Friday, 30 September 2011

Statement of protest against the deportation of David Barsamian from Delhi airport

September 30, 2011

[The Sanhati Collective endorses the following statement.]

We write to protest the denial of entry to David Barsamian by Immigration Authorities at the New Delhi airport in the early hours of September 23, 2011, and we write to draw attention to the growing arbitrariness of the Indian Government in dealing with dissent of any kind.

David Barsamian is a veteran broadcaster, and founder and director of Alternative Radio, a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. For more than 25 years Alternative Radio has provided information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored in other media. Structured around intensive interviews conducted by David Barsamian, these programs are carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. He is the author of numerous books with Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali.

Philippines: Secret Cables Reveal Exercises Used as Cover for US Military

Posted by enaadoug1982 on September 29, 2011

The following comes Philipinnes Revolution.net

Secret Cables Reveal Exercises Used as Cover for US Military

Communist Party of the Philippines

September 16, 2011

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today called attention to secret cables from the US Embassy in Manila published by the website Wikileaks.org revealing the use of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the annual Balikatan joint military exercises as “legal cover” for the involvement of US military forces in combat operations in the Philippines.

The CPP statement coincided with the 30th anniversary of the historic Philippine Senate decision of September 16, 1991 to abrogate the Military Bases Agreement of 1946. The abrogation paved the way for the dismantling of Subic Naval Base, Clark Air Base and several other American military installations in the Philippines.

“Thirty years after the abrogation of the MBA, US military forces continue to trample on Philippine sovereignty by maintaining permanent presence, engaging in local combat operations, advising the AFP in strategic planning and using the Philippines as a platform for its ‘power projection’ activities in the Pacific region,” said the CPP.

Anti-Posco : Villagers resist the government’s push to acquire lands

Another incident of police terror in Jagatsinghpur

A report by Partho Sarothi Ray

As reported before, on Monday Septemper 26, one of the local goons had got around 200 people and attacked the villagers with country-made bombs, swords etc. One of the main organizers of the PPSS, Ranjan Swain, was injured in the attack. Yesterday, his 65 year old mother, Satyabati Swain, and another woman from the village had gone to the Kujang police station to lodge an FIR. Instead of taking the FIR, the police have arrested her! The police has said that there is a case against her for “unlawful assembly” from 2008. This is from the time of the protests against POSCO. Today she has been produced in court, but was denied bail, and has been put under one day of jail custody. Tomorrow she should be produced again for her bail hearing. It is unimaginable that an elderly woman who goes of her own accord to the police to lodge a complaint is instead arrested by the police on some trumped up charges. If possible, call the SP of police, Jagatsinhpur, Debdutta Singh at the number 9437094678 to lodge a strong protest against this.

MSNBC Condemns Police Brutality Against Wall St. Protestors

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Watch this: Voices from Occupy Wall Street

Dr. Cornell West-Occupy Wall Street

"We Are Not Going Anywhere"—The Occupation of Wall Street

Revolution Online, September 26, 2011

from Revolution newspaper distributors in New York City:

Several blocks from the financial center of American capitalism-imperialism, hundreds of mostly young people are occupying a private park in an action called OccupyWallStNYC. The occupation began with a march of 3,000 on Saturday, September 17 and since then, up to 100 have slept in the park every night. The occupation was called by Adbusters: "20,000 of us will descend on Wall Street, the iconic financial center of America, set up a peaceful encampment, hold a people's assembly to decide what our one demand will be, and carry out an agenda of full-spectrum, absolutely nonviolent civil disobedience the likes of which the country has not seen since the freedom marches of the 1960s."

The OccupyWallStreet website (https://occupywallst.org) describes it like this: "Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants... Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%."

From the beginning of the occupation 10 days ago, thousands of New Yorkers and tourists from around the globe have been moved to visit and millions are following it online. Similar actions are being organized in cities across the U.S. and around the world.

