Editors’ note: This piece  originally appeared  at Sinefil. First, an addendum to my June 11 post . Over 70 lawyers defending the park were taken into custody at the courthouse yesterday

Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism June 17, 2013         The Obama administration awards those who give exorbitant amounts in donations to his Organizing For Action (OFA), Obama’s non-profit propaganda machine.

This is almost beyond belief.

The fight in Texas against the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline continues despite its being over 75 percent complete. Pending cases against TransCanada and departments of the US government cite fraud and improper use of eminent domain.

from The Daily Sheeple  by Mac Slavo When the Cypriot government forced account holders to cover bank losses earlier this year most of the world assumed this was a one-off event, limited only to the people of Cyprus. Though warnings urging depositors to get their money out of banks spread across the world, few have taken them seriously.

Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared at Anarchy Isn’t Easy. New York, NY–I was sitting in Zuccotti Park, during a solidarity demo with Gezi Park in Turkey, talking and catching up with Brendan who I hadn’t seen in a while.

Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism June 18, 2013           Facial recognition databases on American citizens used by local and federal law enforcement are on the rise . These programs are sold to the public as necessary because they assist police in locating criminals with comparative CCTV surveillance camera images that are cross-referenced with driver’s license and state-ID photos We are becoming a caricature of ourselves with the advent of such sci-fi films as Minority Report coming to life. Laura Donohue, professor of law at Georgetown University asked : “As a society, do we want to have total surveillance

Tabitha Tripp of the grassroots group SAFE speaking at an anti-fracking rally in the Illinois State Capitol building.

Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment, June 17, 2013 Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment  (SAFE) is horrified at the decision of the Illinois General Assembly, and Gov. Quinn, to put the water, air, soil, health and economic future of Southern and Central Illinois at risk from horizontal  fracking

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