“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
We believe that people should not be targeted for surveillance via drones just because they’re engaged in First Amendment-protected activity.
Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union
(Source: democracynow.org)
Happy Holidays #Occupy Movement! Deck the Land with 99ers! #ows #Xmas Carols
(Source: charlesbivona.com)
Financial Terrorism? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says, ‘I just don’t get it.’ #ows
Another current [of the Civil Rights Movement], which many people are not fully aware of, is that after World War II and the Korean conflict you had a large number of black men who had been trained in the military and many of whom had actually fought in the theaters of war in Europe, in the Pacific, and in Korea, and who were returning home and would not take second class citizenship.
(Source: loop21.com)
I really don’t believe that middle class America is anywhere near ready to confront the issues that face this country. I think people are uncomfortable. I think people, in many cases, are in some really tight situations. A large segment of the population is suffering economically. But that doesn’t mean they are ready to confront the seriousness of the issues.
(Source: loop21.com)
#OWS is much more broad-based in terms of class than the anti-war and feminist movements were initially. In some ways it is, much like the Southern civil rights movement, a movement of the poor.
Barbara Ehrenreich
(Source: loop21.com)
Orwell Rolls in His Grave [Full Screening] dedicated to the #NDAA #MSM Blackout:
“Life, Liberty, & Indefinite Detention Without A Trial” #NDAA #ows #p2 #tlot #Obama
The story of Occupy Wall Street is impossible to tell removed from the story of the prison industrial complex. What makes OWS necessary is a story of a failing educational system. It’s a story of privatized prisons. It’s a story of predatory lenders, lack of affordable housing, and a complete absence of jobs in the most marginalized communities, who are often black or brown. It’s a story of a so-called drug war meant to imprison black and brown youth as a means of generating profits for the 1 percent.
#CitizenJournalist Justin Wedes @justinwedes unlawfully arrested by the #NYPD #ows cc: @justinstoned
