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Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Thu, Apr 05 2012 05:33:31

This upcoming Wednesday! I'm moderating the panel discussion. Come un-occupy with us and share your ideas and opinions in a friendly New School environment, whether you are queer, Arab, Israeli, or just a freewheeling thinker. https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/272259256184693/

— Julia Honkasalo · Mon, Apr 02 2012 14:38:21

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki Thabo Mbeki's letter to Jacob Zuma Thabo Mbeki 31 October 2008 Text of the former South African president's disputed message to the ANC leadership Comrade President, I imagine that these must be especially trying times for you as president of our movement, the ANC, as they are for many of us as ordinary members of our beloved movement, which we have strived to serve loyally for many decades. I say this to apologise that I impose an additional burden on you by sending you this long letter. I decided to write this letter after I was informed that two days ago, on October 7, the president of the ANC Youth League and you the following day, October 8, told the country, through the media, that you would require me to campaign for the ANC during the 2009 election campaign. As you know, neither of you had discussed this with me prior to your announcements. Nobody in the ANC leadership - including you, the presidents of the ANC and ANCYL - has raised this matter with me since then. To avoid controversy, I have declined all invitations publicly to indicate whether I intended to act as you indicated or otherwise. In truth your announcements took me by surprise. This is because earlier you had sent Comrades Kgalema Motlanthe and Gwede Mantashe to inform me that the ANC NEC and our movement in general had lost confidence in me as a cadre of our movement. They informed me that for this reason you suggested that I should resign my position as president of the Republic, which I did. I therefore could not understand how the same ANC which was so disenchanted with me could, within a fortnight, consider me such a dependable cadre as could be relied upon to promote the political fortunes of the very same movement, the ANC, which I had betrayed in such a grave and grevious manner as to require that I should be removed from the presidency of the Republic a mere six or seven months before the end of our term, as mandated by the masses of our people! Your public announcements I have mentioned came exactly at the moment when Comrade Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota and other ANC comrades publicly raised various matters about our movement of concern to them. I have noted that some in our broad democratic movement have spoken publicly, unfortunately, and wrongly saying that Comrade Terror has acted as they have, driven by their loyalty to me as an individual. During the decades we have worked together in the ANC, we have had the great fortune that our movement has consistently repudiated the highly noxious phenomenon of the "cult of personality", which we saw manifested in other countries. It therefore came as a surprise to me that anybody within our revolutionary democratic movement could so much as suggest, and therefore insult somebody like Terror Lekota that he could act as he has, whether rightly or wrongly, driven by attachment to a personal cult! In this context, given that I have worked longer with you than I have worked with Terror, I would be interested to know your view of any instance in our movement during which it fell victim to the noxious phenomenon of the personality cult, as a result of which it ceased to think, content to act in the manner of the "anointed personality", such as the late Kim Il-Sung determined to the people of North Korea! Personally, I've been privileged to interact with such varied titans of our struggle such as Oliver Tambo, Moses Kotane, JB Marks, ZK Matthews, Yusuf Dadoo, Mark Shope, Leslie Massina, Duma Nokwe, Moses Mabhida, Frances Baard, Steve Dlamini, Lilian Ngoyi, Walter Sisulu, Gertrude Shope, Govan Mbeki, Julius Nyerere, Raymond Mhlaba, Kenneth Kaunda, Helen Joseph, Trevor Huddleston, Agostinho Neto, Robert Resha, Jack Simons, Seretse Khama, Ray Alexander, Ruth Matseoane, Sam Nujoma, Fish Keitsing, Kate Molale, Ahmed Kathrada, Nelson Mandela, Joshua Nkomo, Samora Machel, MB Yengwa, Ruth and Joe Slovo, Robert Mugabe, Mpho Motsamai, Bram and Molly Fischer, Mike Harmel, Brian and Sonia Bunting, Andrew Mlangeni, Liz Abrahams, Joe Modise, Florence Mophosho, Alfred Nzo, Beyers Naude, Albertina Sisulu, Thomas Nkobi, Sophie de Bruyn, Ellen Khuzwayo, Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela, Wilton Mkwayi, Alfred Hutchinson, Rusty and Hilda Bernstein, Jack and Rita Hodgson, Cedric Mayson, Thomas Nkobi, Tiny Nokwe, Albert Nolan and many others. All these, and many others I have not mentioned, were and are true heroines and heroes of our struggle. I have omitted to mention others among these such as Albert Luthuli because I cannot claim truthfully that I have interacted with them in the context of the struggle. I have mentioned the people I have to make essential and crucial points, central to the value system of our movement and struggle, that none of these heroes or heroines ever sought adulation in any manner that would turn them into cult figures. They never did anything, nor did we act in any way as we grew up in the liberation movement, which would result in our movement being enslaved in the cult of the individual. In this regard there were exceptional circumstances attached to Comrade Nelson Mandela, which were not of his making or will. In the context of the global struggle for the release of political prisoners in our country, our movement took a deliberate decision to profile Nelson Mandela as the representative personality of these prisoners, and therefore to use his personal political biography, including the persecution of his then wife, Winnie Mandela, dramatically to present to the world and the South African community the brutality of the apartheid system. The beginning and the end of this particular discourse is that both of us have grown up in a political atmosphere that we fully respected and honoured our leaders, heroes and heroines without reservation. However, for me personally, at no point did this translate into "hero worship" and therefore the progression to the phenomenon of the "cult of personality". I know this as a matter of fact that all the heroes and heroines I have mentioned would have opposed the emergence of such a cult with every fibre in their revolutionary bones! For this reason I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a "cult of personality" to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination "to kill" to defend your own cause, the personal interests of "the personality", Jacob Zuma! When we last met, on September 19 2008, at the Denel buildings adjacent to the Oliver Tambo International Airport, I restated to you the incontrovertible fact that you knew that our engagement in the struggle for the liberation of our people had never been informed by a striving for personal power, status or benefit. In this context I told you that should the ANC NEC, which was meeting from that day, decide that I should no longer serve as president of the Republic, having been the ANC presidential candidate presented to the Second and Third democratic parliament in 2004, I would respect this decision and therefore resign. I have been informed informally that you reported this to the ANC NEC at the conclusion of the discussion about this particular matter. I take this opportunity sincerely to thank you for communicating my views to the NEC in this regard. I mention all this in the light of what I cited earlier - the statements made first by the president of the ANC Youth League and later yourself, concerning the role I would play in the forthcoming 2009 election campaign, which has not been discussed with me. For some years now our movement has had to manage an immensely challenging and unprecedented situation, occasioned by the criminal charges preferred against you by the National Prosecuting Authority, and related matters. I state this as a matter of fact with no comment about the merits or demerits of what may have been said and done by anybody or institution in this regard. I also mention this fact in this letter because, despite our best efforts, many in our movement and our population at large have refused to believe the sincere message both of us strived to communicate, that there were and are no divisions between us, and that nobody should use our names to incite or perpetuate division in the ANC and the country. When the December 2007 Polokwane ANC National Conference elected you president of the ANC, and responding to Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe's suggestion, I walked with you to the platform, publicly to demonstrate my acceptance of that outcome, as did other Comrades who had been defeated in the electoral process. When, more recently, the ANC NEC decided that it no longer had confidence in me to serve as its preferred cadre to occupy the position of president of the Republic, I made it a point not to contest this decision, and therefore resigned. When I addressed the nation on September 21 2008, announcing that I had tendered my resignation as president of the Republic, to the National Assembly as the elective body, I said that I have been a member of the ANC for 52 years. There is absolutely nothing I have done through this half-a-century of struggle of which I am ashamed. Above all, I know of nothing I have done which, to my knowledge, constitutes a betrayal of the interests of the masses of our people and their confidence in the ANC. Despite all this, I have taken note of the campaign that some in our ranks, supported by some in our media, have waged for many years focused on discrediting me in particular, given the senior positions I have occupied in the ANC, and the ANC in general. I have constantly been acutely aware of the fact that this campaign has been based on outright lies and deliberate and malicious distortions. For many years I have refused to stoop to a public debate driven by these fabrications, which would demean and destroy the dignity of the ANC, its leadership and me personally. I must admit that this posture might have produced results we never intended, specifically as it might have suggested that we could not contest the lies that have been told. I know that now there are some in our country and elsewhere in the world who appear on television programmes or contribute newspaper opinion columns as "experts" or "analysts", simply on the basis of their readiness to abandon all ethical considerations and self-respect, to propagate entirely fabricated and negative notions about what our national democratic revolution means to our country and people. Because of the services some of these have rendered to the opponents of the national democratic revolution, the "experts" and "analysts" and others who market themselves as "intellectuals/academics" have been handsomely rewarded with material possessions as embedded opponents of the national democratic revolution. Yet such is the malaise that has entrenched itself in our democracy, including our movement, that we do not ask the obvious question - how can such "intellectuals/academics" have come to accumulate such wealth? Bearing in mind everything I have said, let me then address the immediate matters on the national agenda, which relate directly to me. (1) Comrade Lekota and others have not engaged me in any of the actions they have taken, to secure my approval or otherwise. (2) The ANC leadership has not engaged me in any of the responses it has taken in this regard, to secure my approval or otherwise. (3) Informally, I have communicated my view to both these contending groups, members of the ANC, that they should address all matters that might be in contention. (4) In my President's Political Report to the Polokwane 52nd National Conference of the ANC, presented as prescribed by the ANC constitution, I warned of the grave challenges our movement was facing. I suggested that the conference should discuss these. This was not done. Ten months after this report was presented, I still stand by what it said. Following the developments of December 2007 and September 2008, relating to tasks I had been given by the ANC, I have considered carefully what I should do as a private South African and African citizen. Currently I am working as speedily as I can to elaborate the substance of this work, which will ensure that whatever I do in no way involves me in the internal politics of the ANC or the functioning of the government of South Africa. As the saying goes, I refuse absolutely to rule from the grave. History will judge whether what I did during my political life, until September 25 2008, is worth anything. Given the December 2007 and September 2008 outcomes to which I have referred, I trust that you will take the necessary measures to: Remind all comrades that everything we have done since 1994, to advance the national democratic revolution, has been based on collective decisions of our movement, without exceptions Encourage all Comrades honestly to confront the real problems, challenges and opportunities that the ANC, the broad democratic movement and our country face and, Convince these Comrades to desist from abandoning their revolutionary democratic obligations by falsely and dishonestly pretending that the goals of the national democratic revolution have been frustrated, if they have been, through the actions of one individual - Thabo Mbeki. I would like to believe that you and I have devoted out adult lives to the victory of the national democratic revolution, and nothing else. Similarly, I would like to believe that we have always understood that this revolution has as its principal focus the upliftment and empowerment of the millions of our working people, including women, who constitute the overwhelming majority of our people. Accordingly, we have understood that this revolution has absolutely nothing to do with the personal fortunes of those who might, by virtue of historical accident, be its leaders at any particular moment. I would like to believe that in this context we agree that the strategic and historic task facing the tried-and-tested leaders and cadres of our movement is to determine what needs to be done, next, to advance the goals of the national democratic revolution, focused on advancing the interests of the millions of the working masses. In my view, with which you are free to disagree, the revolutionary tasks we confront are to: Recognise the various factors that have militated against the achievement of the unity and cohesion of the ANC in the recent past Defeat the actions prevalent in our governance system, especially the provinces and municipalities, to remove from their positions Comrades who are perceived as belonging to factions different from those which currently serve as elected leaders in the current elected ANC structures Renew the democratic movement on the basis of: opposition to the cult of personality the defeat of careerism and opportunism the defeat of the use of violence in the ANC and the rest of the democratic movement to impose particular leadership cliques interested in winning government tenders for themselves and their friends the defeat of bureaucratic parasitic tendency leading to the abuse of state power for self-enrichment the rejection of the phenomenon of the emergence of a black compradore bourgeosie which, in the context of BBBEE, is ready to front both for the domestic white and international capitalists commitment to the implementation of a socio-economic programme focused on economic growth and development, the restructuring and development of our economy, reducing unemployment and poverty, and sharing the wealth of our country in terms of our national, class and gender categories. Nobody, and I believe the leadership of the ANC above all others, can ignore the conclusion that today our country stands at a particular crossroad. This means that the decisions we take today will impact on our country and the masses of our people for a considerable number of years. I am confident that the decisions the leadership of the ANC will take in this regard, with you at its head, will indeed advance the goals of the national democratic revolution to which so many of us, led by the veterans of our movement, have dedicated our lives. As a small plea in this regard, I appeal that nobody should abuse or cite my name falsely to promote their partisan cause, including how the 2009 ANC election campaign will be conducted. Amandla! Matla! TM

— Charles Wa Mohaika I · Tue, Apr 03 2012 07:18:33

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— Dina Zulfikar · Mon, Apr 02 2012 13:33:38

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— Sarah Fiona Nikolovska · Sun, Mar 25 2012 14:08:25

Shaun T, Dive-In Movie, Gender Outlaws, Athletics, Occupy and more in this week's broadcast - http://www.oneonta.edu/development/huntunion/broadcast/

— SUNY College at Oneonta · Mon, Mar 26 2012 08:45:22

I don't often agree with the "Occupy" folks, but this is the absolute truth.

