May Day 2013: Live Coverage

Posted 11 years ago on May 1, 2013, 9:41 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
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</iframe><div style="font-size: 11px;padding-top:10px;text-align:center;width:560px">Watch <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="live streaming video">live streaming video</a> from <a href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch globalrevolution at livestream.com">globalrevolution</a> at livestream.com</div></p> <p><a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt" data-widget-id="247675661890752512">Tweets by @OccupyWallSt</a></p> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> <h4>More Info:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://maydaynyc.org/">http://maydaynyc.org/</a> </li> <li><a href="http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-may-day-2013-nyc-schedule/">http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-may-day-2013-nyc-schedule/</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/OWSMayDay">https://twitter.com/OWSMayDay</a> </li> </ul> </div>  <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comments"> 35 Comments</a> </p> </article> <h3 id="comments"> <span id="comment-count">35</span> Comments </h3> <div class="postcommentform"> <textarea rows="5" cols="70"></textarea><br /> <button class="save">post comment</button> <img class="loader" src="/media/img/ajax-loader.gif" width="16" height="16" /> <span class="error"></span> <a style="font-size:small" href="http://occupywallst.org/forum/moderating-policies-will-be-reposted-somewhere-pro/">Read the Rules</a> </div> <section id="comment-list"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966712"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">7</span> points by <span><a title="View GypsyKing's profile" class="user" href="/users/GypsyKing/">GypsyKing</a></span> (8708) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Complete media blackout! Man, this movement must really scare people in power in America! Nothing could testify more clearly to the enduring power and relevance of this movement.</p> <p>If the Tea Party can get three people together at a cafe every major network is there. Must be that "liberal" media.</p> <p>Who knows what the eventual outcome of this movement will be?</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966712">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966836"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View penguento's profile" class="user" href="/users/penguento/">penguento</a></span> (362) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Nope, no blackout. I found quite a number of new stories on the May Day thing from various parts of the country, and tracked it throughout the day. Just not very high profile.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966836">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966877"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">3</span> points by <span><a title="View GypsyKing's profile" class="user" href="/users/GypsyKing/">GypsyKing</a></span> (8708) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Liar.</p> <p>Google it,</p> <p>Nothing. Not from any press outlet worthy of the name.</p> <p>Why you are allowed to go on endlessly spewing your insidious venom on this site I can't imagine. I can't possibly be the only one here who recognizes your "style."</p> <p>And no, I won't respond to your inevitable lame comeback, the font of your bottomless well of verbal diarrhea.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966877">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966739"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Example of Democide in action - censored from the public.</p> <p>Though it is just fine to show protests in foreign lands -so that TPTB can say shame on you. Time to send in the military.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966739">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966742"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">3</span> points by <span><a title="View GypsyKing's profile" class="user" href="/users/GypsyKing/">GypsyKing</a></span> (8708) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>The complete blackout of events in Seattle and elsewhere on May 1st calls into question everything we hear, and don't hear, in the media.</p> <p>The free press in America is dead. Restoring it must be a very high priority in this movement, just after eliminating the influence of all private interest in the democratic process.</p> <p>We can't give up, we must fight as long and as hard as it takes. Our survival is at stake.</p> <p>Everyone, everyone, must talk to people and convince them of the very high stakes here! It is a matter of whether we will have a continuing democracy in the US, and in the world, at all - or whether we will gradually slip into another dark age.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966742">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966814"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View redandbluestripedpill's profile" class="user" href="/users/redandbluestripedpill/">redandbluestripedpill</a></span> (333) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>You've said a great deal here.</p> <p>"The free press in America is dead. Restoring it must be a very high priority in this movement, just after eliminating the influence of all private interest in the democratic process."</p> <p>All true and logical as strategy but without the nycga being realistic in the selection of legal process to direct the people towards it, such logic cannot see support free of an array of cognitive infiltration working to promote inane wheel-spin in a flurry of false buzz.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966814">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966744"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">0</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>MSM is feeling the heat of growing public derision. They have launched a generic Ad stating how wonderful American broadcasting is. Much like how fossil fuel is stinking ummm singing praises for fracking.