Showing posts with label The Raw Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Raw Story. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Jan. 30, 2912

1. Tensions mount with arrest of Occupy D.C. protester and approach of deadline... 
Read @:  Washington Post

2. NYPD Doubts That NYPD Commissioner’s Son Is a Rapist...  Read @:  Gawker

3. Over 400 arrested at ‘Occupy Oakland’ in violent night... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

4. Catalan police as protesters inside demo in Barcelona!... 
Read @:  Take The Square

5. Don’t Stop Recording: Cameraman Threatened with Arrest...  Read @:  Free Keene

Monday, January 23, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Jan. 23, 2012

1. Pro-choice occupiers crash anti-abortion event... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

2. Anonymous Is Launching a MegaUpload Alternative?...  Read @:  Gawker

3. Gee maybe Sarah Palin's family IS just like the rest of America...  Read @:  The Immoral Minority

4. Romney to protesters: ‘Take a hike’...  Read @:  The Raw Story

5.  Christians Carry a 12-Ft Cross for Miles to Protest Atheists’ Lawsuit Over TN Water Tower Cross...  Read @:  The Blaze

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Sun. Jan. 22, 2012

1. Roe V Wade @ 38: The Struggle For Female Liberty Continues... 
Read @:  Politicususa

2. Joe Paterno dies at 85...  Read @:  The Raw Story

3. McDonald’s Attempts Twitter Promotional Campaign, People Use It To Bash McDonald’s...  Read @:  Mediaite

4. Occupy Nashville: The Legislature Strikes Back... 
Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

5. The conflict is served, and from now the catalan police start with “stronger action”!...  Read @:  Take The Square

Friday, January 20, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Fri. Jan. 20, 2012

1. Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever... 
Read @:  Truth Out

2. PIPA Just a Few Votes from Defeat on Cloture... 
Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

3. Internet wins: Votes on PIPA/SOPA indefinitely postponed... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

4. Kucinich Announces 'Game Changing' Constitutional Amendment to Publicly Finance Federal Elections...  Read @:  Nation of Change

5. Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room... 
Read @:  Zen Habits

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Announcement: Raw Story to go dark on January 18 to protest SOPA/PIPA

The news doesn’t stop. But if Congress passes the Stop Online Piracy Act or the Protect Intellectual Property Act, your access to it could — and the owners and publisher of Raw Story won’t stand for that. In protest of Congress’ interest in passing the legislation, Raw Story will join with sites like BoingBoing, Reddit, Wikipedia and IMGUR and black out from 8 am ET until 8 pm ET tomorrow, just to demonstrate what the government could end up...  Read @:  The Raw Story

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Sun. Jan. 15, 2012

1. Mitt Romney Embraces Failure By Doubling Down On Bush’s Cuts For Millionaires...  Read @:  Politicususa

2. This is How the World Sees America...and CNN Owns It...  Read @:  Crooks and Liars

3. One New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping: Get More Sleep...  Read @:  Huffington Post

4. Colbert: ‘The more money you have, the more you can speak’...  Read @:  The Raw Story

5. This is Stephen Colbert‘s Super PAC Ad Attacking ’Mitt the Ripper’...  Read @:  The Blaze

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Bill Moyers Essay: ‘Occupying a Cause’

Commentator Bill Moyers has a new weekly show on public television called Moyers and Company. The show bills itself as “a forum to poets, writers and artists, scientists and philosophers, and leading scholars.”...  Read @:  The Raw Story

Monday, January 9, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Jan. 9, 2012

1. Linguists name 'occupy' as 2011's word of the year...  Read @:  CNN

2. Arpaio deputy shot, killed on burglary call... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

3. Author of "Pity the Billionaire" Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World... 
Read @:  Truth Out

4. Pastor Joel Osteen to Oprah: Homosexuality Is Sin — But Gay People Will Get Into Heaven...  Read @:  The Blaze

5. Name-Calling on the Internet Is Serious Business: Susan Crawford...  Read @:  Bloomberg

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Sirota: Legalizing marijuana is now a ‘mainstream’ position

