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Department of Homeland Security Releases Another Batch of OWS Files
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t r u t h o u t | 05.03
Department of Homeland Security Releases Another Batch of OWS Files to Truthout
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8667-department-of-homeland-security-releases-another-batch-of-ows-files-to-truthout
Jason Leopold, Mike Ludwig and Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned over another batch of documents to Truthout Monday morning in response to our wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining to the agency's role in monitoring the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest movement. We've just started to scrutinize the files and we intend to publish a series of reports later today highlighting our findings."
America's Top Prison Corporation: A Study in Predatory Capitalism and Cronyism
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8875-corrections-corporation-of-america-a-study-in-predatory-capitalism-and-cronyism
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This week, I will tackle the largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and its unprecedented proposal to buy prisons from money-strapped states, as well as how CCA has gamed the system with trips through the revolving door, self-dealing and influence peddling. Just to set the stage as to how large the prison population is in the United States: our prison population is the highest in the world; one out of 100 US residents are in prison."
Seventy-Five Thousand People Demand Bank of America End Its Political Donations
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8877-75000-people-demand-bank-of-america-end-its-political-donations
Zaid Jilani, Republic Report: "Bank of America will be holding its annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 9th. A group of shareholders led by Trillium Asset Management will be introducing a resolution calling on the megabank to cease all political donations, as these 'contributions can backfire on a corporation's reputation and bottom line.' For example, retail giant Target took a hit in the stock market for spending cash on anti-gay politicians."
The Department of Homeland Security Was Out of Bounds - for Two and a Half Hours
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8898-the-department-of-homeland-security-was-out-of-bounds-for-two-and-one-half-hours
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "The latest installment in Truthout's FOIA of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) involvement in law enforcement's response to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) shows considerable coordination between various agencies regarding the December 12, 2011, West Coast-wide OWS protest aimed at shutting down seaports in Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Houston, Seattle and Tacoma. A request from DHS's Network Operations Center (NOC) went out on December 6 to Customs and Border Patrol (CPB), the US Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
Noam Chomsky: Cartagena, Beyond the Secret Service Scandal
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8882-cartagena-beyond-the-secret-service-scandal
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month's Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug war, and the isolation of the United States."
Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8884-koch-funded-mackinac-center-brings-wisconsin-act-10-provisions-to-alec
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: "With the recent publication of additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining legislation. Some of those provisions may be adopted by ALEC for introduction in other states."
Austerity, the Path to Prosperity?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8876-austerity-the-path-to-prosperity%20
Alan Barber, Truthout: "When a country is experiencing economic weakness, deficit spending is one policy tool that can help boost the economy by spurring demand and saving or creating jobs. In fact, President Obama's stimulus package was effective in slowing the economy's free fall in 2009. The stimulus could have been larger - and thus, even more effective - but very few economists would argue that the stimulus did not create jobs and help stabilize the economy. Simply put, deficits aren't a problem in a downturn. On the contrary, deficits are a key part of jump-starting a recovery. Calls to reduce deficits by cutting spending and further reducing government revenue during difficult economic times will actually impede recovery."
Quebec Students Ignite the Popular Imagination
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8879-quebec-students-ignite-the-popular-imagination
Stefan Christoff, rabble.ca: "Despite repeated incidents of police brutality, strikingly hostile mainstream media coverage and a sustained refusal by the Quebec Liberal government to negotiate in good faith, popular support and energy toward the strike is growing. Beyond surveys, or poll numbers, the Quebec student strike is historic in nature, a sustained mass protest movement creating political space to debate not only rising tuition fees but also fundamental questions of social justice. A clear shift is occurring on the streets, as protests are now expanding to highlight environmental justice and the growing economic inequities in Quebec at a time of austerity-driven economics."
Across New York City, People Honor May Day (Part II)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8881-across-new-york-city-people-honor-may-day-part-ii
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "May Day was a success by the account of everyone I spoke to. However, the people in power seem increasingly interested in responding not by addressing the dissidents' concerns, but by violently containing their activities. Stay tuned for news coming from the courts in the weeks and months ahead - if Occupy produces its first political prisoners, we will have reached a new chapter."
