That's what's at issue, isn't it? Lawful commands. The People exercising their Constituti
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I've spend time all of these cities as well as lived in four of them (and agree that they're great cities).
However, all suffered to the point of being unbearably congested from citizens boasting of how great their cities were.
So forgive me for not sharing where I currently live, which is the greatest city of them all. :)
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I can't wait to hear Obama asked about this and whether the Department of Homeland Security is conferring with US cities' mayors and police forces.
About Occupy Wall Street
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Repeal the Patriot Act.
About Occupy Wall Street
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What's next?
Tazers?
Cattle prods?
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As the past few presidents and Congresses have had corporate lobbyists dictating to them and writing self-servi
The sheep or herd-like corrupt cronyism going on inside Washington
I see no intelligen
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Remember the Brooks Brothers rioters and other Republican operatives disrupting lawful ballot counting in Florida, 2000?
Were they pepper sprayed?
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For the past 20 years I've been writing about the DLC and its offshoots and where their Republican
I think that it's too late for that now.
We on the left have been doing it the DLC's way for over 20 years and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right. That's because the DLC's way is to cave, to lie to the American people and put Republican
At the rate this is going, Republican
For the past 35 years I've been writing about how after the Vietnam War ended and Richard Nixon resigned from office, the left packed up their protest signs and went back to pursue happiness in the suburbs while conservati
Like marriage, a healthy people-cen
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California
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Reports of the recent cancellation of a UC Regents meeting, because of fears of student protests, disturbed the ghosts of the student movement of the 1960s.
Already, members of the media were hyping this new wave of student activism, crystallized by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement as “the Free Speech Movement of the 21st Century.”
In 1967, one of my projects as a newly minted member of the California Legislature’s staff was to follow the dynamics of Free Speech Movement on the UC Berkeley campus and the battle being waged by newly elected Governor Ronald Reagan to “clean up the mess” there and cut UC funding.
I see some parallels between the two movements.
The Free Speech Movement began on the UC Berkeley campus in 1964 as a protest against the University’s edict banning on-campus political speech and activities .
After a tumultuous year of sit-ins, rallies and protests, the University relented, allowing political activity on Sproul Plaza. What FSM had started there spread to campuses nationwide.
A speech by Berkeley activist, Mario Savio, at the height of the 1964 protests, has become the anthem of many in the Occupy Movement, particularly here in California .
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part,” Savio said. “You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
That rhetoric reverberates in Occupy’s broad insistence that our political system is rigged in favor of the privileged few—that 1%. In the Golden State, Occupy Cal has placed special focus on issues like those rocking UC in 1967, when newly elected Governor Ronald Reagan moved to “clean up the mess in Berkeley” and cut higher-ed funding.
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