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[VIDEO] Occupy Offshoots Return to Highlight Student Tuition Hikes, Food Sovereignty

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174314/occupy-offshoots-return-highlight-student-tuition-hikes-food-sovereignty#

Over the course of the past week, actions by offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement have brought attention to the issues of student tuition hikes and food sovereignty.

In New York, a group of students at Cooper Union took over the college president’s office last week to protest a decision to begin charging tuition for the first time in at least a century. The trustees’ decision caused an uproar at Cooper, previously one of the last remaining free colleges in the country...

RELATED: http://occupywallstreet.net/event/next-creative-action-planning-sal-strategic-action-labs

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Activists occupy Budapest’s Ludwig Museum

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Activists-occupy-Budapests-Ludwig-Museum-/29577

Protests over the removal of museum director Barnabas Bencsik

Around 30 activists from the group “United for Contemporary Art” have been occupying the entrance hall of Budapest’s Ludwig Museum in the Palace of the Arts since last week. The protest, which is still ongoing, is directed at the “lack of transparency” in the selection process of the Ludwig’s new director.
When Barnabas Bencsik’s contract expired at the end of February, the Ministry of Human Resources (which is also responsible for culture) set up a committee to suggest a successor for the popular director. But the committee was criticised for being secretive and...

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Take Action to Increase the Minimum Wage in Minnesota

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Take-Action-to-Increase-the-Minimum-Wage-in-Minnesota

Adult minimum wage is more than $13 an hour in New Zealand, and the weather's nicer than Minnesota's.

Both houses of the Minnesota legislature have passed bills to increase the state's minimum wage. The two bills are different, however, and they each need to approve an identical bill. The Minnesota AFL-CIO is calling on the state's residents to contact members of the state Senate to ask them to pass legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour...

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Bangladesh Government Moves to Ease Unionization

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/Bangladesh-Government-Moves-to-Ease-Unionization

The Bangladesh Cabinet approved a change to the nation’s labor laws that it says would enable workers to more freely form unions. The proposal, which must be approved by Parliament, would allow workers to join unions without showing the list of union supporters to factory owners to verify their employment—a practice that effectively makes it impossible for unions to gather sufficient support to register with the government because factory owners often penalize or fire workers who support unionization...

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Effort to Stop Koch Brothers’ Takeover of L.A. Times Gains Momentum

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Effort-to-Stop-Koch-Brothers-Takeover-of-L.A.-Times-Gains-Momentum

"Don’t sell out to the Koch brothers / Don’t let the brothers in the door / We don’t want them taking over / That is what we’re marching for!"

That was the message, as sung by acclaimed musician Ry Cooder, carried by hundreds of Los Angeles residents who marched and rallied Tuesday to urge Oaktree Capital Management not to sell the respected Los Angeles Times to right-wing extremists David and Charles Koch. The “No Koch Hate in L.A.” rally was sponsored by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and community allies...

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[VIDEO] The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

http://vimeo.com/26718047

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.

The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

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[AUDIO] Otter Creek Coal Mine – “We’re not going to let it happen”

http://inotherwordsradio.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/otter-creek-coal-mine-were-not-going-to-let-it-happen/

Vanessa Braided Hair and Alexis Bonogosky are convinced this proposed coal mine in southeastern Montana is madness– and they are not going to let it happen. Listen to why it’s crazy and how it can be stopped. Be inspired.

This In Other Words program, produced by Amy Cilimburg (with help from Beth Anne Austein), aired May 14 on Montana Public Radio.

Check out Alexis’s fantastic blog.

Email Alexis: Bonogofsky@nwf.org.

Contact EcoCheyenne and Vanessa: ecocheyenne@gmail.com

For more on the health impacts of coal and climate, visit Clean Air Montana...

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On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt

http://www.propublica.org/article/on-victory-drive-soldiers-defeated-by-debt

Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation's military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent.

The Military Lending Act sought to protect service members and their families from predatory loans. But in practice, the law has defined the types of covered loans so narrowly that it's been all too easy for lenders to circumvent it.

"We have to revisit this," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who chairs the defense appropriations subcommittee and is the Senate's se...

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[VIDEO] Obama Announces IRS Resignation, Promises Safeguards and Oversight Cooperation

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june13/irs_05-15.html

President Barack Obama announced that acting commissioner of the IRS Steven Miller would be stepping down, calling the political targeting scandal "inexcusable." Jeffrey Brown delves into the latest developments and lingering questions with Josh Gerstein for Politico and Paul Streckfus, creator and editor of EO Tax Journal.

RELATED: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/irs-says-counsel-didnt-tell-treasury-of-tea-party-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all

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Occupy protester sentenced to community service

http://www.registerguard.com/rg/news/local/29875684-75/eugene-iris-property-occupy-fence.html.csp

A woman who last November locked herself to a chain-link fence around the former City Hall property in downtown Eugene to call attention to issues surrounding homelessness pleaded guilty this morning to a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing.

