Occupy Wall Street Protests Against The NDAA

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Today, Occupy Wall Street took part in nationwide protests against the National Defense Authorization Act, a new law that allows the federal government to grab people within U.S. borders, and imprison them for as long as it wants, regardless of whether they are American citizens or not, without criminal charge or trial.

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Occupii Membership Steadily Growing and Decentralized

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It’s been about two weeks since Occupii.org, the new social network site for the Occupy movement, got kick started. A look at membership trends suggests that overall membership is steadily growing, and that it’s decentralized. Most people are not joining …

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Day Of Action Against Torture And Injustice This Wednesday

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A protest this Wednesday, organized in cooperation with Witness Against Torture, will form a human chain stretching between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, with the simple message that the right to due process and a fair trial, promised in our nation’s Constitution, must be restored.

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Jul Creates a New Map of Occupy Arrests along with the Unemployment Rate

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Jul has just created a new, updated map plotting

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Occupy Magick

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The moderator of the Magicians Alliance on Occupii is among those practitioners who hold to the model of moral dualism. The rejection of the Left is not a refusal to admit liberals, but an admonition for those who intend to apply the esoteric arts for the benefit of the Occupy movement to do so with an ethical framework in place.

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Occupy Movement Deploys its own Social Network: Occupii

In the autumn of 2011, the Occupy movement faced social media difficulties as Yahoo blocked users from receiving messages featuring the words “Occupy Wall Street.” Google has removed websites for offending the sensibilities of hostile state. What to do? In …

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Occupy New Hampshire Invigorates Voting Season with Activism January 6-10

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January 10 2012 is primary day for the state of New Hampshire, but voting is just one of the possibilities for political action. Occupy New Hampshire is organizing a four day series of political actions in the city of Manchester, …

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The Online Presence of OccupyColleges and Americans Elect Campus Leaders

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In the waning months of 2011, two social movements claimed to erupt on college campuses across the nation. On September 23 2011, the privatized-presidential-nomination 501c4 corporation called Americans Elect declared that it had “Americans Elect Campus Leaders” on 103 college …

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Ron Paul Faced Down By Occupy The Caucuses

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Yesterday in Iowa, people protested Ron Paul’s opposition to environmental protections. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, and destroy laws the prevent massive pollution in American communities. “We need clean air and water, don’t dismantle the EPA,” said the protesters.

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Iowa Occupy Protesters Demand Obama End Links With Wall Street and Homeland Insecurity

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Occupy The Caucuses protesters launched a liberal protest against Barack Obama’s right wing economic and Homeland Security policies today. The Iowa Democratic Party is refusing to listen to the 99 percent. Sue Dvorsky, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, told people today that the Iowa Democrats will not talk with protesters any time soon.

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Occupy Movement Produces Petition for Waiver of Constitutional Rights… For the GOV’T to Turn In

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Among the Facebook accounts associated with the Occupy Ithaca movement, someone’s had it with the tactics of the government officials of Ithaca, New York. When the occupation of Ithaca began, city representatives persistently asked Occupy Ithaca to file for a …

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Occupy The Caucuses Will Not Target Voting

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This photograph of the Occupy The Caucuses protest at Wells Fargo in Des Moines linked one particular presidential candidate to the bailout bank, referring to Mitt Fargo – as Mitt Romney opposes accountability for Wall Street firms, and has taken direct donations from Wells Fargo employees, recycled bailout money in his campaign coffers. Before the group of protesters shut down the Wells Fargo branch, they demonstrated at Mitt Romney’s office, where some of the Occupy protesters were arrested. One carried a sign reading, “Mitt, what does the $2 million + you got from Wall Street banks buy?”

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Think the Occupy Movement is Done? Think Again: Here’s What’s Coming Next

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Did you think the Occupy movement was done? Think again. First of all, although the news media may be moving on and deciding not to cover any more what the Occupy movement’s doing, the movement has still been doing a …

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Americans Organizing Recalls Of Senators Who Voted For Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial

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Nationally, a movement has formed to Recall Every Congressman Who Voted For The NDAA. In Montana, this movement has gotten specific, seeking to remove both Max Baucus and Jon Tester from the U.S. Senate.

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Is Occupy Bigger Than Jesus?

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Judging by global search trends, the Occupy Movement is not bigger than Jesus, but for a time it was bigger than Lady Gaga: But in the news Occupy was definitely bigger than Jesus this summer and fall, at least until …

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Obama Is Worse Than Bush On Rule Of Law, Says Rocky Anderson

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Rocky Anderson reminds me that Obama’s troubling disregard for America’s constitutional rights was made quite clear during the 2008 presidential election. We spent a great deal of time here at Irregular Times during the summer and autumn of 2008 discussing Barack Obama’s support for the terrible FISA Amendments Act – a law that gave immunity to telecommunications corporations for breaking federal law by providing government spies with information about millions of Americans’ private communications data.

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More Americans Arrested In Nationwide Protests Against Obama’s Arbitrary Imprisonment Law

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The protesters outside the White House weren’t being violent. They didn’t attempt to climb over the fence that separates President Obama from the rest of America. They were only arrested for getting “too close”, thrown into jail for daring to engage in a political protest in a public plaza.

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They Voted To Throw Americans In Prison Without Charge: Target These Senators In 2012

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23 of the U.S. Senators who voted in favor of granting the federal government the power to imprison Americans without trial are running for re-election in 2012. Their names are listed below. Americans who truly care about the cause of freedom should work to ensure that none of these senators are re-elected next year.

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