Last Thursday, several hundred from the occupation joined many others to march through the streets of downtown Manhattan for several hours, in defiant protest of the legal lynching of Troy Davis. Several were arrested.

The UN Vote… the Occupation of Palestine… and the Struggle for Liberation

Revolution #246, September 25, 2011

By Alan Goodman*

On September 23, the Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state.

The UN resolution poses critical questions of the nature and role of the state of Israel, the root causes behind the oppression of the Palestinian people, and what it will take to achieve justice and liberation for a people who have suffered generations of subjugation and brutal occupation.

The State of Israel and the Palestinian People…

To understand the backdrop for this UN resolution, it is necessary to start from three basic truths:

Special Issue on Israel
Bastion of Enlightenment… or Enforcer for Imperialism:
The Case of ISRAEL
#213, October 10, 2010revcom.us/israel/israel.html

The first is the origin of the state of Israel in 1948 on the land of the Palestinian people, whose roots in the land go back hundreds of years and whose existence as a nation in what today is Israel go back to the emergence of nation states in the region. At the end of the 17th century, there were 230,000 Palestinians (Muslim and Christian) and 2,000 Jewish people in what today is Israel. Two hundred years later, in 1800, the picture was similar—268,000 Palestinians and 7,000 Jews. Even after waves of Jewish emigration from Europe to Palestine, on the eve of the establishment of Israel, Palestine was home to about 1.3 million Palestinians and 630,000 Jewish settlers.

New York: Hundreds in the Streets in Outrage at Legal Lynching

"We Are All Troy Davis!"

source:http://revcom.us/a/246/we_are_all_troy_davis-en.html
Revolution received the following correspondence:

On Wednesday, September 21, at 11:08 pm, this system legally lynched a Black man. Troy Davis was executed by the State of Georgia. After the execution had been delayed for over three hours, the Supreme Court refused to stop this killing and Troy Davis' life was ended. Words can barely capture the injustice and outrage of this—which is a sharp example of what this thoroughly racist and utterly criminal system does to Black people and Latino people every single day.

A Calculated Murder by a Cold-Blooded System

On the Execution of Troy Davis

Source: //revcom.us/a/246/on_the_execution_of_troy_davis-en.html

At 10:50 p.m. on September 21, the State of Georgia injected a deadly mix of poisonous chemicals into Troy Davis, a 42-year-old Black man who had been on death row for the last 22 years. Davis turned his head to look directly at the family of the police officer he was convicted of shooting and according to witnesses said: "I am innocent. All I can ask... is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends to continue to fight this fight." At 11:08 p.m. Troy Davis was dead.

This legal lynching took place in the face of overwhelming evidence that Davis was innocent. It took place after one million people signed a petition to stop the execution, after worldwide protests involving many thousands of people. While some prominent public figures, including ex-President Carter, former FBI director William Sessions, and Pope Benedict, spoke out against the execution, President Obama didn't do or say anything—except to have his press secretary issue a statement that said: "It is not appropriate for the president of the United States to weigh in on specific cases like this one, which is a state prosecution." But in 2008 Barack Obama had no problem speaking up on a state prosecution case when he told people in NYC to accept the outrageous acquittal of the cops who murdered Sean Bell.

Posted by Mike E on September 26, 2011

Occupying Wall Street

by Doug Henwoord

We—my wife Liza Featherstone and son Ivan Henwood and I—paid a visit to the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday afternoon. Here’s an illustrated report. I also did a segment for my radio show. Audio for that is at the bottom of this entry.

The big media have largely ignored the OWS protest (though if you’re part of a certain kind of network on Facebook, you can’t miss it). Called first by Adbusterswith only the most minimal agenda, it’s taking on a life of its own, as people trickle in from all over. And I do mean minimal—the agenda is supposed to evolve spontaneously. When I talked with one of the organizers last week, she told me that they merely hoped “to build the new inside the shell of the old,” and though that sounds seductively wonderful, I’m not sure how robust such an approach can really be.

