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THE COMMONS MATTER Anne Winkler Morey May 23, 2012 There is a woman in Concrete, WA who has started a campaign called Why Concrete Matters. Her strategy is simple: to photograph beloved places in her small town, with a sign that says “This Place Matters.” The first three photos were 1. the local library, [...]
Editor’s note: This list contains some of the media that has come to WAMMToday’s attention, but by no means is intended to be comprehensive. Here is a link to the Chicago Tribune’s gallery of photos for the day. They specialize in confrontation, and have very little about the pre-march activity or the march itself. Jennie, [...]
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook POSTED: May 15, 3:10 PM ET | By Rick Perlstein Rolling Stone Mark McGowan, Patricia Faella, Marcus Faella, Kent McLellan, Jennifer McGowan, Dustin Perry, Richard Stockdale and Christopher Brooks of the American Front arrested in Florida. REUTERS/Osceola County Jail /LANDOV This past October, at [...]
Bored With Occupy—and Inequality Class issues fade along with protest coverage By John Knefel Extra! May 2012 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 [...]
Tomgram> Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch If you had followed May Day protests in New York City in the mainstream media, you might hardly have noticed that they happened at all. The stories were generally tucked away, minimalist, focused on a [...]
Lawrence Lessig talks with FSTV’s Marcy Miranda on the importance of Independent Media and their role in the current political landscape. Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday from our blog website and “Follow” us. wammtoday.wordpress.com WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. [...]
The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike By Richard Falk Thursday, 03 May 2012 10:10 MWC News Traveling below the Western Radar Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would [...]
Media Malfeasance: Corporate News Downsizes OWS, Downplays Murdoch Ruling By Gustav Wynn May 3, 2012 OpEdNews NYC streets occupied May 1, 2012 by gw Tuesday’s May Day march was Occupy Wall Street’s largest ever, with one NY Times estimate topping out at 30,000 demonstrators.The exact crowd size was hard to gauge from the [...]
May Day Media Posted on 05/02/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR With Occupy Wall Street making its May Day comeback, what did the corporate media have to say? Take a look at the New York Times story (5/2/12), which was stuffed in the Metro section and focused on… well, take a look at the headline: About half of the article is [...]
The New York Times, May 2nd – The Day After By Don Gato May 2, 2012 New York Times eXaminer Yesterday, May 1st—International Workers Day (and what Obama has cynically renamed a new national holiday called “Loyalty Day,” tailing red-baiting anti-communist Presidents of times past[i])—I was in New York City for “Occupy May [...]
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