The First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion
Naomi Wolf. Photo: David Shankbone (CC)
Interesting take on Occupy by Naomi Wolf, at Alternet:
America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement – sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.
In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland’s encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades and tear-gas canisters – with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators. The Occupy Oakland Twitter feed read like a report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square: “they are surrounding us”; “hundreds and hundreds of police”; “there are armoured vehicles and Hummers”. There were 170 arrests.
My own recent arrest, while obeying the terms of a permit and standing peacefully on a street in lower Manhattan, brought the reality of…
Ali G Talks To Naomi Wolf
Not new, but with Naomi Wolf back in the news (see the recent disinfo story “Naomi Wolf: What Price Happiness?”), worth another look:
