Nov 21 2011, 4:22 PM ET Women may be the 51%, but the Occupy camps and General Assemblies look as gender-imbalanced as Congress “I’m called ‘that white bitch who gets everything she wants’ at the GA’s,” says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit of a defiant posture. She’s been at Occupy LA since the second… Continue reading
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The Atlantic: Occupy Cal Makes Occupy History at Berkeley
Nov 16 2011, 2:09 PM ET After their tents were pulled by the university, UC Berkeley students turn the school’s celebration of a ’60s icon into massive Occupy meeting Mario Savio was a UC Berkeley student in the ’60s and a key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He’s become an activist icon; Mario… Continue reading
Column: GOP Debates: Shock and Aww Two More This Week!?
You know what’s never been said? “We should have MORE Republican primary debates.” Why? Because there are (by my count) 734,589 debates this election cycle and not enough hours in the day (spent working harder for less money) to watch eight Republican candidates stand around agreeing with each other for two hours every night. And… Continue reading
Radio: Stephanie Miller Show Segment
Tina Dupuy on the Stephanie Miller Show (2011/11/11) by karlfrisch
The Atlantic: At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home
We’re in a coffee shop near McPherson Square, the location of Occupy DC, and Michael Patterson, 21, and I are having hot cocoa on a cold November night. He’s wearing an Iraq Veterans Against the War sweatshirt and baggy shorts. It’s freezing outside. “I’m from Alaska,” he offers as an explanation. He’s been sleeping in… Continue reading
Column: Congress: Still Working Hard at Being Ineffective, Useless Seat-Warmers
I asked an Occupier in DC named Rob Wohl, why the movement he’s a part of is resonating with people – why as over 3,000 Americans have been arrested in demonstrations and even journalists and vets have endured tear gas and rubber bullets, the movement is still growing. His answer? “Because we are analytically correct.”… Continue reading
The Troops and Occupy Wall Street
You may have heard the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being paid to camp out. I heard it; they’re being funded by a shifty billionaire and that’s why they’re demanding billionaires be taxed more. Seems likely. Also they’re all Communists and ACORN. And whatever you’ve been scared of before ”” probably that. Sharia Law, maybe?… Continue reading
Video: The Majority Report with Sam Seder
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Column: Americans See Themselves as Homesteaders Not the Eventual Rich
I spoke with a thirty-something mother of two residing in suburban New Jersey about the Occupy Wall Street movement. She was disgusted by their antics. “Our business failed, our house was foreclosed on, we lost everything and you don’t see us blaming someone else for it!” she exclaimed. “It’s about personal responsibility!” She lost everything… Continue reading
Hope for Bankaneers: We Do Like Pirate Movies
Pirates, at least the traditional image we have in our minds (the ones with the parrots on their shoulders and wooden legs from the 1700s), were in reality rapists, thieves and murderers. They were violent outlaws; terrorists of the Caribbean colonies. Some of them were hired as mercenaries called privateers, but they were still pirates… Continue reading
The Atlantic: Occupy LA: This is What Civics Look Like
LOS ANGELES — I had just taken the hour-long tour for those new to Occupy LA, a solidarity demonstration sparked by Occupy Wall Street in New York. My husband had been visiting the encampment, centered on the lawns around Los Angeles City Hall, in solidarity with me, snooping around the mini-gatherings that pepper the building’s… Continue reading
Column: The Willful Deafness When it Comes to Occupy Wall Street
I’m told the best thing about having a hearing aid is being able to turn it off; selectively, of course, around boring or annoying people. When someone wants to ask you for money. When you’d just like some quiet. There’s a switch. You have the power to tune voices out. Which is what the media… Continue reading
Video: The David Pakman Show and Occupy LA
The American Autumn: The Children of the Lost Decade Revolt
The movement known as the tea party started in the mainstream media, on a national show. CNBC’s Rick Santelli, fired what cable news would later dub “the shot heard around the world” in 2009, when he lamented paying for the mortgages of the “losers” who couldn’t pay their bills. “President Obama, are you listening?” he… Continue reading