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Category Archives: Strike!
October 15 protests
The world is occupied: Here are just a few of the 900 cities occupied yesterday in protest of our system of economic injustice and institutionalized greed United States: occupation protests on Oct. 15 Chicago Phoenix Santa Rosa Denver Boulder Little … Continue reading
Posted in Occupy, Police state, Strike!, Struggle and Revolution!
Tagged october 15, pictures, protest, protestors
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Why support the Occupy Wall Street movement?
The occupiers themselves are pretty clear about the issues, so it’s a real sham that the television journalists on CNN and FOX claim not to understand. Perhaps they can avert the gaze of the media for a while longer, but … Continue reading
Greece: revolt bailout default IMF austerity collapse…how the people respond to the crisis
It’s a cliff-hanger. Greece…will it go into default? Will it get EU bailout number 2 of over a hundred billion dollars? Will its current socialist administration fall putting the government into crisis? Will the people continue the daily revolution, now … Continue reading
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Tagged eurozone, greece, IMF, pigs
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Greece: where even the frogs come out in protest
As if the political and economic tumult wasn’t enough to rattle the people of Greece, little frogs — “millions,’ according to the police chief of Thessaloniki, Giorgos Thanoglou — closed one of the country’s major highways for more than two … Continue reading
Two movies highly recommended
Z (Costa Gavras) This is the story behind Greece when it was at a major turning point in the 60s: democracy or totalitarianism. The film is in French, the acting is excellent, the cinematography is at once classic and playful, … Continue reading
Lil Wayne video: race, riot, class frustration
Lil Wayne’s Drop the World (full video here, MTV censored version here) features scenes of street rage by the socially marginalized. It does not offer a very deep critique of social repression, but the latter is shown as the origins … Continue reading
Strike: this is what people can do
In Greece, people still remember how to strike, as a comrade reports from the trenches: Last week, the Greek socialist government faced one of its biggest challenges yet, a standoff with independent Greek farmers demanding their subsidies be reinstated. Across … Continue reading
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