The Obama administration cut off funding for the U.N. cultural agency on Monday, after its member countries defied an American warning and approved a Palestinian bid for full membership.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the vote triggered a long-standing congressional restriction on funding to U.N. bodies that recognize Palestine as a state before an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is reached. She said the U.S. as a result would refrain from making a $60 million payment it planned to deliver in November.

“Today’s vote by the member states of UNESCO to admit Palestine as a member is regrettable, premature, and undermines our shared goal of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” Nuland told reporters. “The United States remains steadfast in its support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state, but such a state can only be realized through direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.”

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When a group of Swedish reporters came to the United States to document the Black Power movement in the 1960s, little did they know that their footage would be the basis for a documentary nearly forty years later. Swedes were fascinated by the American civil rights movement and what followed it. Armed with cameras, they arrived in the U.S. and simply knocked on doors, looking to interview ordinary people and movement leaders. The footage they captured was used in documentaries that aired just once in Sweden and then forgotten – until it was discovered in a studio basement by film maker Göran Olsson, who has directed the brand new documentary Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. Intimate conversations with Stokely Carmichael in his mother’s living room, with Angela Davis in prison, and with Black Panther leader Huey Newton, shed new light …

“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.” — Angela Davis

This week on Uprising – Police Violently Crack Down on Occupy Oakland – Rose Aguilar on Occupy Wall Street and Political Fundraising – Thom Ferguson on Money, Politics, and Occupy Wall Street – Barbara Ehrenreich on Homelessness and the Occupy Movements – Occupy Los Angeles: More Revolution, Less Party

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Occupy Oakland and Iraq Veterans Against the War called on people around the nation yesterday to hold vigils for Scott Olsen, the 24 year old Iraq vet who was critically injured by Oakland police on Tuesday. The Washington Post is now reporting that Olsen’s condition has been upgraded to “fair” and he remains in the Intensive Care Unit. Occupy Wall Street in New York organized a march around their City Hall last night with protesters chanting “New York is Oakland, Oakland is New York.” NYPD and New York Fire Department officials early this morning confiscated several generators and gas canisters from the campers at Zucotti Park in New York saying they were hazardous. No arrests were made. Here in Los Angeles, the Occupy LA encampment continues. In response to Mayor Villaraigosa’s …

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Margin Call

As the great recession drags into its fourth year, it’s becoming harder and harder to remember the good old days when Americans still had confidence in our financial system and the banks that formed its foundation. But that faith disappeared, possibly forever, in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street’s most venerable institutions, …

“Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.” — Julian Casablancas

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Oakland’s mayor and police department are facing national scrutiny this week over a violent police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland encampment that resulted in a 24 year old Iraq war veteran being critically injured. Scott OIsen survived the Iraq war only to be hit in the head by a police projectile. He is currently in critical care at Highland Hospital in East Oakland with a fractured skull and brain swelling. Several protesters have posted videos of the day long Oakland police raid. In this video, we hear the sounds of police shooting a flash grenade into a crowd of people who are trying to help Scott Olsen after he was hit. (See YouTube video below) Meanwhile, Atlanta’s mayor Kasim Reed, revoked his executive order allowing Occupy Atlanta protesters to camp in Woodruff Park. Police attacked the encampment and arrested …

“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. ” — Naomi Klein

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A day of arrests and raids at the Occupy Oakland encampment yesterday has resulted in more than a 100 people taken into custody. Protesters had set up tents at the Frank Ogawa Plaza at City Hall, and on an annex in a park near Lake Merritt. Over a thousand people were determined to remain where they were yesterday and police are justifying their use of force including the deployment of flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets claiming that activists threw bottles, paints, beer, and eggs at officers. The raid began at 5 am yesterday with 500 police officers from a number of California cities working together. Occupy Oakland is calling on Mayor Jean Quan to call off the police. There have been arrests taking place this week in Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia …