Bookmarks 01/21/2012

• The New Student Activism – NYTimes.com

  tags: occupy occupywallstreet ows university youth activism protests student

  • Mirroring the broader movement, students have taken aim at widening income disparities and the cozy symbiosis between Washington and Wall Street. But the college occupiers have also embraced a panoply of causes, localizing and personalizing their protests in a way that has lent an immediacy and urgency to their outcries.
  • Ms. Ward said communitywide Occupy meetings were being held indoors, and expects the core people to remain involved for the long haul. But she also expects attendance to wane. “We have a generation that believes instant gratification is the only form of gratification,” Ms. Ward said. “This is something that’s going to take a long time.”

• انتخابات مجلس الثورة 2012

  tags: egypt politics parliament elections graphic

• Decade of discontent: The road to Egypt’s revolution – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online

  crappy article about the history leading up to Jan25

  tags: egypt jan25 history activism protests intifada politics kifaya labour judges

• PIPA/SOPA Victory – End to Damn the Torpedoes – What Happens Now UPDATED | Public Knowledge

  tags: media copyright unitedstates SOPA public knowledge intellectual-property activism politics humanrights

• A Jewish American high school student wins MLK Jr. writing award for this brave essay: | Norman G. Finkelstein

  tags: unitedstates israel jew zionism MLK humanrights race racism

  • I can obviously never know what it must have been like to be an African-American in the 1950s. I do feel, however, as though I know exactly what it must have been like to be white during that time, to live under an aura of moral invincibility, to hold unchallengeable beliefs, and to contrive illusions of superiority to avoid having to face simple everyday truths. That illusion was nice while it lasted, but I decided to pass it up. I have never been happier.

• Florida Republicans Introduce Bill That Would Keep Privatization A Secret From The People | Addicting Info

  tags: florida republicans privatization government corporate neoliberal

  • Florida Republicans
  • ey have introduced SB 2036 and SB 2038 to do just that. The measures would allow the state government to privatize prisons in secret and would also allow the government to secretly outsource the work of other state agencies
  • The measures also give agencies the option of not reporting the privatization of a program until after it has already been done.

• Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses? | Molly Rants – CNET News

  tags: SOPA congress politics internet ICT law unitedstates corporate

• Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PIPA/PROTECT-IP? | SOPA Opera | ProPublica

  tags: SOPA congress politics internet ICT law unitedstates coporate

• In Detroit, a Fresh Wave of Hope – NYTimes.com

  tags: detroit unitedstates development industry

• New IMF loan would be ‘odious’ and illegitimate, says Egypt debt amnesty group – Economy – Business – Ahram Online

  tags: egypt imf debt economy activism

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