shouting loudly

…Seriously, there is no excuse for frequent visitors of Shouting Loudly to not also be reading David Meyer’s commentary at Politics Outdoors.  He just negated two posts that I was planning to write, because he went ahead and wrote them better. The second post, “Occupy Wall Street Needs an Exit Strategy” is particularly important.  The [...]

Okay, let’s be clear #OccupyWallStreet has gotten awesome.  There are now solidarity occupations in 250+ locations nationwide.  Labor Unions and the Netroots are fully onboard, and yesterday afternoon’s march in NYC had somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 participants.  As Jon Stewart put it last night, the media attention has gone “from blackout to frenzy.”  Impressive [...]

The #occupywallstreet protests are entering their third week, and have started to attract some real attention.  After a police brutality incident last weekend, mainstream media sources have begun paying attention.  Major unions and netroots groups have voted to support the protests, and the core of a few hundred “occupiers” show no sign of leaving Zuccotti [...]