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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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Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: 99% Uprising in Full Effect (Day 5 Roundup, Videos, Photos)

September 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Activism, Feature, Hot List, News, Video . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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As day five comes to an end and we move into day six, #OccupyWallStreet has been a tremendous success. Despite the corporate mainstream media blackout, the movement is growing in significance and getting support from a very diverse range of people and organizations. Much respect to all the people who have set up camp in Liberty Park. Your leadership just sparked a legit movement in the USA. It’s About time!

The 99% Movement has begun!

Here’s our latest roundup:

Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Five, 99 Percenters Rise Up
By Kevin Gosztola, FDL

Support for Occupy Wall Street is growing by the hour. Solidarity actions in Chicago, Phoenix and Paris, France, are all getting off the ground. In Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Atlanta, actions are in the works. Each of these may be occupations. [read full live blog]

Liberty Plaza prevails over provocation
By Nathan Schneider, Waging NonViolence

The four surrounding police vans drove away at 12:03, leaving the more usual handful of officers and cars and the mobile observation tower. An hour later, in time for the planned General Assembly, the whole place felt different. The rain had stopped, and there were perhaps three times as many people, with new faces as well as familiar ones who had just arrived for the day. The sidewalk of Broadway was full of people holding signs again, and the General Assembly was gearing up. I talked with a man from Washington Heights—on the opposite end of Manhattan—who was coming for the first time after learning about this on the internet. People seemed happy, and eager, and curious. [read full report]

Four arrests so far on Wednesday
By OccupyWallSt

Four people have been arrested so far (as of 1:28 PM EST) on day 5 of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The first arrest took place this morning during Opening Bell March. At 10:10 AM, Isaac Wilder was taken into police custody and is being held at W. 154 St. New York, NY. One firsthand witness has informed us he was at the front of the peaceful march taking place on a public sidewalk when police demanded protesters turned left. When Isaac asserted his right to continue marching forward in public space, he was immediately arrested.

Two other arrests took place at 12:30 PM EST at Liberty Plaza. Two first-hand witnesses have confirmed the following story:

People were peacefully assembling on the sidewalk and the police told the public that they could not stand on public sidewalks. one person, was standing peacefully on the sidewalk and holding up a sign and the police swarmed him and arrested him. he peacefully went with them, without resisting in any way. People then peacefully walked with him and chanted in solidarity. And the police ran into the middle of the crowd and tackled one of the people there, and arrested him. [read full report]

Livestream from Global Revolution

The Demand Is a Process

99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street – Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense
By Amy Goodman

Outside in the cold Tuesday morning, the demonstrators continued their fourth day of the protest with a march amidst a heavy police presence and the ringing of an opening bell at 9:30 a.m. for a “people’s exchange,” just as the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange is rung. While the bankers remained secure in their bailed-out banks, outside, the police began arresting protesters. In a just world, with a just economy, we have to wonder, who would be out in the cold? Who would be getting arrested? [read full report]

Yahoo Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests
By Lee Fang, Think Progress

Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations….

It’s not the first time Yahoo has been accused of political censorship. Yahoo officially partners with the repressive Chinese regime to provide the government with access to emails related to groups viewed as dissidents. An explosive investigation by Der Spiegel found that Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with access to emails from journalists, and the snooping resulted in the same journalists being sent to prison camps….

UPDATE: Yahoo’s customer care Twitter account acknowledges blocking the emails, but says it was an unintentional error:

“We apologize 4 blocking ‘occupywallst.org’ It was not intentional & caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay.”

Yahoo’s main Twitter account adds:

“Thanks to @YahooMail users & @ThinkProgress for catching problem w/ #Occupywallst.org mail. Prob is fixed, but there may be residual delays.”

[read full report]

Yahoo Spam filter blocked Wall Street protest emails

“Days of Rage” Occupy Wall St.

Five thousand people demand Wall St. pay for the crisis

Occupy Wall Street: Fun or Misery, It’s a Marvel
By Joel Chaffee, ZSpace

Whatever Occupy Wall Street is, it is full of people willing to work hard and suffer at downright insulting odds, to try create something better for people. There is pizza. They have blankets. The medic appears promptly when someone twists an ankle. Looking up from the plaza one sees only vast towers of wealth; looking round about one sees a struggle. Maybe they are having fun. Maybe it’s misery. Probably it’s both. Whatever it is, it exists where it did not before, which is always a marvel. [read full report]

11 Things You Can Do to Help the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
By Chaz Valenza, OpEdNews.com

These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, uninsured, underemployed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.

Here’s the good news — you can help, right now today — no matter where you are.

1) Spread the word — there’s something going on. People have started a movement — they’re occupying Wall Street. Hundreds of people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for four days!

2) If you’re in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park.

3) If you’re in the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon, go down there. The weather appears to be holding. Take the day off and just go. I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard. This is an open general assembly effort and you will get your say and be a real participant.

