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OCCUPY THE HIGHWAY – DAY 11 — 2 DAYS TO GO!

OCCUPY THE HIGHWAY – DAY 11

Speech by Todd Chretien to the November 9th Occupy Education rally at the University of California Santa Cruz

 
As Occupy Enters Third Month

A Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement

 Uploaded by DemocracyNow!, Nov 16, 2011 |  transcript

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As the Occupy movement approaches its two-month anniversary, we’re joined by two guests who are studying its strategies and successes. Author Jeff Sharlet helped found the group, Occupy Writers, and is assisting efforts to reestablish the evicted library at Occupy Wall Street. His recent article for Rolling Stone is “Inside Occupy Wall Street: How a bunch of anarchists and radicals with nothing but sleeping bags launched a nationwide movement.” Democracy Now! speaks with Sharlet and also speak with Marina Sitrin, who is researching global mass movements from Spain to Egypt, and has just returned from Greece. Sitrin says the Occupy movement’s assemblies offer a “radical, if not revolutionary, way of organizing … When we’re in our neighborhoods, and come together and relate in that way, it’s more like alternative governance.”

Guy Rundle  ’From Cold war to Cyberwar: Power, the State and the Wikileaks Effect’.

This is the first lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

WACA will be posting videos of each of the Wikileaks lectures and would like to thank the Melbourne Law School for granting us permission to film the entire series.

Details of the Wikileaks Series of The Wednesday Lectures :

8 June – Guy Rundle ‘From Cold war to Cyberwar: Power, the State and the Wikileaks Effect’

Two decades after the Berlin Wall came down, and a decade after 9/11 became the pretext for a relentless attack on citizenship and civil liberties, a series of releases by the Wikileaks website threw the operation of secrecy and state control of information into chaos. From the Icelandic rebellion against financial crisis, to the Arab Spring, both the quantity and quality of information released has changed the relationship between state, citizen and information.

These momentous events allow us to rethink the inherited privileges and assumptions of state and corporate power, and to ask if a new relationship can be created between global citizens, states and international organisations – indeed, it causes us to ask how it could not be.

Guy Rundle is currently the UK correspondent for Crikey and a regular contributor to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. A former editor of Arena Magazine, and a writer of several stage shows for Max Gillies, his most recent book is The SHellackling, on the rise of the US ‘Tea Party’.

15 June – Raimond Gaita ‘ Power and Consent’

This is the second lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

At the heart of democratic ideals is the contrast between legitimate and illegitimate persuasion. To a large extent, the difference is marked by the ways that forms of persuasion respect – or fail to respect – what Simone Weil called our “faculty of free consent.” The lecture will explore what we should make of the distinction and what its implications are for political action when democratic governments become more secretive, more authoritarian and more reliant on spin.

Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice, Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics and Muslims and Multiculturalism.

22 June – Panel Discussion ‘Secrecy, Power and Democracy’

This is the third lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

Join this panel of experts as they discuss the overall theme of this lecture series.

Raimond Gaita: Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice, Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics and Muslims and Multiculturalism.

Guy Rundle: Guy Rundle is currently the UK correspondent for Crikey and a regular contributor the The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. A former editor of Arena Magazine, and a writer of several stage shows for Max Gillies, his most recent book is The Shellacking, on the rise of the US ‘Tea Party’.

Gerry Simpson
: Gerry Simpson is the Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne Law School, and is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Winner of the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit in 2005) and more recently Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law and Outside International Law.

Robert Manne
: Robert Manne is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University and a member of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. He is one of Australia’s best-known public intellectuals. His publications include The Petrov Affair, The Shadow of 1917, The Culture of Forgetting, In Denial, and The Howard Years. Whitewash: On the Fabrication of Aboriginal History (editor and contributor), Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia (editor and contributor), Left, Right Left and Making Trouble. He contributes regularly to The Monthly).

29 June – Kevin Heller ‘Can the U.S. Prosecute WikiLeaks for Espionage? Should It?’

This is the fourth lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

Kevin Heller is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He is the author of The Nuremberg Military Tribunals, The Origins of International Criminal Law and The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (with Markus Dubber). He is also a permanent member of the international-law blog Opinio Juris. He has written for numerous journals of international law and been advisor numerous international criminal trials including those of Saddam Hussein and Radovan Karadzic.

6 July – Helen Pringle ‘Gimme Shelter: The Power of Secrecy and Silence in Democracy’

This is the fifth lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

This talk offers an appreciation and defence of the power of secrecy and silence in a democracy. It is often assumed that secrecy shelters domination and that silence provides a license for coarse exercises of power by government or business.

Breaking the silence and the triumph of a principle of general transparency are not only the apparent aims of the Wikileaks project, but form a broader injunction to publicise the smallest details of every aspect of our lives. Pringle argues that this is not an emancipatory project: a general breaking of silence shatters the shelter within which our intimate lives are conducted, and in turn guts public life of its standing and dignity.

Helen Pringle is in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Her research has been widely recognised by awards from Princeton University, the Fulbright Foundation, the Australian Federation of University Women, and the Universities of Adelaide, Wollongong and NSW. Her main fields of expertise are human rights, ethics in public life, and political theory. Dr Pringle is currently working on a project concerning the place of pornography within considerations of free speech, entitled Practising Pornography. She is also involved in an international research project on ethnography and sexual slavery in early colonial Queensland.

