New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez yells to the marchers on December 17 during the Occupy Wall St D17 occupation of Durante Park
CPJ - Imprisoned Journalists reaches 15 year high
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released their 2011 Imprisoned List today, and the numbers are startling - 179 journalists in prison on December 1st. This is an increase of almost 20% from last year, and the highest tally since the all time high was set at 185 in 1996. The number one jailer of journalists is Iran, with 42 imprisoned, followed by Ethiopia (28), China (27), and Burma (12).
The report is not all bad news however, for the first time in the Committee’s 21 year history of compiling the report there are no jailed journalists in the Americas. Yet this good news is tainted by the fact that there has been a spate of short term detention of Journalists in the US surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protests, and a sharp increase in the killing of Journalists in Mexico and Latin America. The CPJ will be releasing its Killed Journalists List later this month.
Read the full report, including the details of the individual detained journos at the CPJ’s website.
Maybe god does hate wall st., but the weather today was perfect for thousands of union members to join forces with occupywallstreet demonstrators. The scene downtown was unreal, at least 10,000 people crammed into “liberty” square sprinkled with celebs like Michael Moore and Jeff Mangum.
Symbols of both a corporate US and left wing socialism fly on Wall St during the initial march of the Occupy Wall Street movement on September 17th.
Pretty much sums up my post work plan this evening, although im pretty sure my french press will work so i can cross that one off.
Be Better…at Weather.
(Source: bebetterblog)
I survived NYC earthquake of 2011.
Despite the fact that this just makes us dizzy.
Dudes. “New Yorkers.” The epicenter was in Virginia. If anything, this is OUR quake. So step off. And take your GIFs with you. #ownershipofharmlessnaturaldisasters
THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME _ANYTHING_ STARTED IN VIRGINIA AND ENDED IN NEW YORK
Only 8% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter fan base are real people
Social networking search firm PeekYou claims that a recent review of Newt Gingrich’s twitter account shows that almost 92% of his 1.3 million twiiter followers are either inactive or dummy accounts created by so called “follow agencies” for the sole purpose of inflating his follower numbers.
