via “How the New York Times manipulated blame for arrests” by Jérôme E. Roos.
via Nigel Perry – click photo to enlarge.
via The scene at Liberty Park #OccupyWallSt #OccupyWallStreet #RealGoodVibes
Uploaded to YouTube.com by arthurkr222 on Oct 2, 2011
Protesters started marching up the pedestrian walk way over the bridge while others tried to take the traffic lane. For a few minutes officers held the line and then they turned around and led the way up the traffic lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. From what I saw no police told any of the protesters to leave until they created a barricade in front of the march about halfway through the bridge. They then pulled vans and buses up to the back of the group and started arresting everyone.
In total over 700 people were arrested.
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Footage released by the New York City Police Department from the the Occupy Wall Street protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Brooklyn Bridge shut down due to arrests and protests. Hear live report on DemocracyNow: bit.ly/qBB170 #OccupyWallStreet
Do not forget Gaza
We are waiting for your boats at our shores
September 30, 2011
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine
We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, are calling on the world: enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip must end. While attention is focused on the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN do not forget that the blockade and the suffering continue in Gaza.
In the US, 45,000 people die every year because they cannot afford basic medical services, according to a Harvard study.
Helen Redmond
When Tea Party supporters at a recent Republican presidential debate in Florida laughed wickedly and shrieked out “YEAH!” to Wolf Blitzer’s question to Ron Paul asking if society should let an uninsured person die, I wasn’t surprised.
The hatred and immorality of the Tea Party that burst into wild applause and enthusiastic affirmations at the notion of letting a human being die was on parade before the vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010.
Tea Party linked candidate Ron Paul’s position on health care was regurgitated with a range of Republican talking point lies: People aren’t turned away from hospitals, church charity can cure the crisis, and medical costs are skyrocketing because “individuals have stopped taking personal responsibility for their health care”.
The idea of taking personal responsibility for one’s own health is an ideological, artful dodge that means the government has no responsibility to provide health care to its population. The individuals currently taking the blame for not taking responsibility for their own health and costing the system too much are the obese and diabetics.
Congressman Paul is fanatically anti-government, yet he’s spent his entire adult life either campaigning for government office or in the employ of government. Now he’s running to be president of the “big government” he rails against. Rich Republican government-employed politicians like Ron Paul will never be uninsured because their federal government sponsored health coverage will never be dropped or made unaffordable. They have access to the best health care with ten health plans to choose from.
Click here to continue reading “Health care and the Ron Paul redux” by Helen Redmond.
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