— John Couch · Sun, Mar 25 2012 01:00:36

Chapter II Review of Related Literature Sex education refers to formal programs of instruction on a wide range of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence, contraception, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. Common avenues for sex education are parents or caregivers, school programs, and public health campaigns. Sex Education in Elementary and High School In the incorporation of Sex Ed in the curriculum, the modules discuss the science of reproduction, physical care, hygiene, and correct values and the norms of interpersonal relations to avoid Pre-marital sex and teenage pregnancy. DepEd claims that the modules are not all about the sexual act but it is about other aspects that would help students understand their bodies better and learn about the consequences of their actions. The institution implies that this act is focused on informing and not to titillate interests. The pilot testing of the modules will be this school year (2010) and will be given to 79 public secondary schools and 80 elementary schools nationwide. Relation of Sex Ed to tertiary curriculum College students are most prone to pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Tertiary stage is where students gain independence and explore beyond their limitations. DepEd aims to teach students about personal care and consequences from their actions. Sex Ed modules will indirectly tell negative effects through the module’s contents. Despite the DepEd’s attempt to pursue the plan, there are still groups of people who oppose the proposition. Catholic Bishops Conference and a group of 30 parents all sued DepEd. They describe the plan as a form of “contraceptive imperialism” that assaults moral sensibilities and values of young people and actually encourage sexual promiscuity. High school sex education courses appear to facilitate attitudinal change in student tolerance of the sexual practices of others, but the personal value system of the student remains intact. Such programs appear to have little effect on the amount of sexual behavior while increasing the use of contraceptive methods among sexually active students. (JN)Kirby, Douglas A cross sectional study was conducted to find out the knowledge and attitudes of students in ACC regarding sex education. Information was collected from 40 Students belonging both to the ACCians, selected randomly in any courses of ACC using questionnaires. A majority of students (73%) were in favor of imparting sex education to school students. Regarding contents of sex education, 90% agreed to the inclusion of reproductive anatomy, physiology including menstruation and birth control measures like condoms and oral pills. However, a majority of students did not want sex education to include topics like abortion, premarital sex and masturbation etc. Fourteen years of age was considered to be the most appropriate for imparting sex education by 28.6% of students. Students were considered by 69.4% and 63.6% of the respondents respectively to be the most appropriate persons for providing sex education. The widespread support for school-based sex education among parents and others in the UK (Health Education Authority 1995) and elsewhere masks considerable disagreement about the nature, aims, content and methods of sex education. It is not just that some people have religious beliefs about sex and others do not (though, as we point out in Chapter 6, religion is a major influence on many people's thinking about sex). Nor is it simply that people occupy different positions on a continuum which has restrictive sexual ideologies at one extreme and permissive sexual ideologies at the other (see McKay 1997). When it comes to opinions about sex, people all too often inhabit different worlds, speak different languages, hold incompatible and widely divergent views. The situation is further complicated by differences compounded by gender, social class, culture and other factors, and by the existence of numerous pressure groups, each with a different agenda, and often each talking at cross-purposes with the others, vying for influence in sex education policy. In view of this, it is not surprising that sex education has become one of the most contentious areas of the curriculum, with disagreements surfacing at the most fundamental level. For some people, sex education is primarily about safer sex, and the effectiveness of a sex education programmed may be judged in terms of the extent to which it leads to increased condom use (Harvey 1993). For others, it is about empowering young people by increasing their freedom to make competent choices about their own sexual behavior (Archard 2000:45), or helping young people to understand 'the importance of marriage for family life, stable and loving relationships, respect, love and care' (DfEE 2000a:5), or helping people to satisfy their sexual needs (Harris 1971:9), or increasing understanding and acceptance of 'differences in sexual norms and practices' (Sex Education Forum 1992), or enjoining 'chastity and virginity before marriage and fidelity within marriage' (Mabud 1998:124, 131), or developing a greater sense of style, satisfaction or fun in sexual relations. From the principle of Mark Halstead and Michael J. Reiss.

— Kim Duran · Wed, Mar 28 2012 00:16:19

Numbers were disturbingly low today for the Greensboro march for justice in the Trayvon Martin case. I found myself wondering if more people would have participated if the word "Occupy" was somehow attached to it. Is he not part of the 99%? Over the past six months I have been overwhelmed with terms and words like social and economic inequality, and intersectionality. I have been informed that a goal of the occupy movement is to make the power structure in society fairer. So honestly I'm just a lot pissed off at how so many people feel like Martins death was about a hoody and a bag of skittles, and not about this system of justice that protects some and fails others. Martin was hunted down and killed because he was a BLACK MALE. How and why are we ignoring Zimmermans words...."fucking coon," and "they always get away"? This was yet another blatant, racially motivated, death of a black man. I grew up with brothers who had the Black Males Code drilled into them countless times by a father who had it drilled into him. And black mothers and fathers today still have to equip their young sons with words to live by that most will never have to hear, let alone even begin to understand. So if race, class, gender, and other social attributes are not stand alone issues, then I ask...what the hell are we doing when we see an innocent, defenseless boy gunned down. Do we continue on with our daily lives paying bills and waiting for the next Occupy movement or march, or do we say enough is enough and make change happen for everybody in the 99%.

— Angela Aldrich · Sat, Mar 24 2012 16:50:06

I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a Yahoo Answers page that poses the question “Is Eminem trying to break free from the Illuminati?” and offers spirited excavation and analysis of the hidden anti-Illuminati messages Eminem embedded in his song “ Not Afraid.” There is a four-page message-board thread titled “Is Eminem an Illuminati slave?” A YouTube video called “Eminem vs. Illuminati” explains, via solemn text and creepy music, that when the Detroit M.C. titled a song “ Cinderella Man,” it was not because the redemptive plot of the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man echoes Eminem’s own comeback from drug addiction, but rather because, like Cinderella with her wicked stepsisters, Eminem was “forced to do the chores for the Illuminati by sending subliminal messages through his music.” Ignore any comment-section sheep who bah that this is ridiculous: When that video ends, the hunt for truth has only just begun. From a list of suggested related videos, you can choose “ Eminem: His illuminati sacrifice Part 1”; “Eminem Fights Back Against The illuminati”; “Eminem against illuminati 2011!”; “Eminem My Darling Illuminati” and on and on. Some of the Eminem/Illuminati videos have been viewed 5,000 times. Others, close to 300,000. Welcome to the world of pop- music trutherism, a bustling, grassroots exposé industry in which Eminem is one of many performers called out by anonymous instigators for Illuminist sympathies. The best conspiracy theories go all the way to the top, and this one goes all the way to the top of the charts. Jay-Z? An “ Illuminati puppet.” Lady Gaga? An “Illuminati whore.” Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, Rihanna— Illuminati agents all. (Michael Jackson and 2Pac, it turns out, were victims of Illuminati- ordered assassination.) The Illuminati investigation unfolds sloppily but vigorously across countless sites, from YouTube to Twitter to fan discussion boards to dedicated shops like VigilantCitizen.com. The trained eye can spot Illuminati sartorial choices, like goat-themed jewelry and T-shirts, worn in ostensible tribute to Baphomet, a horned pagan deity who intrigued Aleister Crowley. There is Illuminati semaphore, such as framing one’s eye with the palms tipped together in a pyramid shape or otherwise isolating an eye to evoke the “all-seeing eye” on the back of a dollar bill, an image with Masonic origins. There are Illuminati lyrics, like Eminem’s mention of a “ New World Order” on “Lose Yourself” or the references he and Jay-Z have made, separately, to a mysterious, powerful figure they call the “ Rain Man” (the theorists are apparently unfamiliar with Dustin Hoffman’s IMDb page). Spend some time sifting through this stuff and your eyes will roll so far back into your skull you’ll look like you’ve been possessed by Baphomet. The theorists’ “revelations” are presented, variously, in portentous tones and with exclamation-point-riddled urgency: The Illuminati, intent on global domination, treat pop music as a powerful mind- control weapon, weaving secret messages and dark imagery into hits and videos; there is much inveighing that we “wake up” to the “brainwashing.” The Illuminati truthers make 9/11 truthers seem as rigorous and compelling as Woodward and Bernstein on Watergate. The evidence they haul out boils down to little more than far- fetched, oblivious misreads (i.e. Eminem and Cinderella), a stunning allergy to the possibility of metaphor (Lil Wayne rapped that he sold his soul to the devil—smoking gun!), and a hysterical attitude toward occult imagery befitting Ned Flanders. With so many voices chiming in, and with so many of them doing so anonymously, it’s hard to say which of the “theorists” are just having a laugh, but the most prominent—like Vigilant Citizen or the Philadelphia morning- radio host Miss Jones, who grilled 50 Cent at some length about secret-society infiltration in hip-hop—communicate total earnestness. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals. (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Weishaupt’s Illuminati ran afoul of Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor, who caught the seditious wind and issued a decree in 1784, Magee writes, “commanding them to disband.” Born as a reformist bogeyman opposed to, and ultimately snuffed out by, entrenched power, the Illuminati went under in 1787, but it has lived on in the conservative imagination. In a 1995 New Yorker article about the rise of conspiracy theories in America, Michael Kelly mentions the Illuminati as major phantasms in the so-called New World Order theory, the basics of which were laid out in, among other places, the John Birch Society’s 1958 Blue Book. (The Order of the Illuminati figures centrally into the Rev. Pat Robertson’s 1991 book, The New World Order, too.) In the New World Order theory, Kelly writes, the Illuminati are just one link in the nefarious chain of “secret and semisecret societies arcing across time and cultures” from “early-Christian- era agnostics,” through the Freemasons, to “twentieth century schemers.” The perceived goal of shadow puppeteers such as the Illuminati is “to destroy the established Christian order of Western nations and replace it with an atheistic, socialistic global government.” If that last sentence gets your Tea Party bells ringing, it should —and if you thought people on the Internet wasted far too much energy sussing out Eminem’s secret-society affiliations, do a search for “Obama” plus “Illuminati.” There is a strong religious-right flavor to much of the talk of pop-Illuminism, a barely concealed fear that Lady Gaga and Jay-Z are agents of the Antichrist, here to subjugate the masses and turn “our” children homosexual and/or black. Illuminati suspicions attach, in some degree, to virtually every music star—Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, even Celine Dion! Nevertheless, it seems more than mere happenstance that Jay-Z and Lady Gaga are the biggest targets: a politically outspoken, wildly rich black charmer and a gender-bending, pro-gay weirdo. The pop- Illuminati hunt is a throwback to the time when parent groups would scan the music of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for hidden occultist mojo, but given a Fox News-era culture-war update. In a counterintuitive twist, however, Illuminati paranoia turns out to grip not just those on the far right who fear a godless/black/gay assault, but also those at the other end of the political spectrum. On the (black) far left, abiding fears of control and co-optation by the (white) power structure find voice via Illuminati theories. (Michael Kelly used the term “fusion paranoia” to describe this strange left-right overlap.) Mobb Deep’s Prodigy has been hip-hop’s most outspoken critic of Illuminati shenanigans since he rapped “Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body/ Secret society, tryina keep they eye on me,” in 1995; the video for his 2008 song “Illuminati” depicts a dystopian nightmare of omnipresent surveillance and national I.D. cards. Despite blog posts he’s written about secret- elite rituals in which babies are burned sacrificially, Prodigy distances himself from the frivolous fringe looking for Illuminati on the Billboard Hot 100: “Jay-Z’s a fucking crumb compared to these niggas,” he said in an April interview, dismissing the chatter about Illuminati pop stars as “dumb.” Prodigy locates his anti- Illuminism within greater traditions of black agitation (his eyes were opened, he says, by the writings of the radical Dwight "Dr." York) and social responsibility: “I was doing bullshit, buying mad diamonds … promoting the wrong type of lifestyle, but I snapped out of that shit, got myself together, and refocused on what this shit is supposed to be: Like, what are you trying to promote to the people?” Prodigy has spoken of his preference for Ron Paul over Barack Obama, and he is aligned in this regard with other rap gadflies like KRS-One and Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, both of whom appear in the film The Obama Deception, casting the president as a minion of the New World Order. The New Yorker’s David Remnick observed in his 2005 piece about Katrina conspiracy theories that they belonged to a long history of such theories (AIDS as weapon of a CIA- orchestrated genocide; Tropical Fantasy sodas as tool of a KKK sterilization plot; etc.). These theories, he wrote, represent “counter-narratives” that indicate and express, however fancifully, the very fraught place that blacks still occupy in American society, despite popular narratives of social progress, the growing black middle-class, and so on. In a similar way, Illuminati paranoia within rap circles counters and deflates hip-hop’s celebratory master narrative of outsize black success; the Illuminati theory, in this iteration, is symptomatic of broader anger and alienation. The only way Jay-Z, or any black man, could become so successful in America, the thinking goes, would be to capitulate to, and become a pawn of, the people who have always called the shots. When Kanye West raps, on “Power,” “In this white man’s world, we the ones chosen,” he makes an implicit complaint about the limits of black mobility. Ironically, some pop truthers took the line, along with the song’s symbol-rich video, as a confession of Illuminati affiliation. West has addressed the Illuminati rumors, teasingly, on Twitter. “Is illuminati and devil worshipping like the same thing ... do they have a social network that celebs can sign up for?” he tweeted, adding, “Question... can you devil worship on the new iphone??? LOL!!!” West’s jokes point to one glaring reason why the pop-Illuminati theory has proven so catchy: It’s great fun to turn the act of listening to pop into a symbolism Easter- egg hunt worthy of The DaVinci Code. And why can’t West and Jay-Z have some fun in return? West doubtless knew that the “ Eye of Horus” was central to Illuminati lore when he commissioned a gigantic Horus necklace. Jay-Z must have been aware that flashing the image of a Baphomet-ish skull in the “On to the Next One” video would titillate theorists. Recently, West has taken to wearing a variety of garments featuring Rottweiler designs. Spotting the same dogs in the artwork for the Watch the Throne single “H.A.M.,” one Illuminati truther connected them, naturally, to “Hades’ hellhounds.” The rottweilers are, it happens, a recurring motif in the current Givenchy line, in which Rottweiler T-shirts sell for $265. Illuminati members, one hopes, get a discount.

