Posts Tagged ‘#OccupyOakland’

#OB Restraining Order Lifted; Alperovitz Videos, etc.

(Find more great Occupy art here.) (1) Restraining Order Protecting #OccupyBoston Lifted: The judge who had imposed a restraining order against the city of Boston and the Boston Police Department against evicting #OccupyBoston from Dewey Square has lifted that order.  An emergency General Assembly has been called for 7pm tonight.  Here’s a statement from the ...Read more.

The Weather; General Strike; Goldman Sachs

(1) The Weather and #OWS: The image above is from a German Socialist Students Union poster from 1968 (it was apparently a takeoff on a slogan from the national rail system, according to this site).   The poster headed a nice piece from Viewpoint Magazine on #OWS and the weather–super-relevant now that many inches of ...Read more.

#OccupyOakland Raid, Bill Black, and more

I’ve got a backlog of stuff to post–it will be mostly links, and in no particular order.  Here goes: (1) Mike Davis on #OWS: Nice piece by Mike Davis in the LA Review of Books, No More Bubblegum. Today’s Possibly Irrelevant Image accompanied Davis’s piece; it’s from a series of wonderful greeting cards by Erika ...Read more.

#OccupyBoston #OccupyWallStreet Alejandro Reuss Arthur MacEwan ASSA austerity banking regulation Bank of America Boeing climate change Dean Baker debt deficit deficits economics profession Egypt Europe financial regulation foreclosures Gar Alperovitz Goldman Sachs Greece Hosni Mubarak inequality Jeannette Wicks-Lim John Miller Josh Eidelson Katherine Sciacchitano Mark Engler NLRB police brutality Polly Cleveland public-sector workers QE2 Rick Wolff Scott Walker Social Security taxes the Fed unemployment unions uprising Wikileaks William K. Black Wisconsin