Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationAs they vowed earlier this week to do, Egyptian pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir square to the U.S. Embassy today to march in support of Occupy Oakland—and against police brutality witnessed in Oakland on Tuesday night, and commonly experienced in Egypt.Show original
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Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Irvine City Council UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that the Occupy Orange County Tent Village is accepted as a form of free speech. The City Of Irvine passed and emergency motion to add Occupy Irvine to the official agenda.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future Two proposed energy projects (each with a $7 billion price tag) present two very different directions for America’s future. Which would you choose?Show original
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWe don’t have health care. We don’t have jobs. Our civil liberties are being quashed. Income and wealth disparities in this country are immense and growing more pronounced as each hour passes, making the 1% richer and the rest of us … dirt. So what are our elected representatives in Congress doing to help us…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWe received requests from state and local law enforcement agencies to remove YouTube videos that displayed protests against social leaders or used offensive language in reference to religious leaders. We declined the majority of these requests and only locally restricted videos that appeared to violate local laws prohibiting speech that could incite enmity between communities.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis.Show original