OccupyNashville has been given 24hrs to disband or be evicted by the Police. Let the following people know that you support the occupation. We are the 99%!
Mayor of Nashville (Karl Dean) (615) 862-6000 mayor@nashville.gov
TN Govenor (Bill Haslam) 615-741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov
Chief of Police (Steve Anderson) 615-862-7301 chief@police.nashville.org
Director of Metro Council (John Cooper) 615-862-6780
Reblog to help out these guys. Awareness is needed.
So, last night I found out fascism was alive and well and living in the Oakland PD.
As a concerned cogniscent being, I went searching for news. Livestreams, anything that was happening that wasn’t being blocked, DOS'ed, or removed.
My 10YO son came shoulder-surfing and asked what was going on.
I had to explain what was happening in America right that moment. I showed him swarms of police decked out in riot gear for a couple of guys singing and
Read more »And it ain’t the Bible.
Yeah, I’m probably going to get pwn’d for saying that, but in these days, in this situation, and with the Occupy movement going everywhere like ice cream on a toddler, this book is essential.
The book is called How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes by Peter D. Schiff
It explains the economy problems currently causing people to be out on the streets banging on drums and shouting at the
Read more »The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly, the freedom of religion, equality for men and women under the rule of law, and the right to choose your own leaders -– whether you live in Baghdad or Damascus, Sanaa or Tehran.
President Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East
Notice how the freedom of peaceful assembly is supposedly a universal right? Unless you’re protesting in America evidently.
Read more »Once upon a time, money was made out of gold or other precious metals. It was a finite resource and everyone could agree on how much it was worth.
But precious metals are heavy and hard to carry around all the time. Especially on long journeys.
People started trading coins for promissory notes that they could trade back for coins when they got to where they were going. A fairly honest system started by the Knights Templar.
Other folks quickly got into
Read more »Many, many critiques of OWS have been superficial, targeting the fact that the protesters wear/use/eat corporate products whilst protesting corporate greed.
I have just come up with a solution.
The Gridle$$ Movement. Hit them where it hurts.
Pronounced “grid-less”, the idea is to move off the grid in protest against corporate greed.
Grow your own food. Make your own clothes. Generate your own electricity. Take up the Freegan lifestyle as much as you can.
Buy as little as
Read more »Catherine Allan.Read more »Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Judith Weller.Read more »People in glass houses shouldn’t.
Once, when I was a kid, the people running the one electricity company in Queensland at the time had a huge workers’ dispute. So huge that the electricity was shut off for a large amount of time.
Such worker’s action did highlight how necessary the employees were, but it also inconvenienced the people who had no voice: the public.
The politicians and the higher-ups could afford their own generators and weren’t effected by the blackouts. It may
Read more »You can spot her from a mile away. The one kid playing alone. Lost in her own little world. She clearly wears a mixture of hand-me-downs and homemade clothing when all the other children are wearing clothes, relatively new, from the shops.
Some other children are approaching her. Even from this distant vantage point, you can tell their intent is not friendly. They are all bigger than her. Together, they could beat her into a pulp, but violence is not their pastime
Read more »Biting the hand that feeds it.
I’m not naming names, but anyone who follows Slashdot knows that a very big publishing corporation is suing an author for contractual violations. Her violation? Taking a completely different book to get published on Amazon.
Sure $20000 is a relatively small steak, but the big stakes here are authors leaving the publishing corp’s for nicer pastures. The publishers know this, but instead of going after Amazon, another big company that can afford
Read more »For those unfamiliar with the abbreviation, that’s sleep depravation. But I’m way too tired to type out the whole thing, today.
Just last week, we received a nice letter from a neighbour that boiled down to “shut up your annoying dog or we’ll start legal action”.
$300 later, the dog has an expensive citronella anti-bark collar and a buttload of toys and chewy treats to keep him occupied. He barely makes a peep.
The
Read more »I’ve had this one baking on the back burner for quite some time. And since I have nothing else in my head but brewing brony tales, I figured I’d best get this out of my head to make some room.
The Dollar Shop is a phenomenon out my way, where you can walk into a shop and get an item [or a number of items] for a dollar a piece. Some cost more than a dollar. Many cost
Read more »These are truths I had to learn, myself. They’re not nice. Life is not nice. Neither are people you meet within it. Most of this is about them.
Though everyone is unique, you a not a special little snowflake. There are folks who think that just because they’re different, or think they have some kind of gift, then they’re entitled to special treatment. Not so. If you’re unique, then so’s everyone else.
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