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(Source: mediaofthemovement, via kateoplis)
Occupy Oakland? oh. wow. huh.
Mass arrests of peaceful protesters by the Oakland Police, kettling them and then ordering them to disperse with nowhere to go, then announcing that they have all been arrested.
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Latimes Damage assessment: from a volatile Occupy protest that resulted in hundreds of arrests the day before and left the historic City Hall vandalized after demonstrators broke into the building, smashed display cases, cut electrical wires and burned an American flag.
Governments don’t lead revolutions. People do. The saying ‘Necessity is the Mother of Invention’ sums the scenario up, because most often it’s the individuals, communities and nations experiencing the toughest challenges that pioneer the most radical innovations.
– Melissa Sterry envisages Earth 2.0. Read the full interview on This Big City. (via thisbigcity)
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Be happy, for if you wanted to humiliate me, I confess that I feel my entire body is suffering with degradation.
Demonstration for universal suffrage. Stockholm, 1917.
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