— Adeywaley Popoolar Sijuadey · Sun, Mar 25 2012 16:11:14

Is Lady Gaga a Satanist Illuminati Slave? 19 weeks ago I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a Yahoo Answers page that poses the question “Is Eminem trying to break free from the Illuminati?” and offers spirited excavation and analysis of the hidden anti-Illuminati messages Eminem embedded in his song “ Not Afraid.” There is a four-page message-board thread titled “Is Eminem an Illuminati slave?” A YouTube video called “Eminem vs. Illuminati” explains, via solemn text and creepy music, that when the Detroit M.C. titled a song “ Cinderella Man,” it was not because the redemptive plot of the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man echoes Eminem’s own comeback from drug addiction, but rather because, like Cinderella with her wicked stepsisters, Eminem was “forced to do the chores for the Illuminati by sending subliminal messages through his music.” Ignore any comment-section sheep who bah that this is ridiculous: When that video ends, the hunt for truth has only just begun. From a list of suggested related videos, you can choose “ Eminem: His illuminati sacrifice Part 1”; “Eminem Fights Back Against The illuminati”; “Eminem against illuminati 2011!”; “Eminem My Darling Illuminati” and on and on. Some of the Eminem/Illuminati videos have been viewed 5,000 times. Others, close to 300,000. Welcome to the world of pop- music trutherism, a bustling, grassroots exposé industry in which Eminem is one of many performers called out by anonymous instigators for Illuminist sympathies. The best conspiracy theories go all the way to the top, and this one goes all the way to the top of the charts. Jay-Z? An “ Illuminati puppet.” Lady Gaga? An “Illuminati whore.” Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, Rihanna— Illuminati agents all. (Michael Jackson and 2Pac, it turns out, were victims of Illuminati- ordered assassination.) The Illuminati investigation unfolds sloppily but vigorously across countless sites, from YouTube to Twitter to fan discussion boards to dedicated shops like VigilantCitizen.com. The trained eye can spot Illuminati sartorial choices, like goat-themed jewelry and T-shirts, worn in ostensible tribute to Baphomet, a horned pagan deity who intrigued Aleister Crowley. There is Illuminati semaphore, such as framing one’s eye with the palms tipped together in a pyramid shape or otherwise isolating an eye to evoke the “all-seeing eye” on the back of a dollar bill, an image with Masonic origins. There are Illuminati lyrics, like Eminem’s mention of a “ New World Order” on “Lose Yourself” or the references he and Jay-Z have made, separately, to a mysterious, powerful figure they call the “ Rain Man” (the theorists are apparently unfamiliar with Dustin Hoffman’s IMDb page). Spend some time sifting through this stuff and your eyes will roll so far back into your skull you’ll look like you’ve been possessed by Baphomet. The theorists’ “revelations” are presented, variously, in portentous tones and with exclamation-point-riddled urgency: The Illuminati, intent on global domination, treat pop music as a powerful mind- control weapon, weaving secret messages and dark imagery into hits and videos; there is much inveighing that we “wake up” to the “brainwashing.” The Illuminati truthers make 9/11 truthers seem as rigorous and compelling as Woodward and Bernstein on Watergate. The evidence they haul out boils down to little more than far- fetched, oblivious misreads (i.e. Eminem and Cinderella), a stunning allergy to the possibility of metaphor (Lil Wayne rapped that he sold his soul to the devil—smoking gun!), and a hysterical attitude toward occult imagery befitting Ned Flanders. With so many voices chiming in, and with so many of them doing so anonymously, it’s hard to say which of the “theorists” are just having a laugh, but the most prominent—like Vigilant Citizen or the Philadelphia morning- radio host Miss Jones, who grilled 50 Cent at some length about secret-society infiltration in hip-hop—communicate total earnestness. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals. (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Weishaupt’s Illuminati ran afoul of Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor, who caught the seditious wind and issued a decree in 1784, Magee writes, “commanding them to disband.” Born as a reformist bogeyman opposed to, and ultimately snuffed out by, entrenched power, the Illuminati went under in 1787, but it has lived on in the conservative imagination. In a 1995 New Yorker article about the rise of conspiracy theories in America, Michael Kelly mentions the Illuminati as major phantasms in the so-called New World Order theory, the basics of which were laid out in, among other places, the John Birch Society’s 1958 Blue Book. (The Order of the Illuminati figures centrally into the Rev. Pat Robertson’s 1991 book, The New World Order, too.) In the New World Order theory, Kelly writes, the Illuminati are just one link in the nefarious chain of “secret and semisecret societies arcing across time and cultures” from “early-Christian- era agnostics,” through the Freemasons, to “twentieth century schemers.” The perceived goal of shadow puppeteers such as the Illuminati is “to destroy the established Christian order of Western nations and replace it with an atheistic, socialistic global government.” If that last sentence gets your Tea Party bells ringing, it should —and if you thought people on the Internet wasted far too much energy sussing out Eminem’s secret-society affiliations, do a search for “Obama” plus “Illuminati.” There is a strong religious-right flavor to much of the talk of pop-Illuminism, a barely concealed fear that Lady Gaga and Jay-Z are agents of the Antichrist, here to subjugate the masses and turn “our” children homosexual and/or black. Illuminati suspicions attach, in some degree, to virtually every music star—Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, even Celine Dion! Nevertheless, it seems more than mere happenstance that Jay-Z and Lady Gaga are the biggest targets: a politically outspoken, wildly rich black charmer and a gender-bending, pro-gay weirdo. The pop- Illuminati hunt is a throwback to the time when parent groups would scan the music of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for hidden occultist mojo, but given a Fox News-era culture-war update. In a counterintuitive twist, however, Illuminati paranoia turns out to grip not just those on the far right who fear a godless/black/gay assault, but also those at the other end of the political spectrum. On the (black) far left, abiding fears of control and co-optation by the (white) power structure find voice via Illuminati theories. (Michael Kelly used the term “fusion paranoia” to describe this strange left-right overlap.) Mobb Deep’s Prodigy has been hip-hop’s most outspoken critic of Illuminati shenanigans since he rapped “Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body/ Secret society, tryina keep they eye on me,” in 1995; the video for his 2008 song “Illuminati” depicts a dystopian nightmare of omnipresent surveillance and national I.D. cards. Despite blog posts he’s written about secret- elite rituals in which babies are burned sacrificially, Prodigy distances himself from the frivolous fringe looking for Illuminati on the Billboard Hot 100: “Jay-Z’s a fucking crumb compared to these niggas,” he said in an April interview, dismissing the chatter about Illuminati pop stars as “dumb.” Prodigy locates his anti- Illuminism within greater traditions of black agitation (his eyes were opened, he says, by the writings of the radical Dwight "Dr." York) and social responsibility: “I was doing bullshit, buying mad diamonds … promoting the wrong type of lifestyle, but I snapped out of that shit, got myself together, and refocused on what this shit is supposed to be: Like, what are you trying to promote to the people?” Prodigy has spoken of his preference for Ron Paul over Barack Obama, and he is aligned in this regard with other rap gadflies like KRS-One and Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, both of whom appear in the film The Obama Deception, casting the president as a minion of the New World Order. The New Yorker’s David Remnick observed in his 2005 piece about Katrina conspiracy theories that they belonged to a long history of such theories (AIDS as weapon of a CIA- orchestrated genocide; Tropical Fantasy sodas as tool of a KKK sterilization plot; etc.). These theories, he wrote, represent “counter-narratives” that indicate and express, however fancifully, the very fraught place that blacks still occupy in American society, despite popular narratives of social progress, the growing black middle-class, and so on. In a similar way, Illuminati paranoia within rap circles counters and deflates hip-hop’s celebratory master narrative of outsize black success; the Illuminati theory, in this iteration, is symptomatic of broader anger and alienation. The only way Jay-Z, or any black man, could become so successful in America, the thinking goes, would be to capitulate to, and become a pawn of, the people who have always called the shots. When Kanye West raps, on “Power,” “In this white man’s world, we the ones chosen,” he makes an implicit complaint about the limits of black mobility. Ironically, some pop truthers took the line, along with the song’s symbol-rich video, as a confession of Illuminati affiliation. West has addressed the Illuminati rumors, teasingly, on Twitter. “Is illuminati and devil worshipping like the same thing ... do they have a social network that celebs can sign up for?” he tweeted, adding, “Question... can you devil worship on the new iphone??? LOL!!!” West’s jokes point to one glaring reason why the pop-Illuminati theory has proven so catchy: It’s great fun to turn the act of listening to pop into a symbolism Easter- egg hunt worthy of The DaVinci Code. And why can’t West and Jay-Z have some fun in return? West doubtless knew that the “ Eye of Horus” was central to Illuminati lore when he commissioned a gigantic Horus necklace. Jay-Z must have been aware that flashing the image of a Baphomet-ish skull in the “On to the Next One” video would titillate theorists. Recently, West has taken to wearing a variety of garments featuring Rottweiler designs. Spotting the same dogs in the artwork for the Watch the Throne single “H.A.M.,” one Illuminati truther connected them, naturally, to “Hades’ hellhounds.” The rottweilers are, it happens, a recurring motif in the current Givenchy line, in which Rottweiler T-shirts sell for $265. Illuminati members, one hopes, get a discount.

— Adebola James · Wed, Mar 28 2012 02:43:16

I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a Yahoo Answers page that poses the question “Is Eminem trying to break free from the Illuminati?” and offers spirited excavation and analysis of the hidden anti-Illuminati messages Eminem embedded in his song “ Not Afraid.” There is a four-page message-board thread titled “Is Eminem an Illuminati slave?” A YouTube video called “Eminem vs. Illuminati” explains, via solemn text and creepy music, that when the Detroit M.C. titled a song “ Cinderella Man,” it was not because the redemptive plot of the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man echoes Eminem’s own comeback from drug addiction, but rather because, like Cinderella with her wicked stepsisters, Eminem was “forced to do the chores for the Illuminati by sending subliminal messages through his music.” Ignore any comment-section sheep who bah that this is ridiculous: When that video ends, the hunt for truth has only just begun. From a list of suggested related videos, you can choose “ Eminem: His illuminati sacrifice Part 1”; “Eminem Fights Back Against The illuminati”; “Eminem against illuminati 2011!”; “Eminem My Darling Illuminati” and on and on. Some of the Eminem/Illuminati videos have been viewed 5,000 times. Others, close to 300,000. Welcome to the world of pop-music trutherism, a bustling, grassroots exposé industry in which Eminem is one of many performers called out by anonymous instigators for Illuminist sympathies. The best conspiracy theories go all the way to the top, and this one goes all the way to the top of the charts. Jay-Z? An “ Illuminati puppet.” Lady Gaga? An “Illuminati whore.” Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, Rihanna—Illuminati agents all. (Michael Jackson and 2Pac, it turns out, were victims of Illuminati-ordered assassination.) The Illuminati investigation unfolds sloppily but vigorously across countless sites, from YouTube to Twitter to fan discussion boards to dedicated shops like VigilantCitizen.com. The trained eye can spot Illuminati sartorial choices, like goat-themed jewelry and T-shirts, worn in ostensible tribute to Baphomet, a horned pagandeity who intrigued Aleister Crowley. There is Illuminati semaphore, such as framing one’s eye with the palms tipped together in a pyramid shape or otherwise isolating an eye to evoke the “all-seeing eye” on the back of a dollar bill, an image with Masonic origins. There are Illuminati lyrics, like Eminem’s mention of a “ New World Order” on “Lose Yourself” or the references he and Jay-Z have made, separately, to a mysterious, powerful figure they call the “ Rain Man” (the theorists are apparently unfamiliar with Dustin Hoffman’s IMDb page). Spend some time sifting through this stuff and your eyes will roll so far back into your skull you’ll look like you’ve been possessed by Baphomet. The theorists’ “revelations” are presented, variously, in portentous tones and with exclamation-point-riddled urgency: The Illuminati, intent on global domination, treat pop music as a powerful mind- control weapon, weaving secret messages and dark imagery into hits and videos; there is much inveighing that we “wake up” to the “brainwashing.” The Illuminati truthers make 9/11 truthers seem as rigorous and compelling as Woodward and Bernstein on Watergate. The evidence they haul out boils down to little more than far-fetched, oblivious misreads (i.e. Eminem and Cinderella), a stunning allergy to the possibility of metaphor (Lil Wayne rapped that he sold his soul to the devil—smoking gun!), and a hysterical attitude toward occult imagery befitting Ned Flanders. With so many voices chiming in, and with so many of them doing so anonymously, it’s hard to say which of the “theorists” are just having a laugh, but the most prominent—like Vigilant Citizen or the Philadelphia morning- radio host Miss Jones, who grilled 50 Cent at some length about secret- society infiltration in hip-hop— communicate total earnestness. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super- boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals. (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop- cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super- boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18 century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19 century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop- cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Weishaupt’s Illuminati ran afoul of Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor, who caught the seditious wind and issued a decree in 1784, Magee writes, “commanding them to disband.” Born as a reformist bogeyman opposed to, and ultimately snuffed out by, entrenched power, the Illuminati went under in 1787, but it has lived on in the conservative imagination. In a 1995 New Yorker article about the rise of conspiracy theories in America, Michael Kelly mentions the Illuminati as major phantasms in the so-called New World Order theory, the basics of which were laid out in, among other places, the John Birch Society’s 1958 Blue Book. (The Order of the Illuminati figures centrally into the Rev. Pat Robertson’s 1991 book, The New World Order, too.) In the New World Order theory, Kelly writes, the Illuminati are just one link in the nefarious chain of “secret and semisecret societies arcing across time and cultures” from “early-Christian-era agnostics,” through the Freemasons, to “twentieth century schemers.” The perceived goal of shadow puppeteers such as the Illuminati is “to destroy the established Christian order of Western nations and replace it with an atheistic, socialistic global government.” If that last sentence gets your Tea Party bells ringing, it should—and if you thought people on the Internet wasted far too much energy sussing out Eminem’s secret-society affiliations, do a search for “Obama” plus “Illuminati.” There is a strong religious-right flavor to much of the talk of pop-Illuminism, a barely concealed fear that Lady Gaga and Jay- Z are agents of the Antichrist, here to subjugate the masses and turn “our” children homosexual and/or black. Illuminati suspicions attach, in some degree, to virtually every music star— Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, even Celine Dion! Nevertheless, it seems more than mere happenstance that Jay-Z and Lady Gaga are the biggest targets: a politically outspoken, wildly rich black charmer and a gender-bending, pro-gay weirdo. The pop-Illuminati hunt is a throwback to the time when parent groups would scan the music of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for hidden occultist mojo, but given a Fox News-era culture-war update.

