Palestine in, UNESCO out, Gaza flotilla

Amber Dorrian (Wisdom Quarterly), Codepink.org, Christian Science Monitor

Half of Palestine's 1.5 million people are under the age of 15 (d3mha.com).

This week, with tears in our eyes, we witnessed history in the making when UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) voted in favor of admitting Palestine as a full member.

• UNESCO votes to admit Palestine
  
• Eyes on Gaza flotilla
  

This marks a major step in the Palestinian people’s struggle for self-determination in spite of unbelievable Israeli (and complicit American) oppression.

A second flotilla of peace in support of Gaza has gone forth in support of equality (NT).

UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to building peace, eradicating poverty, and creating sustainable development and intercultural dialogue. It accomplishes this through education, the sciences, culture, communication, and information. All the while they emphasize gender equity.

These sound like the goals of CODEPINK, Wisdom Quarterly, and other progressive organizations. This admirable institution will now include Palestine, a move that has been greeted with both celebration and condemnation.

What has been the US response?

Israeli Navy boards protest boats bound for Gaza (Fox News)

While the whole world was watching, the US government again flouted international will by opposing Palestinian membership (along with only 13 other countries, none from the EU save Germany). On Halloween the US pledged to kill all funding to UNESCO, against its own best interest... More

Drones and mechanical war? Not in our name.

Why Wall Street is being Occupied (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Mediaite.com

Are the anti-corporatist ideals of the Occupy Wall Street movement safe on Real Time with Bill Maher? “The don’t really have a coherent message,” Maher complained about the Wall Street “hippies.” His audience loves the O.W.S. ideology. But until candidate Alan Grayson passionately stood up for the cause and got a standing ovation, Maher and his panel mocked the Occupation ruthlessly for their “bongo drums,” disorganization, and incoherence. More

What did Grayson say to get a standing ovation?

• "Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago -- and nobody's been held responsible for that."
• "Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying 20 percent of our national net worth accumulated over the course of two centuries."
• "Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country."
  
• "One party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street, and the other party caters to them as well."

The Grayson message on The Rachel Maddow Show

• "We should not have 24 million people in this country who can't find a full time job."
• "We should not have 50 million people in this country who can't see a doctor when they're sick."
• "We should not have 47 million people in this country who need government help in order to feed themselves."
• "We should not have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home."

• OccupyWallStreet.com
• OccupyTheNation.com
• OccupyTogether.org
• October2011.org
• UprisingRadio.org
  
• OccupyEverything.org[?]
• Alan Grayson events: (310) 858-6643

What our Occupy Movement wants

What does the Occupy Movement want?
Wisdom Quarterly at Occupy LA, Berkeley, and Oakland

There are no "demands." But what do we the people, the 99%, want?

(1) An end to corporate rule and stricter regulation of banking greed.
(2) An end to war (American occupations and hegemony around the world, covert actions by CIA/NSA/NSC and other clandestine agencies, and the Pentagon being in charge of US foreign policy).
(3) Jobs.
(4) An end to US prison culture and torture in US jails and abroad by US agents -- and instead a right to an education without being drowned in debt.
(5) Equality: fair treatment of ALL the people in this country.
(6) Government by the people for the people (not by and for corporations).
(7) Participatory-representative democracy that actually represents 99% of we the people.

It might be enough to say that what Americans want is for this country to actually try to live up to the Constitution and Bill of Rights it claims: The right to life, liberty, and not-happiness but at least the right to pursue happiness the way each of us chooses without harming others.

Corporations (in the guise of corporate personhood) are pursuing their happiness at our expense. Corporate rule must end.

• OccupyWallStreet.com
• OccupyTheNation.com
• OccupyTogether.org
• Occupy Wall St. growing and moving fast
  
• Blaming Wall St. and D.C. as protests spread
  

When the nagas wanted to be on the original rebel flag

(OccupyLA.org)

(Wrestlingdivanewyork) Oct. 15, 2011 solidarity march of estimated 10,000+ people in LA.