Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: 'Imagine a democratic alternative to police evictions of Occupy encampments across America s cities and towns. What if the decision to evict or not had been made by referendum? ... But that never happened in a society where private corporations own parks, lots and other possible Occupy sites. The corporate shareholders and boards of directors of those sites, a tiny minority of the population, could shut down Occupy encampments by invoking property rights.'
http://www.truth-out.org/
Thirty Thousand Chinese 'Occupy' Highway to Protest Polluting Coal Plants
Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress: 'Tens of thousands of residents in China s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick. Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty coal plants. But this appears to be the biggest yet.'
http://www.truth-out.org/thirty-thousand-chinese-occupy-highway-protest-polluting-coal-plants/1324569104
The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One
Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'The '99 Percent Declaration' seeks everything from reining in the corporate state to ending the Fed to eliminating censorship of the Internet. But none of these demands seems to go to the heart of what prompted Occupiers to camp out on Wall Street in the first place - a corrupt banking system that serves the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. To redress that, we need a banking system that serves the 99 percent.'
http://www.truth-out.org/way-occupy-bank-own-one/1323976385
Follow English Commoners' Lead: Band Together to Force Corporate Reform
Jeffrey R. McCord, Truthout: 'In recent years, senior Wall Street managers relentlessly pursued short-term profit and personal windfalls by any and all means while bringing Main Street to its knees (where it remains to this day.) Meanwhile, most of the managers remain where they were - comfortably in charge and gazing upon the tents of Occupy Wall Street protesters. The problem of bad corporate governance, of course, extends well beyond Wall Street, into the executive suites of many non-banking Fortune 500 members.'
http://www.truth-out.org/follow-english-commoners-lead-band-together-force-corporate-reform/1323818540
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From OWS with Love: What We have Done, Where We Are, Where We are Going
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/23-0
#OWS: Your Time Is Now
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/23
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Main+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=OWS
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Occupy+Movement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=banking+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=encampment
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+eviction
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+D.+Wolff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lacey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+R.+McCord
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