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966744">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966746"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">6</span> points by <span><a title="View GypsyKing's profile" class="user" href="/users/GypsyKing/">GypsyKing</a></span> (8708) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>What happened to Dan Rather at CBS is a classic example of the gutless, grovelling, prostituted media in America today.</p> <p>He had the nerve to expose George W. Bush's real military record as a draft evader and a deserter from a cushy post in the Texas National Guard (even though he was a war supporter). In other words Dan Rather had the balls to be a real journalist and expose the truth.</p> <p>For that they fired and publically humiliated him, and that made me furious! It was the public captitulation of the free press for all to see.</p> <p>Dan Rather should be an American hero for that. He knew the risk he was taking, and he took it anyway. He lived up to the call of integrety that his profession demands to have any meaning at all.</p> <p>Why is GWB not in prison for desertion of duty?</p> <p>Is this a democracy or a dictatorship? Dan Rather chose democracy, what will we chose?</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966746">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966812"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">3</span> points by <span><a title="View Nevada1's profile" class="user" href="/users/Nevada1/">Nevada1</a></span> (5843) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>On 9/11, Dan Rather spoke of controlled demolition, then got cut off.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966812">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966747"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Example of Democide in action.</p> <p>People rule of thumb - Where there is smoke there is fire.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966747">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966843"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View penguento's profile" class="user" href="/users/penguento/">penguento</a></span> (362) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Oddly enough, you and I agree on this one. MSM in the U.S., on both sides, is not just worthless, it's a propaganda machine.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966843">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966815"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">1</span> points by <span><a title="View redandbluestripedpill's profile" class="user" href="/users/redandbluestripedpill/">redandbluestripedpill</a></span> (333) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>MSM are corporations. How hard do you think they will resist any info regarding challenge to corporate personhood?</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966815">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966203"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View Paaatriot101's profile" class="user" href="/users/Paaatriot101/">Paaatriot101</a></span> (31) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>MAYDAY # Solidarity from Deb over @ <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/What-is-Occupy-Wall-Street/194578233949021">https://www.facebook.com/pages/What-is-Occupy-Wall-Street/194578233949021</a></p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966203">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966821"> <div class="content "> <p class="deleted"><span>[Removed]</span></p> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966819"> <div class="content "> <p class="deleted"><span>[Removed]</span></p> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966428"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">0</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>In compliment Move to Amend :</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/may10_events?e=2ae135fada3068fbc9ccdd9b1d9214f03ddbbcaf&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may10_1week&n=6&recruiter_id=18125">Only one week to go until Move to Amend's National Day of Action Against Corporate Personhood...</a></p> <p>127 years ago, on May 10, 1886 in the Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, the Court is said to have given corporations their first foothold in the Constitution.</p> <p>Corporate lawyers carved out their first Constitutional foothold, claiming that corporations have rights under the 14th Amendment — the amendment passed to ensure equal protection of African Americans after slavery was abolished.</p> <p>Since then, there has been <a rel="nofollow" href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Timeline-of-Corporate-Personhood-Rights-For-USA-democracy-MoveToAmendorg/295551397226428&utm_campaign=may10_1week&n=7&e=2ae135fada3068fbc9ccdd9b1d9214f03ddbbcaf&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email">case after case</a> in which the Court expanded the Constitutional "rights" of corporations.</p> <p>This May 10 is the 127th "birthday" of corporate personhood and Move to Amend activists will be raising our voices in protest nationwide.</p> <p>Join our volunteers in displaying freeway banners and signs with messages calling for our amendment to the Constitution. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/may10_events?e=2ae135fada3068fbc9ccdd9b1d9214f03ddbbcaf&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may10_1week&n=8&recruiter_id=18125">Click here to find the action nearest you and RSVP!</a> And if you're organizing an event yourself, don't forget to add it to the site so that others in your area will know where to go to join you.</p> <p>Thanks for all you do!</p> <p>MOVE TO AMEND</p> <p>PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.MoveToAmend.org">www.MoveToAmend.org</a></p> <p>We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966428">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966750"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Court Systems: Judges act like they can't judge or weigh Law for themselves right?