Occupy Wall Street has just celebrated its 30th day in the park. On Saturday, it inspired solidarity actions in 1000 cities and that is considered as an incredible achievement.
Tomorrow, (actually today 30 November) the Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding their 17th annual Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference in NYC. These war profiteers export death in the name of defense. They have obscene influence over our democracy with politicians in their pockets and hundreds of lobbyists working congress. They sell arms to to the 1% so that war can be waged against the 99% in efficient and technologically advanced ways. #OWS will not stand silent as these dangerous parasites take our tax dollars and turn them into arms and profit.
Patrick Bond summarizes the climate COP in Warsaw "... as this COP 19, like the other one since Copenhagen, draws to a very unsatisfactory end, the question must be: what can change the power relations?" Developing countries and green groups must evaluate if walkouts are the best way to get rich countries to address climate change - November 22, 13
Mrwen Tlili on the WSF in Tunis: "... a political economy for the social struggles that must absolutely be undone, because this ‘NGOization’ will grow stronger in the future and most importantly be a great hold-up towards the self-determination of people." "It was a dreamed opportunity to support social movements in struggle and yet nothing happened." "The lie of the Tunisian revolution has brought forth another lie, the WSF lie, which reminds the Tunisian people and all the people in struggle that another lie is possible."
Chossudovsky: "There is a grassroots protest movement unfolding across America, which includes people from all walks of life, from all age groups, conscious of the need for social change and committed to reversing the tide." The grassroots of this movement constitutes a response to the "Wall Street agenda" of financial fraud and manipulation which has served to trigger unemployment and poverty across the land. Does this movement constitute in its present form an instrument of meaningful reform and social change in America? What is the organizational structure of the movement? Who are its main architects? Has the movement or segments within this movement been co-opted? This is an important question, which must be addressed by those who are part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement as well as those who, across America, support real democracy.
"le Portrait du citoyen Belley marque une étape dans l'histoire de l'art : il figure la première représentation d'un homme de couleur montré dans la position officielle d'un législateur politique occidental. " (Elisabeth Coutourier) Senegal. Napoleon Bona
Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, historian and linguist, born January 12 1915; died July 31 2007, studied "the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings imagined as agents of corruption and incarnations of evil".
21.11.13 It’s Time For A Worldwide Wave of Transformation"People throughout this interconnected technological world have already come up with much more effective systems to replace the tyrannical one that is currently dominating our lives. " "This time the police state will not be able to crush us. We will not have stationary targets. We will be everywhere, fluid and evasive. The movement will be an unstoppable crowdsourced, decentralized and autonomous revolutionary force." "Ride the Worldwide Wave of Transformation"