Posts Tagged ‘Greenway Conservancy’

The Davos Class, Greenway, Romney’s taxes, etc.

  I resolve to try, in 2012, to do more posts with fewer items. But here’s a link dump of stuff that’s been accumulating on my browsers: (1) Susan George on “The Davos Class”: The Transnational Institute has a great report called The State of Corporate Power 2012: Exposing the Davos Class.  The lead article ...Read more.

#D17; OB eviction; Gar everywhere; Eurozone; odds and ends

(1) D17: Big protests in NYC and elsewhere to commemorate the third month of #OWS.  Click on the image above for info about NYC events; visit your local Occupy’s website for info about protests near you.  I know some places are having rallies in support of Bradley Manning whose birthday is tomorrow and who is ...Read more.

UC Davis Brutality; Greenway Letter; etc.

(1) Police Brutality at UC Davis Watch the video for yourself. Watch to the end–there’s a happy ending!   Find another video of the same scene here. Good coverage at the Davis Enterprise. A useful primer on the legalities of pepper spray and excessive force. Here’s the money quote (this is from Vineyard v. Wilson and ...Read more.

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