Stephen M. Walt, in Foreign Policy: "Ask yourself: how many contemporary political leaders do you genuinely admire? How many of them would rate a paragraph, let alone a whole chapter, in a revised edition of Profiles in Courage? How many of them seem capable of giving you a straight answer to a hard question, as opposed to offering you a lot of happy double-talk? How many of them are better at making a powerful speech than they are at taking a principled stand and sticking to it? How many of them have really got your back, as opposed to pandering to the endless parade of well-heeled lobbyists and special interest groups? Is there political leader in your country who is not for sale? If you've been paying attention, and you can't find such leaders in your country, and you having been watching the obscenely wealthy get richer and more powerful, so that they can rig the game to make themselves richer still, then you'd probably think about painting a sign and getting out in the streets. And if I didn't already have this blog for my soap-box, maybe I would too. "
Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
Loretta Napoleonis krönika i ETC, sept 2009. "Vakna upp innan det är försent." Begreppet feodal demokrati."Bekämpandet av terrorismens finansiering, de väpnade gruppernas blodomlopp, föll snart i glömska. Sedan attacken den 11 september 2001 har motsvaran
Globally to advance social, economic and environmental justice, by helping citizens understand and influence the public issues that impact their lives.
"Phil Radford was arrested with six other Greenpeace activists who unfurled a giant banner from a construction crane in Washington D.C. near a state-department meeting of ministers from the largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations. Inside the Major Economies Forum, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was giving a speech in which she said “climate change is a clear and present danger” to the world". Related to Wellinghoff's statement.
What kind of message are we sending about the viability these democratic ideals—about openness, transparency, public participation, public collaboration? How hollow must American exhortations to democracy sound to foreign ears? Mr Snowden may be responsible for having exposed this hypocrisy, for having betrayed the thug omertà at the heart of America’s domestic democracy-suppression programme, but the hypocrisy is America’s.
The film "We are Wisconsin" relates to the recall election in Wisconsin 2012, where "On June 5, Scott Walker managed to hold on to the governorship of Wisconsin. Facing a recall election, he raised an unprecedented $45 million, mostly from out of state, outspending the rival Democrat Tom Barrett by at least five to one."
Gen Wesley Clark, interviewd by Amy Goodman, March 2, 2007: "You see, essentially, you cannot win the war on terror by military force. It is first and foremost a battle of ideas. It is secondly a law enforcement effort and a cooperative effort among nations. And only as a last resort do you use military force."
We now witness what has quickly become nothing less than a massive scramble by the institutional left and U.S. Democratic Party to jump on board and attempt to co-opt the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. Of course, that witness requires assuming the ‘occupation’ movement was not co-opted from the beginning.Many questions arise when one looks closely at the website www.15october.net. Is this website an attempt to infiltrate, control and pacify spontaneous “Wall Street Occupations” now being implemented globally,
Protesterna har kritiserats från många håll för att sakna agenda eller tydliga mål, något som är konsekvensen av den uttalade ambitionen att vara en rörelse utan ledare och auktoriteter. Agendan och parollerna sätts av de stormöten som hålls två gånger varje dag. Kritiken är märklig. Ockupanterna försöker inte vara ett politiskt parti. Man vill verka för ett brett socialt och politiskt uppvaknande hos alla de som i slutändan förlorar på hur makten i samhället är fördelad. Eftersom det är hur många människor som helst i USA som känner sig maktlösa kan ockupationen av Wall Street innebära ett reellt hot mot rådande ordning. USA är satt i rörelse, oavsett om vi väljer att titta bort eller inte.
Due to the immense interest that this question has posed, we thought we might as well answer it: we do not want to feed paranoia and senseless New World Order conspiracies. Some of you were smart enough to find the registration details, and some of you looked closely enough to find one of the actual members out of the large group that planned the page. Paulina Arcos, who figures as the owner of the domain, is the name of the mother of this member. We used her credit card to purchase the domain in July.
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.