jill

continuing examination of 3 alternative presidential candidates, a feb 2012 clip below from jill stein, running on the green party ticket.  she lays out an overview vision, including full employment (and an "employment office" instead of an "unemployment office"), an improved medicare for the whole country, a full forgiving of student loans, "breaking up the big banks," reducing military spending by 50%, repealing the patriot act, hand-counted paper ballots for all elections (whether they're computerized or not, if i understood correctly - and with a ballot that must be hand-marked by the voter), and much more:

rocky

oldsaukriver begins examining material for three third party presidential candidates:  rocky anderson of the justice party, jill stein with the green party, and stuart alexander of the peace and freedom party. 

rocky anderson for president recently released the clip below following the u.s.s.c. decision on the affordable care act.  he discusses how medicare for all would cost less while providing better health care for americans.

independence mall

tim pool's livestream channel from independence mall in philadelphia, and for july 4th.


 

 

factory

martha wainwright in factory.

climate change

what your weather report could sound like.

 

chinatown

meanwhile, in los angeles, a large demonstration against a walmart opening in chinatown.  

more blogging here on walmart's worker practices.

national gathering

courtesy of occupied stories

occupy caravan road trip

occupy activists are converging in philadelphia for a national gathering. from the nation:

“For me, this is a chance to finally meet face-to-face with people who are doing work in other cities and build real relationships,” said Jeff Rae, an Occupy activist who had his Twitter records subpoenaed by the New York District Attorney in March.

“In a much broader scope, I hope that at the National Gathering, we can have some real dialogue about what’s next for Occupy. New tactics and strategies.”

nbc philadelphia reports here on a day 3 of protests and arrests, including a march in solidarity with quebec student strikers and an incident in which police kettled and arrested 26 evening protesters, including the ustream reporter.  [a video is viewable at the nation link - for some reason (only known to the authorities), the blogger system isn't allowing the ustream to post.  you might also be able to link to it after the clip below runs through.]

in the youtube below, from NativeInterFace, a non-violent resister in a daytime philadelphia protest is hit in the throat by a national guardsman using his baton.

more blogging on philadelphia here and an occupy caravan on its way with some vegie pizza to share.