Writer, blogger, and constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald will be speaking at Occupy Boston. Originally scheduled on Saturday, October 29 at 4:00 PM, Greenwald’s appearance has been postponed, probably until Nov 9 or 10, due to weather-related travel problems. Greenwald is widely known through his blog on Salon.com, where he writes scathing, intelligent, and highly documented critiques of corrupt and hypocritical politicians and the media outlets that enable them, regardless of which political party they may be associated with. He has also written several highly acclaimed and popular books of political critique, including How Would a Patriot Act? and Great American Hypocrites. Greenwald’s new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, speaks to many of the issues that inspired the birth of the Occupy Movement. Greenwald has particularly high credibility on this subject, due to his background as a constitutional lawyer and his willingness to criticize abuse of power no matter which part of the political spectrum it’s associated with.
Check Greenwald’s book tour page for a full listing of his area appearances, and notification of any last-minute changes to his schedule.
17 Responses to “Glenn Greenwald at Occupy Boston (POSTPONED)”
This Powerful Clip Is Exactly Why We Support #OccupyWallStreet
http://front.moveon.org/this-powerful-clip-is-exactly-why-we-support-occupywallstreet/?id=32303-20016589-AhiboGx
WOW! Powerful!
Thank you for posting this very relevant post on the Home page. All from now on should be about politics and economics. Please create a Supporters page to post other Misc. Topics as to who is supporting the movement like religious groups, musicians, etc. Please continue to focus on politics and economics in communications AND ACTIONS (more CALL TO ACTION, Marches, etc in support of these specific topics)
Thanks again.
This is good. We need more people like Glenn Greenwald who are favorable to Ron Paul.
http://www.salon.com/2007/11/06/paul_2/
In response to the above, it is my opinion that it is the regulations and bailouts that are the cause of our economic problems. I favor deregulation of the financial industry and the end of government involvement in the economy. Also I disagree the top 1% percent are a problem whereas the other 99% are not. And I think there are problems with that statistic because it does not take into account wages. As far as I am aware, Occupy Boston has not passed any resolutions relating to these issues or codifying the 1% rhetoric.
As anything in life, there needs to be a BALANCE…not too much regulation, but also not complete deregulation either. I really wish a centrist INDEPENDENT party would form. The truth is always in the middle.
Results of deregulation – EXTREME GREED !!
http://vimeo.com/25142692
Inside Job (2010) is a documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film is described by Ferguson as being about “the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption.”
Even baseball has rules: otherwise it’s a bunch of people standing in a field, and one of them has a bat. Likewise, let’s just get rid of stop signs and red lights. I mean, why does the government have to tell me to stop at the street corner? The idea that the market needs no regulation makes no common sense. Because the market is not a thing. It is people interacting. And that needs regulation , or it is just anarchy or whatever you want to call it.
Irony
I’m genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online.
interesting. Can’t wait.
Greenwald was on Rachel Maddow tonight. She gave a great intro to the book. Check it out:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/45040850#45040850
Awful lot of Great White Dudes coming through camp to speak. Are there no lady and/or POC leaders or something?
Van Jones will be here Thursday at 11:00.
Yeah, and James Lawson today, although he’s nowhere to be seen on the front page. Speakers are still by and large white and male. I don’t see any women on the schedule.
Allison – Invite the speakers you want to see! That’s what I did to get Glenn here.
Josh,
Could you invite Charles H. Ferguson
http://vimeo.com/25142692
Inside Job (2010) is a documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film is described by Ferguson as being about “the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption.”
I think I see a volunteer.
Occupy the Governor’s Mansion – do not stand for the mileage tax that hurts the working poor while most assuredly corporate industry will have an exemption. Duval claims to help the poor but what he really helps is big business get development deals in the guise of helping the poor. All this does is drive up costs for the working poor, keep people in poverty dependent on the state because Duval allows property developers to charge the state market rate shy high rental prices on your dime and then it inflates the rental market. The mileage tax comes at a time when the state has had a surplus and politicians want to keep giving themselves raises and dishing out deals for their industrial and corporate friends paid for by us. This will also help pay for his transportation dreams where in a few years you’ll see him finishing out some special appointment sweetheart arrangement where he serves as some transportation authority leader. He wants to help himself on the backs of working families – Duval Patrick is a corporate boot-lick – I urge Occupy Boston to stand against Duval and stand against the mileage tax that hurts the already strained working poor and poor families in this state who are simply trying to commute to their jobs. How dare he attempts to give us all a pay-cut while raising his own pay and setting up his own retirement and future while demolishing ours.
Huge Question- the economy hit the skids after American companies fled to China and India to produce goods and staff call centers with slave labor, so Americans lost jobs stopped buying in essence shooting Wall Street in it’s own ass. Looking for a new roulette table (since the consumer had to stop shopping being that they were mostly put out of work) Wall Street decided to invest in housing – buy, flip, sell..driving up the cost of housing coming up with creative financing so everyone and their Mom could take out equity and now again afford to buy stuff again – creating a temporary fake bubble driving up costs on all products. Except that when the housing market bubble crashed…prices never came back down on anything. Why haven’t goods come back down in cost to reset in line with the housing market or economy – why are goods still trapped in the bubble prices???? Why is it like forty dollars for a door knob at Home Depot? Why are cars still in bubble prices? Why would stores close, relocate and lay people off rather than lower prices? Are we seeing some sort of mass-price setting going on? In the free market shouldn’t the cost of goods come back down to level out with the economy which is in a major depression??? It makes no sense to me that prices on goods are still where they were in the housing bubble especially when so many are out of work wages are more stagnant than they’ve ever been, and no one has any equity or credit. The only thing that explains it is mass price-setting anti-trust whatever. Are the major corporate players and distributors on food and goods colluding to keep prices high – some sort of American version of OPEC?