Knoxville Occupy Shreveport had 50 people out over the weekend. An event around jobs with Occupy Baton Rouge drew more than 100 on Saturday. Reports from all of ACORN Canada’s offices noted events in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa. A call from a college in Brooklyn ended with his needing to sign off to go to …
Author: wade
Egyptian Revolution in Doubt
New Orleans Hardly three weeks away from our exhilarating and hopeful experiences in Cairo and all the new reports are bummers because it is becoming clearer and clearer that the military is staging its own coup to continue to act as an armed and dangerous junta ruling the country both in front and behind the …
Mainstream Confusion over Movement and Occupy
New Orleans After weeks on the road the free newspaper rack at the Lufthansa counter in Frankfurt seemed the perfect pick-me-up, so I grabbed the international versions of the Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today as part of an English immersion experience. Ironically, a piece in USA Today by Rick Hampson, …