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Saving The Internet: How the Impossible Shifted to the Inevitable

Dennis Trainor Jr — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:30:57 +0000

Originally posted a AcronymTV

When President Barack Obama appointed venture capitalist and former Verizon and ATT lobbyist Tom Wheeler as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it sent shudders down the spines of anyone concerned with the concept of net neutrality.

Last spring, it may have seemed an impossible task for activists and the Internet itself to defend net neutrality, but to date, they have.

Gloriously so.

Dear White People: Our State of Emergency

Dennis Trainor Jr — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:51:57 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

As you know, a pre-emptive State of Emergency has been called in Ferguson, Missouri as the country waits to hear if officer Darren Wilson will be charged with the murder of Michael Brown.

Let’s focus on another State of Emergency for a moment.

Protestor Arrested During ISIL Hearing in Congress

Dennis Trainor Jr — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:23:38 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

Code Pink activist Tighe Barry was arrested and charged with disruption of Congress today during an Armed Service Committee hearing on the subject of The Administration’s Strategy and Military Campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Inextricable Link Between Social and Environmental Justice

Dennis Trainor Jr — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:46:41 +0000

Erica Violet Lee of Idle No More in conversation with Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TV on the eve of the largest Climate Justice march in history.

“It is important to acknowledge the Indigenous people who have been fighting this battle on the front lines for centuries,” says Lee. “The big marches and massive actions (like the People’s Climate March) serve as motivation. I take it back to my community (because) ultimately I think it is acts of everyday resistance that will change they way things are done.”

Erica speaks about the violence that goes hand in hand with Canada pushing through Keystone XL Pipeline, “pushing first nations people off their lands to get to resources on the lands. There is a lot of violence – especially towards Indigenous Women who are going missing and getting murdered in record numbers.”

Our Culture is a Crime | Acronym TV 019

Dennis Trainor Jr — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:22:34 +0000

Originally posted at AcroynmTV

Episode Breakdown |

Spoken word from Immortal Technique and Erica Violet Lee of Idle No More, plus:

3 interviews looking at the climate crisis from 3 angles:
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink talks about the links between the peace movement and the climate justice movement – and how Code Pink started as an Environmental group-

Then Howie Hawkins, as his momentum in the New York gubernatorial race is ramping up, talks about Green justice in the electoral arena.
Also, Occupy Sandy organizer Nastaran Mohit talks about our need to face down white privilege within the movement, and step out of our comfort zones.

Finally, Jill Stein points out that we have critical mass and critical momentum to win the day.

Student Peace Activists and Teacher Are ‘Inspiration To The World’, says U.N. Sec. General

Dennis Trainor Jr — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:49:38 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

Is Ferguson Is Just the First Wave of Escalating Riots and Police Repression?

Dennis Trainor Jr — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:37:33 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

The murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Office Darren Wilson set off and wave of protests, the majority of which were non violent. The militarized police response and the violent repression of peaceful protestors will only get worse if the economic conditions of this country do not change radically and quickly, says David DeGraw, author of the new book, The Economics of Revolt. “If you want to change things through non-violent methods, the window of opportunity is closing fast. Very fast,” says DeGraw.

We Would Have Revolution Overnight If People Understood This One Thing

Dennis Trainor Jr — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:52:51 +0000

Martin Luther King, Jr. was working towards a guaranteed basic income for all when he was killed. Wealth inequality, neoliberalism, the actions of the Federal Reserve, along with the greed and theft of the global elite have made the call for a guaranteed basic income for all even more urgent in 2014 than in the 1960s.

David DeGraw, interviewed here by Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TVclaims the alternative is a violent revolution.

In his new book, The Economics of Revolution, DeGraw writes:

The Green Shock Doctrine: a Decade of False Climate Solutions

Dennis Trainor Jr — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:21:02 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

Anne Petermann, has been banned from future U.N. Climate Conferances for her vocal activism. Here, she outlines the last decade of U.N. Climate Conference failures and false solutions.

About Anne Petermann |

Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She is also the Coordinator of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees; the North American Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series.

Ferguson Flash Mob! Requiem for Mike Brown Confronts White Privilege at St. Louis Symphony

Dennis Trainor Jr — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:16:12 +0000

Originally posted at AcronymTV

About 50 protesters seeking justice for Mike Brown delayed the start of the second act of Brahms requiem on Saturday night at the St. Louis Symphony in a brilliantly executed creative protest captured by Rebecca Rivas of the St. Louis American.
(read more: http://www.popularresistance.org/demonstrators-disrupt-st-louis-symphony-singing-a-requiem-for-mike-brown/)