</p> <p>I guess we have huge Institutions where people act like they don't know enough to figure everything out or even inject Principal.</p> <p>It is almost like Judges are afraid of Blowback or Pushback or Backlash from the Wealthy Interested Parties in Law Cases.</p> <p>I know it is hard without an example... I think DKA mentioned (here it is) Citizens United Supreme Court Case based on an Amendment in the 1900s that gave rights to color people or people of color.</p> <p>Another case example is the ACLU case that was thrown out recently by a Judge who stated that since the USA has this secret Court for Wire Tap Warrants... and we don't know if the ACLU was Damaged... then there is no case against the Federal Government. But the ACLU has decades of history of fighting for rights, privacy, equal rights, infringing on rights, ect.</p> <p>So now under the Corporate Dictatorship... What all our Judges have to be pointed to the principals involved, Lawyers have to present the right arguments and not use general case law, constitutional law, legal definitions, ... does every precedent and applicable case have to be sited to win a case now.</p> <p><strong>In effect... we have to have the most connected and expensive Law firm that specializes in the specific case law for us to Sue in Court??</strong></p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966750">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966752"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Justice is blind. Plausible deniability ? Handy ain't it ? It is just too damn complicated even for those who went to college for it.</p> <p>Democide.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966752">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966759"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">4</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>So our court system is competitive. We have to compete for truth. We have to compete for Justice.</p> <p>Where is Matt Taibbi? I want him and Chris Hedges in on this discussion...</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966759">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966760"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-3</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>I would like to see them get together perhaps with Bill Moyer and do a show on Democide and the law.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966760">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966772"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>I'm feeling like getting local college or university to host ... would be big enough to attract a few speakers. Are university fees higher than college fees? Are college fees higher than speaking fees for inside a church or private residence?</p> <p>Perhaps the place to start is with normal speaking terms of the individuals we list as personalities.... Get those estimates, then transpo estimates, per diem estimates,... get location estimates & proposals.... say probably $40 a day per diem for expenses per person .... maybe Jill Stein would better be set aside if she has fees...</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966772">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966774"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <blockquote><p>I'm feeling like getting local college or university to host ... would be big enough to attract a few speakers.</p> </blockquote> <p>Nice. Would still work with Moyers - I think.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966774">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966777"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Maybe a person would take a list of speakers and topics to a university or college and see if they have objections....</p> <p>And try to assess the cost of the building for 3 hours...</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966777">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966780"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>I still think ( and their are student movements ) that a program like Moyers would like to do that. A show from a university.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966780">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966783"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">3</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>No, I think you are right. And these foundations or media funds can take the load off of the expense.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966783">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966784"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-3</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Absolutely.</p> <p>Public not private university.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966784">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966775"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-3</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>From the May Day schedule of events - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://maydaynyc.org/ai1ec_event/free-university-classroom-sessions/?instance_id=98">Free University</a> @ Copper Union</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966775">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966906"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <blockquote><p>[-] -3 points by DKAtoday (24588) from Coon Rapids, MN 13 hours ago</p> <p>I would like to see them get together perhaps with Bill Moyer and do a show on Democide and the law. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle reply edit delete permalink</p> </blockquote> <p>Looks like someone( s ? ) fears the idea of a Bill Moyers show to be done at a public university - about the Law & Democide - with guest speakers like - Matt Taibbi Chris Hedges James W. Loewen. And Naomi Klein Jill Stein Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders. Understandable fear from the shills/sellouts/corpoRATists.