Or, to quote the event’s Facebook page, named in the now-ubiquitous hashtag fashion (#OCCUPYWALLSTREET):

we zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, would propel us toward the radical democracy of the future

I don’t think that has Lloyd Blankfein trembling in his shoes. Not that I know what could make him tremble, aside from a few quarterly losses for Goldman.

The purpose and non-coverage of Occupy Wall Street

Bhattarai and Prachanda discuss ways to counter the revolutionary wing of UCPN Maoist and delay Central Committee Meeting

PM Bhattarai, Prachanda aka Dahal discuss ways to counter party revolutionary wing to conclude peace process.

PM Bhattarai, who is also the vice chairman of the UCPN (Maoist) party, reached Dahal’s residence in Nayabazaar today morning and discussed the achievements of his recent visit to New York to attend the 66th session of the UN General Assembly.

The duo also discussed the agendas of the party’s central committee (CC) meeting scheduled to start from September 30 and ways to counter the severe opposition they are facing from the revolutionary wing of the party led by senior vice chairman Mohan Baidya aka Comrade Kiran to conclude the ongoing peace process by completing the task of army integration and timely constitution drafting.

It is learnt that the two top leaders of the ruling Maoist party, who belong to the revisionist wing , were in favor of postponing the CC meet and holding it only after the week-long Dashain festival.

The CC meet has been called by Mohan Baidya following the dispute among party’s top leadership over the handover of the keys to the PLA arms containers.

Mohan Baidya has termed the handover of the keys of the arms containers as “suicidal” and detrimental to the party’s interests.

Edited Report of Nepal News Story.

80 People Arrested at "Occupy Wall St."

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Comrade C P Gajurel Attacks four point deal with UDMF

CP Gajurel stated that the four-point deal between the UCPN (Maoist) and United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) is against the national interest and contravenes the party policy , .

He also questioned the points on settling the proposed and pending issues with neighboring countries.

“What are those proposed issues yet to be resolved?” Gajurel said while addressing the parliament meeting on Thursday. “Nepal and India are yet to sign the treaties on extradition and on allowing Indian air marshals.

The status of Nepal will not even be on par with Bhutan once these two treaties are signed.”

He objected to the wordings “inclusive democratic republic” used in the deal. “It is not in line with our party´s policy which advocates people´s federal republic. Therefore it is not acceptable to us,” he said.

Gajurel said the provision on right to property was also unacceptable. The provision states there will be no infringement, in any form, on the property legally owned by any individual. “Such a provision is unacceptable even to the Nepali Congress, let alone to a communist party like ours,” he explained.

He also criticized the provision on recruiting 10,000 youths from Madhesi communities in the Nepal Army. “If so, what about the youths from Limbu, Tharu or other communities?”

On the return of property seized by the Maoists, Gajurel said the properties can be returned only after the government provides an alternative to those who are using it.

Gajurel also criticized the government decision to hand over the keys of the arms containers to the Special Committee without first settling issues of army integration.

Edited Version of A Report in My Republica

Nepal’s new prime minister Bhattarai’s speech at the United Nations

Posted by Mike E on September 25, 2011

Amid the sharp conflict over direction and line, Bhattarai (leader of the rightist wing of the Nepali Maoist party, and now primeminister of Nepal) spoke to the United Nations. We will include a mainstream journalist report below — to give a sense what themes from Bhattarai’s talk are being reported (particularly his promise that turmoil and strife, the “painful transition,” will now end).

From the Himalayan.

The nepalese revolution cannot be stopped !
Imperialism and revisionism -Prachanda/Battarai - are paper's tiger !

Support maoists,maoism,war'speoplestrategy in Nepal, in and out PCUNm !
People want revolution !
Proletarians want Party of revolution !
Communists want proletarian internationalism and a new international organisation !
maoist road
23 september 2011

The Love Jihad

Saturday, 24 September 2011

Comrade Kiran meets Prachanda to re-affirm his oppostion to Prachanda/Bhattarai Revisionist Line

Comrade Kiran Maoist vice chairman has opposed some of the recent moves made by the party leadership including the handover of keys of arms containers met party chairman Prachanda Friday evening to reaffirm his position.

