The politics of deflection; Occupy and local politics
While most of the physical confrontation of the nearly two months of Occupy protests has been between demonstrators and local governments, particularly police, the conflicts aren’t very well connected...
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The first few shots fired by a young man to kill his mother–who owned the gun–would not have broken through the orchestrated silence on gun control. The movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado...
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Federal workers ARE protesting the month-plus shutdown of part of the government. The image at right is of hundreds assembling for 33 minutes of silent protest in the Senate office building. The...
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