Author Archives: adamfcornford

I wander down each corporate street, There where the corporate cop cars go And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe In every talker to her phone, In every crackhead’s cry of fear, In every laugh, in every groan The mental shackles I can hear How the homeless children’s cries Beat against the bank’s blank wall And the Mayor’s and Council’s lies Stain the floors in City Hall Then from midnight streets I hear How the youthful gangsta’s curse Blasts his newborn infant’s tear And … Continued

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http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/15/368809/occupy-cleveland-saves-womans-home-from-imminent-foreclosure/ I’ll say it again. This is a key part of the way forward. While for the time being we need encampments, especially for the homeless for whom there is safety in numbers and who need material support like a kitchen and a first-aid tent, we need to stop fetishizing the encampment as the only form of occupation. The goal now, surely, is to mobilize the rest of the working class, not just to keep playing to an increasingly irrelevant MSM. The way to do this is to defend people … Continued

OCCUPY EVERYWHERE TOGETHER Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street and the Loop and the Financial District and the City of London and the Bandra Kurla and the Paseo de la Reforma and the Nihombashi and the Pudong and the Bankenviertel and the Paradeplatz and every other ganglion of the parasite clamped with its million hooked lips over the aching skull of the world Occupy Tahrir Square and the Puerta del Sol and the Piazza di Spagna and Liberty Square and Trafalgar Square and the Place de la Concorde and the … Continued