Dave Lippman
We marched, and will march again, and then will lie down in front of the liars, and stand up to the climate-killing profiteers.
A jaunt through the history of boycotts the ones Ive joined in, anyway to help us realize the power of putting the wallet back in the pocket.
Wisconsin Solidarity Singers rewrote this 1907 hymn, then I altered it some for the South Carolina activists. The beat goes on
The present, actually-existing International that has been organized by The Man consists of a buncha robots logging your blogs, phone calls, thoughts and feelingsbut if youve done nothing wrong, why you b*** in?
Within the 99% there are important differences - who goes to work, who goes to college, who goes to jail, what happens to veterans and black women and Latino kids....
For better and worse, the world is uniting around new tech that can bring us together - but with wisdom, courage, and the goal of justice? Or......
Blasting the rocks underneath us with toxic chemical water to get more energy to raise the temperature of the earth some more instead of converting to renewables and conservation - what the frack?!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they pepper spray you.
They plan to blow up the rocks under us with high-powered toxic chemical water to get shale gas (methane) to raise the earth's temperature some more, instead of investing in clean renewable energy and conservation. No news here. But lots of outrage.
Yes we got our fair share of abuse at all the Occupy's, but we raise the consciousness and maybe even the conscience of the nation a degree, which could help in the next Tahrirs, Madisons, Greeces, and Wall Streets - comin' right up!
Code Pink buried a pink Hummer in Heidelberg Yard, the art neighborhood in Detroit, to symbolize the end of the era of greed and excess and environmental and social destruction.
The lowdown on ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. Where "sample laws" are written by corporados, handed to legislators, and shoveled down our throats.
There was this good cop, see. Retired, of course. From the Philadelphia Phorce. Joined Occupy Wall Street, he did. May the Phorce be with us!
The folks at Occupy Student Debt put out a call for supportive songs, but they had to be parodies of something from Mary Poppins. So be it.
Do we want to continue corporate control of government, health care denial industry in charge of health care denial, and a generally timid march to the center, or do we want the rest of fascism right now, extra charge and no waiting?