January 31st, 2012
Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.comOccupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last nightDes Moines, Iowa --Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longtime Des Moines organizer and nonviolent civil resistance trainer - ...
January 1st, 2012
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people
OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday, January 01, 2012Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.comDemocratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday peopleOccupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to come to their campaign headquarters and listen to the concerns of average Americans. She responded ...
December 24th, 2011
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore My dad had noticed for some years that I no longer wanted to shoot guns. He had taken note of when we boys in the neighborhood had stopped playing War. I didn’t know much about his time as ...
December 13th, 2011
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I was lost. I had paused for perhaps too long to inspect the statues in the hallways and the Rotunda, bronzed and marbled renditions of an odd assortment of great and not-so-great Americans: Will Rogers, Daniel Webster, George ...
December 5th, 2011
Meet Scott Walker, Sultan of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration has announced changes to the rules for demonstrations in the state. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, these are some of the new policies: Groups of four or more people must obtain permits for all activity and displays in state buildings and apply for those permits ...
December 5th, 2011
Taxes (and Pepper Spray) Are for the Little People
The New York Daily News reported on December 5th, 2011 that Brookfield Properties -- taking its cue from Leona Helmsley -- owes New York City $139,000 in back taxes. Brookfield is the owner of Zuccotti Park, site of the original Occupy Wall Street encampment, and one of the main forces ...
December 1st, 2011
Convicted Felon Dennis Levine on the Only Way to Clean Up Wall Street
In 1986 Dennis Levine, then a managing director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to insider trading. The federal investigation into his crimes later led to convictions of many others, including Ivan Boesky and Michael Milkin. In Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a ...
November 30th, 2011
How the Librarians Beat Rupert Murdoch
From the introduction to Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore I'm lucky, I guess, that I even get to write these words you are reading. Not just because I get to live in the most wonderfulest country in the whole wide world, but because after 9/11, my former publisher, ...
October 22nd, 2011
Obama to Top Bankers: 'I'm Protecting You ... I'm Going to Shield You'
On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman ...
October 21st, 2011
Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted to Help Us Out, to Quell the Mob'
On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman ...
October 21st, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Michael Moore says Dems and GOP ‘feed at the same trough’
Keith and activist/filmmaker Michael Moore discuss how the Occupy movement takes issue with both Democrats and Republicans for accepting campaign contributions from the same companies responsible for the recession. “These politicians by and large are bought and paid for by the same people.” Moore suspects that if any political candidates ...
October 21st, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Inspired by rapid progress, Michael Moore calls on all Americans to participate
Keith and activist/filmmaker Michael Moore discuss how in just 34 days the Occupy movement has garnered support from 57 percent of the public and has changed the conversation in the media from the debt ceiling to unemployment. Moore encourages the Occupy movement not to fall for the trap that ...
October 8th, 2011
Anchorage, AK (VIDEO) | Birmingham, AL (VIDEO) | Phoenix, AZ | Prescott, AZ (VIDEO) | Tucson, AZ | Berkeley, CA; Protesters target Bank of America | Camarillo, CA | Fresno, CA; 100 rally downtown (VIDEO) | Long Beach, CA | Los Angeles, CA; 10 arrested trying to cash over-sized check ...
September 21st, 2011
From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Mead, in Esquire, November, 2004
Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the ...
August 21st, 2011
ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks and Talks and Talks, Says Nothing at All
At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and ...
August 8th, 2011
Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 8, 2011 Contact: Matt Smucker,717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower, PFC Bradley Manning: “With any legitimate trial of whistle-blower Bradley Manning still being at ...
July 25th, 2011
Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Persecution of Tim DeChristopher
Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ten ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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