Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown

Click here to access article by Dave Lindorff from CounterPunch.

The author provides more evidence of a coordinated effort by top-level government officials to suppress the Occupier protests across the country. Clearly the enforcers of the One Percent are worried about the Occupy movement:

“The documents we received were only from the highest officials in DHS,” she stresses, “which shows that the government was highly concerned about Occupy at the highest levels of government.”

For more information on this subject see also this, this, this, and this (originally published in Ramparts magazine in Oct 1973).