Paul Krugman | The Rise of Orwellian Economics
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8891-the-rise-of-orwellian-economics
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "These past few years have been lean times in many respects - but they've been boom years for agonizingly dumb, pound-your-head-on-the-table economic fallacies. The latest fad - illustrated by a recent commentary article in The Wall Street Journal - is that expansionary monetary policy is a giveaway to banks and plutocrats generally. Indeed, that screed, titled 'How the Fed Favors the 1 Percent' and written by the hedge-fund founder Mark Spitznagel, actually claims that the whole 1 versus 99 thing should really be about reining in or maybe abolishing the Federal Reserve."
CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up by Police for Demanding Fairer Treatment
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8892-bored-with-occupy-and-inequality-class-issues-fade-along-with-protest-coverage
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet: "Every gate at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College had doubled security - no one was getting in without a student ID. That and the rain might have dampened turnout for a mass student day of action calling for increased access to higher education and supported by the likes of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, but it didn't dampen the spirits of the student activists who rallied on the quad and then marched into Boylan Hall, chanting, '1, 2, 3, 4, tuition fees are class war! 5, 6, 7, 8, students will retaliate.'"
Bored With Occupy - and Inequality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8892-bored-with-occupy-and-inequality-class-issues-fade-along-with-protest-coverage
John Knefel, FAIR: "Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth among the richest 1 percent. The movement has chalked up other victories as well, from altering New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax plan to re-energizing activists and unions, but bringing some discussion of class into the mainstream dialogue has been one of its crowning achievements."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Big Corporate Money Is Heating Up in Wisconsin, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8894-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-big-corporate-money-is-heating-up-in-wisconsin
In today's On the News segment: Battle between grassroots organizing and big corporate funding heats up in Wisconsin, new study from the Commonwealth Fund shows why the nation needs comprehensive health reform, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Bush legal adviser John Yoo can't be sued by victims of torture, and more.
Bill McKibben | Too Hot Not to Notice?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8883-too-hot-not-to-notice
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch: "New data released last month by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities show that a lot of Americans are growing far more concerned about climate change, precisely because they're drawing the links between freaky weather, a climate kicked off-kilter by a fossil-fuel guzzling civilization, and their own lives. After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans now believe that 'global warming is affecting the weather.'"
Rupert Murdoch in "Unprecedented Firestorm" as UK Panel Finds Him Unfit to Run Global Media Empire (Video)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8889-rupert-murdoch-in-unprecedented-firestorm-as-uk-panel-finds-him-unfit-to-run-global-media-empire
Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "A British parliamentary report has issued a scathing report that finds Rupert Murdoch is 'not a fit person' to run a major international media company because of how News Corp. handled its phone-hacking scandal. The Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport said Murdoch and his son, James, showed 'willful blindness' about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid. The panel's finding has prompted a U.S. watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to call on the Federal Communications Commission to revoke News Corp.'s 27 Fox broadcast licenses in the United States."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Teens Toking Marijuana on the Rise: Days of Prohibition Are Numbered
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13476
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Despite the vast lobbying force arrayed against the legalization of marijuana (as detailed in an article recently posted on Truthout.org), the days of wasting resources arresting and imprisoning pot smokers are numbered. That's because, with each new generation, America has a higher and higher percentage of citizens who have smoked or who are smoking marijuana. It's just a matter of time and numbers."
