The Silenced Majority · Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope by Goodman, Amy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Michael Moore Introduction: Occupy the Media - Journalism for (and by) the 99 Percent Obama's Wars: A Tragedy in Three Acts Act I: The Wars Abroad

Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore The Tortured Logic Continues The Obscenity of War Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives September 11: A Day Without War Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated War Should Be an Election Issue Guantánamo at Ten:The Prisoner and the Pro The Afghan War’s Nine Lives Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War

Obama’s Wars: A Tragedy in Three Acts Act II: The War on Veterans and Soldiers

Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded Veterans Say No to NATO The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent “The Comeback Kid” and the Kids Who Won’t Accomplish the Mission: Bring the Troops Home Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?

Obama’s Wars: A Tragedy in Three Acts Act III: The War on the Public Treasury

We Can’t Afford War Deficit Doves The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars War Is a Racket War, Debt, and the President

Money in Politics

Climate Change

New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks Trick or Treat for Climate Change Take Me to Your Climate Leader Copenhagen Climate Summit:The Empire’s New Clothes Climate Discord:From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen Cochabamba, the Water Wars, and Climate Change News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You A Little Missed Sunshine Cancún, Climate Change, and WikiLeaks Renewed Energy for Renewable Energy Weiner’s No Longfellow Cry, the Beloved Climate Listen to the People, Not the Polluters Climate Apartheid The Long, Hot March of Climate Change Climate Change: “This Is Just the Beginning”

Dirty Energy

Obama’s Nuclear Option Cracking Down on Fracking Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal BP: Billionaire Polluter In Memory of All That Is Lost If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil A Warning to the World Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan’s Atomic Tragedies D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout

Race, Racism,and the Myth of Post-Racial America

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Troy Anthony Davis, and the Twenty-First-Century Color Line Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Boycotting Arizona’s Racism Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court Mosque-Issippi Burning NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser From Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg A Tale of Two Sheriffs Tucson, Juarez, and an Assault Weapons Ban If You Can’t Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting) Walking While Black: The Killing of Trayvon Martin Black in White Plains:The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

Capital Punishment: The Machinery of Death

WikiLeaks and the Crackdown on Dissent

WikiLeaks, War Crimes,and the Pinochet Principle Bradley Manning and the Fog of War Watch What You Tweet Books, Not Bombs Canada’s Olympic Crackdown Collateral Murder in Iraq WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. “Diplomacy” “Assangination”: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon) Tony Kushner and the Angels of Dissent Andrew Breitbart’s “Electronic Brownshirts” WikiLeaks, Wimbledon, and War San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a Mubarak WikiLeaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue the Truth, Not Its Messenger Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups The NSA Is Watching You

Uprisings: From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street

The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Possible Egypt’s Youth Will Not Be Silenced Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest Barack Obama Must Speak Out on Bahrain Bloodshed The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative 99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street A New Bush Era or a Push Era? The Arc of the Moral Universe, from Memphis to Wall Street Globalizing Dissent, from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street Pulling Accounts from the Unaccountable The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out A Movement Built by Dreamers

When Corporations Rule

Who Is Obama Playing Ball With? When Banks Are the Robbers When Corporations Choose Despots over Democracy Policing the Prophets of Wall Street Obama’s Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims Romney’s 1% Nation Under God New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: “The President Is Wrong” Coal, Foreclosures, and Bank of America’s “Extraordinary Event” Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

Undoing the Coups, from Haiti to Honduras

President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action Tè Tremblé—The Haitian Earth Trembled Let the Haitians In Haiti, Forgive Us Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Journey into Day Hope and Resistance in Honduras

More News from the Unreported World

Obama in the Company of Killers Failed War on Drugs: Fast, Furious, and Fueled by the U.S. Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena Sick with Terror Single-Payer Health Care: Vermont’s Gentle Revolution Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition? Rich Media, Poor Democracy Don’t Ice Out Public Media

Luminaries

John Lewis: Across That Bridge, Again The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court Singing Lena Horne’s Praises Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave, and Beautiful The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against Michael Moore John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors Sundance and the Art of Democracy 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message

Stop the Violence

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