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    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present.  Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

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Chris Hedges on Prez 2012: How Do You Take Your Poison?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Truth Dig How Do You Take Your Poison? By Chris Hedges / Spet 24, 2012 We will all swallow our cup of corporate poison. We can take it from nurse Romney, who will tell us not to whine and play the victim, or we can take it from nurse Obama, who will assure […]

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Can the US military come disappear you? Yes! Unless you stop the NDAA

Posted on March 29, 2012 by kwilder

See info below: Court case, press conference, and silent march today in NYC to stop the NDAA I don’t think most Americans realize the extent that recent government decisions and laws have affected their basic freedom and safety. In particular, language inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act allows for anyone labeled a terrorist to […]

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Goldman Sachs Sucks! – Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy arrested at protest

Posted on November 3, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) The Gothamist Protesters Arrested Outside Goldman Sachs Include Author Chris Hedges, Reverend Billy Over a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested today outside Goldman Sachs, where they had marched with 300 others after holding a mock trial of CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Among those arrested were performance artist gadfly Reverend Billy and author […]

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People’s Trial of Goldman Sachs: Brought to you by Occupy Wall Street and WBAI

Posted on November 1, 2011 by kwilder

Update: This trial and action happened. Protesters chanted “Goldman Sucks”. Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy were arrested as part of the anti-Goldman Sachs demonstration. Story at The Gothamist: here. Note that this event is just in time to get people thinking about Bank Transfer Day on Saturday, November 5th! WBAI 120 Wall Street 10th Floor: […]

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Our Occupy Wall Street Adventure AND second issue of OWS newspaper

Posted on October 10, 2011 by kwilder

Our Flickr page has dozens of photos from Occupy Wall Street today…onthewilderside Flickr: here. Here are my rough notes/retype from The Occupied Wall Street Journal Saturday, October 8, 2011 Issue 2 Articles:

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Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street (transcript and link)

Posted on September 25, 2011 by kwilder

Chris Hedges speaks with the first incarnation of Occupy Wall Street. Link to a youtube of the Chris Hedges interview: here. (An interview on Sunday Morning 9/25/2011. Ended at about 12:15pm) Chris Hedges stopped by the Occupy Wall Street encampment, and after a slow start, they fed him excellent questions. Great stuff. Sorry for the […]

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Bruce A. Dixon: A More Effective Imperial CEO (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by iwilder

“We are here because some of us and our friends voted for change.  What did we get?  What we got was a more effective imperial CEO.” — Bruce A. Dixon of Black Agenda Report, Bruce Dixon, who runs a blog on the Black Agenda Report (blackagendareport.com), argues that the current Democrat in the White House […]

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Chris Hedges: ‘There is no major difference between a McCain administration, a Bush and an Obama administration’

Posted on January 6, 2011 by iwilder

There is no major difference between a McCain administration, a Bush and an Obama administration. Obama, in fact, is in many ways worse. McCain, like Bush, exposes the naked face of corporate power. Obama, who professes to support core liberal values while carrying out policies that mock these values, mutes and disempowers liberals, progressives and […]

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135 arrested at White House, protesting war

Posted on December 22, 2010 by kwilder

Story at Democracy Now… As the Afghan war review was released, an estimated 135 people were arrested outside the White House in an antiwar protest led by the group Veterans for Peace. The protesters were detained after chaining themselves to the White House fence… Commentary by Ray McGovern, one of the arrested, at OpEd News: […]

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Chris Hedges: March to Nowhere – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig

Posted on October 5, 2010 by iwilder

There was no war cry against Wall Street and the purveyors of death in the defense and health industry. There was no acknowledgement that unfettered capitalism and globalization are killing our ecosystem and creating a worldwide system of neo-feudalism. There was no acceptance that the corporate state must be dismantled if we are to save […]

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Chris Hedges: How the liberal intelligentsia in America failed the Working Class

Posted on April 25, 2010 by kwilder

Chris Hedges on April 10, 2010. A speech for the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Subjects: corporate media, Liberals let down the Working Class, the new health care bill as equal to the band bailouts, etc.

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