— Tshepo Graphic Boy Kgatlhane · Thu, Mar 29 2012 06:06:41

Whistleblower From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Whistleblower (disambiguation). Federal Government of the United States's whistleblower awareness poster A whistleblower (whistle-blower or whistle blower)[1] is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities (misconduct) occurring in a government department, a public or private organization, or a company. The alleged misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a violation of a law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as fraud, health/safety violations, and corruption. Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally (for example, to other people within the accused organization) or externally (to regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups concerned with the issues). One of the first laws that protected whistleblowers was the 1863 United States False Claims Act (revised in 1986), which tried to combat fraud by suppliers of the United States government during the Civil War. The act encourages whistleblowers by promising them a percentage of the money recovered or damages won by the government and protects them from wrongful dismissal.[2] Whistleblowers frequently face reprisal, sometimes at the hands of the organization or group which they have accused, sometimes from related organizations, and sometimes under law. Contents [hide] 1 Overview 1.1 Origin of term 1.2 Definition 1.3 Common reactions 2 Legal protection 2.1 USA 2.2 UK 2.3 Australia 2.4 Canada 2.5 Jamaica 2.6 India 2.7 Ireland 2.8 Other countries 3 Legal acts 3.1 Ceballos case and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007 3.2 California False Claims Act 3.3 Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) 3.4 "Concerning protection for health care workers who report patient safety information" in Colorado 3.5 Medical residents and extending whistleblower protection to enforce safety, health, and maximum work hour standards 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links [edit] Overview [edit] Origin of term The term whistleblower comes from the whistle a referee uses to indicate an illegal or foul play.[3][4] US civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid the negative connotations found in other words such as "informers" and "snitches". [5] [edit] Definition Ryszard Kukliński believed that he would be able to prevent the war in Europe between the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries by handling in 40,265 pages of secret military documents of German Democratic Republic and People's Republic of Poland to CIA in the Federal Republic of Germany Most whistleblowers are internal whistleblowers, who report misconduct on a fellow employee or superior within their company. One of the most interesting questions with respect to internal whistleblowers is why and under what circumstances people will either act on the spot to stop illegal and otherwise unacceptable behavior or report it.[6] There is some reason to believe that people are more likely to take action with respect to unacceptable behavior, within an organization, if there are complaint systems that offer not just options dictated by the planning and control organization, but a choice of options for individ absolute confidentiality.[7] External whistleblowers, however, report misconduct on outside persons or entities. In these cases, depending on the information's severity and nature, whistleblowers may report the misconduct to lawyers, the media, law enforcement or watchdog agencies, or other local, state, or federal agencies. In some cases, external whistleblowing is encouraged by offering monetary reward. Under most US federal whistleblower statutes, in order to be considered a whistleblower, the federal employee must have reason to believe his or her employer has violated some law, rule or regulation; testify or commence a legal proceeding on the legally protected matter; or refuse to violate the law. In cases where whistleblowing on a specified topic is protected by statute, US courts have generally held that such whistleblowers are protected from retaliation.[8] However, a closely divided US Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006) held that the First Amendment free speech guarantees for government employees do not protect disclosures made within the scope of the employees' duties. [edit] Common reactions Ideas about whistleblowing vary widely. Whistleblowers are commonly seen as selfless martyrs for public interest and organizational accountability; others view them as "tattle tales" or "snitches," solely pursuing personal glory and fame. Some academics (such as Thomas Alured Faunce) feel that whistleblowers should at least be entitled to a rebuttable presumption that they are attempting to apply ethical principles in the face of obstacles and that whistleblowing would be more respected in governance systems if it had a firmer academic basis in virtue ethics.[9][10] It is probable that many people do not even consider blowing the whistle, not only because of fear of retaliation, but also because of fear of losing their relationships at work and outside work.[11] Because the majority of cases are very low-profile and receive little or no media attention and because whistleblowers who do report significant misconduct are usually put in some form of danger or persecution, the idea of seeking fame and glory may be less commonly believed.[citation needed] Persecution of whistleblowers has become a serious issue in many parts of the world. Although whistleblowers are often protected under law from employer retaliation, there have been many cases where punishment for whistleblowing has occurred, such as termination, suspension, demotion, wage garnishment, and/or harsh mistreatment by other employees. For example, in the United States, most whistleblower protection laws provide for limited "make whole" remedies or damages for employment losses if whistleblower retaliation is proven. However, many whistleblowers report there exists a widespread "shoot the messenger" mentality by corporations or government agencies accused of misconduct and in some cases whistleblowers have been subjected to criminal prosecution in reprisal for reporting wrongdoing. As a reaction to this many private organizations have formed whistleblower legal defense funds or support groups to assist whistleblowers; two such examples are the National Whistleblowers Center[12] in the United States and Public Concern at Work[13] in the UK. Depending on the circumstances, it is not uncommon for whistleblowers to be ostracized by their co-workers, discriminated against by future potential employers, or even fired from their organization. This campaign directed at whistleblowers with the goal of eliminating them from the organization is referred to as mobbing. It is an extreme form of workplace bullying wherein the group is set against the targeted individual. a whistle blower act have great effect for protection of people. [edit] Legal protection Legal protection for whistleblowing varies from country to country and may depend on any of the country of the original activity, where and how secrets were revealed, and how they eventually became published or publicized. Over a dozen countries have now adopted comprehensive whistleblower protection laws which create mechanisms for reporting, investigate reports, and provide legal protections to the people who informed them. Over 50 countries have adopted more limited protections as part of their anti-corruption, freedom of information, or employment laws.[14] For purposes of the English Wikipedia, this section emphasizes the English-speaking world and covers other regimes only insofar as they represent exceptionally greater or lesser protections. [edit] USA Main article: Whistleblower protection in the United States Whistleblowing is complex patchwork of contradictory laws within the US. In the United States, legal protections vary according to the subject matter of the whistleblowing, and sometimes the state in which the case arises.[15] In passing the 2002 Sarbanes–Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the "patchwork and vagaries" of varying state statutes.[16] Still, a wide variety of federal and state laws protect employees who call attention to violations, help with enforcement proceedings, or refuse to obey unlawful directions. The first US law adopted specifically to protect whistleblowers was the 1863 United States False Claims Act (revised in 1986), which tried to combat fraud by suppliers of the United States government during the Civil War. The act encourages whistleblowers by promising them a percentage of the money recovered or damages won by the government and protects them from wrongful dismissal.[17] Another US law that specifically protects whistleblowers is the Lloyd – La Follette Act of 1912. It guaranteed the right of federal employees to furnish information to the United States Congress. The first US environmental law to include an employee protection was the Clean Water Act of 1972. Similar protections were included in subsequent federal environmental laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act (1974), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976), Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (through 1978 amendment to protect nuclear whistleblowers), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or the Superfund Law) (1980), and the Clean Air Act (1990). Similar employee protections enforced through OSHA are included in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (1982) to protect truck drivers, the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act (PSIA) of 2002, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century ("AIR 21"), and the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, enacted on July 30, 2002 (for corporate fraud whistleblowers). Investigation of retaliation against whistleblowers under 20 federal statutes falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program[18] of the United States Department of Labor's[19] Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).[20] New whistleblower statutes enacted by Congress which are to be enforced by the Secretary of Labor are generally delegated by a Secretary's Order[21] to OSHA's Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program (OWPP). The patchwork of laws means that victims of retaliation need to be alert to the laws at issue to determine the deadlines and means for making proper complaints. Some deadlines are as short as 10 days (for Arizona State Employees to file a "Prohibited Personnel Practice" Complaint before the Arizona State Personnel Board; and Ohio public employees to file appeals with the State Personnel Board of Review). It is 30 days for environmental whistleblowers to make a written complaint to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Federal employees complaining of discrimination, retaliation or other violations of the civil rights laws have 45 days to make a written complaint to their agency's equal employment opportunity (EEO) officer. Airline workers and corporate fraud whistleblowers have 90 days to make their complaint to OSHA. Nuclear whistleblowers and truck drivers have 180 days to make complaints to OSHA. Victims of retaliation against union organizing and other concerted activities to improve working conditions have six months to make complaints to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Private sector employees have either 180 or 300 days to make complaints to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (depending on whether their state has a "deferral" agency) for discrimination claims on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin or religion. Those who face retaliation for seeking minimum wages or overtime have either two or three years to file a civil lawsuit, depending on whether the court finds the violation was "willful." Those who report a false claim against the federal government, and suffer adverse employment actions as a result, may have up to six years (depending on state law) to file a civil suit for remedies under the US False Claims Act (FCA).[22] Under a qui tam provision, the "original source" for the report may be entitled to a percentage of what the government recovers from the offenders. However, the "original source" must also be the first to file a federal civil complaint for recovery of the federal funds fraudulently obtained, and must avoid publicizing the claim of fraud until the US Justice Department decides whether to prosecute the claim itself. Such qui tam lawsuits must be filed under seal, using special procedures to keep the claim from becoming public until the federal government makes its decision on direct prosecution. Federal employees could benefit from the Whistleblower Protection Act,[23] and the No-FEAR Act (which made individual agencies directly responsible for the economic sanctions of unlawful retaliation). Federal protections are enhanced in those few cases where the Office of Special Counsel will uphold the whistleblower's case. [edit] Wall Street A woman protesting the state of protections for whistleblowers of banking fraud at the Occupy Wall Street rally, September 17, 2011 Securities whistleblowers are provided incentives and protection by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010).[24] The Dodd-Frank Act offers whistleblowers significant incentives and increases protection for whistleblowers in the SEC whistleblower program. This legislation authorizes the SEC to reward those who provide information concerning violations of the federal securities laws at companies that are required to report to the SEC. Further, the Dodd-Frank Act strengthens the whistleblower protection provisions of the False Claims Act, and contains one of the strongest confidentiality provisions for whistleblowers ever enacted. For the first time, whistleblowers will be allowed to initially report fraud anonymously by filing a claim through an attorney. Additionally, the law prohibits employers from retaliating against whistleblowers. Employers may not fire, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or discriminate against a whistleblower. The Dodd-Frank Act expands the reach of whistleblower protections provided under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to include employees of public companies as well as employees of its private subsidiaries and affiliates. Whistleblowers who suffer from employment retaliation may sue for reinstatement, back pay, and any other damages incurred. [edit] US military The Military Whistleblower Protection Act[25] protects the right of members of the armed services to communicate with any member of Congress (even if copies of the communication are sent to others). [edit] UK In the United Kingdom, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 provides a framework of legal protection for individuals who disclose information so as to expose malpractice and matters of similar concern.[26] In the vernacular, it protects whistleblowers from victimization and dismissal. [edit] Australia There is no national law on protection of whistleblowers in Australia. In 2011, the government promised to adopt a new law. There are also laws in a number of states.