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Posted by: | CommentsInaugural show with David Shuster on now, bringing progressive radio to Washington, DC.
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Tweet of the Day
Posted by: | Comments@rationalists: The luckiest man in America might be the 3rd person Rick Perry has to execute today.
Fox News Launches Proxy War Against Occupy Wall Street
Posted by: | CommentsFox News has launched a proxy war on Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) on the taxpayers’ dime by instigating a federal investigation of New York Communities for Change, part of the team behind the successful Occupy the Boardroom. Politico’s Ben Smith reports tonight on an effort by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-1%; net worth $156 million) “to link the defunct community organizing group ACORN to the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
From NewsCorp (home of ‘Hacking on an industrial scale’) and Fox News comes this:
In a letter dated Monday, Issa, R-Calif., called for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the Eastern District of New York to launch a probe into allegations first reported by FoxNews.com that NYCC may have “solicited donations from union members under false pretenses and misappropriated those funds to support the protesters.”
Fox and Fiends’ business model relies on boogie men. So this is the next wave in Fox’s Zombie ACORN narrative that cranked up two weeks ago. They will be, as usual, relentless. NYCC rattled some cages, so Zombie ACORN must die … again.
Michael McAuliff from HuffPost: Read More→
Fighting Things That Aren’t There
Posted by: | CommentsHalloween may be gone, but not forgotten. You can tell that the Occupy movement is the stuff of some people’s nightmares when Fox News and other propaganda mills start “investigating.” For example, did you know Occupiers are actually “entitled, upper-class agitators with few legitimate grievances“? It’s true. I saw it on the Internet.
Anyway, this is a repost from yesterday.
Have you heard about Zombie ACORN? The conservative media is a-twitter with ACORN sightings over a year and a half after the right wing succeeded in killing off the voter-registering, community organizing group. Behind the 99% in the Occupy movement is ACORN, did you hear? They just won’t die.
Letters To Wall Street
Posted by: | CommentsJoshua Holland at AlterNet provides a progress report on the Occupy the Boardroom project, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest, including a little logistical background on the letter-writing campaign. Writes Holland,
The project is making Big Finance nervous. A memo drafted by Fay Feeney, a corporate board consultant, and leaked to occupiers in Washington, warns that “the anger, frustration and collective voice is too large to ignore… [Occupy the Boardroom] is personal and targeted to what you earn (along with power and influence) [and] banks are among the first businesses to be called out, occupied and disrupted.” Feeney goes on to urge “board members and corporate counsels [to] prepare themselves for a bumpy ride.”
Since Occupy the Boardroom went live at noon last Saturday, people displaced and upset over the financial meltdown have posted over 6,000 letters to Wall Street’s top executives:
The Right Rounds Up the Usual Suspects
Posted by: | CommentsRichard Eskow deconstructs polling of Occupy Wall Street done by Fox News’ professional centrist, Douglas Schoen. Discussing his data in the Wall Street Journal, Schoen characterizes the movement as favoring “radical left-wing policies” reflecting “values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people,” including “radical redistribution of wealth.” Those conclusions are “not supported by his own survey,” Nate Sliver tweets. In fact, radical redistribution of wealth draws 4% support in Schoen’s poll.
Eskow summarizes Schoen’s results and compares them to recent national polls. Surprise: Occupy Wall Street responses are in line with most of America. So why the spin?
Whenever America’s right wing feel threatened or that the world has slipped beyond its control, very predictably — and with much less style than Captain Renault — conservatives round up the usual suspects: commies and hippies. And dirty hippies (DFHs). It’s an old tradition, Mandrake, like getting rid of fluoridation in our water. Familiar enemies are a comforting point of reference in an unsettling present and scarier future.
From Media Blackout to Circus
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First they ignore, you, etc., etc.
Take Back the American Dream Conference Live
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Streaming live here: http://rebuildthedream.com/
Watch for Cecil Bothwell, attending this year courtesy of Democracy for America.
West Asheville Watch
Posted by: | CommentsOut of the community organizing going on in West Asheville has come a new website, West Asheville Watch. In the words of organizer and webmaster Bill Rhodes:
Even though we have only recently come together under the name West Asheville Watch, there is a long history of community in West Asheville. You can see it on the street as people wave to each other, recognize each other in our stores, shops and bars by saying hello, and the way people pitch in and help on projects large and small. This neighborhood is local. This neighborhood is healthy. This neighborhood will survive whatever is thrown at it.
As the masthead says, “Crime concerns and community involvement can not be separated. Communities that are involved and engaged with each other, that live in mutual respect for everyone in the community are far less likely to have a ‘crime problem’ than those where people hide in their houses and do not know their neighbors.”
To that end, content will run the gamut of happenings in West Asheville or involving West Asheville people. Watch in this case means crime, arts, music, events, community events, talks, walks, births, deaths, weddings, and picnics.
Great community building, y’all!
