmermann This article was originally published on Indyreader.org. Beth Emmerling and Bruce Emmerling contributed research to this article. Journalist A. F. James MacArthur has been in jail since December 1, 2012. Known for reporting on crime and politics as The Baltimore Spectator, MacArthur is currently being held without bail or access to visitors. He was initially arrested at his home for allegedly violating an expired probation, but is [...]

134 days ago

the dervish

© i come to wonder in the middle of the night why certain personalities provoke me to a fight is it weakness or strength dressed in disguise soldiers gather medals but it is no surprise that folks despise a civilian dressed in armor, a woman dressed to kill all convention, distention, prolonged detention a woman dressed to re-create the fabric of her will it’s time for folks to realize the [...]

134 days ago

Closeted in the 21st Century

It still happens and not just in junior high school. LGBT people live double lives even today. My sister called me the other night so I could watch Jody Foster come out publicly at the Golden Globe Awards. Anderson Cooper declared his gayness just last year. If it is still difficult for actors and media people to live proudly in the open, there must be a high degree of prejudice [...]

146 days ago

Transgender Rights Push Us All Toward Equality

The archetypal blushing bride with her handsome groom is an anachronism in today’s society. Part of the reason for this is a newfound fluidity of roles that men and women assume in today’s world. Another component is the increased occurrence and visibility of lesbian and gay couples but the third, and arguably most powerful factor, is the coming of age of the openly transgender community. The gender binary is dead. [...]

147 days ago

Fred Hampton Jr. Harassed & Detained by OPD

On Monday, January 21, 2013, at approximately 4:30 p.m.,Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., son of slain deputy chairman Fred Hampton Sr. of the Illinois Black Panther Party, as well as three additional passengers, fell victim to the abuse and harassment many Black and Brown Oaklanders experience on a regular basis. After leaving the Berkeley marina, the group noticed a police car following them in route to the Emeryville Target shopping store. [...]

151 days ago

City of Oakland Offering New Criminalization Opportunity : Graffiti

It’s Friday night. Elected public servants at this coming Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting will be discussing a drastic rewriting of legislation regarding graffiti. In an admitted attempt to control protestors, the authors of this legislation have effectively designed a new method of imprisoning residents and visitors to Oakland, especially youth, for what has been until now legally defined as an infraction. At twenty three pages long, there is much [...]

158 days ago

The Experience: First Fridays 01/04/12 ~ Oakland, CA

First Fridays ~ Oakland, CA By Aaris A. Schroeder Editor-In-Chief UBO Magazine Being from Sacramento, CA I have been to several Second Saturdays and enjoyed all that the Downtown area has to offer. Recently I have moved to Oakland, CA and have had the pleasure of enjoying First Fridays full of street vendors, boutiques, live music, dancers, art galleries and an array of individuals running the gamut between college students [...]

169 days ago

The Ongoing Occudrama in Oakland (and my role in it)

by Zappa Montag With the recent publishing of an eBook titled “A People’s History of Occupy Oakland” by myself and a few others, has come some of the predictable drama and denunciations that have characterized much of the interactions between certain segments of the movement locally since the inception of Occupy Oakland. I already know that some Occupy Oakland folks don’t like me and some of the other folks who [...]

174 days ago

Support Freedom of Expression!

[Originally posted at Corrente] My friend and compatriot, Samsarah Morgan has been the target of threats because of her involvement with editing a book, A People’s History of Occupy Oakland. Samsarah, along with Shake Anderson, Cami Graves, Zappa Montag and myself, put together the book as a selection of articles about Occupy Oakland. Some of the articles were old, and some were new pieces. After the book went live on Amazon, [...]

177 days ago

© in only a moment hot turns to cold what once was a body harboring a soul now empty, depleted all energy drains whisper of spirit is all that remains hovering remnants of energy pure as a wish for tomorrow bringing no cure wish turns to vapor body to dust crumbling emotion like metal to rust where once were ideas plans, hopes, and dreams departed in panic [...]

178 days ago

A People's History of Occupy Oakland – Volume 1

One year ago, we gathered at Oscar Grant Plaza to welcome the birth of a movement. We, the editors of this anthology, met through Occupy Oakland. In the beginning, we were strangers to each other, unsure of each others’ intentions, unsure of each others’ capabilities, and unsure of our own places in the worldwide movement that is Occupy. Like the editors ourselves, each of the contributors to the anthology comes [...]

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