My name is Maggie. I'm a 21 year-old loser with a bone to pick from NJ, USA. I have yet to find an adequate title for my particular flavor of politics, but I suppose some might call me an anarchist. Here you will find artwork, news stories, rants, theory, philosophy, comics, movie stills, quotations, book excerpts, and the usual bullshit everybody posts. I'd love to learn something from you, but you have no such obligation. So sorry for my lack of eloquence, I'm not good at this sort of thing.
Movement for Justice in ElBarrio at Occupy Wall St. (on occupied indigenous land)
This Sunday, October 9th at 6 p.m., members of Movement for Justice in ElBarrio, an organization that is part of the Zapatista initiated The Other Campaign have been invited and will participate in Occupy Wall St. (on occupied indigenous land)
They will share a message written by the humble immigrant community of East Harlem on their seven-year struggle for dignity and against neoliberal displacement. In this message, they will speak on their vision of the world, their analysis of the problems that besiege it, and how they seek to change it. They will offer their grain of sand and make echo the voice of all the dignified people who are struggling to build a new world from below and to the left.
“For Movement for Justice in ElBarrio, the struggle for justice means fighting for the liberation of women, immigrants, lesbians, people of color, gays and the transgender community. We all share a common enemy and its called neoliberalism. Neoliberalism wishes to divide us and keep us from combining our forces. We will defeat this by continuing to unite our entire community until we achieve true liberation for all.” -Words of Movement for Justice in ElBarrio
Sunday, October 9 at 6 pm Location: Southeast Corner of Zuccotti Park (Underneath big red sculpture)
Broadway & Cedar St. nr. Liberty St., at SE corner of Liberty Plaza/ Zucotti Park; TRANSIT: #4, 5 to Wall St. (north exits) or to Fulton; R (not N) to Rector St. (at Trinity Pl.) or to Cortlandt St. (at Church St.: both platforms now open); A, C to Broadway-Nassau (at Fulton); J to Fulton (at Nassau); #1 to Rector (at Greenwich); Broadway bus; Varick St. bus; Water St.
email i got today — please do any/all of these things that you can. and/or pass this aruond if you can. thank you.
Leonard Peltier has been moved from USP-Lewisburg. At this time, he is at the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This is an administrative and “holdover” facility. That means he will be held in Oklahoma temporarily — although “temporarily” could mean months — after which he will be transferred to another facility.
Please continue your efforts on Leonard’s behalf. Keep calling the White House — 202-456-1111. Obama must free Leonard Peltier.
Keep demandng a transfer for Leonard that is within 500 miles of his home. Tell the Federal Bureau of Prisons that the only acceptable transfer is one to a medium security facility in close proximity to his family and Nation.
Please send e-mails, write letters and call BOP every single day. Make reference to Leonard Peltier #89637-132 and contact:
Dr. Thomas Kane, Acting Director Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) 320 1st Street, NW Washington, DC 20534
THIS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH, FROM 7PM – 8:30PM AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 1 Washington Place, New York, Gallatin Theater (Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts)
POWERFUL ORAL HISTORIES DOCUMENTING EXPERIENCES OF POST-9/11 BACKLASH Presented by NYU Gallatin & Project Palestine
An activist who disrupted a Bush administration auction for the oil and gas industry by bidding $1.8m (£1.1m) he did not have for the right to drill in remote areas of Utah is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.
As Bidder No 70, Tim DeChristopher put in bogus bids and won drilling rights to 14 parcels of land at the auction, seen at the time as a last scramble by the Bush administration to open up wilderness lands to oil and gas extraction.
The action made DeChristopher a hero to some environmentalists, but he could face up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine following his conviction last March of defrauding the government.
“It is all up the judge. He can pretty much do what he wants,” DeChristopher, an economics student, said in a telephone interview.
But he added: “I do think I will serve some time in prison. That is what I think will be the next chapter in my life.”
Sentencing was scheduled for 3pm Utah time, or 10pm UK time on Tuesday.
The severity of the sentence, in all likelihood, will be determined by negotiations between DeChristopher’s legal team and the prosecution on the extent of financial damage caused by his bogus bidding.
The prosecution is pushing for four-and-a-half-year term, arguing that an example needs to be made of DeChristopher as a deterrent to other activists. DeChristopher’s legal team is urging a suspended sentence or probation.
