More impressive work from Al Jazeera English. Absolutely kicks the collective butts of American media. This is not surprising. American media is largely heavily filtered by corporate interests. I particularly love what the guy says at 8:30 in the video. “It’s up to you guys (the political leaders) to show that you’re the legitimate representatives, becuase at the moment, nobody Continue Reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvCJCDYGuE

“The Occupy movement isn’t something that I had on my radar screen at all… I did not think of myself as an organizer or activist. But as I learned more about [it], I became increasingly convinced that God wanted me to be involved”  – @MicahBales of OccupyDC and #occupyChurch http://www.vts.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=780239

With the dismantling of encampments at New York’s Zuccotti Park and elsewhere and the onset of winter, the Occupy movement dropped out of front-page headlines. But the movement against greed and economic inequality has continued unabated, supported by members of the faith community. http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/04/20/episcopalians-continue-support-as-occupy-movement-prepares-for-may-1/

Here’s another inane stab,  from the same article I RT’d earlier,   at trying to “tar” Obama with “endorsing” Occupy. The Obama administration has endorsed the Occupy movement, and the president has even been quoted this week in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, calling the OWS movement O “just one vivid expression of a broader anxiety.” http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981299489 Not exactly Continue Reading

Re: my RT of a link from @occupyUSA: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981299489 After I retweeted it,  I read deeper to find this: No, President Obama has NOT “endorsed” the Occupy movement.  This is a sure sign of an anti-Occupy, anti-Obama smear piece.  Obama has,  in fact,  aprropriated SOME of the language of SOME of the major themes of Occupy,  but he has never Continue Reading