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With millions of people around the globe watching “Occupy” unfold daily, parents, teachers, educators and simply “interested people” have asked for an educational piece that captures this culture defining event and moment in history. Accurately depicted in detailed line art and conversation the book includes modern and historical figures with quotations from Plato to O’Rielly, Hannity to Maddow, Obama to Boehner. There are pages dating back to the Robin Hood era, drawings of various parks, political views from every angle and a few surprises with imaginative satirical pages. Included are newly written “Occupy” songs, poems and games and a true to life “Guilt Relief Donation Form” for the overburdened 1%!

 

‘Occupy’ protesters mint their own coloring book

CHICAGO — Anti-Wall Street protesters have a new way to pass the time: an “Occupy” coloring book complete with songs and a visit from Robin Hood.
The “grown-up coloring book novel” was released last week by Really Big Coloring Books, a Missouri-based publisher that recently made headlines with a controversial coloring book about the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“We think we’re onto something with these cultural pieces that truly reflect what people want to hear and want to say,” said publisher Wayne Bell.
The company’s first big hit came when it published a Barack Obama coloring book just four days after he won the historic 2008 US presidential election. It also had a great deal of success with a coloring book about the conservative Tea Party movement.
The aim of the books is not to promote a particular political agenda, Bell said, but to give parents an outlet to discuss important issues and current events with their children.
“We know a lot of people are going to love it and other people are going to make fun of it,” Bell told AFP.
“It’s really an interesting reflection on what’s going on out in the streets.”
To keep the book balanced, Bell’s teams spoke with people across the political spectrum about the Occupy movement and included two pages showing what pundits on the right and the left are saying about it.
To keep it fun, they included a maze, a crossword puzzle and a 1% Golden Bull Guilt Relief Form to help the rich donate their wealth to the needy.
The original songs are perhaps the best part.
One titled “Humpty Grumpty” goes: “Investments, Investments, sat on a wall; Investments, Investments had a great fall. The Congress and Senate and President’s men; Couldn’t put Dollars and Sense together again.”
Bell’s favorite is “Sing a Song of Sixpence”: Sing a song of sixpence; my pockets have gone dry. Nine & twenty A.P.R. why even try? The mortgage rate has opened, and I don’t have a thing. Pitch a tent in the city park, my things I will bring.”

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Uploaded by jasirix on Nov 7, 2011I was recently invited to perform at the University of Connecticut on November 4th as the principal performer for a “Political Awareness Rally”. About a week before the event I got an email from the organizer (who ironically I met at Occupy Wall St) saying people were concerned about my performance, particularly the song “Occupy (We the 99).” I thought this was very strange because this is supposed to be an institution of higher learning that welcomes all types of ideas, plus the event was a rally for political awareness. The organizer said he would not censor me but if I performed it I might not get paid. Then I received an email directly from the comptroller of the University saying specifically I could not perform “Occupy (We the 99).” I initially agreed to perform only a set of songs the University of Connecticut deemed “not political” because the event had already been advertised around campus and didn’t want to disappoint my fans by not showing up. I also did not want to let down the organizers who did a lot of hard work in putting the event together. But when I arrived at the University of Connecticut for the event I had a change of heart.

As I looked around the crowd I began to think of all the people around the world occupying for a better tomorrow, being arrested and brutalized by police, sleeping in the cold and rain, sacrificing comfort for freedom. I knew at that moment I had to perform the song, “Occupy (We the 99)” as well as other “political” songs like “Real Gangstas” (about the Wall St bankers), even if it meant I would not get paid. At some point in this movement all of us are going to have to make sacrifices if we truly want to see real change. The 1% control the 99% with promises of money, access, and comfort; we have to put our own souls above all three.

Sincerely,
Jasiri X

Occupy (We the 99)
Uploaded by jasirix on Oct 18, 2011Filmed live at Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Pittsburgh by Director Paradise Gray, Jasiri X reconnects with super producer Cynik Lethal to provide a soundtrack for this growing movement that has taken the world by storm. We gonna Occupy!LYRICS
Verse 1
The Power’s with the people don’t let these cowards deceive you
and be the next mouse in the talons of a eagle
this country’s wealth gap isn’t unbalanced it’s evil
we celebrate access while the people have less
in poverty abject madness
while the economy collapses add stress
that’s the last straw
you want class war well give you what you ask for
the have nots at the have’s door
we came to crash your party
and we aint leaving until we’re even
the Constitution guarantees these freedoms
any one against that’s committing treason
your not a real patriot unless you stand for what you believe in
and nobody got more welfare than Wall Street
hundreds of billions after operating falsely
and nobody went to prison that’s where you lost me
but my home, my job, and my life is what it cost me

Verse 2
Remember when police beat the Egyptians who were defiant
even president Obama condemned the violence
but when NYPD beat Americans there’s silence
it’s apparent that there’s bias
sticks for the people but give carrots to the liars
those crooked cops just for embarrassment should be fired
and if you want to see terrorists then look higher
they in them skyscrapers with billions from my labor
forcing people out of there homes with falsified data
so we either unify now or cry later
1% got the wealth but the 99′s greater
so in every city we gone occupy major
cause nobody got more welfare than Wall Street
hundreds of billions after operating falsely
and nobody went to prison that’s where you lost me
but my home, my job, and my life is what it cost me

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Cornel West Chris Hedges at Goldman Sachs Mock Trial Occupy Wall St Nov 3 2011 people’s hearing.