Tom Morello gets us ready for #s17

The Right Wing Think Tanks and their Democrat and Republican allies want to destroy public education because it is one of the few institutions that maintain some autonomy, through democratic school boards and workers democracy (unions), from private corporate control.

The Chicago teachers strike may not end the way they want it to: Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans Sunday evening to sue the union and force what he called an illegal strike to end immediately.

It star­ted as a catch­phrase and be­came a glob­al move­ment.

On Sept. 17, 2011, hun­dreds of pro­test­ers marched through the streets of Man­hat­tan and began an en­camp­ment in Zuc­cotti Park. Defined on its web­site as a “lead­er­less res­ist­ance move­ment,” Oc­cupy Wall Street has sparked sim­il­ar protests across the U.S. and in more than 82 coun­tries.

“There’s no justification for those barricades or that police car blocking the bull,” Mr. Piccolo said in an interview.

In the 1930s, during the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell recorded in his book, Homage to Catalonia, the seemingly endless squabbles between the factions, sects, and tendencies among his comrades in the anti-fascist resistance.

About a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested during a march near the New York Stock Exchange on the anniversary of the grass-roots movement. (Sept. 17)

A New York University professor and an artist featured in The Nation magazine this month were among more than 90 people arrested early Monday morning as Occupy Wall Street marked its first anniversary with various demonstrations in New York City.

„What happened here a year ago was a process that cannot be stopped,“ Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges said. „What happened here a year ago will ultimately spell the doom of the corporate state.“

Aus den USA kommen schwache Konjunkturdaten. Der Index für das verarbeitende Gewerbe im Bundesstaat New York sank auf seinen niedrigsten Stand seit fast dreieinhalb Jahren. Anleger reagieren mit Gewinnmitnahmen.

Occupy Wall Street protesters planned to surround the New York Stock Exchange in a sit-down protest marking the movement’s one-year anniversary. Hundreds of police gathered in anticipation of a heated face-off, following related unrest on Saturday.

Though Mitt Romney has been campaigning for president since 2006, it’s alarming how little is known about critical chapters of his business biography. Nothing spells that out more clearly than his ties to Monsanto—the current target of a mid-September Occupy nationwide action—whose dark history features scandals involving PCBs, Agent Orange, bovine growth hormone, NutraSweet, IUD, genetically modified (GM) seed and herbicides, reaching back to the 1970s and ’80s. That’s when Monsanto was the largest consulting client of Romney’s employer, Bain & Company, and when Romney helped move Monsanto from chemical colossus to genetic giant, trading one set of environmental controversies for another.