Friday, November 25, 2011
Black Friday
Project Censored of Pacifica Radio had two different guests on with two different ideas today. Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters Magazine, the progenitor of the Occupy movements, has suggested having a Buy Nothing Day, which Adbusters has been recommending for 20 years now. Sarah Van Gelder of Yes Magazine talked about a slightly different approach being advocated by a working group of Occupy Oakland: they are promoting the idea that this is a good time to boycott the big retailers and support your local retailers, because they are part of the 99% too. So if you are going to go shopping today, support your local retailers. They really need your help.
OWS OBIT
Is OWS over? The Washington Post writes its obituary today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-insiders/post/ows-is-over/2011/11/16/gIQAk5okRN_blog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-insiders/post/ows-is-over/2011/11/16/gIQAk5okRN_blog.html
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Take a bath!
Gingrich to Occupy protesters: ‘Take a bath’
By Nia-Malika Henderson
Speaking at a “Thanksgiving Table” forum in Iowa this weekend, Newt Gingrich, now a leading GOP candidate for the 2012 presidential nod, had some simple advice for Occupy Wall Street protesters: “Go get a job, right after you take a bath.”
The comments come as the OWS protest movement has hit a roadblock in New York, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg evicting protesters from Zuccotti Park last week and as police officers at UC Davis doused protestors with pepper spray as they sat with their arms intertwined.
Gingrich said that the OWS movement, which he said is premised on the belief that the protesters think they are owed something, is indicative of “how the left has collapsed as a moral system.” The comments drew cheers from the Iowa crowd.
By Nia-Malika Henderson
Speaking at a “Thanksgiving Table” forum in Iowa this weekend, Newt Gingrich, now a leading GOP candidate for the 2012 presidential nod, had some simple advice for Occupy Wall Street protesters: “Go get a job, right after you take a bath.”
The comments come as the OWS protest movement has hit a roadblock in New York, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg evicting protesters from Zuccotti Park last week and as police officers at UC Davis doused protestors with pepper spray as they sat with their arms intertwined.
Gingrich said that the OWS movement, which he said is premised on the belief that the protesters think they are owed something, is indicative of “how the left has collapsed as a moral system.” The comments drew cheers from the Iowa crowd.
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