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Education Ministry blasts Israeli Arab school for taking students to human rights march

'The students carried signs against racism, house demolitions, etc., which violates the director general's circular [i.e. ministry regulations],' ministry tells school.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - The Education Ministry reprimanded the Arara High School and demanded clarifications after the school participated in a human rights march in Tel Aviv at the beginning of the month.

"The students carried signs against racism, house demolitions, etc., which violates the director general's circular [i.e. ministry regulations]," stated the letter sent to the school.

How Wealth of Members of Congress has TRIPLED in 25 years- While Average U.S. Families Suffered a DROP in their Worth

Median net worth of member of Congress rose from $280,000 to $725,000 between 1984 and 2009.

(WASHINGTON D.C. Daily Mail) - The wealth gap between those governing the U.S. and the people they represent has dramatically widened, research shows.

The median net worth of a member of Congress has nearly tripled over 25 years while the income of an average U.S. family has actually fallen.

Terrorists Kill People

This is a fundamental issue, it is time to examine the government's use of a killer buzz word that can strip you of your rights as an American.

(SALEM) - Strange title I know, but we're in strange times. Terrorism is the use of terror in attacking or controlling a perceived enemy. Terrorism is understood by some people on some levels, but by and large it has been used to describe anyone who refuses to accept oppression, and fights back.

Those who the developed nations brand "terrorist" are almost always poor; they generally are getting the hell blasted out of them by U.S. made weapons and they violently resist with whatever they can place their hands on.

Hundreds of Oregonians Occupy Their Post Offices in Response to Threat of Rural Closures

“Deadwood wouldn’t exist in ten years without the post office” - Leslie Benscoter, retired schoolteacher and Occupy the Post Office organizer in Deadwood, Oregon

(Scappoose, Ore.) - Hundreds of Oregonians Occupied 23 post offices across the state on Monday in response to the United States Postal Service’s threat to close 21 rural post offices.

Occupiers carried Christmas cards, cookies and gifts of appreciation to their postal workers and collected over 1,000 petition signatures asking Congress to reform laws that have caused the unnecessary funding crisis within the Postal Service.

Occupy Crackdown: CIA plays new version of `I Won`t Tell You`

CIA Double-Speak on full display as intelligence agency refuses to respond to FOIA request on its role in the nationwide crackdown on Occupy movement

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is refusing to process a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that would reveal what role, if any, the agency has played in law enforcement’s coordinated, nationwide campaign to shut down and evict Occupy movement encampments in cities throughout the country.

The Pending Second U.S. Revolution?

The cops will push too far and somebody is going to fire back.

(SALEM) - It seems inevitable that Americans will soon be engaged in a revolutionary war the likes of which has never been imagined, and I say the 99% will win, and the government will lose. Of the people, by the people, for the people...

In spite of all the technology and military hardware, the government is vastly outnumbered by the people and if it has to be anarchy, then so be it, because the government is not America, the people who comprise this country are.

Organizing for the Port Shutdown

Challenging the assertion that the Occupy movement is trying to impose a shutdown of West Coast docks without support from port workers.

(OAKLAND) - THE OCCUPY movement is trying to strong-arm longshore workers and truck drivers into shutting down West Coast ports December 12--or so say critics of the action.

They're wrong. Those organizing for action on the docks are neither the outside agitators described by employers nor the ultra-left adventurists snubbed by union leaders and their apologists.

The Cultural 1% & the Echo Chamber

The Internet, along with community media and live concerts, is the way our music gets out there.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Amy Goodman and many others have referred to the corporate media as an "echo chamber," which is a very accurate metaphor. Mostly privileged, overpaid white men who fall within a narrowly-constrained political spectrum pretend to have debates, while failing to even discuss most of the most pressing issues of the day.

My Occupy LA Arrest

Family Guy writer among those arrested for what used to be legal in the U.S.A., non-violent political protest.

(LOS ANGELES) - My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in.

West Coast Port Blockades - Portland

Blockade the Wealth of the 1% - The blockade Port of Portland begins 12 Dec at 5:00 a.m.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Blockade the Ports will happen on 12 Dec 12, activists will stage mass mobilizations to march on the ports, create community pickets, and effectively shutdown the hubs of commerce during this peak holiday profitmaking season.