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The Evolution of the Butterfly



Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent economic collapse and gives a backdrop of hope to sometimes bleak reality.

For more information on the caterpillar and butterfly, humanity and society, see Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future And A Way To Get There From Here.

After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, Occupier Tries to Reason With Police

This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & Jamie Reid


Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

The JOBS Act Is A Fraud-Enhancing Gift To Wall Street Criminals

By William K. Black, Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis, Janet Tavakoli, Barry Ritholtz & Lynn A. Stout
As white-collar criminologists (and a former financial regulator and enforcement head) and experts in ferreting out sophisticated financial frauds, our careers and research focus on financial fraud by the world’s most elite private sector criminals and their political cronies. Therefore, we write to thank Congress and the President for preparing to adopt a JOBS Act that will provide us with job security for life.

Cenk: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren’t The Violent Ones – The Police Are

Cenk: “No cops ever get punished, no mayors ever get punished. If you go out there to exercise your First Amendment rights, should you expect an ass-kicking by your own police that you paid for?”

OWS Re-Occupation Arrests: Protester Has Seizure in Handcuffs

DeGraw & Papantonio: The 99% Movement, Anonymous & Get Money Out (Ring of Fire Radio)

Is Occupy Wall Street the offline version of Anonymous?

$h!t Lobbyists $ay

Lobbyists write legislation, they take your representatives out to lunch, they throw fundraisers, they abide by absurdly specific rules to avoid appearance of graft and bribery, but nonetheless, Lobbyists influence your government for the benefit of corporate interests.

Ben Harper and Tom Morello: There’s A Better Way

Performed live at an InterOccupy meetup hosted by Occupy LA in MacArthur Park:

Greedy Bastards Antidote: Lawrence Lessig on “One Way Forward”

In a discussion on money, politics, and the growth of organic political reform movements in America over the last few years, Dylan Ratigan talks with Lawrence Lessig about his new book, One Way Forward: An Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic.


You can read Lessig's book here.

Obama’s Lobbying Ban Leads To More Corruption

When Republic Report launched Sell Out Of The Week, our initial winner was President Obama, who earned the prize for embracing his super PAC, essentially endorsing unlimited corporate cash invading the democratic process, after having failed to take some critical steps to clean up the system. We’ve chosen him again this week, but for a different money in politics offense.

Obama campaigned on a promise of reform and transparency, pledging as a candidate that lobbyists “will not run my White House… and will not drown out the voices of the American people.” But three years into his presidency, Obama’s lobby reform is broken. The rules once seen as revolutionary are counterproductive, meaningless, and frankly ridiculous.

This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Criminalizing First Amendment Rights


If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been silenced by police in riot gear.

Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; Occupy News Roundup; American Police State; Move To Amend

Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend

Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains; Robber Barons Continue to Rake in Billions; Market Recovery Is Illusion


Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains | Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions | SEC Dropped the Ball on $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme | Goldman's Massive Conflicts of Interest | Gaming the Greek bailout | Market Recovery Is an Illusion | BP to Pay $7.8 Billion | Legality of Targeted Killings of US Citizens Overseas

#GetMoneyOut News Roundup: Abolish Corporate Personhood; It’s Not Just Citizens United; Super Tuesday’s Big Winner; Will Lawmakers Return Stolen Money?

Voters Back Grassroots Campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood | It’s Not Just Citizens United | FEC’s bad rap getting worse | Super Tuesday’s winner: Big-money politics | Most Former Members Of Congress Work In Lobbying | Stanford's been convicted, will lawmakers return stolen money? | Super PAC aims to wrest grip of incumbents

LulzSec Cyber Activists Arrested With Help of Hacking Group’s Former Leader – Is Julian Assange Next? (Full Indictments)


Full LulzSec Indictments Here

Wall Street Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment From Washington

What’s worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so? The Obama administration has set a record by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, the government has often left whistleblowers feeling isolated and discouraged.

Mic Check! The People Speak – Part 1: Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp

Editor's Note: The following is the first of a new seven-part series featuring statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99% Movement. The statements are excerpted from the new book, "The Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action." In this installment, we feature comments from Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp.

