Here is a pod cast interview with Foster, covering his relationship to his family’s business, the inheritance that enabled his filmmaking, and summarizing the solutions.
This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.
We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.
Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.
We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinations of the wealthy well before its founding.
We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.
We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
“The cause of all suffering is ignorance.” – Buddha
Here to help raise the human conscious. Need a reality upgrade? You came to the right place
Incredible statement by Alessio Rastani about the Euro zone collapse and Goldman Sachs rule the world NOT Governments.
Love his honesty. He’s an independent trader, with no allegiance to anyone. He’s telling it like it is – and doesn’t give a shit if you like what he’s saying. Very refreshing to hear the truth in the media.
The Bankers Matrix Recital by itself Montague Williams The 3rd
played by: Michael Daviot
Keith Olbermann tells it like it is here in the “Land of the Free” the truth about the current state of this Country!
Wonderful interview with Chris Hedges of the protest on wall street part 1 of 6
Chris Hedges got my attention / interest with his intelligent & conscious understanding & perspectives of what is actually happening.
MSNBC – Main stream media coverage on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street
An excellent piece of main stream media coverage on this past weekend, Thanks for an excellent piece Lawrence O’donnel. I’m sure this video wont be up long, but figured the folks looking at the videos on this channel would appreciate it. The Occupation of Wall Street is a truly heroic action
Simultaneous perspectives on “Occupy Wall Street” kettling and pepper spray / mace incident
As you can tell, we did not need to edit the video to implicate this officer in a gross and unconscionable crime.
This may seem insignificant to some, but this is where REAL reform starts.
These protests are filled with individual who have a quarrel with how corrupt our government and federal bank have become. Many have their own message, many just know they are not happy and want to create a better society for themselves and their fellow Americans.
The corruption of the FED is avoided by the main stream media, make your own assumptions as to why, but one of the goals of these protestors is to bring light to some of these facts. The FED has handed out over $16 Trillion to private banks and corporations in the past 4 years and NONE of this was addressed in the mainstream news nor was it approved of by the people. This is clearly a red flag!! Look at these reputable links below that PROVE my statements are true, and spread them around.
Dont allow these protestors sacrifices to be in vain!!
We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.
And so we call on people to act
We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.
We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.
We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.
We call for the organization of people’s assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.
We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.
We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic
Follow the live stream of the occupy wall street protests:
We have no agenda other than to provide people with information about the events and actions happening in their area in solidarity and support of those that currently Occupy Wall St. Our political and social beliefs will remain neutral for this cause; this is not about us, this is about the movement.
OccupyTogether downloadable posters are free for you to download, print, and hang up within your community, In fact, we highly encourage it as this will be a great means of spreading the word and getting others involved.
We will try our best to provide you with the most accurate information possible.
We will only grow stronger in our solidarity and we will be heard, not just in New York, but in echoes across this nation.
In “Chinatown, Africa”, Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Angola to investigate China’s rapidly growing presence in Africa. While many welcome China’s investment, others see reason for concern. Chinatown, Africa is revealing look at a growing superpower’s adventures abroad.
This documentary is an intense reminder that the stakes are high. Not for a weak stomach. Speaking of organs, $10 billion of them have been apparently harvested from political dissidents:
What do you think, Charlton Heston?
With all the explosive development occurring in the country, might there be a mental paradigm shift brewing among the people of the country? Or does the iron-clad censorship of the internet prevent it? Does a cultural shift to sustainable technology necessarily impart a corresponding shift towards sustainable consciousness?
Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and “soft” power shifts and moves around the globe.
Bio
His description of soft power, hand movements, posture and unlabored breathing suggest he is also a practitioner of Tai Chi.
The European Renaissance was an incredible time to live. The artistic and political history of the Renaissance is of paramount value to our culture today. During the renaissance, our cognitive capacity to learn and discover seemed to bloom. Checking out this historical period may give us some breadcrumbs with which we can successfully navigate our world today.
The journey from a dark time into a period of intense enlightenment is one we can all identify with. The transition from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance is what happens when a culture takes on that same journey. PBS put out an awesome quartet of films on the Renaissance that starts with the program below. Remember- where we can see ourselves in the past, we can triangulate and find ourselves in the future.
This first program deals a lot with the Medici Family. Medici’s name is known amongst scholars as well as the general public, but few know much more than the name. His family had incredible impact on the Renaissance- and therefore in his story we might find some good food for thought.
Seth Godin speaks about the emergence of leaders who generate conclaves of people by the creation and spread of ideas using tools given to us by this Age of Technology. He speaks on the phenomenon of organized groups of people who come together based simply on a common interest – vintage cars, slam poetry, glitch electronic music, hatha yoga – that subsequently catalyze social change in their environments.
Tribal leaders connect people to one-another.
Tribal leaders are curious, committed, and build culture, and even challenge the status quo!
“It took 200 years for the money supply to go from $0 to $800 Billion, but in the last year alone, the Fed has doubled it.” Richard Belzer exposes the Federal Reserve’s machinations on Real Time with Bill Maher.
