Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''This is why the Occupy movement frightens the corporate elite. What fosters revolution is not misery, but the gap between what people expect from their lives and what is offered. This is especially acute among the educated and the talented. They feel, with much justification, that they have been denied what they deserve. They set out to rectify this injustice. And the longer the injustice festers, the more radical they become.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9112-why-the-occupy-movement-frightens-the-corporate-elite
New Documents Confirm Koch Was on NRA-Led Crime Task Force
Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy: ''It turns out that Koch was a member of that ALEC task force in recent years, and that it was on the task force when the NRA was the private sector co-chair. Moreover, Koch Industries had not one but two employees who were listed as 'members' present for ALECs 'Public Safety and Elections' Task Force at the last annual task force summit.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9126-new-documents-confirm-koch-was-on-nra-led-alec-crime-task-force
Uncovering the Other ALECs
Sarah Blaskey and Steve Horn, Truthout: ''ALEC has been described as a 'corporate bill mill.' ALEC, though, is not the only 'corporate bill mill' playing this game. 'Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists' have upped the ante and skillfully advanced their agendas through bipartisan 'trade associations' for state government officials - in particular, the Council of State Governments (CSG) whose multimillion-dollar budget is mostly funded by taxpayers. Through CSG and Friends, lobbyists exploit a well-tethered network of nonprofits representing state-level officials to advance the agenda of their corporate clientele.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9033-subverting-the-statehouse-uncovering-the-other-alecs
The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''We live at a time when the crisis of politics is inextricably connected to the crisis of education and agency.... Against such hard times for the promise of democracy, the Occupy movement offers an incisive language of analysis and hope, a renewed sense of political commitment, different democratic visions and a politics of possibility.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9237-the-occupy-movement-and-the-politics-of-educated-hope
Occupy Wall Street Librarians Strike Back
Melissa Gira Grant, Truthout: ''Thursday, members of Occupy Wall Street ... filed a federal lawsuit against the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, seeking to hold them accountable for violations of their constitutional rights, as well as subsequent smaller raids that targeted the People s Library. In the course of the suit, the city may have to admit who called the shots during the eviction on November 15, 2011.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9369-occupy-wall-street-librarians-strike-back
What Fires Young Progressives' Activism? A New Study Asks Them
Rinku Sen, Colorlines.com: ''The Applied Research Center released 'Millennials, Activism and Race,' a report on the motivations of young people who are active in progressive politics. Following up on last year s research, Don t Call Them Post-Racial, this report gives us more information about what draws 18 to 30 year olds to social justice work, and how people with progressive politics deal with race as part of a larger political worldview.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9367-what-fires-young-progressives-activism-a-new-study-asks-them
Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?
Arun Gupta, AlterNet: ''With the high-profile arrest of activists on terrorism charges in Cleveland on May Day and in Chicago during the NATO summit there, evidence is mounting that the FBI is unleashing the same methods of entrapment against the Occupy Wall Street movement that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans for the last decade. Will Potter, who analyzes FBI entrapment plots in his book Green is the New Red, says ? 'There have been many other cases like these in which the FBI had a role in manufacturing the plot itself.'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9403-has-the-fbi-launched-a-war-of-entrapment-against-the-occupy-movement
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Wall Street Waging 'Guerrilla War' on Financial Regulations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/14-2
Pompous Prevaricators of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16-11
Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/25-2
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Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown
The new documents, only scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with 'anti-terrorism' funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement."
http://bit.ly/JCtOe9
Occupy Directory: Trying to find a local occupation?
The Occupation Directory is a public listing of all known Occupation sites built by and for the #Occupy movement.
http://directory.occupy.net/
Cleveland Occupy Arrests Are the Latest in FBI s Pattern of Manipulation
By Arun Gupta
The FBI fishes for dupes it can manipulate with informants and agents who stroke their marks, plant ideas, suggest the plans, provide money, weapons, vehicles and then heroically foil a terrorist act of the FBI s own design.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31455.htm
Occupy Movement Being Labeled As ''A Domestic Terror Organization'' By FBI
Video
From disorganised slackers to terrorists: Protesters now even face accusations that they pose a threat not just to Corporate America, but to the country as a whole. But activists say it s all just scaremongering to stifle the movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNsw8r196M
From Information Clearing House
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Interventionism and the elites
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
05/23/12
"The great gulf between the American public and the elites when it comes to foreign policy is a constant source of irritation for the latter. The mandarins of the foreign policy establishment have long bemoaned the 'isolationism' of the American people. It s the natural inclination of a free people to leave others alone, and the Founders exemplified this sentiment when they decried the impulse to 'go abroad in search of monsters to destroy'...
http://bit.ly/LD1qMp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Bloomberg
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chicago
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NATO+summit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=manipulation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=entrapment
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=manufactur
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terror+charge
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+Muslim
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+regulation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ALEC
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Koch+brothers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=injustice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=eviction
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+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=workers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lisa+Graves
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Elizabeth+Warren
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sarah+Blaskey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Horn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rinku+Sen
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