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OWS Week 5/23 – G8, Chicago NATO Summit, Tom Morello and more

All eyes turn towards Chicago, beginning May 17th, as 99 percenters rode solidarity bosses from New York City and other cities across the country to meet up with fellow patriots and protest against NATO.

NATO has killed many civilians in Afghanistan, bombed Libya into the Stone Age to plunder its oil.  This is while it ignores repressive regimes in Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt.

NATO forces, backed by the US, invaded Iraq and as a result Iraqi petroleum sources ended up in Western hands.  Cuts are being made to healthcare and students are being crushed by a trillion-dollar debt.

In a protest against NATO warmongering policies, veterans returned their medals. They protested the huge amounts of money being spent on wars at a time of austerity.

OWS Week 5/16 – BoA & ALEC protests, Veterans, Europe 99

This episode of the show reviews protest actions from BoA Charlotte North Carolina to New York Hunger strike.  The program also attempts to highlight the large number of deaths among US war veterans on their return to “civi-street” from tours of duty overseas.  OWS Week has for a one-off included the massive European Occupy protests with over a million 99ers taking part in the UK, Spain and Germany.

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Next week’s show should be chock full of footage from the massive
G8 and NATO protests scheduled this weekend.

OWS Week 4/11/12, Occupy DC/DC Now, Chicago Spring, Florida protests

Press TV’s new program; ‘OWS Week’ highlights 7 days of the protest movement’s happenings as viewed from American protesters’ eyes. The program also examines the wide range of social issues addressed by the ‘occupy’ movement in the US.

This episode of the show covers a range of actions across America. They included the Occupy DC/DC Now; a protest march in Washington against student fee hikes. Thousands of 99ers joined the transit Union workers in 20 US cities including New York and Boston. The Chicago Spring rallies against social, economic and political injustices were called to “educate, inspire and unite.”

And in Tampa Florida protests hit the “State of the City 2012” mayoral address against the coming Republican National Convention.

Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse

via Rolling Stone – Matt Tiabbi / The Tiabblog

“Boy, do I feel like an idiot.  I’ve been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement, that decisions like putting a for-real law enforcement guy like New York AG Eric Schneiderman in charge of a mortgage fraud task force meant he was at least willing to pay lip service to public outrage against the banks.
Then the JOBS Act happened.
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (in addition to everything else, the Act has an annoying, redundant title) will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market.“

Read more: Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Time Warp: 70’s Protest Film, “The Way The Eagle Sh*ts”

[…I fucking love the internet. ~ Gabrielle]

As the OWS movement has helped move the national dialogue to income inequality, corporate power, and economic justice with its chant of “We are the 99%,” we received a request from an old acquaintance of Marc’s father, Al Levin, who remembered a short film he did back in the mid Seventies, “THE WAY THE EAGLE SHITS.”

He wondered if we could get him a copy of the film so he could show it to his local OCCUPY movement. He felt Al’s political rant was prescient and more timely now than ever. 
Here it is, Al Levin’s “THE WAY THE EAGLE SHITS – pass it on.