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Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
Read the Article at ABC News
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Taking on the Banks and Preserving an Independent Occupy Movement
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13475
"Don't Say Gay" Bill Prompts GOP Lawmaker to Come Out
Read the Article at The Columbia Tribune
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/may/02/dont-say-gay-bill-prompts-lawmaker-come-out/
Federal Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Oakland Police for "Military-Type Response" to Occupy Protests
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/02/475359/federal-judge-threatens-sanctions-against-oakland-police-for-military-type-response-to-occupy-protests/
Right-Wing Multi-Billionaire Is Out to Frack Your World
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Ron Paul's Delegate Antics Could Spell Trouble for GOP Convention
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ron-pauls-delegate-antics-could-spell-trouble-for-gop-convention.php?ref=fpb
Walmart to Pay More Than $4.8 Million in Back Wages for Overtime Wage Theft
Read the Article at DailyKos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/02/1088290/-Walmart-to-pay-more-than-4-8-million-in-back-wages-for-overtime-wage-theft
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><p>Thursday 03 May 2012</p>
<font><strong>Department of Homeland Security Releases Another Batch of OWS=
Files to Truthout</strong></font><br />
Jason Leopold, Mike Ludwig and Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The Department of=
Homeland Security (DHS) turned over another batch of documents to Truthout=
Monday morning in response to our wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act =
(FOIA) request pertaining to the agency's role in monitoring the Occupy Wal=
l Street (OWS) protest movement. We've just started to scrutinize the files=
and we intend to publish a series of reports later today highlighting our =
findings."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
sELJuypT%2B7lCmuUOJE7%2FFmdadGIMneX6"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>America's Top Prison Corporation: A Study in Predatory Capita=
lism and Cronyism</strong></font><br />
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This week, I will tackle the largest private prison =
company, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and its unprecedented=
proposal to buy prisons from money-strapped states, as well as how CCA has=
gamed the system with trips through the revolving door, self-dealing and i=
nfluence peddling. Just to set the stage as to how large the prison populat=
ion is in the United States: our prison population is the highest in the wo=
rld; one out of 100 US residents are in prison."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
4X1dNJcDGQFmSVoMHs93Nn%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Seventy-Five Thousand People Demand Bank of America End Its P=
olitical Donations</strong></font><br />
Zaid Jilani, Republic Report: "Bank of America will be holding its annual s=
hareholder meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 9th. A group of sha=
reholders led by Trillium Asset Management will be introducing a resolution=
calling on the megabank to cease all political donations, as these 'contri=
butions can backfire on a corporation's reputation and bottom line.' For ex=
ample, retail giant Target took a hit in the stock market for spending cash=
on anti-gay politicians."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
L%2BqyfBWmxNhRtr26ZtHTWX%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The Department of Homeland Security Was Out of Bounds - for T=
wo and a Half Hours</strong></font><br />
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "The latest installment in Truthout's FOIA of the D=
epartment of Homeland Security's (DHS) involvement in law enforcement's res=
ponse to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) shows considerable coordination between v=
arious agencies regarding the December 12, 2011, West Coast-wide OWS protes=
t aimed at shutting down seaports in Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oak=
land, Portland, Houston, Seattle and Tacoma. A request from DHS's Network O=
perations Center (NOC) went out on December 6 to Customs and Border Patrol =
(CPB), the US Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
fn9oga%2Bk7%2FzCTT3x5Z6Za3%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Ar=
ticle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Noam Chomsky: Cartagena, Beyond the Secret Service Scandal</s=
trong></font><br />
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, la=
st month's Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of c=
onsiderable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug war=
, and the isolation of the United States."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
2AIPfLXYHyQNhOZxMLGig1iwzZnuzAW2"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provision=
s to ALEC</strong></font><br />
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: "With the recent publication of additional Ameri=
can Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being =
raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott W=
alker's controversial collective bargaining legislation. Some of those prov=
isions may be adopted by ALEC for introduction in other states."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
ISzhzfWsZWb%2FdiAUpXrN5n%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Austerity, the Path to Prosperity?</strong></font><br />
Alan Barber, Truthout: "When a country is experiencing economic weakness, d=
eficit spending is one policy tool that can help boost the economy by spurr=
ing demand and saving or creating jobs. In fact, President Obama's stimulus=
package was effective in slowing the economy's free fall in 2009. The stim=
ulus could have been larger - and thus, even more effective - but very few =
economists would argue that the stimulus did not create jobs and help stabi=
lize the economy. Simply put, deficits aren't a problem in a downturn. On t=
he contrary, deficits are a key part of jump-starting a recovery. Calls to =
reduce deficits by cutting spending and further reducing government revenue=
