Tag: Occupy Wall Street
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Bottom line not people at the bottom
Reflecting on the distasteful news that Nike is again cashing in on Pride month with their #BeTrue campaign, after their lack of any action over Sochi and the LGBTQ abuses in Russia. It’s one thing to flog rainbow gear made in coutnries where the locals aren’t free to express their seuxality and gender to people…
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Occupy posters
One of the things that attracted my attention to Occupy Wall Street several years ago was the photos and graphics, and glad people are still keeping that spirit going with Occupy* Posters. It was a diverse spread of opinions – not even a conveniently unified message in a conventional political sense, that’s what made it…
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Happy Birthday Woody
Oh I missed the date but Woody Guthrie would have been 100 on the 14th. Just been listening to the Woody at 100 documentary and it brings in stark relief how little has changed (especially with bankers and poverty) since Woody’s day. Check out this amazing version by Sharon King & The Dap Kings of…
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OccupyLSX – Dreamers and the Drainage?
Just come back from an interesting 3 hours spent at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp in front of St Pauls. Surprisingly the police presence was really chilled, relaxed and small, I think the fact that the Canon of St Paul’s had told them to back off is a big reason for that. It’s church…
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Wall Street Spirit
And still on the Wall St protests here’s Dan Bull’s support for the campaign (via b3ta). Wonderful.
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Occupy Wall Street
As mentioned in my previous post, there’s a lot of ignorance by mainstream media of the Occupy Wall Street protests – reminds me of the Gay Pride protests how it took Live8 and Geldof turning up before Gay Pride EVER made the evening news here…and people have been making out the protests are small and…