The slow drumbeat to legalizing marijuana in America continued Friday evening when Salon.com columnist David Sirota appeared on Current TV’s The Young Turks...  Read @:  The Raw Story

Friday, January 6, 2012

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Fri. Jan. 6, 2012

1. Join Global Square mumble conference... 
Read @:  Take The Square

2. Occupy The Hood is Rocking...  Read @:  Occupy Los Angeles

3. Yulia Tymoshenko's husband granted asylum in the Czech Republic...  Read @:  The Guardian

4. Taibbi: Montana’s slap at ‘Citizens United’ may be ‘the start of something’...  Read @:  The Raw Story

5. Congress Wants to Limit Open Access Publishing for The US Government's $28B/Year Subsidized Research... 
Read @:  Boing Boing

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Group claims piracy now a religion in Sweden

A group of people related to the Swedish Pirate Party claimed this week that the state has officially sanctioned “Kopimism” as a legitimate religion, granting them the freedom to carry out their holy sacrament of copying information from the Internet...  Read @:  The Raw Story

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Romney supporters tell Occupy protesters to ‘get a job!’

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself being “mic checked” by Occupy Wall Street protesters Monday night at one of his last campaign rallies ahead... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Permit extended for Washington protesters

A Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street has won a green light to keep occupying until February 28, officials said Thursday, so long as it shares its space with a conservative group... 
Read more:  The Raw Story

Occupy Protester Banned From Flight Home for Christmas

A protester associated with Occupy London was barred from boarding his flight home to Malaga for Christmas because he was carrying “anarchist” literature, according to a report in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The demonstrator was kept off the flight because the pilot worried that he would distribute literature and “upset” other passengers...  Read more:  The Raw Story

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Dec. 27, 2011

1. Occupy Minnesota’ helps woman stay in her home...  Read more:  The Raw Story

2. How Social Media Influences the Occupy Movement... 
Read more:  Articles Splendor

3. Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public...  Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. It’s the first time such data have been...  Read more:  Bloomberg

4. China Jails Activist...  Read more:  The Daily Activist

5. A Brainpower Revolution...  Read more:  Truth Out

Friday, December 23, 2011

Judge tells Occupy London no eviction for now

Anti-capitalist protesters camped outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral will spend Christmas under canvas after a judge hearing the case for their removal said he would not reach a verdict until next year... 
Read more:  The Raw Story

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Company owners fake being disabled vets for government contracts

The federal government sets aside billions in contracts each year for companies considered to be service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB). The program is intended to help returning veterans find employment...  Read more:  The Raw Story

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Dec. 21, 2011

1. 'Come Join Us!' See Egyptian Women Protest Soliders' Recent Violent Crackdown...  The Blaze

2. Domestic Drones: Hear About Who’s Watching You from Above...  Blog of Rights

3. Anti-piracy bill would ‘destroy the Internet’...  The Raw Story

4. Lamo: Manning Was ‘Looking to Brag’ About What He’d Done...  Fire Dog Lake

5. The Rich, They Are Very Different - And Exceedingly Unaware of Their Privilege...  Crooks and Liars

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Olbermann: Nugent an ‘A**Hole’ for Insulting Occupy Protesters

Current TV host Keith Olbermann called conservative rocker Ted Nugent an “asshole” on Monday for writing that Occupy Wall Street protesters were “dirtballs” and “dirty hippies.”... 
Read and watch video: 
The Raw Story

Monday, December 19, 2011

Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23

“I was astonished 44 years ago,” Carnegie Mellon University professor Alfred Blumstein told USA Today. “There’s a lot more arresting going on now.”...  Read more:  The Raw Story

Related: Barney Frank schools George Will, Paul Ryan on marijuana legalization...  Read more:  The Raw Story