Hot List: Wall Street Plunder Continues, Extreme Weather Hits US & War With Iran

AIG Still Robbing US Taxpayers; Fed Lets Banks Pay Shareholders Billions; Costs of Extreme Weather; War with Iran; Global Insurrection Roundup; Occupy the SEC; Occupy Food Justice; More

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  2. Looking forward for that.Waiting with baited breath,so to speak.Since I am stuck at home due to mobility,transportation and medical problems,it will be a way so I can keep current on the Occupy movement

  3. Anonymous said:

     Declaration of Corporate Dependence

    Whereas the incorporation, by Sovereign decree, of private entities proved so successful as a means to expand, by force, the commercial hegemony of European Empires, the US Constitution granted Congress the authority to grant “Letters of Marque”; and

    Whereas the Constitution authorized Congress sole authority to grant such charters, the granting of commercial charters was never specifically authorized nor forbidden; and

    Whereas the several States assumed the implied powers of that omission to grant charters of incorporation for commercial purposes, the Constitution inadvertently created a loophole for the unofficial sanction of unlimited incorporation within the jurisdiction of a limited governmental corporation, as defined by the Constitution itself; and

    Whereas the several States failed to exercise sovereign authority over the terms and conditions of said corporations’ charters, there has evolved an economic system that is dominated by sovereign corporate entities that claim personhood by virtue of comprising a human collective; and

    Whereas the personhood of thusly incorporated entities had no basis in logic, the creation of a fictitious person was instituted as a legal fiction to define their nature; and

    Whereas fictitious persons didn’t exist when the Constitution was written, they couldn’t possibly have been implied by the Constitution as being natural persons; and

    Whereas the Constitution applies only to natural persons, the terms and conditions of corporate charters are subject to Congressional authorization under the authority of Article I, Section 8; and

    Whereas the unauthorized sovereignty of corporate entities has existed since the ratification of this Constitution and subsequent corporations have unduly profited therefrom, it is incumbent upon the US Treasury to confiscate the cash and assets of any corporation deemed unnecessary to a functional economic system; and

    Whereas corporations are as unique as the markets they serve, it is the duty of Congress to apportion such rights and obligations to corporate entities as the common good requires, according to the nature of their diverse enterprises; and

    Whereas the re-structuring of a global economic system is at best a daunting task it is hereby suggested that the full resources of the Internal Revenue Service be re-directed to auditing and re-chartering such corporate entities; and

    Whereas taxes will need to be collected, it is further suggested that a federal tax at the point of sale be instituted, to free aforementioned IRS personnel for this task; and

    Whereas the transformation hereby enacted by this Amendment will take considerable time to implement, the urgency is such that Congress shall consider no other legislation until it is accomplished; now, therefore, be it

    Resolved by the legislatures of the 50 States, that We, The People call for an Article Five Constitutional Convention to pass the following Amendments:

    Amendment XXVIII
    “Only natural persons shall have the rights protected under the U.S. Constitution.”

    Amendment XXIX
    “Incorporated entities shall be forbidden to interfere in any way with the conduct of government unless
    specifically chartered to do so by the US Congress.”

  4. Marley said:

    Need to add provision to the Declaration of Corporate Dependence to prevent the return of off shore corporations without a severe tax.  Maybe 99%?

  5. Anonymous said:

    Dennis Kucinich is riding in on a white horse,  Where are the 99?  Dennis is going over the wall without looking back.
     
    Attention People:  The Movement is in Motion.
    http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/29-2
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/01/kucinich-bill-seeks-to-end-the-federal-reserve/

    MORE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUpXDZFtEHw&feature=relmfu

    Awesome video of Dennis K speaking the truth that has been so well hidden.  The American people are being used like mules. We must not stop till the FED IS GONE.  LAST CHANCE TO GET THIS COUNTRY’S SOVEREIGNTY BACK FROM INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.  Kucinich is one of few fighting for US. Rally behind DENNIS.  Rally behind the NEED act. H.R. 2990

    Not only is DK speaking the truth, he has written a plan.

    NEED act – link your peeps up.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGuactD1-U

    Here’s an awesome video on FED RESERVE topic.  Amazing foresight BY Aaron Russo.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAYGWp8V9II
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