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​Brooklyn, NYC - On Tuesday, June 26 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc, a feature length documentary on the occupy movement written, produced and directed by Dennis Trainor Jr will launch with a world premiere and party at the Indie Screen Cinema and Bar in Williamsburg Brooklyn (289 Kent Ave).

The evening will begin with a live performance by comedian Lee Camp (“the Che Guevara of comedy” – Paul Provenza) and a celebration featuring the live music of the Goldishack Guerrillas will take place in the venue after the screening. 

The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7PM and the first 50 people get a free American Autumn dvd and a free copy of Lee Camp’s new comedy CD PepperSpray the Tears Away.

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A popular refrain that one hears when talking about the troops is that they fight, kill, and get killed, maim and get maimed so that we can enjoy our freedom here at home. The troops make the ultimate sacrifice so that we can be free.

Does anyone with even a partially functioning frontal lobe and a sliver of conscience believe this bunk?

McKinney Sees New “Movement” in the Making

If veteran community organizations and the Occupy movement can combine their strengths, “you have the beginnings of the makings of the movement that many of us have been longing to see,” said Cynthia McKinney, the former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate. McKinney is engaged in a nationwide Build People’s Power Tour. She said community groups have “experience and some expertise” while Occupy brings “youth and vitality and fresh ideas” to the table.

POP Marks May Day in Home Stretch of Daily Newark Demos

The People’s Organization for Progress marked its 310^th day of daily demonstrations on May Day, just 71 days short of its goal to match the longevity of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The campaign for jobs, housing, education, justice and peace, which has been endorsed by 175 community organizations, “has strengthened and disciplined our organization,” said POP chairman Larry Hamm. “We’ have an impact.”

U.S. Moving in “Fascist Direction”

“We need to build an anti-war movement that is also an anti-bankster, anti-plutocrat, anti-injustice movement – as it is all connected – and to push it hard on our representatives before it’s too late,” said David Swanson, publisher of the influential web site War Is A Crime. “Our country is moving in a dangerously fascistic direction and, at some point, fear may become overpowering.”

Protest and Mumia’s Birthday at Justice Department

“Why is George Zimmerman walking the streets and Mumia isn’t walking the streets?” said Monica Morehead, of the International Action Center, at the Occupy the Justice Department demonstration. April 24 was also political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal’s 58^th birthday. “We want de-carceration, and the destruction of the mass incarceration complex,” said Jamal, in a recorded message. Fellow political prisoners Sekou Odinga, 67 years old, and Mutulu Shakur, 61, sent birthday greetings to Mumia. Public Enemy’s Chuck D told the crowd, “two and a half million people are incarcerated, but they’ve built facilities to hold five to seven million in the next ten years.”

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John Brennan and the U.S. people:

John Brennan and the Corporate Media:

It’s no real secret that the Obama Administration’s ever escalating drone war has killed a massive lot of innocent people, but White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan was surprisingly glib today when pressed on the matter in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.”

“Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population,” Brennan insisted, though he did not mention that the drone strikes have been carried out almost exclusively in nations with which the United States is not at war: Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

Brennan went on to defend the killings, saying “sometimes you have to take life to save lives.” He provided no examples of how the killing of nearly 2,000 people, virtually all of them unidentified, had “saved lives.”

Indeed the only thing that the drone strikes have conclusively done is ruin the US relationship with Pakistan, whose parliament has conditioned a return to normal relations on the US ending such attacks.

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Monday morning  7 TO 8,  KPFK, 90.7 FM, 

Bruce Gagnon coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

 joins us.      Do you know what’s going on up there? You will after you hear Bruce Gagnon.   Get yourself ready for shock and awe….this revelation is not for sissies.

And we will talk about solutions and the big plans for the Occupiers with the coming of Spring and Summer with David Swanson.  Monday morning at 7 on CONNECT THE DOTS. 

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How do we avoid the growing pressure from the right wing government of Israel and AIPAC, its right wing representative organization in the United States?  

Our guest is Jeremy Ben Ami Executive Dir of J Street, the political home for pro Israel Pro peace Americans. 

And  what is happening with whistle blower marine hero 

Bradley Manningstill waiting for a fair trial after having been illegally declared guilty in public by President Obama and after having suffered 2 years of torture by the Marines? 

Jeff Paterson, Policy Dir. of the Courage to Resist joins us. 

And David Swanson joins us on the progress in developing a meaningful, effective Peace Movementto stop this US policy of never ending wars.

Lila Garrett (Host of CONNECT THE DOTS)

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