Occupy Portland: #F29 Call to Action Against Corporations
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Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations. We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction. Already 30+ cities are planning actions. Get involved and find out more at www.shutdownthecorporations.org.
http://tinyurl.com/78zyncn
American Spring
Americans who lift their heads above the miasma of mediated unreality, commercial glitz, celebrity glamor, reality television, bloody police dramas, and war propaganda, a massive disinformation campaign designed to distract and pacify, gaze out upon an America with a crumbling infrastructure. They behold an economic landscape devastated by wholesale financial fraud and political corruption that has caused millions of American families to be evicted from their homes and many millions more robbed of their savings, a nation in which the super-rich get richer still at the expense of everyone else, a nation with a very uncertain future.
The most hopeful response to the financial elite’s controlled demolition of the American dream has come from those with the most to gain and little to lose, idealistic and technically savvy young people.
http://tinyurl.com/6qbnmjh
Chicago Parents, Students Occupy Piccolo Elementary, School Targeted For ‘Turnaround’
A group of Chicago parents, students and activists have staged a sit-in inside, as well as an encampment outside, a West Side elementary school that Chicago Public Schools has targeted for “turnaround.”
The protesters arrived at Brian Piccolo Elementary School early Friday evening to speak out against the school’s closure. Late last year, Piccolo was flagged as one of ten schools that would be “turned around,” meaning that its principal and the majority of its staff will be replaced and, in this case, the school’s management would be taken over by the well-connected charter program Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL).
http://tinyurl.com/72gmyxc
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