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Writer from “Family Guy” TV Show Details His Arrest at Occupy LA
http://awakencrowd.wordpress.com/2011/1 … occupy-la/
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/te … 6217043043
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011 … upy_la.php





Of the 292 people arrested during last week's raid on the Occupy LA encampment, so far 15 have filed formal complaints against the Los Angeles Police Department regarding how they were treating during their detainment.
http://laist.com/2011/12/07/lapd_slappe … ts_fro.php

Last edited by Surya9 (2011-12-08 15:20:08)

There is so much good news as we end 2011 but to see it you have to completely leave corporate media.  I'm posting highlights from Lynne McTaggert's empowering essay, The Hijacking of Jesus.  I had no idea how active the Christian churches have been in reacting to the coordinated police crack down on Occupy movement.  It looks to me like Occupy is re-hijacking "Jesus".

**Belatedly as it may be, the Christian church is finally wrenching Christ away from the politicos and the moneychangers, and reclaiming Him as both radical reformer and a symbol of universal connection, love and justice.**

This seems to be a perfect time to post the essay.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays everyone,

Amethyst

http://mountzion144.ning.com/group/thet … -mctaggart   

Anyone who believes that the Occupy Movement is a ragtag batch of hippies who have had their day now that the police are cracking down had better look again both at the churches, the civil rights leaders and religious leaders now joining in the fray.

Yesterday, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, veteran of four decades of civil rights protest, showed up at Occupy London’s headquarters at St. Paul’s cathedral, during their ‘Occupy Everything’ day of protests. He likened the Occupy movement, which he called a ‘global spirit’ now sweeping the world, to the civil rights struggles by Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. {…)

Churches offer support

In Wall Street, and throughout America, churches are responding to the evictions and police action by offering shelter and support. When the police evicted the protesters from Zuccotti Park, a huge network of churches stepped forward, including Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village. Rev. Michael Ellick, the pastor at the church, who marched with the movement in October holding aloft a golden calf shaped to look like the famous Wall Street bull, claims that his phone has been ‘ringing off the hook’ with churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and monasteries wanting to get involved.  (…)

The hijacking of Jesus

What is so interesting is about all this is not only the fact that this movement is changing the global conversation but also how the Christian church is finally, rather belatedly, reclaiming the rightful moral stance of Jesus Christ.

Since the rise of the religious right in America, Jesus began to stand for prosperity and American military – what noted theologian Karl Barth once called the ‘criminal arrogance of religion.’ Having money and military might was a sign that God was blessing you, and being deprived of either in some way was a sign that God had turned his back on you. In short, we created a spirituality of capitalism and a religion of Western – particularly American - imperialism.

Jesus’ name was invoked and hijacked by the likes of George Bush and Tony Blair, to justify unpopular political or economic decisions, including the invasion of Iraq. Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein claimed that he was doing ‘God’s work.’ And through all this the various denominations of Christianity have kept conspicuously silent. 

(…) Belatedly as it may be, the Christian church is finally wrenching Christ away from the politicos and the moneychangers, and reclaiming Him as both radical reformer and a symbol of universal connection, love and justice.

Last edited by Amethyst (2011-12-18 22:27:44)