The charge will be reduced to a noncriminal violation if Occupy Eugene member Gwendolyn Iris completes 30 hours of community service by mid-August...

RELATED VIDEO: http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Eugene-council-delays-Occupy-Eugene-decision/ZVEtFB2qVkih3yrWWCHwdA.cspx

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Home Defenders League Sponsors Wall Street Accountability Week of Action

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Home-Defenders-League-Sponsors-Wall-Street-Accountability-Week-of-Action

The Home Defenders League is holding a Wall Street Accountability Week of Action in Washington, D.C., from May 18-23. Families directly affected by the foreclosure crisis are traveling to the nation's capital to make their voices heard. On May 20, at 1:30 p.m., home defenders and their allies are rallying to "Bring Justice to Justice." The week also will include community organizing and training in home defense and other nonviolent tactics...

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Nationwide Movement for a Living Wage Strikes Milwaukee

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2013/05/nationwide-movement-for-a-living-wage-strikes-milwaukee.html

Inspired by recent workplace actions in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit, low-wage workers in Milwaukee joined the nationwide movement for a living wage Wednesday by walking off the job. Workers are calling for a wage increase and the right to form a union free from employer harassment or retaliation.

Hundreds of workers walked off the job at places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Old Country Buffet and Popeye's. Workers are being joined by community supporters and religious groups throughout the day and plan to march from the Milwaukee County Courthouse to downtown ...

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Nationwide Movement for a Living Wage Strikes Milwaukee - TODAY

http://wisaflcio.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=87673b53-a8ab-4a0e-b4bf-ad4250726a16

Fast food workers in Milwaukee walk off the job, call for wage increase, and the right to a union without retaliation

(MILWAUKEE, WI, May 15) – Inspired by recent workplace actions in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit, low-wage workers in Milwaukee joined the nationwide movement for a living wage Wednesday by walking off the job. Workers are calling for a wage increase and the right to form a union free from employer harassment or retaliation.

Hundreds of workers walked off the job at places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Old Country Buffet and Popeye's. Wo...

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[VIDEO] Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next? 1 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gn5ay-L2xfM

Published on May 13, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org - In a historic verdict, former U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Ríos Montt was convicted of overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala's Ixil region after seizing power in 1982. The ruling marks the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his own country. The judge in the case has instructed prosecutors to launch an immediate investigation of...

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Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided

http://grist.org/news/occupy-the-farm-movement-rises-again-hours-after-being-raided/

A guerrilla veggie-growing occupation of university-owned land in Albany, Calif., was busted by cops early Monday and thousands of zucchini, kale, squash, and other newly planted seedlings were plowed over. But the occupiers proved more resilient than a sprawling mint plant, returning Monday to replant the desecrated farm.

More than 100 activists had gathered at Gill Tract, near Berkeley, on Friday and over the weekend, with some staying on site until the Monday morning raid. They pulled weeds, tilled soil, and planted seedlings. Some pitched tents.

RELATED VIDEO: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9100060

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Mo. House Passes Paycheck Deception, but Veto Expected

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Mo.-House-Passes-Paycheck-Deception-but-Veto-Expected

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), its corporate backers and extremist Missouri lawmakers may have won the first round in their drive to silence working people with a paycheck deception bill, when the House gave it final approval (86-69) earlier this week.

But thanks to a strong mobilization by Missouri working families and their unions and allies, the close vote—that included several Republicans who voted against the bill—means that Gov. Jay Nixon’s (D) expected veto cannot be overridden. It takes a two-thirds majority vote to override...

RELATED: http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/04/woot-paycheck-deception-picket.html

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Everything Is Rigged, Continued: European Commission Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/everything-is-rigged-continued-european-commission-raids-oil-companies-in-price-fixing-probe-20130515

We're going to get into this more at a later date, but there was some interesting late-breaking news yesterday.

According to numerous reports, the European Commission regulators yesterday raided the offices of oil companies in London, the Netherlands and Norway as part of an investigation into possible price-rigging in the oil markets. The targeted companies include BP, Shell and the Norweigan company Statoil. The Guardian explains that officials believe that oil companies colluded to manipulate pricing data:

The commission said the alleged price collusion, which may hav...

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150 Charles Street, PHB, West Village

http://ny.curbed.com/marketplace/properties/351640-150-charles-street-phb-west-village-new-york

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Only once in a lifetime does the opportunity to own a penthouse like this one come to pass. Spanning over 4,600 square feet and offering more than 2,500 feet of private outdoor terraces, this five bedroom, five and one half bath home is the crowning jewel atop Downtown's most sought after building, 150 Charles Street. Offering unobstructed and landmark-protected full river and city views in all four directions, Penthouse B will captivate all who enter. Arrive via private elevator and find a grand living space featuring a wood bu...