During the meeting held at Prachanda's Naya Bazaar residence, Comrade Kiran informed about the recent gathering of the central leaders and cadres loyal to him in the capital, a Maoist source told Nepalnews.

The meeting lasted just around 10 minutes. Comrade Kiran aka Baidya went alone to meet Prachanda.

Comrade Kiran's one-on-one with Prachanda comes as he prepares to take on the party leadership on a some major issues, including the decision to form an alliance with the Madhesi parties, in the upcoming central committee meeting of the party.

The internal row in the Maoist party has spilled over into the parliament with Comrade Kiran's supporter party secretary CP Gajurel formally objecting to the handover of the container keys in the parliament yesterday.

Democracy and Class Struggle affirms its support for Comrade Kiran in his battle against Prachanda/Bhattarai Revisionism to rectify the Maoist Party in Nepal.

China Converting US Debt To Gold: Wikileaks

Karl Marx Voted Greatest Thinker of the Millennium

Posted by Maoist Rebel News on 2011 09 23

Marx took the top spot by a wide margin followed by Einstein, Newton, and Darwin, in second, third and fourth places.

Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll to find the greatest thinker of the millennium.

The nineteenth century writer won September’s vote with a clear margin, pushing Albert Einstein, who had led for most of the month, into second place.

The top 10 included philosophers Immanuel Kant and Rene Dez-cart)Descartes as well as twentieth century scientist Stephen Hawking.

The vote was the ninth of BBC News Online’s monthly Your Millennium series. In October you can vote for the greatest explorer of the last thousand years. [...] Karl Marx is probably the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the nineteenth century and one of the founders of communism. [...] BBC News Online readers from across the world took part in the millennium poll.

Dag Thoresen from Norway, said: “Karl Marx has inspired thousands of liberation struggles. He was the father of modern political thinking.”
And Jyotsna Kapur from the USA said: “Marx analysed best the working of capitalism. Given that that is the system that characterises the world at the end of the twentieth century his work is as relevant to understanding the world we live in as it was for understanding the nineteenth century.”

THEY MURDERED TROY, BUT WE MUST NEVER FORGET HIM! by Carl Dix

By Carl Dix

This system executed Troy Davis—no they murdered him. They delayed his execution a few hours while the Supreme Court considered and rejected a last-minute appeal from Troy's lawyers. The court issued a one-sentence statement explaining why they refused again to reopen his case and look at the mounting evidence of his innocence. It might as well have said Black people have no rights we are bound to respect! The content of what the system has told us in this case, as they told us in the case of Shaka Sankofa eleven years ago, is that innocence is no bar to execution.

US must apologize for grand nuclear deception, reveal where nukes arms were stored--CPP

Communist Party of the Philippines

September 21, 2011

Focus topics: Fight US intervention!

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said the Filipino people deserve an apology from the US government for secretly storing nuclear weapons in the Philippines in the late 1960s. It added that the US must reveal where these weapons were stockpiled and whether these have already been dismantled and properly disposed of.

A Nepali Maoist Speaks on the Lynching of Troy Davis

The following is from Uday Magar, a young Nepali Maoist from Thewang in Rolpa, the village where the Nepali people's war began. Uday advocates for the continuation of the Nepalese revolution, and wrote a statement on the lynching of Troy Davis in the United States.

We are shocked by this brutal act of America. We can prove that it is America who is guilty of murdering our friend, TROY DAVIS.

The question is: who is going to punish the murderer? The answer is: US.

A part of America is occupied by machines that reject love and justice. Even after it was proven that TROY DAVIS is an innocent man, he was inhumanly murdered. It's crystal clear that America cruelly kills every hope that is likely to oppose it. It mercilessy murders the minds that show signs of opposition to its plans.

We are one with the big part of America that favours a society free of domination and discrimination in the name of race,color, caste, and class.

