I can’t speak for the raids in Portland or Olympia, but I know the people who were raided in Seattle. Great people. You are making broad generalizations of anarchists based on your experiences, and applying it to my comrades who are working and organizing every day against the 1%.

The ‘anarchists’ you worked with are not the same as the people who had their apartment raided at 6AM with flashbangs, SWAT and automatic weaponry shoved in their faces, their place rifled through, and political pamphlets seized.

I’m blown away that Gore and Current would shitcan a popular show because of a vacation day. What was this really about?

Progressives don’t have many hard hitters out there. I’m pissed that his commentary will no longer be available on Current.

I was thinking, if Trayvon legally could own a gun, and if he was being chased by a hostile person, then the state wouldn’t have any case if Trayvon shot Zimmerman in defence.

This is why that ‘stand your ground’ just needs to be repealed. If it isn’t, and if Zimmerman doesn’t get punished in any real way, than everyone should buy guns in Florida. Basically, that’s jow I interpret the law. How could anyone risk being armless, where a misunderstanding will get you killed? Kill or be killed, there is no other rationality in the face of misunderstandings in Florida.

It’s a psychological tactic. Rahm is painting the protestors with a disgusting brush, as a way to start the rumors early-on. By the time the rumors spread through center-right and rightwing websites, it will be with giggles and inanity, which will serve as a way to block any high-brow debates before they begin. The topic comes up in regular conversation, and the lowbrow right-wing will parrot the disgusting rumors, and will remove the ability for sensible discussions on the poisonous policies of neo-liberalism.

Try not to let the passing of NDAA paralyze you with fear.

I wish I say go viral but his level of discourse is so embarrassing.. can we get some higher leveled counter arguments to go toe-to-toe with occupy protestors? Is this the best that wallstreet apologists can come up with?

Maybe this video could be spread with these rhetorical questions to greater affect. I’m pretty impressed with the discourse at GA debates. This blowhard is going to battle with a squirtgun.

edit to my above post – ugh, wish I could remove age reference. It’s pretty irrelevant and discredits the older Greeks who have just enough to fight for as the younger ones.

Yeah, and to think if Greece really wanted to solve its problems, it’d do what Iceland did and kick the foreign banks to the curb. No compromise.

Banks want to hold the Greek people accountable for what the banks and Greek leaders decided behind closed doors. And their decisions/investments didn’t pan out like they thought, so they think they’re entitled to their money, and they will bankrupt the entire country to get it.

It just doesn’t make any sense. I’m not surprised at all that Greek people my age are burning down the foreign banks. They’re fighting for their future. The future that the EU wants to rob them from.

Yeah, it was something else to see – working men and women standing up against their government. Have you seen any of the Athenian general strike videos these past few days?

so this happened yesterday in Brussels – Firefighters unions protesting against raising the retirement age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26dtpOZw0do

They break through the police lines and hose down the police and prime minister building with water. First time I’ve seen water cannons used AGAINST cops.

I’ve heard this from others as well. It’s an interesting theory.

If we really want to see this happen, we have to force the president’s hand. Continue organizing with other disenfranchised progressive, liberal, minority, worker groups and swing the momentum. Join up with OWS – They really are the fresh oil of reform this country desperately needs.

OWS is the key to moving our government to the left. This does not mean better presidents or politicians, but it means better professional organization on the left.

I recall reading about labor struggles in the 30′s which essentially were won without FDR support -or- governors n mayors who endorsed New Deal policies.