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David Swanson on NPR firing employee for occupying
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 1:37 pm | David Swanson
By David Swanson October 21, 2011 http://warisacrime.org/content/about-npr-soundprint-wdav-and-lisa-simeone More >>
Goodbye Iraq? Not Exactly
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 4:11 pm | David Swanson
Goodbye Iraq? Not Exactly By David Swanson, RootsAction.org I just got an email from Huffington Post telling me that Obama was keeping his campaign promise to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Not quite. Here's a video of Obama's promise. More >>
The Two Occupations of DC
Friday, 21 October 2011, 9:42 am | David Swanson
The occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington DC was planned for several months to begin on the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. It was planned prior to and quickly endorsed and supported the planning for Occupy Wall St. In numerous blog ... More >>
We the 99% Demand a Totally Different Federal Budget
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 2:39 pm | David Swanson
We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: "Majority Rule" or "People Over Profits" or "Love Not Greed." But we don't want to. Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be allowed to present the full list of grievances. More >>
Obama vs. Jobs; Hope vs. Reality
Monday, 17 October 2011, 11:04 am | David Swanson
Last week, President Obama racked up several more broken campaign promises as he pushed through Congress three new job-killing corporate trade agreements. The Senate Finance Committee was quite open about the fact that these agreements will kill off ... More >>
Occupied -- What Now?
Friday, 14 October 2011, 10:36 am | David Swanson
Thanks in large part to the New York and national corporate media a massive campaign to shift power away from giant corporations and into the hands of the people is now afoot all across this continent. More >>
How 99% Prevented Senators from Working Yesterday
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 3:40 pm | David Swanson
At exactly 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday a few hundred people began preventing any work that might have been done in the Senate Hart Office Building. Until sometime past noon, the noise of incessant chanting and the spectacle of banners, flags, and flyers actually ... More >>
Freedom Plaza Is Now Ours
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 3:12 pm | David Swanson
And we're never giving it back. Our permit for Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., expired, we refused to leave, and the Park Police has just proposed to let us stay for four more months. We've agreed. We have not said that when the four months are ... More >>
Dancing on Our Occupation Permit
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 10:03 am | David Swanson
Sunday night, our permit expired for occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. So, we threw a dance party, and when we could dance no more, we went to sleep in Freedom Plaza. We have until 2 p.m. today to remove our possessions. We do not intend ... More >>
Pepper-Sprayed for Peace
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:37 pm | David Swanson
I've been coughing and vomiting, and my head aches from pepper spray. I'll post videos and photos of why at the link above. We intended to hold signs and sing inside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, protesting its promotion of unmanned drones, missiles, ... More >>
Mic Check! Freedom Plaza Day 2
Monday, 10 October 2011, 3:23 pm | David Swanson
Friday was a good day for waking up in Freedom Plaza and for occupying the headquarters of the drone manufacturers. Fast forward to minute 44 on this video. Their intelligence about which way we were coming from was no better at keeping us out of their building ... More >>
Afghanistan: worst place for children to be born and raised
Monday, 10 October 2011, 3:13 pm | David Swanson
Afghanistan has been engaged with more than 30 years of war with thousands of civilians killed or injured since 2001. It is under these conditions that children are at extreme risk of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. The children of Afghanistan are ... More >>
Can Resurrection City Be Reborn?
Friday, 7 October 2011, 5:20 pm | David Swanson
Thursday morning, thousands of people moved into Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., site of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign's Resurrection city. Can a movement of the 99% of us who are living off the plutocrats' crumbs pick up the cause of social justice? More >>
Drones Have Their Own Congressional Caucus, Do You?
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 11:09 am | David Swanson
Drones have a congressional caucus now. Here it is. Here are its bipartisan (yay!) members. Here are some constituencies that do not have their own congressional caucuses: Homo Sapiens, The Homeless, The Foreclosed, The Ill, The Unclothed, The Hungry, The ... More >>
What's Missing: Non-Electoral Politics
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 3:24 pm | David Swanson
Lately, the phrase "public servants" has struck me as ironic, not because government officials fail to serve the public, but because much of the public serves them. The public is the servants. More >>
Rebuild the Dream in the Streets
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 9:46 am | David Swanson
Back around May or June a bunch of us announced plans for this coming Thursday, October 6th, to occupy Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., not for a march or a rally, and not for a day or a weekend, but to create a central space for an ongoing occupation ... More >>
AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka Backs Occupy Wall Street
Monday, 3 October 2011, 1:16 pm | David Swanson
Okay. Let’s take questions from the audience. In the very back there's a question with his hand up, and if you can give us your name, and if you're with an organization and also keep your questions brief so we can get to as many people as possible. More >>
The Danger of Simplicity
Monday, 3 October 2011, 11:41 am | David Swanson
I sat down during a lengthy protest occupation to play a game of chess, but my friend was better than I am. So, halfway through the match, I said to him, "What's your one move?" He didn't know what I meant. "What's your one winning move," I said, "and ... More >>
The Occupied Turn Occupiers
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 5:15 pm | David Swanson
In a recent debate Congressman Ron Paul claimed the United States military had troops in 130 countries. The St. Petersburg Times looked into whether such an outrage could actually be true and was obliged to report that the number was actually 148 countries. More >>
What Needs Changing
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 2:15 pm | David Swanson
Thanks to everyone for organizing this conference. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. How do we win? How do we get our demands met? We need power. But what is power? How do we get it? Simply put, power is the ability to act; the ... More >>
