CORPORATE MEDIA COVERAGE: “Two NYPD Officers Shot Dead, Everyone but Actual Shooter Blamed” / David Pakman Show / David Pakman ☮
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Category Archives: Police Brutality
CORPORATE MEDIA COVERAGE: “Two NYPD Officers Murdered” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
PLUTOCRACY AND POLICE: “Remember, ‘to Protect and Serve’ is Applicable to the Plutocracy, Not You!”
h/t: Labor 411
POLICE BRUTALITY: “UC Berkeley Student March / 12.06.2014
EARNED BENEFITS: “Protect Social Security”
h/t: Labor 411
PLUTOCRATIC ENTITLEMENT: “Protect Social Security”
h/t: Labor 411
PLUTOCRACY AND POLICE: “Remember, ‘to Protect and Serve’ is Applicable to the Plutocracy, Not You!”
h/t: Labor 411
JUSTICE: “Our Invisible Revolution” / Chris Hedges
“Did you ever ask yourself how it happens that government and capitalism continue to exist in spite of all the evil and trouble they are causing in the world?” the anarchist Alexander Berkman wrote in his essay “The Idea Is the Thing.” “If you did, then your answer must have been that it is because the people support those institutions, and that they support them because they believe in them.”
Berkman was right. As long as most citizens believe in the ideas that justify global capitalism, the private and state institutions that serve our corporate masters are unassailable. When these ideas are shattered, the institutions that buttress the ruling class deflate and collapse. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface. It is a battle the corporate state is steadily losing. An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and live under the gaze of the most intrusive security and surveillance apparatus in human history. Half the country lives in poverty. Many of the rest of us, if the corporate state is not overthrown, will join them. These truths are no longer hidden.
ACTIVISM: “You have the right to remain silent!”
h/t: Being Liberal
The Corporate Media’s Attempt to Kill the Occupy Movement
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. . . Since September, the mainstream press in the US has systematically ignored and demonized the Occupy movement. The nakedness of the class bias in this case, however, was especially jarring: the size and significance of the protests were downplayed, reports of police brutality were largely ignored, and the movement was portrayed as violent and dangerous. Many of the most prominent US news outlets, such as The New York Times, practically ignored the protests altogether. These shameful distortions by the corporate press display the function of the media as an organ of the rule of “the 1 percent,” and reveal how threatened elites are by organized, direct action and democratic participation.
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The Tea Party, a movement which serves rather than threatens corporate interests, has received front-page coverage in virtually all of the nation’s national newspapers for events that were smaller and less significant than this week’s May Day protests. Yet, a truly substantial social movement with genuine emancipatory potential and a broad base of support among Americans is largely considered un-newsworthy by the corporate press. When the demonstrations were covered, crude caricatures masquerading as objective news ruled the day.
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