[27] The former NSW Police Commissioner Tony Lauer summed it up as: "Nobody in Australia much likes whistleblowers, particularly in an organisation like the police or the government." [edit] Canada Canadian protection for whistleblowers is notoriously poor by English-speaking countries' standards. Until recently, there was no formal protection for those who spoke up from a position of knowledge inside government, with even senior civil servants (Shiv Chopra being one notable case) fired or constructively dismissed for speaking up about internal abuses. In the private sector, the situation was even worse as Canada retained the unreformed common law of libel without the exceptions for public issues or public interest that were added in all other English-speaking countries. This made political libel cases unfortunately common, with one infamous case even filed by the Prime Minister himself versus Official Opposition for alleging that the Prime Minister, when in Opposition, had bribed MP Chuck Cadman. Historically, many Canadian private sector business scandals had come to light only through the intervention of the US SEC or other regulators (Garth Drabinsky, Conrad Black, Steven Bingham being three notable examples), due in part to the lack of whistleblower protections, plaintiff-friendly libel laws and a lack of investigative journalism due to these. [edit] Canadian government Canada's parliament has instituted the Public Sector Integrity Office (Canada), a parliamentary office for the protection for whistleblowers who speak up against abuses in government. However, that office was itself cast into some doubt when the first Integrity Commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, was heavily criticized in the auditor general's report in December 2010.[28][29] Cabinet minister Stockwell Day defended the office[30] but independent groups urged the re-opening of already closed files.[31][32] [edit] Jamaica In Jamaica, the Protected Disclosures Act, 2011 [33] received assent in March 2011. It creates a comprehensive system for the protection of whistleblowers in the public and private sector. It is based on the UK's Public Interest Disclosure Act. [edit] India The government of India has been considering adopting a whistleblower protection law for several years. In 2003, the Law Commission of India recommended the adoption of the Public Interest Disclosure (Protection of Informers) Act, 2002.[34]. In August 2010, the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010 was introduced into the Parliament of India, Lok Sabha.[35]. The Bill was approved by the cabinet in June,2011.The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010 was renamed as The Whistleblowers' Protection Bill, 2011 by the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice.[36]. The Whistleblowers' Protection Bill,2011 was passed by the lower house of Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha on 28 December 2011. [37].The Bill is however currently pending in the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for discussion & Further Passage. The Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha on 29 March 2012 by V._Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs. [edit] Ireland The government of Ireland committed to adopting a comprehensive whistleblower protection law in January 2012. The bill will reportedly cover both the public and private sectors.[38] [edit] Other countries There are also comprehensive laws in New Zealand and South Africa. A number of other countries have recently adopted comprehensive whistleblower laws including Ghana, South Korea, and Uganda. They are also being considered in Kenya and Rwanda. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2008 that whistleblowing was protected as freedom of expression.[39] [edit] Legal acts This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please help improve the article by updating it. There may be additional information on the talk page. (August 2010) Globe icon. The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (August 2010) [edit] Ceballos case and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007 The US Supreme Court dealt what many considered a major blow to government whistleblowers when, in the case of Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-5, 547 US 410,[40] it ruled that government employees did not have protection from retaliation in performance evaluations by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution if the alleged speech was produced as part of his/her duties.[41] Ceballos did not dispute that his memo was made as part of his official duties. Whistleblowers who want to pursue a federal case under the First Amendment must now always claim the memos and writings made are part not only of the official duty but of a citizen's opinion and discourse of public relevance. This can be done by alleging that the cause for retaliation is not the text of the memo but the ideas surrounding it. In the case of Ceballos he could have argued that his protected speech was his concept of strict adherence to the rule of law. The free speech protections of the First Amendment have long been used to shield whistleblowers from retaliation by whistleblower attorneys. In response to the Supreme Court decision, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 985, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007. President George W. Bush, citing national security concerns, promised to veto the bill should it be enacted into law by Congress. The Senate's version of the Whistleblower Protection Act (S. 274), which has significant bipartisan support, was approved by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 13, 2007. However, it has yet to reach a vote by Senate as a hold has been placed on the bill by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK).[42] According to the National Whistleblower Center, Coburn's hold on S. 274 has been done to further President Bush's agenda.[43] In December 2010 the Senate passed enhanced protections for government employees and contractors who report cases of waste, fraud and abuse.[44] [edit] California False Claims Act The California False Claims Act protects whistleblowers from retaliation from their employer under a section entitled: "Section 12653. Employer interference with employee disclosures."[45] Under this section, employers may not make rules that prevent an employee from disclosing information to the government in furtherance of a false claims action, an employer may not discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, deny promotion to, or in any other manner discriminate against, an employee in the terms and conditions of employment because he or she has disclosed information to the government. [edit] Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) CEPA, New Jersey's whistleblower law, prohibits an employer from taking any retaliatory action against an employee because the employee does any of the following: Discloses, or threatens to disclose, to a supervisor or to a public body an activity, policy, or practice of the employer or another employer, with whom there is a business relationship, that the employee reasonably believes is in violation of a law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law, or, in the case of an employee who is a licensed or certified health care professional, reasonably believes constitutes improper quality of patient care; Provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any violation of law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law by the employer or another employer, with whom there is a business relationship, or, in the case of an employee who is a licensed or certified health care professional, provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into quality of patient care; or Objects to, or refuses to participate in, any activity, policy or practice which the employee reasonably believes: is in violation of a law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law, or, if the employee is a licensed or certified health care professional, constitutes improper quality of patient care; is fraudulent or criminal; or is incompatible with a clear mandate of public policy concerning the public health, safety or welfare or protection of the environment.[46] [edit] "Concerning protection for health care workers who report patient safety information" in Colorado "Patient safety is of paramount importance in the delivery of health care to Colorado citizens. A patient is at his or her safest when a health care worker has the right to speak out on the patient's behalf without fear of reprisal or retaliation. Health care providers recognize that, in order to deliver the highest quality health care, it is imperative that all health care workers have the right to report patient safety concerns and to advocate for a patient's well being without the risk of disciplinary action or loss of employment."[47] [edit] Medical residents and extending whistleblower protection to enforce safety, health, and maximum work hour standards Other proposals have been made to extend federal whistleblower protection to medical residents working at health care facilities, hospitals, and health care providers, as an internal means to ensure that certain patient hospital and health standards are being effectuated, including enforcing maximum hour guidelines for medical residents [48] [edit] See also Bribe Payers Index Bid rigging Complaint system Conflict of interest Corruption in India Department of Defense Whistleblower Program Destabilisation ECC: Leniency policy False Claims Act Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Global Integrity whistle blowers worldwide. Group of States Against Corruption Influence peddling Informant List of whistleblowers Lobbying Misplaced loyalty Money trail - Money loop Organized crime Pay to Play Political corruption Price fixing Qui tam Shooting the messenger Source criticism Transparency International Whistleblower protection in India WikiLeaks UK Bribery Act 2010 [edit] References ^ Yahoo Education ^ Answers.com ^ Etymonline.com ^ Wordorigins.org ^ [Nader, Petkas, and Blackwell, Whistleblowing (1972).] ^ Dealing with—or reporting—"unacceptable" behavior (with additional thoughts about the "Bystander Effect") Mary Rowe MIT, Linda Wilcox HMS, Howard Gadlin NIH (2009), Journal of the International Ombudsman Association 2(1), online at ombudsassociation.org ^ Mary Rowe, "Options and choice for conflict resolution in the workplace" in Negotiation: Strategies for Mutual Gain, by Lavinia Hall (ed.), Sage Publications, Inc., 1993, pp. 105–119. ^ DOL.gov ^ Faunce, T.A. "Developing and Teaching the Virtue-Ethics Foundations of Healthcare Whistle Blowing", Monash Bioethics Review. 2004; 23(4): 41–55 ^ Faunce, T.A. and Jefferys, S. "Whistleblowing and scientific misconduct: Renewing legal and virtue ethics foundations". Journal of Medicine and Law 2007, 26(3): 567–84. ^ Rowe, Mary & Bendersky, Corinne, "Workplace Justice, Zero Tolerance and Zero Barriers: Getting People to Come Forward in Conflict Management Systems," in Negotiations and Change, From the Workplace to Society, Thomas Kochan and Richard Locke (eds), Cornell University Press, 2002. See also "Dealing with — or Reporting — 'Unacceptable' Behavior (With additional thoughts about the 'Bystander Effect')" ©2009Mary Rowe MIT, Linda Wilcox HMS, Howard Gadlin NIH, Journal of the International Ombudsman Association 2(1), online at ombudsassociation.org ^ whistleblowers.org ^ pcaw.co.uk ^ Banisar, "Whistleblowing: International Standards and Developments", in CORRUPTION AND TRANSPARENCY: DEBATING THE FRONTIERS BETWEEN STATE, MARKET AND SOCIETY, I. Sandoval, ed., World Bank-Institute for Social Research, UNAM, Washington, D.C., 2011 available online at [1]. ^ Peer.org ^ Congressional Record p. S7412; S. Rep. No. 107–146, 107th Cong., 2d Session 19 (2002). ^ Answers.com ^ Whistleblowers.gov ^ DOL.gov ^ Osha.gov ^ Osha.gov ^ 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h) ^ 5 U.S.C. § 1221(e) ^ "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) IX B Sec. 922". Library of Congress: Thomas. Retrieved 2010-12-20. ^ 10 U.S.C. § 1034 ^ Global Integrity Report ^ [See Whistleblowers Australia http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/] ^ CBC.ca ^ Thestarphoenix.com ^ Hilltimes.com ^ Fairwhistleblower.ca ^ Canadians4accountability.org ^ [2] ^ [3] ^ The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010 [4] ^ http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Public%20Disclosure/Legislative%20Brief%20-%20Public%20Interest%20Disclosure%20Bil.pdf ^ Whistle-blowers Bill passed -The Hindu ^ ["Whistleblower Bill to cover public and private sectors", Irish Times, 30 January 2011 [5]] ^ Guja v. Moldova, Application no. 14277/04 (2008) ^ Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-5, 547 US 410 ^ High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights ^ Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 – Congresspedia ^ Take Action Now ^ "Senate passes whistleblower protection bill". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2010. ^ California False Claims Act ^ N.J.S.A. 34:19–3 ^ House Bill 07-1133. 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Clinical Risk 6(3): 115–16. Hunt, Geoffrey (1998). 'Whistleblowing', commissioned entry for Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, (8,000 words). Academic Press, California, USA,. Hunt, Geoffrey (ed) (1998). Whistleblowing in the Social Services: Public Accountability & Professional Practice. Arnold. Hunt, G (ed) (1995). Whistleblowing in the Health Service: Accountability, Law & Professional Practice. Arnold. Johnson, Roberta Ann (2002). Whistleblowing: When It Works—And Why. L. Reinner Publishers. ISBN 978-1588261144. Kohn, Stephen M (2000). Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law. Quorum Books. ISBN 1-56720-354-X. Kohn, Stephen M; Kohn, Michael D; Colapinto, David K. (2004). Whistleblower Law A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-98127-4. Lauretano, Major Daniel A., "The Military Whistleblower Protection Act and the Military Mental Health Protection Act", Army Law, (Oct) 1998. Miethe, Terance D (1991). Whistleblowing at work: tough choices in exposing fraud, waste, and abuse on the job. Westview Press. ISBN 0-81—33-3549-3. "Sarbanes-Oxley Criminal Whistleblower Provisions & the Workplace: More Than Just Securities Fraud," by Jay P. Lechner & Paul M. Sisco, 80 Florida B. J. 85 (June 2006) "Federal Whistleblower Protection: A Means to Enforcing Maximum Hour Legislation for Medical Residents," by Robert N. Wilkey Esq., William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (2003). Rowe, Mary & Bendersky, Corinne, "Workplace Justice, Zero Tolerance and Zero Barriers: Getting People to Come Forward in Conflict Management Systems," in Negotiations and Change, From the Workplace to Society, Thomas Kochan and Richard Locke (eds), Cornell University Press, 2002 [edit] External links Look up whistleblower in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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— Sham Khan · Thu, Mar 29 2012 11:27:37

