Don’t Believe It? How to See Eddie Izzard for Free in Washington DC March 24

What would you pay to see comedian Eddie Izzard? What if I told you you didn’t have to pay a thing? Don’t believe it? Well, your disbelief is kind of the entire point. Jesse Galef of the Secular Student Alliance …

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Call Goes Out to Re-Occupy May 12 2012

May 12. The word is starting to spread in social media. What’s happening? It’s not entirely clear, but this website contains the words “Return to camp in the squares the 12M.”

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68 People Arrested While Protesting Tuition Hikes In California

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Yesterday, huge numbers of students marched on the California state capitol in an Occupy Education protest, asking for an end to tuition increases. They were met by police in riot gear. 68 of the protesters were hauled off to jail.

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The Softest Things

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“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.” – Lao Tzu Is this brilliance or pure idiocy?

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Where Greens Are Petitioning Right Now

The Jill Stein for President campaign has workers pushing forward with ballot petitioning in all of these states. More states will see Stein’s petitioners in action, as the local scheduled dates for petitioning arrive.

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Are Cute Cats the Bulwark of Democracy?

Does the popularity of picture-heavy, word-light Pinterest drive you to despair? Click here to hear MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman make a surprisingly compelling case for the idea that meaningful, participatory activism relies on the fostering of spaces where people share pictures …

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Breaking: Police Shut Down Nike Stores and Arrest Nike Store Managers Across the Country to preserve “Public Safety”

After crowds erupted into violent behavior in Richmond CA, Orange County FL, Lithonia GA, Hyattsville MD, Charlotte NC, Jersey City NJ, San Antonio TX and Seattle WA, police have shut down Nike shoe stores in malls across the country. Hundreds …

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59 Cities across the USA set to participate in F29 Shut Down the Corporations Action

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A national day of action called Shut Down the Corporations is being organized for February 29. The ultimate target: corporate dominance of politics. The proximate target: ALEC. From the F29 website: We call on people to target corporations that are …

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You Can Defeat Multimillionaires In Just 60 Seconds!

The plausibility of successful activism through online petitions faded years ago. For a short while back in the 1990s, politicians paid a little bit of attention to online petitions, but they don’t any more. Every now and then, there’s an …

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Ask Senator Patrick Leahy why he’s Sitting on Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Nominations

It took President Obama three long years, but finally in December of 2011 he obeyed the law and finished putting all five nominees into consideration for appointment to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This is an important task …

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Occupy DC in Freedom Plaza: Persistent and Specific

Two of the knocks given to the Occupy movement: 1. It’ll never last. 2. It has no demands. The first objection is really an empirical prediction. Is it bearing out? Partially — people are leaving and camps are disappearing across …

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Jill Stein Occupies Indiana

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Jill Stein will be out on the street today in protests against Indiana’s Right To Work legislation. No other presidential candidate will show up.

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Take Groundhog Day Seriously, As A Day Of Renewed Activism

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Punxsatawney Phil is a gimmick who stands at the mouth of a burrow that runs deep. The groundhog represents a re-emergence of life into a world that had been in darkness and death, a symbol of rebirth out of the womb of the Earth quite similar to, if more hairy than, Persephone.

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Irregular Times Donations to Charity:Water and the Reason Rally

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When we sell a made-in-the USA liberal shirt through Skreened, we give one dollar to an international relief charity and another dollar to a domestic political cause. Nope, no candidates. We’ve kind of learned our lesson there (thanks teaspoons, Barack). …

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Park Police to Evict Occupy DC in McPherson Sq and Freedom Plaza, Jan. 30 at Noon: Where to Watch it Live

On Monday January 30 2012 at Noon, the DC Park Police have declared they will evict occupiers in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza. The offense of the two groups: persistent peaceable assembly and ongoing petition for redress of grievances. They …

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No One Looks Good After Oakland Move In Day Gets Violent

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The Occupy Oakland protesters lost my respect this weekend. They’re not thinking wisely about how to solve the nation’s problems. They’re not protesting with integrity. Instead, they look like a group that just wants attention for itself, and is willing to hurt other people in order to get it.

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Occupy Oakland Is Moving In

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At noon on Saturday, January 28, Occupy Oakland is going to hold a concert and rally in Oscar Grant Plaza. At 1:00 PM, the protesters will march to a large, vacant building and set up a new, 24-hour community center there.

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Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson Stand With Occupy The Courts Protest

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Mitt Romney won’t be at today’s Occupy The Courts protest. Ron Paul won’t be there. Barack Obama won’t be there. Two presidential candidates will be participating in the Occupy The Courts protest today, however. Their names are Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson.

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