Category Archives: OccupyLA

Opportunity Knocks for Occupy L.A. — The Problem Is City Hall, Not Corporations

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Wake up, you evolutionary revolutionaries of Occupy L.A., you are dancing with the very people you say you despise — the panderers to corporate greed and union selfishness, the people who serve the 1 percent at the expense of the … Continue reading →

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Ignorance Meets Hypocrisy: Occupy L.A. Awakens to City Hall’s Corruption

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Organizers (there are no leaders so everybody speaks for themselves) of Occupy Los Angeles let city officials have it on Wednesday over the commitment City Council members made to punish the banks when they unanimously approved turning the entire City … Continue reading →

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TEA PARTY VS. OCCUPY WALL ST.

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Here’s amusing comparison of the Tea Party versus Occupy Wall Street posted by Dan Nixon at the “Duck of Minerva” and reposted as the Chart of the Day on Andrew Sullivan’s “The Daily Dish.”http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/

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A Libertarian’s View of Occupy L.A. — ‘Camping Out … Looking for a Change in People’s Hearts’

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

By TIM CAVANAUGH, Reason.com Can the Occupy movement survive an onslaught of bandwagon-joining politicians?  Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution supporting the Occupy L.A. tent city that has sprung up around City Hall. Yet this lethal stamp … Continue reading →

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Lip Service to Business Community, Lip Service to Protesters — Corruption as Usual at City Hall

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

It was one of those gloriously only in L.A. moments when our hypocrisy and contradictions were on full display before the world. The city’s business community filled the City Council Chamber for two hours before the regular Council meeting last … Continue reading →

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Occupying Occupy Los Angeles: Local Community Activists Can Help Define City Issues

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

EDITOR”S NOTE: This column was written for Nina Royal’s North Valley Reporter monthly newspaper.which published it’s October edition today. Two weeks ago at the end of activist-organized Congress of Neighborhood Empowerment, the mayor offered his cheerleading analysis that the decade-old … Continue reading →

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Two Op-Ed Takes on Occupy Los Angeles

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE:  I wrote these two columns on Occupy Los Angeles for the Daily News and for the News-Press & Leader, the LA Times community paper serving Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena. They were both published on Sunday. Occupy L.A. Shows Vitality … Continue reading →

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Hijacking the ‘American Spring’ Revolution?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Watching the live video of the Occupy Los Angeles protesters camped out at City Hall is an education in just how difficult it is to give birth to a revolution. They are committed to extreme democracy, holding daily “general assembly” … Continue reading →

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Why Are They Protesting?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Documentary filmmaker Michael Galinsky (“Battle for Brooklyn”) has spent some time with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York asking them: “WHY ARE YOU HERE?” Why Are You at Occupy Wall Street from rumur on Vimeo. He also caught … Continue reading →

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Occupy Los Angeles or the Trial of Michael Jackson’s Doctor — You Choose What Matters

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

It says something, too much really, that the spark of protest ignited in L.A. on Saturday with the Occupy Los Angeles movement that has taken over the lawns at City Hall has as its No. 1 chant: Occupy Wall Street. … Continue reading →

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