I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a Yahoo Answers page that poses the question “Is Eminem trying to break free from the Illuminati?” and offers spirited excavation and analysis of the hidden anti-Illuminati messages Eminem embedded in his song “Not Afraid.” There is a four-page message-board thread titled “Is Eminem an Illuminati slave?” A YouTube video called “Eminem vs. Illuminati” explains, via solemn text and creepy music, that when the Detroit M.C. titled a song “Cinderella Man,” it was not because the redemptive plot of the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man echoes Eminem’s own comeback from drug addiction, but rather because, like Cinderella with her wicked stepsisters, Eminem was “forced to do the chores for the Illuminati by sending subliminal messages through his music.” Ignore any comment-section sheep who bah that this is ridiculous: When that video ends, the hunt for truth has only just begun. From a list of suggested related videos, you can choose “Eminem: His illuminati sacrifice Part 1”; “Eminem Fights Back Against The illuminati”; “Eminem against illuminati 2011!”; “Eminem My Darling Illuminati” and on and on. Some of the Eminem/Illuminati videos have been viewed 5,000 times. Others, close to 300,000. Welcome to the world of pop-music trutherism, a bustling, grassroots exposé industry in which Eminem is one of many performers called out by anonymous instigators for Illuminist sympathies. The best conspiracy theories go all the way to the top, and this one goes all the way to the top of the charts. Jay-Z? An “Illuminati puppet.” Lady Gaga? An “Illuminati whore.” Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, Rihanna—Illuminati agents all. (Michael Jackson and 2Pac, it turns out, were victims of Illuminati-ordered assassination.) The Illuminati investigation unfolds sloppily but vigorously across countless sites, from YouTube to Twitter to fan discussion boards to dedicated shops like VigilantCitizen.com. The trained eye can spot Illuminati sartorial choices, like goat-themed jewelry and T-shirts, worn in ostensible tribute to Baphomet, a horned pagan deity who intrigued Aleister Crowley. There is Illuminati semaphore, such as framing one’s eye with the palms tipped together in a pyramid shape or otherwise isolating an eye to evoke the “all-seeing eye” on the back of a dollar bill, an image with Masonic origins. There are Illuminati lyrics, like Eminem’s mention of a “New World Order” on “Lose Yourself” or the references he and Jay-Z have made, separately, to a mysterious, powerful figure they call the “Rain Man” (the theorists are apparently unfamiliar with Dustin Hoffman’s IMDb page). Spend some time sifting through this stuff and your eyes will roll so far back into your skull you’ll look like you’ve been possessed by Baphomet. The theorists’ “revelations” are presented, variously, in portentous tones and with exclamation-point-riddled urgency: The Illuminati, intent on global domination, treat pop music as a powerful mind-control weapon, weaving secret messages and dark imagery into hits and videos; there is much inveighing that we “wake up” to the “brainwashing.” The Illuminati truthers make 9/11 truthers seem as rigorous and compelling as Woodward and Bernstein on Watergate. The evidence they haul out boils down to little more than far-fetched, oblivious misreads (i.e. Eminem and Cinderella), a stunning allergy to the possibility of metaphor (Lil Wayne rapped that he sold his soul to the devil—smoking gun!), and a hysterical attitude toward occult imagery befitting Ned Flanders. With so many voices chiming in, and with so many of them doing so anonymously, it’s hard to say which of the “theorists” are just having a laugh, but the most prominent—like Vigilant Citizen or the Philadelphia morning-radio host Miss Jones, who grilled 50 Cent at some length about secret-society infiltration in hip-hop—communicate total earnestness. Advertisement The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ’90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music’s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her “S&M” video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a “Princess of the Illuminati.”) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason.” Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18th century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its “opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism” and its “advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.” It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt’s anticlerical streak and a popular “history” of Freemasonry written in the late 19th century by Frenchman Léo Taxil, who purported to expose Masons’ Satanic rituals. (Taxil later revealed that his “journalism” was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Weishaupt’s Illuminati ran afoul of Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor, who caught the seditious wind and issued a decree in 1784, Magee writes, “commanding them to disband.” Born as a reformist bogeyman opposed to, and ultimately snuffed out by, entrenched power, the Illuminati went under in 1787, but it has lived on in the conservative imagination. In a 1995 New Yorker article about the rise of conspiracy theories in America, Michael Kelly mentions the Illuminati as major phantasms in the so-called New World Order theory, the basics of which were laid out in, among other places, the John Birch Society’s 1958 Blue Book. (The Order of the Illuminati figures centrally into the Rev. Pat Robertson’s 1991 book, The New World Order, too.) In the New World Order theory, Kelly writes, the Illuminati are just one link in the nefarious chain of “secret and semisecret societies arcing across time and cultures” from “early-Christian-era agnostics,” through the Freemasons, to “twentieth century schemers.” The perceived goal of shadow puppeteers such as the Illuminati is “to destroy the established Christian order of Western nations and replace it with an atheistic, socialistic global government.”.......If that last sentence gets your Tea Party bells ringing, it should—and if you thought people on the Internet wasted far too much energy sussing out Eminem’s secret-society affiliations, do a search for “Obama” plus “Illuminati.” There is a strong religious-right flavor to much of the talk of pop-Illuminism, a barely concealed fear that Lady Gaga and Jay-Z are agents of the Antichrist, here to subjugate the masses and turn “our” children homosexual and/or black. Illuminati suspicions attach, in some degree, to virtually every music star—Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, even Celine Dion! Nevertheless, it seems more than mere happenstance that Jay-Z and Lady Gaga are the biggest targets: a politically outspoken, wildly rich black charmer and a gender-bending, pro-gay weirdo. The pop-Illuminati hunt is a throwback to the time when parent groups would scan the music of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for hidden occultist mojo, but given a Fox News-era culture-war update. In a counterintuitive twist, however, Illuminati paranoia turns out to grip not just those on the far right who fear a godless/black/gay assault, but also those at the other end of the political spectrum. On the (black) far left, abiding fears of control and co-optation by the (white) power structure find voice via Illuminati theories. (Michael Kelly used the term “fusion paranoia” to describe this strange left-right overlap.) Mobb Deep’s Prodigy has been hip-hop’s most outspoken critic of Illuminati shenanigans since he rapped “Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body/ Secret society, tryina keep they eye on me,” in 1995; the video for his 2008 song “Illuminati” depicts a dystopian nightmare of omnipresent surveillance and national I.D. cards. Despite blog posts he’s written about secret-elite rituals in which babies are burned sacrificially, Prodigy distances himself from the frivolous fringe looking for Illuminati on the Billboard Hot 100: “Jay-Z’s a fucking crumb compared to these niggas,” he said in an April interview, dismissing the chatter about Illuminati pop stars as “dumb.” Prodigy locates his anti-Illuminism within greater traditions of black agitation (his eyes were opened, he says, by the writings of the radical Dwight "Dr." York) and social responsibility: “I was doing bullshit, buying mad diamonds … promoting the wrong type of lifestyle, but I snapped out of that shit, got myself together, and refocused on what this shit is supposed to be: Like, what are you trying to promote to the people?” Prodigy has spoken of his preference for Ron Paul over Barack Obama, and he is aligned in this regard with other rap gadflies like KRS-One and Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, both of whom appear in the film The Obama Deception, casting the president as a minion of the New World Order. The New Yorker’s David Remnick observed in his 2005 piece about Katrina conspiracy theories that they belonged to a long history of such theories (AIDS as weapon of a CIA-orchestrated genocide; Tropical Fantasy sodas as tool of a KKK sterilization plot; etc.). These theories, he wrote, represent “counter-narratives” that indicate and express, however fancifully, the very fraught place that blacks still occupy in American society, despite popular narratives of social progress, the growing black middle-class, and so on. In a similar way, Illuminati paranoia within rap circles counters and deflates hip-hop’s celebratory master narrative of outsize black success; the Illuminati theory, in this iteration, is symptomatic of broader anger and alienation. The only way Jay-Z, or any black man, could become so successful in America, the thinking goes, would be to capitulate to, and become a pawn of, the people who have always called the shots. When Kanye West raps, on “Power,” “In this white man’s world, we the ones chosen,” he makes an implicit complaint about the limits of black mobility. Ironically, some pop truthers took the line, along with the song’s symbol-rich video, as a confession of Illuminati affiliation. West has addressed the Illuminati rumors, teasingly, on Twitter. “Is illuminati and devil worshipping like the same thing ... do they have a social network that celebs can sign up for?” he tweeted, adding, “Question... can you devil worship on the new iphone??? LOL!!!” West’s jokes point to one glaring reason why the pop-Illuminati theory has proven so catchy: It’s great fun to turn the act of listening to pop into a symbolism Easter-egg hunt worthy of The DaVinci Code. And why can’t West and Jay-Z have some fun in return? West doubtless knew that the “Eye of Horus” was central to Illuminati lore when he commissioned a gigantic Horus necklace. Jay-Z must have been aware that flashing the image of a Baphomet-ish skull in the “On to the Next One” video would titillate theorists. Recently, West has taken to wearing a variety of garments featuring Rottweiler designs. Spotting the same dogs in the artwork for the Watch the Throne single “H.A.M.,” one Illuminati truther connected them, naturally, to “Hades’ hellhounds.” The rottweilers are, it happens, a recurring motif in the current Givenchy line, in which Rottweiler T-shirts sell for $265. Illuminati members, one hopes, get a discount.

