Fwd: CC News Letter, 12 Feb - Will Occupy Spring Forward Or Meltdown?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 12 Feb - Will Occupy Spring Forward Or Meltdown?
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com



Dear Friend,

 If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents

 In Solidarity
 Binu Mathew, Editor,
 Countercurrents.org
 Educate! Organize! Agitate!


Will Occupy Spring Forward Or Meltdown?
 By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke120212.htm

Numbers matter, and Occupy has been shedding numbers for months. A major reason for this is because Occupiers have swerved drastically left, leaving the broader 99% ashore. If this trend isn't corrected soon, Occupy will resemble the pre-Occupy left: small isolated groups pursuing their own issues, disconnected from the very broader population that must be involved to actually win any significant demands


A New Declaration
 By Derrick Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen120212.htm

Once we've recognized the destructiveness of capitalism and industrial civilization—both of which are based on systematically converting a living planet into dead commodities—we've no choice, unless we wish to sign our own and our children's death warrants, but to fight for all we're worth and in every way we can to overturn it


Planning For The Rio+20 Conference: Enter The Commons?
 By David Bollier

http://www.countercurrents.org/bollier120212.htm

There is a realization that it is no longer enough to denounce globalization or rail against capitalism. Realistic alternatives must be set forth. For many, it would appear that the commons can provide a useful framework and vocabulary for starting a very different conversation – one that at once addresses politics, economics, culture and our individual aspirations and energies


A German Satire On A Greek Stage
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury120212.htm

Germany is staging a satire in burning Greece. While school children there go unfed and homeless increases in number bankers punish the exhausted Republic by imposing harsh, humiliating conditions to take last cents away from the bankrupt capitalist state in Europe


Towards A Policy For Proportionate Electoral System
 By Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India

http://www.countercurrents.org/ceri120212.htm

More than 250 delegates from 22 States of India gathered together for two full days at the Vishwa Yuvak Kendra at the National Conference of the Campaign for Electoral Reforms In India (CERI) and have arrived at the following Statement of the Conference, after due deliberation for the consideration of the Parliament and the Government of India

 Countercurrents And You !

 Click here to find out
 how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm


 You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm

................................................................
This email should only be sent to those who have asked to receive it.
To unsubscribe, return to the web form where you first subscribed and click the "unsubscribe" button, or contact the owner of the website.

--
Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/