Occupy Together - Began at 55 Wall Street & Expanded Globally

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^ I expect you’re just being facetious, Kulindahr, but I’ll quote from the story in The Guardian anyway because I only started in my preceeding post to use the ‘wrap QUOTE tags around the selected text’ whatsis since even I had to admit it was too hard to read a particularly dense paragraph, refining the definitions of some critical, ‘modern philosophical terms,’ in purple – especially as the NFL season already had officially ended…

Though, otherwise, ‘Go, Ravens!’

Occupy supporters are calling for a fundamental change in the US prison system, which today houses one quarter of the planet's prisoners; more than 2.4 million people. As of 2005, roughly one quarter of those held in US prisons or jails had been convicted on a drug charge. Activists point out that in the past three decades the nation's prison population has increased by more than 500%, with minorities comprising 60% of those incarcerated. The number of women locked up between 1997 and 2007 increased by 832%.

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‘With Release of Teacher Data, Setback for Union Turns Into a Rallying Cry,’ by Fernanda Santos and Anna M. Phillips, The New York Times, February 26, 2012

Mr. Mulgrew and his comrades had fought for more than a year to block release of the ratings, known as teacher data reports, which try to calculate how much value individual teachers add by predicting their students’ test scores and then measuring how much they exceed or fall short of those expectations. But the legal defeat a court dealt the union, by green-lighting the release, may yet be a political victory for the union — by galvanizing members and mobilizing allies on the left, including the Occupy movement and Change.org, through which scores of people signed petitions and sent letters to news organizations last week protesting the publication of the ratings.

In union, there is strength!
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‘Recalling the Start of the Uprising in a Syrian City Now Under Fire,’ by Robert Mackey, in The New York Times’ blog ‘The Lede,’ last Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012 – the date in 1862, on which President Lincoln issued his ‘Executive Order No. 1,’ offering pardons to political prisoners.

I didn’t post this story at the time because there were only two comments – as there still are – and it seemed to me that, horrific as it was, the story would continue to be expanded to account for Bashar al-Assad’s ratcheting-up of his murderous vengence on the people of Syria. I really don’t know what to say about it even now, it pains me so; but here it is, two weeks later – still the antidemocratic shame of the world.

In a related story about another man who apparently feels no shame – ‘Kelly Defends Surveillance of Muslims,’ by Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times, February 28, 2012
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Attention jackoroe (and all others similarly in the dark about the ‘Occupy Movement’ – not that there are many others on this site who would be so intemperate, as to call the movement’s supporters ‘scum,’ as he did): Here’s a brief, but illuminating, history of the ‘Occupy Movement,’ by a most remarkable man of our time, Dr Giles Fraser, former Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, that yet may be able to dispel the fog of ignorance that envelops you – ‘Occupy LSX [London Stock Exchange] may be gone, but the movement won’t be forgotten,’ from The Guardian, February 28, 2012

‘No “Wheat Chex” for breakfast? Then, let them eat goose pâté!’ ~ Marie Antoinette

‘Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons,’ by Max Abelson, Bloomberg Business & Financial News, February 29, 2012

^ Ibiza is expensive! I know; I spent a month there (and on Formentera), three summers ago – admission to the big clubs, like ‘space,’ was €50, and drinks were €10 apiece for simple things like ‘vodka limones,’ and beer (‘Stella Artois’) was even more than that!
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[Kulindahr]

Attention jackoroe (and all others similarly in the dark about the ‘Occupy Movement’ – not that there are many others on this site who would be so intemperate, as to call the movement’s supporters ‘scum,’ as he did): Here’s a brief, but illuminating, history of the ‘Occupy Movement,’ by a most remarkable man of our time, Dr Giles Fraser, former Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, that yet may be able to dispel the fog of ignorance that envelops you – ‘Occupy LSX [London Stock Exchange] may be gone, but the movement won’t be forgotten,’ from The Guardian, February 28, 2012

‘No “Wheat Chex” for breakfast? Then, let them eat goose pâté!’ ~ Marie Antoinette

‘Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons,’ by Max Abelson, Bloomberg Business & Financial News, February 29, 2012

^ Ibiza is expensive! I know; I spent a month there (and on Formentera), three summers ago – admission to the big clubs, like ‘space,’ was €50, and drinks were €10 apiece for simple things like ‘vodka limones,’ and beer (‘Stella Artois’) was even more than that!
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People who live in a privileged world rarely have a clue about the reality of the real world where most people live.