— Sunday Swaggkidd Syvester · Sat, Mar 31 2012 23:37:37

WOnder what happened to Occupy? Its still happening! Friday's Partial Schedule! Occupy Your Heart! Occupy Everything! 8:30am – 4:00pm A Just World Conference - Holy Family University in the Education and Technology Center auditorium, café, and lobby. 10:00am Friends Center Working Group - Friends Center - Training Center 12:00pm Bubbas and Zaydas for Peace in the Middle East - 19th & JFK Blvd. 12:00pm Interfaith WG-Camp Liberty SubGroup - Friends Center - Mott room 5:30pm Decarcerate PA Platform Launch Party - 714 Market St Wade Blank Room 5th Floor 7:00pm Mending the gender gap, healing the world. - Tabernacle United Church, 3700 Chestnut 7:30pm Moving Beyond Privilege Workshop on Misogyny with Mimi Yahn - Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South Street 8:00pm IO: Occupy Politics - Please register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/opcall/

— Sophia Hoffer-Perkins · Thu, Mar 29 2012 22:12:33

Kgalema Motlanthe Speech by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Limpopo, ANC Centenary Celebration 25 March 2012 In the ANC nothing matters more than unity We are running against time. I have a sense that this day has been rather too long. And I am not going to detain you any further. I do know that once people gather in a stadium it is always important to ensure that the programme rolls so that you can attend to important messages in time. We are gathered here today to celebrate the centenary of the African National Congress. The temptation may be there that we go through the whole history, and if I were to do that we will be here for the next two weeks. So I will spare you that. What I will do is to highlight, lift the important principles which we must take to heart. The ANC was born as a response of our people against land dispossession, colonialism and deprivation. And that is why it was actually not born in 1912. The ANC existed in the Transvaal, in the Orange Free State republic, in the Natal colony as well as in the Cape colony, and these native congresses when an all white national convention was convened to their exclusion in 1909, they responded by convening their own national convention in 1909 March 24th, and it is at that convention that a decision was made to establish the African National Congress as we know it. Those who came from the republics and the colonies had to go back to report that decision, and hence in 1912 delegates converged into Mangaung to found the African National Congress. And these delegates together with Magoshi came from all over. They did not only come from the two republics and the two colonies; they also came from as far afield as Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. They all came because they were all affected by land dispossession and colonisation. And so from the outset, the ANC was founded on the principle of unity, the unity of the people. And it is that principle which we must take to heart; it is that principle which sustained the ANC throughout these glorious 100 years. In the ANC nothing matters more than unity, and it is unity which is based on principle. That is one of the first lessons that we should take to heart when we celebrate the centenary of the ANC, because comrades history is only of use to the extent that it enables us to understand who we are, where we come from, where we are today and how to create a better future. Otherwise if we do not approach it in that manner, it becomes a fruitless exercise of self adulation. And those of us who believe and are church goers were privileged on the 8th of January this year to attend a church service in Mangaung in the church in which the African National Congress was founded. And the bishop gave the most profound sermon, he used the book of Ezekiel and referred to Ezekiel standing in the valley in the midst of dry bones which were lifeless; and he said we must not glorify lifeless bones. And he advised that today we suffer from the misfortune of having mirrors and he says in the olden days there were no mirrors and so even the most handsome, the most beautiful of people could not see themselves, they could only see others and appreciate the beauty of others. And so today we suffer from the disadvantage of having mirrors and we look in the mirror we see our own images and we talk to those images, we talk to ourselves. This was the most profound sermon because he was essentially advising that we should always concern ourselves with the plight of the people and never about ourselves as individuals and we must not engage in self praise and self adulation, we must be prepared to be at the service of the people. That was the most profound sermon delivered on January 8th by the archbishop of the Methodist church; and I think that is an important lesson we must take to heart. In the ANC's history we learn of how over the years it has always experienced problems because an organisation of people will always experience problems. What is of importance is drawing lessons from the manner in which problems are resolved; and that is why it is so important for us in celebrating this centenary to ensure that we do not allow problems to be the endpoint. Problems are there to be solved, to be resolved, because this organisation exists for a purpose and it exists for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to solve the problems of our people. And today as a governing party, as a party which is in government, we must expend all our energy and time in solving problems of our people. But we cannot do so without involving the people, because if we do so on our own without involving the people that is not a revolution, hence we will hear of problems of delivery. The people themselves are their own liberators; they need to understand that they are in power; it is not those of us who are privileged to be in government who are in power. This power belongs to the people and that is why in the ANC tradition we say "Amandla" and the people respond and say "ngawethu". They don't say "ngawakho", because if you were to say "Amandla" and you say "ngawakho", that would mean the end of the revolution. But comrades, revolution is deliberate; revolution is never by accident; revolution is deliberate and it is methodical. And so it is important that we must always test as to whether we are organised correctly to advance the revolution. Because if the structure, if the manner in which we are organised no longer serves the purpose of tackling the problems which affect our people then we must know that we are living on borrowed time. For the ANC to remain relevant, we cannot rely solely on our glorious past. History is important yes, our icons are important yes, but we must remain relevant today because we are capable of dealing with the problems of the moment. Because if we look backwards all the time, it would mean we suffer from false consciousness. Those who suffer from false consciousness are conservative. You believe in yesterday's truths and you don't want to move forward. Our role and what we expect from the ANC Youth League because the ANC Youth League is a very important component of the African National Congress, like the other leagues, the Women's League is very important in ensuring that the ANC is forever sensitive and alive to challenges which face our mothers, our sisters, our daughters that the African National Congress continues to lead in dealing with the challenges of gender. The Veterans League is a unique league in the ANC; it is one structure that does not recruit. The Vateran's League does not recruit members; it just waits, just folds its arms and waits for you, so that as you grow and develop one day you will arrive there and the requirements are only two, that you must have 40 years of unbroken service in the ANC. You must also be 60 and above, so it does not have to recruit anybody, it just waits. But the Youth League has got to recruit, the Youth League has got to remain relevant to young people and so the ANC, as the ANC, we have absolutely no need, we have absolutely no use for a Youth League that is passive. We need the Youth League to be militant, determined and creative. It is that kind of Youth League that we need. You can imagine, I mean you know when young people are seating here and an aeroplane flies past and the rest of the children say aeroplane, aeroplane, aeroplane, until it disappears in the firmament. If the Youth League of the ANC sits there sheepishly saying nothing and the aeroplane disappears and only once it has disappeared, the Youth League says aeroplane, we have no use for such a Youth League. We might as well disband it. We want a militant Youth League, nge sizulu "o'vuka aibambe". In other words when the call is made, when the call is given, they should answer that call yesterday, not today. There must be rapid response from young people. And so the ANC is very clear that young people must be afforded the space to think, to generate new ideas and to ensure that it infuses into the ANC new ideas, new thinking and militancy. Because you see comrades, as you grow old, as you grow old you also learn fear, because you now know consequences; and of course you adapt and you are an expert in explaining why things should not change. That comes with age. As you become older you mellow with the years and that is why the combination of youth energy and experience and counsel of the years has always been a strong point of the African National Congress, it has always been a strong point of the African National Congress. So when we say to you, you are autonomous take your decisions, embark on campaigns, do as you deem fit. If of course when we are sitting there and we are observing we discover that you are veering off the road; you are veering away from the straight and narrow path, when we come to you, we don't say come over here buti and so on, this is the right path. No, we grab you by the ear and we turn it around and we twist it and as you follow the pain, we drag you back into the straight and narrow. That is our duty; that is our responsibility, because the African National Congress can't shirk that responsibility. We can't say well fine you are the youth of the ANC; you have the freedom to grow on your own. There is no such thing; we guide you all the time, all the time, we must make sure that we guide you and we must also make sure that when you come with radical perspectives we afford you the space to persuade us so that the organisation can on a continuous basis be radicalised. An organisation is only relevant to the extent that it is radical. If it adapts it will only specialise in explaining problems away and, of course, the test is always with reality and practice. And that is why the second lesson that I want to share with you, which we draw from the life and evolution and development of the African National Congress, is that the African National Congress has always been internationalist in perspective. It has always learned from the best in society internationally and it has always influenced ideas that occupy centre stage internationally. It is this African National Congress which in 1923 came up with a Bill of Rights. It is this African National Congress which in 1943 came up with the Africans Claims before the United Nations could come up with the Bill of Rights [Declaration of Human Rights]. So the ANC has always been a trail blazer and it has been so because it has always been internationalist in approach and interacted with other radical thinkers in the world. And so we must continue with that tradition. And the ANC has survived to be a 100 years old because it debates and develops and adopts its own policies. It never ever takes our folk culture or any catechism of any church and say now this is our policy. It has never ever worked like that. If we say this is policy of the African National Congress we will be able to say to you it was debated and adopted at such and such a conference in such and such a year. And that is why the ANC has survived to be a 100 years old. It has always served as home to all the people of South Africa. It has always been regarded as a movement for the peoples of Africa because its founders include Chief Lewanika, Chief Lobengula, the Kgamas in Botswana, the Letsies in Lesotho, the Dlaminis in Swaziland were founding members of the African National Congress in 1912. And so when they observe from a distance and they don't get clear explanations when the ANC acts and conducts itself and pronounces in a manner that is unfamiliar, they ask a simple question. They come to the ANC and they say: 'couldn't this matter be handled differently?' We have had delegations and delegations at Luthuli House at various times when the elders of fraternal parties come and say: 'couldn't this matter have been handled differently?' And when they say: 'what are you doing with our movement; they don't say no this is your organisation, they say this is our movement: how dare you take such a decision without explaining to us?' And so when you are a member of the African National Congress you must remember that you carry the responsibility, not only of yourself as an individual - don't look into the mirror, don't admire yourself, admire the others because that is what defines the African National Congress. It was founded on love; love for the people; love for the course of liberation. It was never founded on hatred. And so today, today when you have slates and once your slate is triumphant you mete out what we call victors justice; you go after comrades and say you did not vote for us, so we don't want you. How do you know? Because voting in the ANC conferences is by secret ballot. How do you know that? In any case if you are active in pushing away members of the ANC, that is the opposite of organising and if we interpret that, if you disorganise the ANC, what are you doing? Because the ANC is the only instrument that our people have. It is the only hope that they have for better change. And so if you are actively busy undermining the ANC and disorganising it, whose interest are you advancing? We have to pose that question. Because we are conscious, but consciousness comrades, does not happen automatically, it is acquired. You become conscious as you work with people, you learn from them and you attend to their problems. You get to understand their problems better when you are able to listen, because some of us don't listen, comrades. Some of us know everything. We have long stopped learning and if you stop learning you stagnate, and if you stagnate you become disgruntled, and once you are disgruntled you generate negative ideas and negative energy because to you there is no tomorrow. The ANC believes that there is always tomorrow and tomorrow must always be better than yesterday and tomorrow must always be better than today. And so comrades, everything is in a state of motion. That is how we must approach our problems. Nothing is but always in a state of motion. Today you may think that this is the reality and tomorrow it may be a different reality. But as I said, revolution is deliberate. We are not fatalistic, we don't wait and say well; let nature take its course. We impact on nature, we teach nature new things. We implant into trees new branches and that is what we must do, we must focus our energies comrades; we must not be diverted by inconsequentials. You are preoccupied and you join those who are preoccupied with conference elections. And I know that if we were to ask you one by one: did you join the African National Congress in order to be in a position of leadership? All of you will say no, all of you. And yet you are preoccupied with elections. That is an inconsequential. It does not matter. If we say we have a healthy organisation, it does not matter who leads the organisation. Because there will be standing at the helm of an organisation which is clear, which debates policies and the collective can only be as successful as the organisation itself. Once we personalise leadership issues, we commit fundamental mistakes. Because here you are, here are these beautiful comrades here, they are wearing t-shirts here with the face of one Kgalema and they are saying Kgalema for President. Once you do that you personalise organisation. And tomorrow I commit a serious error, what are you going to do with these T-Shirts? When I now discredit the name of the ANC with my own deeds and pronouncements, what are you going to do? That is why we must never have a situation in which we idolise leadership. Leadership is a reflection of an organisation. Once you personalise leadership, problems are bound to arise. We can idolise Oliver Tambo, may his soul rest in peace, he will not commit any mistake, he will not. We can idolise Moses Kotane because he will not commit any mistake; we can idolise Joe Slovo because he will not commit any mistake. But if you idolise me comrades, or you go and name a school or a street after me, or you name your child after me, what are you going to do when I discredit that name with my deeds and mistakes? It is not done. Politically it is incorrect. We must glorify the ANC; we belong to the ANC; we don't belong to individuals. We appreciate and understand the role of an individual in the organisation, but the organisation is more than the sum total of its individual members. It is bigger, far much much bigger. And we must always remain loyal to this organisation. We must always seek to enhance its prestige among our people. And its prestige is a function of; it depends on what we do as individual members, and what we say as individual members. If we go about molesting people, or we go about, so let me put it, today is Sunday isn't it, I must put it mildly because it is Sunday. If on Sunday you are on the wrong side of sobriety because you have taken the holy waters, or too much of it, those who know you to be a member of the ANC will not say: 'oh no he has just had more than a fair share of the holy waters', they will say: 'this is the ANC, they are never of the right side of sobriety, they are never sober.' Now we don't want that to happen, because that dents the image of the ANC. The image of the ANC depends on how we conduct ourselves and we mustn't be disciplined only when we are in formal gatherings of the ANC and when we disperse we think we are no longer members of the ANC, because you carry that flag, you carry that image wherever you are all the time and that is what we must strive to do. When you commit a mistake, the organisation will correct you because the organisation only abandons the most incorrigible. It has abiding faith and confidence in its corrective capabilities. That is why in the past as you know prisons were called jails and prisons. The ANC comes into government and says these are correctional services because it believes it can correct inmates. And that goes to the membership of the ANC. When you belong to the ANC you belong to a glorious movement. But it will only remain glorious to the extent that you contribute to that glory. And that is a responsibility we must take as individuals; that is a responsibility we must take as collectives so that we always act in the best interest of the African National Congress. The challenge which faces us today is that of the stubborn problems of inequality. We still have in South Africa today virtually two countries. The one country is well developed; it even hosted the FIFA world cup in 2010. And there is another South Africa where people do not have portable water, where people draw water from wells that are used by animals, where learners and teachers do not have toilet facilities. It is that South Africa that we must fix; it is that South Africa that we must attend to with a sense of urgency. We have no time and we must never ever as the African National Congress beat ourselves in the chest and say we have delivered. Yes of course there is progress; yes of course the pass laws are gone. But 'freedom means recognition of necessity', that is what freedom means. When someone is homeless, when a person lives in a lean-to shack or a mud house that is a death trap and we provide that family with an RDP house, we have not satisfied the needs of that family. Instead we have only met one aspect of their needs because they need furniture, they need electricity they need all other things, so their needs multiply. That is why we say 'freedom means recognition of necessity'. And so my last word is that as members of the African National Congress, particularly those of us who are in government, we must never say to our people wait, be patient. They have a right to be impatient; they have a right to demand that all their needs should be met today and not in the next 10 years or 5 years, we have no such right. Martin Luther King says: "when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait". And many of our people are engaged in that continuous fight against the degenerating sense of 'nobodiness', and our struggle was about restoring their dignity. I thank you for your attention

— Zodwa Mpetshwa · Fri, Mar 30 2012 13:30:45

THE MAJORITY OF THE HUMAN RACE MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE HUMAN!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

— Tatia Kennedy · Sat, Mar 31 2012 09:23:14

Education as indoctrination: For some time now, children have been encouraged by educators to challenge their parents views and instructions, especially those that differ from school curriculum or the general mindset and practice of faculty members. With sexual orientation beingtaught to fifth graders and sterilization for girls in college, America’s education system may be the last place one would want to shape a young, impressionable mind. Even just recently, it was revealed that a Chicago public high school is holding courses (many during regular school hours, no less) on the following mind-blowing topics: Occupy Wall Street, “gender fluidity,” social justice, “Harvesting the Dream” DREAM Act voter registration, nonviolent protest and more… http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-progressive-mission-accomplished-now-on-to-phase-ii-communism/

— Nancy Ward · Sat, Mar 31 2012 20:40:49

"When people gathered in Zuccotti Park on September 17, the anger at corporate greed was a unifying call. This was a protest that in large part was about shifting power from the wealthy to the many. It was a mostly white crowd, but it sought to incorporate a wide range of voices."

— Bear Dickinson · Wed, Apr 04 2012 12:39:46

This is an important time to learn from the Occupy movement--to take over spaces to be used for a different kind of collective learning processes. Instead of mounting a purely defensive campaign, we need to use these freer spaces of learning to discuss a range of issues and concerns. To begin, the university is a workplace, employing a wide range of workers in a variety of positions. Full-time faculty do labor-intensive work that relies on a specific skills base, and in some ways can be compared to craft workers in the skilled trades who were once able to bargain and resist, even when other employees did not feel confident because of their control over a skills base. Like the assembly line, online learning will undercut this bargaining position and provide a basis for employing cheaper forms of labor, a process already underway on our campuses where underpaid sessional instructors with virtually no job security do more and more of the teaching, as do teaching assistants who find their tutorials and marking loads growing out of control. The relationship between faculty bargaining and other forces on campus needs to be discussed bluntly to build genuine spaces of solidarity oriented around the needs of the most vulnerable. Secondly, we need serious discussion of democratic learning, where it takes place and what it means. Students are too often the objects in discussions of university learning and teaching, the things that are acted upon with more or less efficacy. It is time to imagine what spaces of education might look like that were organized around genuine democratic learning grounded in student power. Finally, we need to understand the basis of the current education system in colonial rule of Indigenous peoples and Eurocentric perspectives in which the particular experiences of certain people of European ancestry (disproportionately male and wealthier) are treated as the universal history of humankind. In pretty much any discipline you choose, the core knowledge base is seen as a European heritage, and other ways of knowing are marginalized. Similarly, there are gender-normative, heterosexual and ableist commitments buried deep in the ways of knowing now on offer. When governments and employers come swinging axes to destroy the prevailing apparatus, it will not be sufficient to defend the way things are. That will not offer the inspiration or radical strategies required to genuinely defeat the age of austerity by mobilizing a truly anti-capitalist movement. The spaces of movement education, including campus spaces taken over and used for "free" learning outside of the structures of the system, not only provide an opportunity to explore new ways of mobilizing, but can also provide a model for free, democratic and decolonized learning. We face the challenge of building those spaces if we want to defeat the austerity agenda. First published at the New Socialist.

— Kandamath Manayilvalappil Venugopalan · Wed, Apr 04 2012 10:37:47

JUST READ... How do we measure South African successes? Is it the number of millionaires we create or the opportunities we create for the poor we lift out of poverty? Would it be in the number of Black People who now own expensive German sedams,who enjoy 7- digit salaries or occupy estate valued at many millions of Rands? The more appropriate measure is rather to be seen in the profile of poverty that still manifests the same features of race,class and gender that obtained in December 1968 when ''those angry young men walked out of NUSAS to establish SASO''.The harsh and ugly thruth that confronts us is that forty four years after establishment of SASO and almost 20 years into Democracy,the everyday lives of many of our people remains as uninspired and filled with dipair as it was then.Surely then,a better measure of our collective success is in the number of Black People who are lifted from poverty,in the measurable interruption of intergenerational poverty and in these instances where we use the power of the state to countervail to take families and communities out of the shadow cast by apartheid's history of denial.

