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    Occupy Wall Street, October 2011. Here are a collection of photographs of some protest signs from the early days of the Occupy movement’s rallying in lower Manhattan. Photos taken and submitted by Noran Elzarka. 

    Check out more of her photography on Flickr!

    You can view the rest of The Political Notebook’s project to gather photography, documentation and experiences from the OWS movements nationwide. I have also compiled an archive of all my posted submissions to this project on a single Pinterest board for your viewing convenience. Check out the Call for Submissions page and email your photos to me at torierosedeghett@gmail.com!

    Thanks to all the members of our Occupy Together Flickr group too, who have been documenting the movement over the past year. Some new shots from action days on Saturday 12 May have been added from Berlin, Montreal and Brussels.

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    Most of the 20th century people have been trying to treat homosexuals - from psychoanalysis, oestrogen therapy, electric shock and aversion therapy. This is the latest round is much more spiritually-based and has been going for at least 25 years in the US and, increasingly, here. It seems to be a mixture of a feeling that the person is “wounded” - they talk about emotional woundedness in their stuff. That seems to be old psychoanalytical theory about a distant father and an overbearing mother, stuff that’s been already shown to be not associated with sexuality, but they [campaigners] keep on this line. Professor Michael King on the scientific support cited by anti-gay campaigners for their belief in the power of “therapy” to change the sexual orientation of gay people

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    Dimitris Christoulas has already vanished under a swarm of platitudes and slogans, another martyr in a country that already has too many. But he must have intended that. The suicide note reportedly found on him ends with a call to arms. It refers to the government as “the occupation government of Tsolakoglou” (Georgios Tsolakoglou was the Quisling prime minister under the axis in 1941) and predicts that the futureless young will one day hang the traitors upside down in Syntagma, as the Italians hanged the dictator Mussolini (…) Whatever happens next, Christoulas will still be dead, a symbol of all those who have lost their lives to the crisis. Dimitris Christoulas and the legacy of his suicide for Greece - Maria Margaronis for Comment is Free

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    Power to the people’s placards: Save Our Placards project On 26 March 2011, thousands marched through London in protest against government spending cuts. At the end of the March for the Alternative, hundreds of placards and banners were given to the Save Our Placards team, who put some of them on display beneath Hungerford Bridge in London and took them on A Placard Parade on 24 March 2012, a year on from the original march

    Power to the people’s placards: Save Our Placards project

    On 26 March 2011, thousands marched through London in protest against government spending cuts. At the end of the March for the Alternative, hundreds of placards and banners were given to the Save Our Placards team, who put some of them on display beneath Hungerford Bridge in London and took them on A Placard Parade on 24 March 2012, a year on from the original march

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    “The attacks that are being launched on public sector workers at the moment are so deep and ideological that the idea the world should arrive in London and have these wonderful Olympic Games as though everything is nice and rosy in the garden is unthinkable.

    “Our very way of life is being attacked. By then this crazy health and social care bill may have been passed, so we are looking at the privatisation of our National Health Service. I believe the unions, and the general community, have got every right to be out protesting. If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that’s exactly one that we should be looking at.”

    Trade union boss Len McCluskey calls for civil disobedience during Olympics

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