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		<title>Another Victory For The Occupy Wall Street Movement Lands As They Prepare For Today&#8217;s Global Day Of Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane Over 3,000 people gathered at Liberty Plaza in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning to defend the peaceful Occupation near Wall Street. The crowd cheered at the news that multinational real estate firm Brookfield Properties will postpone its so-called &#8220;cleanup” of the park and that Mayor Bloomberg has told the NYPD to stand down on orders to remove protesters. On the eve of the October 15 global day of action against Wall Street greed, this development has emboldened the movement and sent a clear message that the power of the people has prevailed against Wall Street. &#8220;We are winning and Wall Street is afraid,” said Kira Moyer-Sims, a protester from Portland, Oregon. &#8220;This movement is gaining momentum and is too big to fail.” &#8220;Brookfield Properties is the 1%. They have invested $24 billion in mortgage-backed securities, so as millions face foreclosure and eviction due to predatory lending and the burst of the housing bubble that Wall Street created, its not surprising they threatened to evict Occupy Wall Street,” said Patrick Bruner, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street from the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. &#8220;But Brookfield and Bloomberg have backed down and our movement is only growing as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Day 10, The Resistance Continues At Liberty Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane What/Who is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing they all have in common is that they share the mantra &#8220;We Are The 99%&#8221; that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. The original call for this occupation was published by Adbusters in July; since then, many individuals across the country have stepped up to organize this event, such as the people of the NYC General Assembly and US Day of Rage. There&#8217;ll also be similar occupations in the near future such as October2011 in Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C. Since the 17th of September, they&#8217;ve had thousands of supporters flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street and appear to be committed to stay until our policies change. Similar to recent activist movements in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, they plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. The use of nonviolence to achieve their ends and maximize the safety of all participants is strongly encourage despite what may have been recently reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dengue Fever Has Reached New York City – Video Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.hotindienews.com/2011/08/05/1032028</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane Do not let the headline scare you too much. This article is not about the infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus, but instead it&#8217;s about the six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. Dengue Fever has been on tour in the United States and Europe for the past several months in support of their fourth full-length album &#8220;Cannibal Courtship&#8221;, which was released on April 19, 2011 on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group. The band has been around for 10 years and consists of Chhom Nimol (vocals), Zac Holtzman (guitar, vocals), Ethan Holtzman (keyboards), Senon Williams (bass), David Ralicke (sax, trumpet, flutes, synthesizer) and Paul Smith (drums). I had the good fortune to conduct this video interview with Ethan and David from the band while they had some free time in between their final 2 shows of the tour that ended up in New York City where we discussed everything from the band&#8217;s unique sound their cultural preservation efforts in Cambodia. Check out the links and video segments below to learn about all the good things this band is doing. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; For More Information Visit: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; http://www.denguefevermusic.com http://www.itsalivemedia.com http://www.concordmusicgroup.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Immigrants and Unions Unite to Fight Cutbacks and Demand Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.hotindienews.com/2011/05/02/1031833</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane In cities large and small, the union and immigrant movements united in peaceful demonstrations yesterday to fight back together against austerity, racism and cutbacks. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner bill back in 2006. The powerful culmination that spring was May 1, when – one year after the call by the Million Worker March to revive May Day – a million immigrant workers nationwide stayed home from work, walked off the job and demonstrated in huge rallies. Since then, every year the immigrant worker’s rights movement has demonstrated on May 1, putting International Workers Day back on the map in the land of its birthplace. Now in 2011, in New York, Buffalo, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston, members of the labor movement – facing a deadly assault from Wall Street – have chosen on this May Day to march side by side with their immigrant brothers and sisters. The uniting of these two powerful forces helps push back the racism now being viciously promoted in the form of deportations, show-us-your-papers laws and attacks on ethnic studies. Pushing back racism strengthens and widens the movement – a necessary step [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers: Gulf Coast Now More Toxic Than It Was One Year Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane On April 20, 2010 an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect killed 11 men working on the platform, injured 17 others and ruptured a wellhead which would create the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. On July 15, 2010 (almost three months after the initial explosion) the leak was stopped by capping the gushing wellhead, after it had released about 4,900,000 barrels (which equates to over 56,000 barrels per day) of crude oil in to the Gulf of Mexico. On September 19, 2010 the relief well process was successfully completed, and the federal government declared the well &#8220;effectively dead&#8221;. The spill caused extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats as well as the Gulf&#8217;s fishing and tourism industries. The U.S. Government has named BP as the responsible party, and officials have committed to holding the company accountable for all cleanup costs and other damage. After its own internal probe, BP admitted that it made mistakes which led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Unfortunately, this story does not end here as lack of proper monitoring by the Occupational Safety &#38; Environmental Association (OSEA) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yvonne Gougelet Reports From The Power Shift 2011 Clean Energy Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot Indie News reporter Yvonne Gougelet is reporting from Washington D.C. this weekend from Power Shift, the largest grassroots Clean Energy training ever held. Over 10,000 concerned Americans have come to D.C. this weekend to urge Congress to end their ties with Big Polluters who are destroying our precious eco-system and causing wide spread terminal illness and death. Our first video from the weekend is an interview with Jennifer Rexford, a Florida resident hired to clean-up the BP Oil Spill. She and 35 of her co-workers have fallen ill and many have died, due to exposure to BP oil and the toxic dispersant BP poured to &#8220;clean-up&#8221; the spill. The toxic chemical Corexit is manufactured by BP&#8217;s own company, Nalco. Jennifer has been documenting her and her fellow co-workers&#8217; situation. BP is not paying for their medical expenses. The workers are no longer receiving Medicaid. Hot Indie News is here in D.C. to spread awareness about Jennifer&#8217;s story, as well as all of the other countless, innocent victims, affected by the BP Oil Spill disaster. Jennifer&#8217;s videos can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/jmrexford Please spread the word. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; For More Information &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; http://www.powerhift2011.org &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Watch The Video Coverage &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;]]></description>
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		<title>United National Antiwar Committee Draws Thousands To New York City&#8217;s Union Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane The United National Anti-War Committee held one of the largest rallies in years at New York City&#8217;s Union Square on Saturday that also featured a march down to Foley Square where there was a peace festival. Themes of the rally included: an end to the wars overseas and an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Libya; cut military spending to fund programs for jobs, education, health care, housing and the environment; support the closing of Indian Point and other nuclear power plants; an end to US aid to Israel and its ongoing occupation of Palestine; and a halt to anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia. The more than five hundred endorsers of the rally include:  Center for Constitutional Rights,  Muslim Peace Coalition USA, 1199 SEIU,  Veterans for Peace,  International Action Center, Pax Christi USA,  Women&#8217;s International League for Peace and Freedom,  Fellowship of Reconciliation,  Black Agenda Report, Code Pink, American Muslim Association of North America.  Green Party of NYS, National Assembly to End U.S. Wars and Occupation, Islamic Leadership Council of Metro NY, War Resisters League, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Cynthia McKinney (former US Congresswoman &#38; 2008 US Green Party Presidential Candidate). &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands Attend Day 2 Of The 2011 Left Forum Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane As I read through this year&#8217;s Left Forum program guide and try to strategically plot a course through all the staircases and hallways of Pace University to attend my preferred panels of interest, it is refreshing to see and hear so many progressive intellectuals gathered together in one place with the focus of helping not only Americans, but all people around the world that are currently locked in some form of capitalistic power struggle. In a message to the attendees from Cornel West he states &#8220;Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels.&#8221; Truer words were never spoken as every attendee or presenter that I ran in to (literally, while sprinting through the halls) was just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Flanders, Paul Mason, Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenreich and Frances Fox Piven kick off day 1 at The Left Forum 2011: Towards a Politics of Solidarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. It provides a unique space for the generation of ideas crucial to theorizing and building a resurgent Left. This year&#8217;s Forum is being held at Pace University in New York City from March 18th to the 20th and features participants from all corners of North America, as well as Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. To kick off this year&#8217;s event Friday night included a very lively plenary that featured Laura Flanders, Paul Mason, Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox Piven and their commentary on the importance of individuals continuing to stand up against injustices in the world today. Saturday and Sunday&#8217; are expected to draw record crowds to the Forum&#8217;s exhibit hall and countless number panels that will be examining the new forms of far-reaching solidarity that are both necessary and possible to transform our 21st century struggles between workers in the rich world and workers in the global south, indigenous peasants and more affluent consumers, students and pensioners, villagers in the Niger Delta and environmental campaigners in the Gulf of Mexico, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darryl (DMC) McDaniels And Zara Phillips Premiere New Song In Support Of Equal Rights For Adoptees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Lane The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute held an eclectic forum today at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York that featured Zara Phillips and Darryl (DMC) McDaniels and in a rare public performance. The focus of this event was to highlight the need for states to restore adult adoptees’ access to their original birth certificates, a right currently denied to millions of Americans simply because of the way in which they entered their families. Today&#8217;s gathering – entitled Learning the Right Lessons about Adoption: What the Oprah Winfrey Reunion Story Teaches Us – brought together individuals personally affected by so-called &#8220;sealed records&#8221; laws, including celebrities such as McDaniels; experts on the subject, including Institute Executive Director Adam Pertman; professionals in the field; adoption reform advocates; journalists; and members of the public interested in social justice and equal rights for all families. This event was co-sponsored by the Child Welfare League of America, the American Adoption Congress, the Center for Family Connections, the Center for Adoption Support and Education, Adoptees Have Answers, Concerned United Birthparents, the New York State Unsealed Initiative, and the New Jersey Coalition for Adoption Reform and Education. Among today&#8217;s highlights were a tear jerking [...]]]></description>
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