We are one Troy Davis who has bee murdered. We are all Troy Davis, and we will not die silently, but instead struggle strongly to establish the only nation in our imagination - A NATION OF WORKERS

YOUTH OF THE WORLD-UNITE!

Commentary: The Next People’s War?

Posted by Harry Sims on September 23, 2011

This commentary comes from the Nepal Times. Per South Asia Revolution’s usual policy, posting here does not imply endorsement of the views presented. We will have on going series of articles and features related to the future of the Nepalese revolution. As this commentary suggests, events in Nepal are sharpening to a concentrated contradiction between the current dead-locked system, and a revolutionary transformation. Which characteristic will determine the Nepalese revolution in this period is yet to be seen.

“The message is clear: a significant faction of the Maoist party appears to remain committed to armed revolution as the only route to pursuing their political aims… Nepal’s politics has become so corrosive and so driven by patronage that any party coming close to power will be both compromised and consumed by it, abandoning both principle and ideology for the next pay-off. The Maoist leadership has now itself been swallowed up by this and increasingly alienated from its traditional base. The scary truth is that the radicals within the Maoists have been proved right by the gridlock of the last five years: there appears no capacity in the Nepali political system for social transformation, not even, it seems, for effective governance.”

The next People’s War?

A significant faction of the Maoist party remains committed to armed revolution

SIMON ROBINS in BARDIYA

The split within the Maoists is seen by many as a final test of their commitment to peace, and a test of the resolve and authority of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai.

However, this remains a metropolitan discussion, centred around the politics of the CA and trading of policies for money and position that has long defined Nepali politics. One faction of the Maoist party has already taken the discussion out of the Kathmandu back-rooms to articulate its position on a broader stage. For the last month, a Maoist cultural program, dominated by the hardline Kiran faction, has gone around the country laying out its critique of the peace process and more pointedly of both the position and integrity of the party leadership.

Mutiny among Indian counter-insurgency troops

Posted by Mike E on September 22, 2011

Indian counterinsurgency troops describing their hunger strike to reporters.

Articles have appeared in the Indian press documenting a revolt among the soldiers (Jawans) of the the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB). The mutiny is (apparently) over their terrible conditions. As Maoists say “It is no fun being a running dog.” And, at the same time, it is a positive thing for the Indian revolutionaries and people if the Indian high command face demoralization and revolt within the ranks.

Thanks to Sidhartha S.

State unit jawans fast to protest posting

from the Telegraph

Midnapore, Sept. 21: Over 300 India Reserve Battalion (IRB) jawans deployed in the Maoist-affected areas of West Midnapore and Bankura have gone on a hunger strike from last night protesting prolonged posting in a “high-risk zone”, lack of leaves and the dilapidated condition of barracks.

The constables of eight camps have locked the main gates of the bases from inside so that their superiors can’t enter. The seniors — inspectors and sub-inspectors — were asked to leave the camps last night.

The jawans want their demands, including granting of leaves, postings in low-risk zones and allotment of adequate uniforms, to be met immediately.

The jawans at Shilda camp on Wednesday. (Anindya Shankar Ray)

“The jawans launched their agitation simultaneously. It appears that they had communicated with each other and planned the hunger strike. They have stopped performing their duties, which is a gross violation of the service code,” said an official of the IRB, a state force, in West Midnapore’s Binpur.

The camps where the fast is being organised are in West Midnapore’s Shilda, Lalgarh, Salboni, Jhargram, Keshpur, Garbeta and Majugeria, and Bankura’s Sarenga.

The jawans at the IRB camp in Shilda, where Maoists had killed 26 Eastern Frontier Rifles jawans in February last year, allegedly threw stones at officers from the nearby Binpur police station when they went to pacify them last night. “We were also not allowed to enter,” an officer said.

Nepal: India Tries to Convict Maoists from People’s War Period

Posted by hetty7 on September 22, 2011

This article is from myrepublica.

