By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – If Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda thinks that protesters who participated in Occupy Mendiola last week are just “copycats,” and so is he, said youth leader Vencer Crisostomo. Crisostomo, Anakbayan national chairman, said the government tries to downplay the protest because of its potential to attract more people…
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How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
By ROBIN BROAD and JOHN CAVANAGH Commondreams.org Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early November here in Washington, D.C. In front of the grandiose U.S. Treasury Department building, thousands of…
The Police May Have Seized The Park But The Movement Moves On
By DANNY SCHECHTER Commondreams.org It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers that were there because they have the guns and we don’t. When Mao said that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” he most assuredly did not have anything…
Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
By JUAN COLE TomDispatch From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them…
Occupation bilang popular na protesta
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com “Occupy Wall Street.” At matapos ay naangkat na rin sa iba’t iba pang sityo sa mga syudad sa U.S., pati sa London, Athens, Milan, Frankfurt at Madrid. Laban sa corporate greed ang occupation. Sa Filipinas, tinangka na rin ang occupation sa Ayala Avenue, ang katumbas na financial center, at sa…
Filipinos hold protest action in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protests
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Filipino activists said on Monday that more protest actions should be expected after the successful global protests against corporate greed and in support of the Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York. “The global reality we are facing is that of the growing demand for a new…
The revolution begins at home: a clarion call to join the Wall Street protests
The revolution begins at home: a clarion call to join the Wall Street protests By ARUN GUPTA Alternet.org What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. For over 10 days, in the sanctum of the great cathedral of global capitalism, the dispossessed have liberated territory from the financial overlords and their police…