LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Occupy LA: 1,400 LAPD cops cleared the encampment at City Hall park in the middle of the night last night, arresting almost 300 people. ALAN MINSKY was there, reporting for KPFK — we’ll talk with him about the night, the Occupy movement, and of course the [...]
The Berkeley Academic Senate voted 336 to 34 on Monday afternoon to “condemn” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau for his administration’s “authorization of violent responses to nonviolent protests over the past two years,” culminating in the police attack on nonviolent Occupy Cal demonstrators on November 9. . . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE.
On Monday, the Berkeley Academic Senate will vote on a resolution expressing “no confidence” in their chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, because of police violence against Occupy Cal campus activists there on November 9. The chancellor’s defense of police conduct was particularly outrageous: “It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms,” [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The OccupyUSA live-blog at TheNation.com tracks the movement across the country and the world with updates often every 5 minutes: it’s the work of GREG MITCHELL – he has a new book out, 40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere. Also: REBECCA [...]
Two unforgettable videos flew around the world wide web on Saturday, one horrifying, the other inspiring. Everybody knows the first: black-clad cops at UC Davis shooting pepper-spray into the faces of Occupy Wall Street student demonstrators who are sitting passively on the ground with linked arms. More than two million people have watched that video on [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Monday night the Occupy Wall Street camp in Manhattan was destroyed by the NYPD; today the activists are back, but barred from camping overnight. RICHARD KIM, executive editor of The Nation will comment on what Occupy has accomplished and what’s next – his report, “The Audacity of [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Voters yesterday rejected right-wing overreach with an unbroken string of Democratic and progressive victories: HAROLD MEYERSON comments on the defeat, 61-39, of the Ohio law stripping public employees of collective-bargaining rights, and the defeat in Mississippi, 57-43, of a sweeping antiabortion initiative. Harold writes for the Washington [...]
Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism He’s Back! cried the headline in The Times of London in fall 2008 as global stock markets crashed and banks failed. The “he,” of course, was Karl Marx, who had written 160 years earlier about the periodic “crises of capitalism.” . . . [...]
The cancer danger from the new airport security scanners–which look under a traveler’s clothing–is greater than we had feared. “Research suggests that anywhere from six to 100 Americans could get cancer each year from the machines,” ProPublica’s Michael Grabell says. “Still, the TSA has repeatedly defined the scanners as ‘safe.’”. . . . . [...]