Occupy Hartford, that’s who. That’s Connor Harrington holding the sign, and his mother, Rebecca Burton, to his right in the purple t-shirt. Occupy New Haven was there, too.
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he called [...]
It says so here. Yochai Benkler writes at Foreign Affairs:
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set [...]
Here’s the speech given by Cornell Lewis, long-time neighborhood activist, at the earlier rally:
In Germany a man named Goethe said “truth come sto us first in a hideous mien.” The solemn occasion for which we are gathered here today is like a recurring nightmare. In European thought a nightmare hung [...]
Because with the passage of the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011,” H.R. 347 (you can read the text here, as well: BILLS-112hr347enr ) they are certainly legal.
But Occupy D.C. says no, they aren’t, and here’s the ACLU’s Gabe Rottman take on it. Rottman [...]
The interesting thing about websites such as YouTube is that it’s hard to defend against damning video. Yes, it can be edited, but do you see the young man shouting, “I’ve done nothing wrong” being violent?