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966906">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966761"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">1</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Sounds broad enough. We have to bring in history & anthropology.</p> <p>Lets also invite James W. Loewen. And Naomi Klein. We have to stir the Pot!!!</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966761">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966763"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-2</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Jill Stein Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders?</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966763">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966766"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">2</span> points by <span><a title="View Middleaged's profile" class="user" href="/users/Middleaged/">Middleaged</a></span> (5140) <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Absolutely... And with agenda presented up front to allow them to prepare.</p> <p>I don't know how these things work. Does the producer pay for all transportation and make sure all audio and video are available to record the event.....?</p> <p>Then I guess we would need a producer, or a fund raiser. A cost estimate for transportation and hotels and for a church or place to hold the event might bring out many donations... or find a producer.</p> <p>Right....?</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966766">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966768"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-2</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Pitch it to Bill along with the definition of Democide. The guests might be very enthusiastic to take part. Hell it might get publicity on the PBS news hour.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966768">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966420"> <div class="content "> <p class="deleted"><span>[Removed]</span></p> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-967346"> <div class="content "> <p class="deleted"><span>[Removed]</span></p> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966654"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>In compliment to the streaming live coverage from independents over the internet.</p> <p>People!!! Note that the MSM would show protests in foreign lands on May Day - but would not show coverage for the protests/marches here at home in the Good Ol USofA.</p> <p>There is a term that goes to explaining this type of purposeful censorship.</p> <p>Democide <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide</a></p> <p>An Excerpt:</p> <p>The objectives of such a plan of democide include the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups; the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity; and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.[7]</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966654">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966191"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>In compliment : May Action Move to Amend</p> <p>Good news! The We the People Act (SF17), is scheduled to be heard by the MN Senate, this Thursday May 2nd! Statewide, supporters just like you, helped successfully advance our Minnesota We the People Act, which says corporations are not people, money is not speech, MOVE TO AMEND the US Constitution! Now we aim to get our Act (SF17-HF276) passed by the state house and senate before close of session May 20th! This is an exciting chance for democracy. We especially invite new volunteers to our upcoming events! Forward this email, bring a friend. -The Volunteers of St. Paul Area Move To Amend</p> <p>May 2 Thursday 11am</p> <p>MN Senate Vote Expected on our We the People Act</p> <p>What: the We the People Act (SF17), is scheduled to be heard by the MN Senate</p> <p>When: Senate is scheduled to convene Thursday at 11am! We have no way of knowing exactly when SF17 will be heard, but please join us</p> <p>Where: Senate Gallery, third floor of the State Capitol.</p> <p>RSVP requested on Fb to receive any updates: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/420231964679949/">https://www.facebook.com/events/420231964679949/</a> SPA-MTA Event Contact: Paul Karlson, SPA-MTA Volunteer Chairperson 612-414-2221 More info on SF17: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0017&ssn=0&y=2013">https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0017&ssn=0&y=2013</a></p> <p>May 3 Friday 7-8:30am</p> <p>Highway Bannering</p> <p>What: Meet for coffee and tea</p> <p>Where: at the home of our SPA-MTA Field Director</p> <p>1240 Thomas Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104</p> <p>How: From there we carpool to the Snelling Ave. bridge over Hwy 94.</p> <p>RSVP requested: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/375304989245002/">https://www.facebook.com/events/375304989245002/</a> SPA-MTA Event Contact: Chris Gordon, SPA-MTA Field Director 651-338-1493</p> <p>More info: bannering is the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month.</p> <p>May 4 Saturday 2-5:00pm</p> <p>Petitioning at Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>What: Petitioning for more MTA supporters, with MTA petition sheets and clipboards.</p> <p>Where: We will base ourselves at S. Robert Street and Plato Boulevard, right near the parking lots, and work that general area.</p> <p>When: Eileen will plan to be at that intersection at 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 pm with clipboards and supplies and, from there, we can fan out and ask people to sign the petition.</p> <p>RSVP: on Facebook <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/420231964679949/#!/events/463079630434381/">https://www.facebook.com/events/420231964679949/#!/events/463079630434381/</a> AND, more importantly, directly to SPA-MTA Event Contact: Eileen Collard, SPA-MTA Petitioning Manager at efncollard@gmail.com, so she can reach you in case of rain. Yup, she speaks Spanish!