Bemoaning The New Status Quo

African-American Woman Tells Reince Priebus, Newt Gingrich GOP Ignores Black Minority (Video):

During the Q&A session at the Republican National Committee Summer Meeting on Wednesday, an African-American woman stood to confront Newt Gingrich and Reince Priebus for not addressing her community.

“Everybody’s talking about Hispanics, but African-Americans built this country, and continue to be ignored by everybody,” she said. “I don’t hear [African-American] voices resonating.”

OWS Evolving

Simply Left BehindThe Non-Rapturist's Guide To The Galaxy: Freedom Is Free. Fascism Has A Price

...And after the Sandy Hook slaughter, OWS branched off into Occupy the NRA to bring facts to the people who needed to learn the truth about gun control and gun ownership in America. You can find them on Facebook, if you want to read more.

This really has turned into a people’s movement, despite what growing pains it endures. It does my heart good to know this.

Fraud On High

Prosecutor: Ind. top election official accused of voter fraud, obsessed with political success - The Washington Post

Indiana’s top elections official committed voter fraud to preserve his political clout and protect his finances, a special prosecutor said Tuesday during opening arguments of a trial that will determine if Secretary of State Charlie White keeps his office — and his freedom...

I'd tell you more but it's an AP link.

Class Warfare Or Just Jealousy?

Jonathan Weiler: Mitt Romney and the Politics of Envy

...The growth in economic inequality and wealth concentration in America has become an ever more incontrovertible fact. Thanks in substantial measure to Occupy Wall Street, wealth distribution has made its long overdue entry into the mainstream of American political discourse. In response, Republicans in general and Mitt Romney in particular have fallen back on a single, simple "insight" to explain the traction of wealth distribution as a galvanizing political issue: envy.

In a recent interview, NBC's Matt Lauer asked Romney whether "anyone who questions the policies and practices of Wall Street and financial institutions, anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this country is envious? Is it about jealousy or fairness?"...

Bricks And Bibles

Protesters Throw Bricks and Bibles at Police in San Francisco - ABC News

Good (Piracy) Question

If feds can bust Megaupload, why bother with anti-piracy bills? - CSMonitor.com

Scott One Step Closer

Organizers say they submitted enough signatures to recall | Reuters

Organizers of the petition drive to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker submitted what appeared to be more than enough signatures on Tuesday to force the first-term Republican to defend his seat in a special election...

On Being A Born Again American

Norman Lear on fighting for the food fight - latimes.com

...One of the most encouraging things to happen in 2011 was the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is giving the entire country the chance for a "born again American" moment. In calling attention to the country's widening chasm between rich and poor, the Occupiers have unleashed decades of pent-up patriotic outrage against the systematic violation of our nation's core principles by the "say good-bye to the middle class" alliance of the neocons, theocons and corporate America...

It's Not Just US

Chinese Village of Wukan Locked in Rebellion Against Authorities - NYTimes.com

A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with homemade weapons, residents said...

Russians Rally

Russians Rally Vs Putin, Election Fraud | Fox News

Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a square across the river from the Kremlin on Saturday to protest alleged electoral fraud and urge an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule, demands repeated at other rallies across this vast country in the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia...

OLA From The Inside

The description of the actual handling of the protesters is graphic and inflaming. I have close family members in law enforcement and I support the profession. However, at some point everyone involved in law enforcement must remember that you can't treat peaceful protesters like perverts and murderers without engendering some very bad karma. And, as we all know, karma is a bitch and the chickens do come home to roost.

My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan

...As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family’s dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison...