Russell Brand on the Occupy Movement

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Link: http://youtu.be/rHjOfu3dJHk

The Revolution is still Love

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Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love with Charles Eisenstein

A taste of the upcoming feature documentary, Occupy Love. This is a community funded film. http://www.occupylove.org 

“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.”
~ Charles Eisenstein

Fierce Love Films Youtube Channel

Does Challenging Oppression Mean Making New Enemies?

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http://occupywallstreet.net/story/its-not-challenging-oppression-has-mean-making-new-enemies

9 PROPOSITIONS FOR A COMPASSIONATE CULTURAL CRITICISM

1. The bigger the cultural criticism conversation gets, the better; but also the more it’s geared to actual listening and transformation, the better . . . read more
https://woborders.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/propositions-compassionate-cultural-crit/

Six Good Things Occupy Wall Street Made Possible

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1. You can refer to the “1%” and have everybody know what you are talking about.

2. You can fight back in court if you are stopped and frisked in New York City.

3. You can share things online without being immediately sued.

4. New media projects.

5. Senator Elizabeth Warren. *See video at link below.

6. A more deeply networked activist world.

READ THE ARTICLE: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/six-good-things-occupy-wall-street-made-possible?utm_source=ytw20130920&utm_medium=email

Opposition to Citizens United Continues to Spread

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Citizens are waking up across America to the extreme injustice done with the Passing of Citizens United in 2010. This does nothing less than undermine our very democracy. Corporations Are Not People.

It is reported that over a million people have signed online petitions. City councils in over a dozen states have invalidated corporate personhood.

Here’s a Good Explanation of What It Is

Reports

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/an-open-letter-to-the-citizens-against-i-citizens-united-i/254902/

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/common-security-clubs/overturning-citizens-united-one-city-at-a-time

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/the_hard_truth_of_citizens_united/

http://www.citizensunited.org/cu-in-the-news.aspx

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/24/citizens-united-supreme-court-montana-challenge_n_1313579.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission

More: http://www.storyofstuff.org/

Move to Amend LA Organizing Meeting April 28, 2012: http://movetoamendla.org/?p=380