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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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President Obama Gets Pounded With #OccupyWallStreet Questions – #WINNING (Video)

October 7th, 2011 | Filed under Economy, Feature, Hot List, Politics & Government, Video . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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Congrats 99%ers! At Obama’s Jobs Act press conference he was pounded with excellent #OccupyWallStreet questions. Jump to the 21-minute mark:

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  1. Anonymous said:

    What I see is a figurehead with two masters trying desperately to reconcile his inability to serve either without totally “letting the cat out of the bag”. He’s screwed no matter what he does or hoped to do. I think he’ll be remembered for being our first African-American, and last Corpocratic, President. That is if all ends well. If not, well, it doesn’t matter. It may be remembered that he had a chance at greatness and simply let it pass for the safety of another few years.

    He’s probably as concerned for his kids as we are for ours.  

  2. Anonymous said:

    911 BUILDINGS 249 TONS OF COMMUNIST CHINA GLASS, GENERAL ELECTRIC IN COMMUNIST CHINA OVER 100 YEARS. MARTIN LUTHER KING`S NEW STATUE MEMORIAL MADE BY COMMUNIST CHINA:TRANS-AMERICAN PIPELINE OIL FOR COMMUNIST CHINA!
    WAKE UP SLAVES IN UNIFORM OR CORPORATE SLAVES IN A SUIT WHICH ARE YOU! OBAMA CORPORATE NOT NATIONAL NECK TIE; NEVER HAS A NATIONAL AMERICAN TIE ALWAYS CORPORATE SLAVE TIES!
    PUT A UNIFORM ON SOMEONE AND THERE IS YOUR SLAVE!
    TSA SLAVES NEW YORK DEMONSTRATIONS MORE BLACK COPS THAN BLACK PROTESTERS; SHAME ON SLAVERY IN UNIFORMS! HA HA 

  3. Anonymous said:

    MY NAME IS TROY DAVIS

  4. Messenger for Yahweh said:

    We the People, Have the Power…..We the People, Have the Power….We
    the People, Have the Power……Not only are we protesting the wrong
    that has been done to the people, we are re-establishing and reminding
    all of who we are.  We the People!!!!!  Chant this in the streets for
    this is how we have the power.  Only when there is “WE”!

    Get yourselves acquainted with your freedom on: http://www.republicfortheunitedstates.org/

  5. Messenger for Yahweh said:

    If anyone asks you your name, including the authorities, tell them who
    you are:  “We the People” and We the People take our authority back from
    now on. 
    Blessings,
    We the People

  6. Sailjointventures said:

    Sounds just like Bush saying he saw the first plane hit the world trade center on TV??

  7. Sailjointventures said:

    Red herring puppet !!

  8. Sailjointventures said:

    If the constitution says that congress is the only entity thata can coin money..what are we doing with the Federal Reserve a private institution that issues all money at interest…Occupy !!!

  9. Steve Hanken said:

    He talks with all kinds of authority, but when it comes to just what he is going to do, it sounds like blame the other side for grid lock, that is about it. We heard all this crap about what he was going to do in the first election and what really has taken place that is “Bold” or whatever BS phrasing he is using now, simply nothing, nothing at all. We are still at war, we are still holding people without benefit of trial in off shore prison camps, we are now killing people indiscriminately all over the world, we have not brought any bankers or Wall Street crooks to trial and given them appropriate sentances, we have not ended what they continue to do that hurts us all, and we still waste our time listening to another political talking head that works for the corporations and not us. Out with the one per cent, in with the 99!

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