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The Koch brothers have bankrolled a broad attack on progressive government programs. Their grandfather’s history in Texas helps explain why.
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Lou Reed VS Lester Bangs

A Deaf Mute in a Telephone Booth

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Boots Riley on #OccupyOakland

The truth is that while almost everyone I know in Occupy Oakland (including myself) thinks that breaking windows is tactically the wrong thing to do and very stupid, many people do not agree with non-violent philosophy. If you kicked those folks out then you would have a body of folks that wouldn't have been radical enough to even call for a General Strike. Occupy Oakland, on the whole, has a radical analysis that leads us to campaigns that others wouldn't and which also capture people's imagination. For instance, as I've said before, Gandhi was vocally against strikes because physically stopping someone from what they want to do is violent. Occupy Oakland has called for a diversity of tactics- which is different than our New York comrades, however I don't think that is supposed to mean that you use every tactic every time. We are so large here precisely because our actions have teeth. If the police blockaded at the port- we would have had 2 choices. The first would have been to let them stop us from getting there- with them thereby calling a victory against OO. The second choice was for us to quietly push through them with the shields we had in the front of the march and using our power in numbers to get through. That would, technically, not fall into non-violent philosophy. I think it is the fact that police knew that we had tens of thousands and we would push through there if necessary, that caused them to stay away. Also, everyone here seems to be inspired by Arab Spring, Greek movements, and other similar movements in Europe. None of those were non-violent in nature. The Egyptian folks burned down a police station, for instance. Everyone I know thinks that tactics like that here would cause the movement to be crushed, so those tactics are not on the table- I'm just pointing out that people are saying that this is emulating a movement which was pretty violent. But, I think the discussion is about tactics, not about adopting non-violent philosophy. On November 2nd, a large group of people with many contradictions successfully shut down the city in the biggest action with an overt class analysis in 60 years. People all over the world, all over the country, all over Oakland- are excited by this. If you are threatening to leave because, in the midst of this mass action some people broke windows and we are all trying to figure out how to work together, then you're missing the point and you'll be missing out on history. Don't let the media frame the discussion. The average everyday person was empowered by what happened on November 2nd. Every movement has contradictions, we aren't told about them so we think this movement should be different- there was violence during the Civil Rights movement. The pastor that had MLK's job before him at Ebeneezer Baptist Church had just made all of his congregation buy shotguns. The NAACP had an ARMED chapter in North Carolina. You can wait 50 more years for your perfect movement, or you can realize that it's here.
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Lecture: Andrew Weatherall (Madrid 2011)

Andrew Weatherall has worn a lot of hats in his career: pop star producer, Balearic figurehead, trailblazing DJ, electronic experimentalist, peerless explorer of the minimal techno sound, rockabilly enthusiast, and the original remix champ. His history goes back to the beginning of the British acid house scene, to Shoom and Boy's Own. But it was through Primal Scream that Weatherall got his name indelibly marked in the history of pop culture: fusing narcotically challenged rock and the energy of early raves, he produced the band's generation-defining 'Screamadelica' album and went on to lend his signature remixing skills to other landmarks acts from My Bloody Valentine to St. Etienne. His collaborations with Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen) or Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns (Sabres Of Paradise) were only marginally less influential, whilst his more recent work has seen him take more and more inspiration from the rock 'n' roll music that he has harboured as a passion for all these years. Watch him in conversation with Emma Warren at the Red Bull Music Academy 2011 in Madrid. 
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'I lost my job and found an occupation'

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Twitter and journalism: It shouldn’t be that complicated

Occupy Oakland Protesters Aren't Damaging the City - The Mayor Is

On October 25, the city of Oakland attempted to push out Occupy Oakland protesters from their camp after weeks of peaceful protest. Police struck them with rubber bullets and tear gas. Two prostesters, both veterans of the war in Iraq, were sent to the intensive care unit after altercations with police. But according to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, it's the demonstrators who are the problem.
At an emergency city council meeting late last week, Quan—once considered a progressive hero—cataloged the ways in which Occupy Oakland has hurt the city: businesses near the protest site are closing; jobs have been lost; and the city has been forced to spend money it doesn't have dealing with the logistics of hosting overnight campers outside City Hall. Most speciously, Quan argued that protesters are endangering their fellow residents by diverting police resources, an effort Quan says has already cost the city more than $700,000 in overtime pay.
That sounds like an excellent justification for shutting down or relocating the protests—until you remember that nothing about Occupy Oakland has demanded that costly police presence. Actually, the protests were uneventful until officers showed up in riot gear on October 25. A small group of troublemakers did smash windows and tag walls last week, but they were a tiny fraction of Occupy participants, and protest organizers denounced their actions. Marine Scott Olsen didn't do anything to require an overzealous cop to shoot him with a rubber bullet and fracture his skull. Army Ranger Kayvan Sabeghi didn't want taxpayer money to pay time-and-a-half to the officers who beat him with batons until his spleen burst. The video above makes clear that Scott Campbell wasn't asking to be shot with a projectile while calmly filming footage.
No, citizens protesting gross economic inequity aren't hurting Oakland. Quan's hostility toward nonviolent demonstrations—and the Oakland Police Department's insistence on attacking its own citizens—are doing that all by themselves.
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Adbusters VS New York Times

Hey you jammers, dreamers and truth-tellers out there,
In the wake of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, the corporate media have tried repeatedly to discredit the movement. We've been called every name in the book but the lowest blow has come from the New York Times who have twice taken a nasty swipe at Adbusters. Now, they refuse to print the truth.
Go to Mondoweiss and check the fight we're having to exercise our right of reply.
And if you feel outraged by the Times' refusal to run our full letter then shout it, tweet it, and give it the rounds. Perhaps Executive Editor Jill Abramson might be swayed by a few emails telling her that it would be grossly unfair and against all journalistic standards for the New York Times to deny Adbusters adequate right of reply. Be creative … do whatever you can to put some pressure on them to do the right thing.
It seems the real story here is that Adbusters has upset the pro-Israel and anti-Palestine bias that has marred the New York Times over many years in some of its editorials, columns and especially with the reporting by Isabel Kershner and the Times' Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner. Ms. Kershner and Mr. Bronner – who has a son who served in the Israeli army – both have deep ties to the Israel of today. Their often ahistorical, context-free reporting is partly to blame for what Adbusters has called "the United States of Amnesia."
A cultural shift is in order at one of the great newspapers of the world … and that just might start with them agreeing to print our letter.
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