</p> <p>More info: Cinco de Mayo fest, parade, directions, and parking information <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cincodemayosaintpaul.com/.">http://www.cincodemayosaintpaul.com/.</a></p> <p>May 10 Friday 7-9am AND 4-6:00pm</p> <p>National Day of Action: Highway Bannering</p> <p>What: This year, on the 127th "birthday" of corporate persons, Move to Amend activists will be displaying freeway banners all over the nation. Meet for coffee and tea</p> <p>Where: at the home of our SPA-MTA Field Director. 1240 Thomas Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104</p> <p>How: From there we carpool to different overpasses with a banner on each, to share our MTA message with the Twin Cities..</p> <p>RSVP requested for each shift:</p> <p>7-9:00 am: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/536729449712463/">https://www.facebook.com/events/536729449712463/</a></p> <p>4-6:00 pm: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/319797108146497/">https://www.facebook.com/events/319797108146497/</a> SPA-MTA Event Contact: Chris Gordon, SPA-MTA Field Director 651-338-1493</p> <p>More info on this National MTA Day of Action: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://movetoamend.org/May10">https://movetoamend.org/May10</a></p> <p>May 17 Friday 7-8:30am</p> <p>Highway Bannering</p> <p>Please See May 3rd</p> <p>May 25 Saturday 2:00pm</p> <p>Petitioning at the March Against Monsanto</p> <p>What: Petitioning for more MTA supporters, with MTA petition sheets andpetition clipboards.</p> <p>Where: “Move To Amend” table on the MN Capitol Grounds. RSVP requested: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/463079630434381/SPA-MTA">https://www.facebook.com/events/463079630434381/SPA-MTA</a> Event Contact: Ruth Lindh 612-374-5076</p> <p>More info on the March Against Monsanto: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mnagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/">http://www.mnagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p>More events: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/St.PaulAreaMoveToAmend/events/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/St.PaulAreaMoveToAmend/events/</a></p> <p>SAINT PAUL MOVE TO AMEND <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.MoveToAmend.org">www.MoveToAmend.org</a>/MN-saint-paul Saint Paul Move to Amend is a local affiliate of the Move to Amend Coalition</p> <p>We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.</p> <p>NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.MoveToAmend.org">www.MoveToAmend.org</a></p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966191">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966375"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">1</span> points by <span><a title="View gsw's profile" class="user" href="/users/gsw/">gsw</a></span> (3420) from Woodbridge Township, NJ <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Good news</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966375">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966384"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-1</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>Yes it is - it is a good action/movement.</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966384">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item comment" id="comment-966192"> <div class="content "> <div class="info"> <a class="collapse" href="#">[-]</a> <span class="karma">-2</span> points by <span><a title="View DKAtoday's profile" class="user" href="/users/DKAtoday/">DKAtoday</a></span> (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN <span class="published">11 years ago</span> </div> <div class="words"> <p>May Day Live streaming - Right Now</p> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="up " href="#">↥twinkle</a> <a class="down " href="#">↧stinkle</a> <a class="reply" href="#">reply</a> <a class="permalink" href="/article/may-day-2013-live-coverage/#comment-966192">permalink</a> </div> </div> <div class="replies"> </div> </div> </section> </div> <footer> <p>this site is brought to you by various radicals at the Occupy Solidarity Network<br> this website is free / open source software on <a href="https://github.com/jart/occupywallst">github</a></p> </footer> <div id="notifications" style="display:none"> <div class="info"> <span>Notifications</span> </div> <div class="items"> </div> </div> <div style="display:none" id="editform" class="editform"> <textarea rows="5" cols="70"></textarea><br> <button class="save">save</button> <button class="cancel">cancel</button> <img class="loader" src="/media/img/ajax-loader.gif" width="16" height="16"> <span class="error"></span> <a href="http://occupywallst.org/forum/moderating-policies-will-be-reposted-somewhere-pro/">Read the Rules</a> </div> <script src="/media/js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/markdown.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/ows.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/userpage.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/article.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/index.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/lazy.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/conference.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/rides.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/attendees.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/markfield.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/chat.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/forum.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/csrf.js?v=43"></script>  <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-46982122-1', 'occupywallst.org'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <script> function api(path, data, callback) { if (path.match(/^\/api\/safe\//)) { return $.get(path, data, callback, "json"); } else { return $.post(path, data, callback, "json"); } } $(function() { ows_init({ notifications: [] }); forum_init({per_page: 25}); article_init($(document)); }); </script>

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