4) If you are a little ways from NYC, organize foursomes to go to NYC for the day. It will cost you the train/bus/car fare. Take nothing but some food and water and your body.

5) Too far to get to NYC? Sign this petition and I will read your name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up Goldman Sachs Now!

6) Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same. Don’t give the banksters 4 percent of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card — use cash. See: UseCashMovement

7) Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and return them the next day. (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.)

8) Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.

9) Picket a local branch of a bank. When the press asks you what the heck you think you’re doing, tell them it’s in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

10) Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats that will take your order. (Yes, you’ll have to use your credit card, big spender!)

11) Do you know anybody who knows anybody who knows a writer, a celebrity, etc. who will show their face at the protest? Get to them now.

Bonus Support Idea 12) Spread the word again, and repeat!

PREVIOUS AMPEDSTATUS #OCCUPYWALLSTREET UPDATES

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> Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: Media Blackout in the Big City; A Surprise Morning March; Live Blog (Roundup, Videos, Photos)
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> Wall Street Protesters Lead By Example – They Moved Their Money Out of the Big Banks (Video)
> Civil Rights Attorney: NY Police Violating Wall Street Protesters’ First Amendment Rights (Video)
> Cornel West: Escalating Civil Disobedience Like #OccupyWallStreet Is Necessary To Wake The Country Up (Video)

The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising

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  2. Collectivists Are Conservative said:

    “Hundreds of [socialistic] people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for four days!”
     
    “the [socialistic] protesters [are] in LIBERTY Park”

    Oh, the irony.
     
     

  3. Collectivists Are Conservative said:

    Take a good look at DSC_0256.jpg. It’s the one that reads “Dear NYPD, We are fighting…”.

    So, can the cops be trusted to resist the blandishments and enticements of the Progressives? What will the cops demonstrate by their behavior?

    Now, if both health care and education are a right, doesn’t it follow that those capable of providing health care and education have an obligation to provide them to any and all comers? If so, why should they be paid? If education, for example, is a right, then why suppose that teachers should be paid? They should be doing their duty, instead.

    So whence cometh the alleged right to health care and education? From the voluntary agreement of the service providers? Well, no. So why not just call it slavery when they are made to serve?

    But if the obligation is not voluntarily assumed by the service providers, and if it’s not enslavement to make them serve, then whence cometh the obligation? Whence cometh the alleged right? From the Manifesto of the Communist Party? What do you think?

    However, if the service providers have no obligation to serve, then how can we not conclude that there is no right to health care and to education?

    In fact, if the service providers are not to be enslaved, but if the needy are to get their health care and their education, then who is to provide the wealth needed? Will it be third parties who are neither of the primary beneficiaries, neither the needy nor the service providers?

    Once again, as during the ugly, spiteful demonstrations in Wisconsin last winter, Progressives demonstrate their commitment to parasitism, to tyranny, to enslavement, and to socialism.

    Well, NYPD cops. It’s your move. On which side of Liberty Park do you stand? Please choose carefully.

  4. Collectivists Are Conservative said:

    Take a good look at DSC_0256.jpg. It’s the one that reads “Dear NYPD, We are fighting…”.

    So, can the cops be trusted to resist the blandishments and enticements of the Progressives? What will the cops demonstrate by their behavior?

    Now, if both health care and education are a right, doesn’t it follow that those capable of providing health care and education have an obligation to provide them to any and all comers? If so, why should they be paid? If education, for example, is a right, then why suppose that teachers should be paid? They should be doing their duty, instead.

    So whence cometh the alleged right to health care and education? From the voluntary agreement of the service providers? Well, no. So why not just call it slavery when they are made to serve?

    But if the obligation is not voluntarily assumed by the service providers, and if it’s not enslavement to make them serve, then whence cometh the obligation? Whence cometh the alleged right? From the Manifesto of the Communist Party? What do you think?

    However, if the service providers have no obligation to serve, then how can we not conclude that there is no right to health care and to education?

    In fact, if the service providers are not to be enslaved, but if the needy are to get their health care and their education, then who is to provide the wealth needed? Will it be third parties who are neither of the primary beneficiaries, neither the needy nor the service providers?

    Once again, as during the ugly, spiteful demonstrations in Wisconsin last winter, Progressives demonstrate their commitment to parasitism, to tyranny, to enslavement, and to socialism.

    Well, NYPD cops. It’s your move. On which side of Liberty Park do you stand? Please choose carefully.

  5. Postkeeper said:

    Well done American people ,time to stand up and be counted ,dont leave it to the few, it will take the 99% to fight the money, the money they stole from you! Be brave or go down , if you are there in massive numbers they cant illegally arrest you, where are the lawers to sue the police for their illegal actions,? come on America do it for yourselves ,dont wait for everyone else to turn up ,YOU are the EVERYONE ELSE, . 

  6. Grp234 said:

    Great video – crap music – distracting. But thanks for the effort.  More news from RT than the US media puppets

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