during difficult economic times will actually impede recovery."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
FYgx4NcWkSrgvHxHQfMGCX%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Quebec Students Ignite the Popular Imagination</strong></font=
><br />
Stefan Christoff, rabble.ca: "Despite repeated incidents of police brutalit=
y, strikingly hostile mainstream media coverage and a sustained refusal by =
the Quebec Liberal government to negotiate in good faith, popular support a=
nd energy toward the strike is growing. Beyond surveys, or poll numbers, th=
e Quebec student strike is historic in nature, a sustained mass protest mov=
ement creating political space to debate not only rising tuition fees but a=
lso fundamental questions of social justice. A clear shift is occurring on =
the streets, as protests are now expanding to highlight environmental justi=
ce and the growing economic inequities in Quebec at a time of austerity-dri=
ven economics."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
qqRE6fVFp2NVdnIFDFt1tX%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Across New York City, People Honor May Day (Part II)</strong>=
</font><br />
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "May Day was a success by the account of everyone I=
spoke to. However, the people in power seem increasingly interested in res=
ponding not by addressing the dissidents' concerns, but by violently contai=
ning their activities. Stay tuned for news coming from the courts in the we=
eks and months ahead - if Occupy produces its first political prisoners, we=
will have reached a new chapter."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
zbc24VUZABIHkB2zl9eI8GdadGIMneX6"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | The Rise of Orwellian Economics </strong></fon=
t><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "These past few years have been lean times in =
many respects - but they've been boom years for agonizingly dumb, pound-you=
r-head-on-the-table economic fallacies. The latest fad - illustrated by a r=
ecent commentary article in The Wall Street Journal - is that expansionary =
monetary policy is a giveaway to banks and plutocrats generally. Indeed, th=
at screed, titled 'How the Fed Favors the 1 Percent' and written by the hed=
ge-fund founder Mark Spitznagel, actually claims that the whole 1 versus 99=
thing should really be about reining in or maybe abolishing the Federal Re=
serve."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
mCFu3t8IKtyyFVCUKQpINH%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up by Police for Deman=
ding Fairer Treatment</strong></font><br />
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet: "Every gate at the City University of New York's Bro=
oklyn College had doubled security - no one was getting in without a studen=
t ID. That and the rain might have dampened turnout for a mass student day =
of action calling for increased access to higher education and supported by=
the likes of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, but it didn't dampen the spirit=
s of the student activists who rallied on the quad and then marched into Bo=
ylan Hall, chanting, '1, 2, 3, 4, tuition fees are class war! 5, 6, 7, 8, s=
tudents will retaliate.'"
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
yT8JCx6u9Lw%2F69ugoXdFi3%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Bored With Occupy - and Inequality</strong></font><br />
John Knefel, FAIR: "Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to =
shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues =
of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth amon=
g the richest 1 percent. The movement has chalked up other victories as wel=
l, from altering New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax plan to re-energizing act=
ivists and unions, but bringing some discussion of class into the mainstrea=
m dialogue has been one of its crowning achievements."=20
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
ef3fos0Z6EgjlJs%2BVMcsxH%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Big Corporate Money Is Heatin=
g Up in Wisconsin, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: Battle between grassroots organizing and bi=
g corporate funding heats up in Wisconsin, new study from the Commonwealth =
Fund shows why the nation needs comprehensive health reform, the US Ninth C=
ircuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Bush legal adviser John Yoo can't=
be sued by victims of torture, and more.
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
ttUWsFQfhpe%2B0uxX%2BWXbvn%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the V=
ideo and Read the Transcript</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Bill McKibben | Too Hot Not to Notice?</strong></font><br />
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch: "New data released last month by researchers at=
Yale and George Mason universities show that a lot of Americans are growin=
g far more concerned about climate change, precisely because they're drawin=
g the links between freaky weather, a climate kicked off-kilter by a fossil=
-fuel guzzling civilization, and their own lives. After a year with a recor=
d number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans =
now believe that 'global warming is affecting the weather.'"
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
Dkeg7kCSgRIgcGcrqN1can%2FiJ4O3tKy3"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Rupert Murdoch in "Unprecedented Firestorm" as UK Panel Finds=
Him Unfit to Run Global Media Empire (Video)</strong></font><br />
Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "A British parliamentary rep=
ort has issued a scathing report that finds Rupert Murdoch is 'not a fit pe=
rson' to run a major international media company because of how News Corp. =
handled its phone-hacking scandal. The Parliamentary Select Committee on Cu=
lture, Media and Sport said Murdoch and his son, James, showed 'willful bli=
ndness' about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid. =
The panel's finding has prompted a U.S. watchdog group, Citizens for Respon=
sibility and Ethics in Washington, to call on the Federal Communications Co=
mmission to revoke News Corp.'s 27 Fox broadcast licenses in the United Sta=
tes."
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