Clemency Plea Likely for Convicted Maoists

Kiran Chapagain/Kiran Pun

Kathmandu Sept 13: The government is likely to request India for clemency to 10 Maoist leaders including four sitting lawmakers and politburo leaders convicted on treason charges by an Indian high court recently.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Narayankaji Shrestha told Republica that the government on Monday approached the office of the Attorney General for advice.

“We have asked the attorney general to study the legal procedure and how the issue can be resolved,” Shrestha said when asked how the government and the Maoist party would deal with the verdict of the Patna High Court.

October 22, 2011—National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation

A Fight for the Future, the Struggle for a Different World

October 22, 2011 will be the 16th year people have taken to the streets in cities all over the U.S. on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation.

An epidemic of police murder and beatings, courts of injustice, mass imprisonment, the demonization of Black and Latino youth… All this is not just still going on. It's getting WORSE. With no justice in sight. With no sign this system is gonna put the brakes on any of this without determined struggle by the people.

In 2009 we saw how Oscar Grant was murdered by a cop in Oakland, Calif.—shot point blank as he lay on a train platform. Hundreds of people witnessed it, cell phones captured it, YouTube brought it to millions more. A blatant, cold-blooded murder caught on video. People took to the streets demanding justice. And the system couldn't just let the killer cop Johannes Mehserle off… right away. So they had a trial and, in a highly unusual move, found Mehserle guilty of manslaughter. BUT THEN… after only 11 months he walks out of his prison cell, free. People take to the streets to protest this outrage and are attacked by the cops.

That same month: TWO MORE young Black males are murdered by cops in the SF Bay Area. One of them, 19-year-old Kenneth Harding, shot because the police say he was running away after not paying a two dollar train fare. Shot and left bleeding to death on the sidewalk as the police stand around him in a circle with guns drawn. As Harding writhes in pain and gasps for air, the cops prevent anyone from coming to his aid. Prevent anyone from even holding his hand.

Does Didi want to make Jhargram into another Nandigram?

September 22, 2011

by Partho Sarothi Ray

Over the past few weeks reports coming from the Jangalmahal region in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal have described an alarming situation. Numerous reports of the joint forces (both state and central) entering and laying siege to villages, beating up people andmaking indiscriminate arrests had come to our knowledge. Along with these, the atrocities being committed on villagers by a newly formed armed group called the Bhairav Bahini, reportedly organized by the ruling Trinamool Congress, have been coming. Also a number of killings of individuals have been reported in the media.

Occupy Wall Street: One Demand, Many Voices

Posted by onehundredflowers on September 23, 2011

This is from occupywallst.org.

A Message From Occupied Wall Street (Day Five)

This is the fifth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.

On September 21st, 2011, Troy Davis, an innocent man, was murdered by the state of Georgia. Troy Davis was one of the 99 percent.

Ending capital punishment is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, the richest 400 Americans owned more wealth than half of the country’s population.

Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, four of our members were arrested on baseless charges.

Ending police intimidation is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, we determined that Yahoo lied about occupywallst.org being in spam filters.

Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, roughly eighty percent of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track.

Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, roughly 15% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing.

Ending political corruption is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of Americans did not have work.

Ending joblessness is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of America lived in poverty.

Ending poverty is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, roughly fifty million Americans were without health insurance.

Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, America had military bases in around one hundred and thirty out of one hundred and sixty-five countries.

Ending American imperialism is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, America was at war with the world.

Ending war is our one demand.

On September 21st, 2011, we stood in solidarity with Madrid, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, Toronto, London, Athens, Sydney, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Milan, Amsterdam, Algiers, Tel Aviv, Portland and Chicago. Soon we will stand with Phoenix, Montreal, Cleveland and Atlanta. We’re still here. We are growing. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world.

You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the bosses. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, the people will speak. Join us.

We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choice to march on Wall Street to our decision to continue occupying Liberty Square, were decided through a consensus based process by the group, for the group.

How long? How long? How long? How long?