Darcy Richardson Running A Serious Progressive Challenge To Barack Obama

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Darcy Richardson is on the ballot as a Democratic presidential candidate in New Hampshire. If you’re a Democrat or a political independent looking for a solid, serious alternative to Barack Obama, Richardson would be a reasonable choice.

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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 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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New Hampshire Activists Reveal The Schedules Of Republican Candidates

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New Hampshire Citizen Action has assembled a bird dog list of all the appearances of all the Republican presidential candidates. The list has been made available so that activists know where to place their protests.

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Irregular Times Political Donation: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

As Irregular Times writers, we’ve pledged to donate a dollar to international relief for every shirt we sell, but we also donate another dollar to good political causes within American borders. Our donation this month isn’t headed to some Democratic …

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Criminalizing Dissent: 5087 Arrests of Occupy Protesters Confirmed… and Counting

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“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – First Amendment to the United States …

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Watch Green Presidential Candidates Jill Stein and Kent Mesplay Online Tonight

Tonight at 8:00 pm Pacific Time, Green Party presidential candidates Kent Mesplay and Jill Stein will make a joint appearance at a candidate forum in Los Angeles, California. If you live in Los Angeles, you can attend for free (RSVP …

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CLG calls for General Strike 11-28-11 to protest Austerity on the back of the 99%

From Citizens for Legitimate Government: General Strike: November 28, 2011! The only thing we have left is our labor. This is what we must withhold. The debt “super committee” makes its budget recommendations on Wednesday, November 23rd, the day before …

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497 New Occupations Set to Begin on October 15

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Get ready for a new wave of activism in the occupation movement. According to the Occupy Together coordinating website, 497 new occupations are set to begin on Saturday, October 15. These new occupations are concentrated in the United States but …

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Think the Occupation Movement is Bereft of Ideas and Goals? Read This.

It is true that the Occupy Wall Street demonstration took a frustratingly long time to articulate a set of demands. But the claim that the occupation movement has no direction is false. You don’t have to look far to find …

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Prepare For 7 Billion

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Public events are scheduled for a month from now, when the 7 billionth living human being will be born. However, awareness events can’t seem to overcome the basic physiological fact that people hunger to make more people.

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Our Oregon Sums Up Current Knowledge on Americans Elect

Scott Moore at Our Oregon has put together a well-written, concise summation of current knowledge regarding Americans Elect. I encourage you to read his three-part series if you are looking for a quick overview of some issues regarding this 501c4 …

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In Real Spontaneous Grassroots Eruption, Dozens of Occupations Spring Up All Over the USA

Holy moly. People apparently have been mega-inspired by the example of Occupy Wall Street, because little and big occupations being run independently in cities across the country are being posted to Occupy Together by local activists who want to replicate …

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Want to Send Food to the Occupying Protesters on Wall Street? Here’s the Link

Click here to donate to the Food Committee sending fruit, bread and peanut butter down to the protesters who are occupying Zuccotti Park. Food will help people who want to keep up the Occupy Wall Street effort in New York …

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Fred Krogh Preparing Independent Website to discuss Americans Elect

Today, Fred Krough took a look at the Americans Elect and decided, “because of the lack of transparency at Americans Elect, and because it appeared to be controlled too strongly from the top,” to start a website of his own …

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ALEC Exposed: American Corporations Writing Bills for Legislatures Right Now

When you hear someone say “the corporations are in charge,” they usually mean something indirect: that corporations funnel immense amounts of money into state legislative, U.S. congressional and presidential campaigns (true) or that corporations send lobbyists to state houses and …

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Presidential Comparison Chart to Draft Bernie Sanders for President in 2012

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A few days ago, David Swanson asked liberal Americans to to “Stop Hoping” that Barack Obama will somehow transform himself into the actual liberal that was his brand on the 2008 campaign trail and to start looking for alternatives. In …

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Are You Ready To Stop Hoping Yet?

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On his new web site, Stop Hoping, Swanson has been holding an online poll to see just who liberals would like to see challenge Barack Obama from the Left in 2012. The top 5 results are…

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