— Nkombe Akhona · Wed, Apr 04 2012 10:41:20

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Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Thu, Apr 05 2012 05:17:41

@doriansky They're not my ideas on gender, but nature's. #stfu? Proof Occupy doesn't respect others. Mobs don't.

— Letting SmokeOut · Thu, Apr 05 2012 04:37:54

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— Mr. Bege · Thu, Apr 05 2012 01:02:50

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— ninja master · Thu, Apr 05 2012 01:38:57

I don't remember who referred me to (http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/why-misogynists-make-great-informants-how-gender-violence-on-the-left-enables-state-violence-in-radical-movements/) but I cannot believe it was written in 2010, before Occupy.

— Muffin MacGuffin · Wed, Apr 04 2012 21:12:55

RT @ScottKendallChi: Gender gap daunting for #GOP #RNC #Mitt #Romney Why women's Health Care vote is key #ows #women #dem #ind #occupy http://beyondoccupy.blogspot.com/2012/04/gender-gap-daunting-for-gop-why-womens.html

— OccupyBot · Wed, Apr 04 2012 13:07:53

RT @ScottKendallChi: Gender gap daunting for #GOP #RNC #Mitt #Romney Why women's Health Care vote is key #ows #women #dem #ind #occupy http://beyondoccupy.blogspot.com/2012/04/gender-gap-daunting-for-gop-why-womens.html

— Kenneth Paar · Wed, Apr 04 2012 12:52:18

Gender gap daunting for #GOP #RNC #Mitt #Romney Why women's Health Care vote is key #ows #women #dem #ind #occupy http://beyondoccupy.blogspot.com/2012/04/gender-gap-daunting-for-gop-why-womens.html

— Scott Kendall · Wed, Apr 04 2012 12:16:13

@ManuvSteele meh to gender. The molestation, I'm curious to see who's saying what or isn't mentioning it. Occupy TO may not have known

— Kimberley Taylor · Wed, Apr 04 2012 11:14:31

Are you interested in publicizing your Occupy women’s/gender working group on the Women Occupy site? If so, click here: http://www.womenoccupy.org/

— CODEPINK · Wed, Apr 04 2012 09:04:03

Fillmmakers of doc for al jazeera on #occupy give insight on role of race + gender. http://bit.ly/occupyuncovers

— #ReGENERATION · Wed, Apr 04 2012 10:20:07

RT @occupy: How the #occupy movement is taking on issues of race, gender & privilege: http://www.occupy.com/article/race-gender-and-occupy

— Joe Johnson · Wed, Apr 04 2012 09:01:29

RT @occupy: How the #occupy movement is taking on issues of race, gender & privilege: http://www.occupy.com/article/race-gender-and-occupy

— DuaneMX · Wed, Apr 04 2012 08:59:34

How the #occupy movement is taking on issues of race, gender & privilege: http://www.occupy.com/article/race-gender-and-occupy

— Occupy · Wed, Apr 04 2012 08:55:01

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— money_twits · Wed, Apr 04 2012 08:46:28

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— news_ticker · Wed, Apr 04 2012 08:01:20

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— Guardsmark · Wed, Apr 04 2012 07:32:49

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— Dirtbike Hippie · Wed, Apr 04 2012 06:56:35

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— news_ticker · Wed, Apr 04 2012 06:48:15

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— Mr. Crazy man... · Wed, Apr 04 2012 04:27:41

Point Slave Labor, Chapelle Show, Gender Reassignment Surgery http://goo.gl/m6kP0 #politics #tyt #occupy #ows #p2

— news_ticker · Wed, Apr 04 2012 00:54:12

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Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Wed, Apr 04 2012 20:34:16

Hunger Games: Feminism and Occupy Read: http://bit.ly/HboQkq

— Kim Rippere · Tue, Apr 03 2012 19:05:02

RT @jaspergregory: Free link --> 'RADICAL FEMINISM, LESBIAN SEPARATISM AND QUEER THEORY'_ Kathy Rudy. Essential #Occupy History. http://www.lespantheresroses.org/auto-critique/radicalfeminism-lesbianseparatism-and-queertheory.html

— Tim Affinis · Sun, Apr 01 2012 14:50:48

RT @jaspergregory: Free link --> 'RADICAL FEMINISM, LESBIAN SEPARATISM AND QUEER THEORY'_ Kathy Rudy. Essential #Occupy History. http://www.lespantheresroses.org/auto-critique/radicalfeminism-lesbianseparatism-and-queertheory.html

— caroline · Sun, Apr 01 2012 11:27:57

Free link --> 'RADICAL FEMINISM, LESBIAN SEPARATISM AND QUEER THEORY'_ Kathy Rudy. Essential #Occupy History. http://www.lespantheresroses.org/auto-critique/radicalfeminism-lesbianseparatism-and-queertheory.html

— Oakland Jasper · Sun, Apr 01 2012 11:27:12

Occupy Feminism or Separation of Church and Uterus. What's a girl to choose? #NYFLC2012

— Mindi Westhoff · Sun, Apr 01 2012 07:51:56

courses in the works about Occupy Algebra, Feminism, and Mindful eating. set to launch on may 1.

— Occupy University · Sat, Mar 31 2012 11:23:08

Occupy Feminism or Separation of Church and Uterus. What's a girl to choose? #NYFLC2012

— Mindi Westhoff · Sat, Mar 31 2012 08:22:06

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the music business, Obama, Occupy, feminism, and the Left [VIDEO] http://huff.to/H4F8Ps

— Matthew Fraser · Thu, Mar 29 2012 14:22:07

Interesting lecture this morning on feminism, occupy wall street, and rhetoric. #rhetoricaltheory

— Shelby J. Holloway · Thu, Mar 29 2012 09:07:23

Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Mon, Apr 02 2012 12:53:22

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Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Fri, Mar 30 2012 19:23:49

Occupy Genital Integrity March Join us @5:30 west lawn Capitol Hill 4 gender equality march 2 White House. #i2

— Jennifer Myrna · Fri, Mar 30 2012 13:40:52

@occupy_dc @occupykst Occupy Genital Integrity March Join us @5:30 west lawn Capitol Hill 4 gender equality march 2 White House. #i2

— Jennifer Myrna · Fri, Mar 30 2012 13:40:03

RT @Broadsnark: Race, Gender, and Occupy http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/race-gender-occupy/

— elliot · Fri, Mar 30 2012 13:22:08

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/race-gender-occupy/

— Broadsnark · Fri, Mar 30 2012 12:41:12

Session 4 - Occupy Gender: Thinking through the Role of Women and Queer Activists in Mass Movements (Holly Lewis) #txst

— Virginia · Fri, Mar 30 2012 09:09:46

Shocking gender pay gap leaves women $1 million behind men http://huff.to/H15EYN #OWS #OCCUPY #S17 #A17

— Occupy Wall Street · Fri, Mar 30 2012 05:49:36

Race, Gender, & #Occupy: http://ow.ly/9V1wH, via @POCOrganize #racialjustice #feminism

— Jean Paul Holmes · Thu, Mar 29 2012 17:31:04

Al Jazeera on race and gender politics in #Occupy: http://aje.me/GVwPmS

— Michael Edwards · Thu, Mar 29 2012 06:51:36

RT @Madprof666: Are you interested in publicizing your #Occupy women's/gender working group on the Women Occupy site? http://p.ost.im/p/e4bE37 via @womenows

— Hollman Lozano · Thu, Mar 29 2012 07:29:28

Race, Gender and Occupy http://bit.ly/GYYJTp via @CounterPunchOrg #OWS

— Adam Hudson · Wed, Mar 28 2012 20:11:13

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://ow.ly/9OB9Z

— aja · Wed, Mar 28 2012 13:40:25

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://ow.ly/9OB7q

— BAJI · Wed, Mar 28 2012 13:40:10

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://ow.ly/9OBaa

— {COMMIT} · Wed, Mar 28 2012 13:40:10

RT @mik_check2012: 2nite,Women's Caucus meeting at 6:00 in McP. The Caucus is open to trans women as well as gender nonconforming folks. @OccupyKSt @Occupy_DC

— #occupyKStBot · Wed, Mar 28 2012 10:26:20

RT @mik_check2012: 2nite,Women's Caucus meeting at 6:00 in McP. The Caucus is open to trans women as well as gender nonconforming folks. @OccupyKSt @Occupy_DC

— Darkchylde · Wed, Mar 28 2012 10:25:50

2nite,Women's Caucus meeting at 6:00 in McP. The Caucus is open to trans women as well as gender nonconforming folks. @OccupyKSt @Occupy_DC

— MIK CHECK · Wed, Mar 28 2012 10:24:12

Gender/race issues #occupy http://networkedblogs.com/vHFTv

— James Hetrick · Wed, Mar 28 2012 01:05:20

RT @svohra And our article! http://bit.ly/GHCj5h #race #gender #Occupy

— Fault Lines · Tue, Mar 27 2012 15:50:06

And our article! http://bit.ly/GHCj5h

— Sweta Vohra · Tue, Mar 27 2012 15:49:49

RT @svohra Manissa Maharawal on #race, #gender and #Occupy: http://bit.ly/ztU7e5 (plus a great blog)

— Fault Lines · Tue, Mar 27 2012 15:49:29

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Storified by Jamila A. Butt · Fri, Mar 30 2012 18:39:39

Race, Gender and Occupy http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/race-gender-occupy/

— Aan · Tue, Mar 27 2012 04:42:43

Bea Campbell's republican take on monarchy and feminist take on gender at Occupy/ Tent City

— beatrix campbell · Mon, Mar 26 2012 15:29:19

Joining us for Occupy Gender tmrw at 4pm? RSVP today! reg is needed for entry and we want to see you all there! just reply to this tweet!

— Lysistrata · Mon, Mar 26 2012 08:09:00

Race Gender and Occupy, “The black community, for 400 years always been the 99 per cent“ Welcome to our world.”http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/race-gender-occupy/ #occupy

— Morgen · Mon, Mar 26 2012 00:57:20

RT @quixoticblazes: (Still relevant from fall) Bodies in Alliance: Gender Theorist Judith Butler on the Occupy and SlutWalk Movements: http://www.truth-out.org/bodies-alliance-gender-theorist-judith-butler-occupy-and-slutwalk-movements/1323880210

— Slut Walk · Sat, Mar 24 2012 13:01:45

Race, Gender, and Occupy | People Of Color Organize! http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/race-gender-occupy/

— jasson perez · Sat, Mar 24 2012 10:06:44

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://j.mp/GKqwFY

— Michael K. Fauntroy · Sat, Mar 24 2012 09:52:00

RT @leilathebrave Occupy and the academy limit involvement in similar ways, isolating "private" problems of ability, class, gender. #esa2012

— Renee · Sat, Mar 24 2012 09:51:48

"I occupy a world that is molded by rigid gender and racial identities. I am woman who doesn’t conform..." http://tmblr.co/ZUADbyIUEbMG

— dulce benavides · Sat, Mar 24 2012 07:44:37

Fault Lines: Race, Gender, and Occupy http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2012/03/race-gender-and-occupy-by-sweta-vohra.html #OWS

— Sadie HellaDestroy · Fri, Mar 23 2012 09:41:00

Al-Jazeera launches Occupy Wall Street documentary - Part 1 "Race, Gender and Occupy" http://pastebin.com/tdJsnj06

— Defend Wall Street · Fri, Mar 23 2012 05:59:52

Problems: Race, Gender, & Occupy By Sweta Vohra & Jordan Flaherty, Fault Lines: http://bit.ly/GIt9nf #ows #p2 #race #rights #LGBT

— janehenrici · Fri, Mar 23 2012 05:06:21

Race, Gender, and Occupy http://j.mp/GKqwFY

— Paul Meuse · Thu, Mar 22 2012 17:43:18

Race, gender & #Occupy - co-authored by Left Turn's Jordan Flaherty for @AJFaultLines & @AJEnglish http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2012/03/race-gender-and-occupy-by-sweta-vohra.html

— m.Bot · Thu, Mar 22 2012 17:03:42

RT @bemm: http://bit.ly/GEkEhx Article re: ways Occupy has replicated racial/gender/LBGT structures. Speaks truth. documen. is gr8 @womenoccupy

— OccupyBaltimore · Thu, Mar 22 2012 15:13:12

MT @ronaldjackson: Race, Gender & Occupy: Some Progressives Think Issues of Race & Gender May Weaken 'Occupy' Nope: http://tiny.cc/km7 OWS

— Janet Stromberg · Thu, Mar 22 2012 13:56:15

http://bit.ly/GEkEhx Article re: ways Occupy has replicated racial/gender/LBGT structures. Speaks truth. documen. is gr8 @womenoccupy

— information is power · Thu, Mar 22 2012 14:59:16

Race, Gender & Occupy: Some Progressives Think Issues of Race & Gender May Weaken 'Occupy' - The Opposite Is True http://tiny.cc/km7 OWS

— Ron Jackson · Thu, Mar 22 2012 13:53:01

Race, Gender & Occupy: Some Progressives Think Issues of Race & Gender May Weaken 'Occupy' - The Opposite Is True http://tiny.cc/km7 OWS

— Ronald Jackson · Thu, Mar 22 2012 13:51:23

Race, Gender, and Occupy | People Of Color Organize! http://fb.me/1HjFscoRs

— Kevin Konnyu · Thu, Mar 22 2012 13:48:53