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To: [email protected]LEGITGOV.ORG hosted by MayFirst.org, operated by Marxist Alfredo Lopez WHOIS - legitgov.org Domain ID:D50700302-LROR Domain Name:LEGITGOV.ORG Created On:31-Dec-2000 02:16:39 UTC Last Updated On:26-Dec-2010 00:23:43 UTC Expiration Date:31-Dec-2011 02:16:39 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:CR30899284 Registrant Name:Lori Price Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 1142 Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Bristol Registrant State/Province:Connecticut Registrant Postal Code:06011-1142 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.8605855699 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:[email protected] Admin ID:CR30899286 Admin Name:Lori Price Admin Street1:P.O. Box 1142 Admin Street2: Admin Street3: Admin City:Bristol Admin State/Province:Connecticut Admin Postal Code:06011-1142 Admin Country:US Admin Phone:+1.8605855699 Admin Phone Ext.: Admin FAX: Admin FAX Ext.: Admin Email:[email protected] Tech ID:CR30899285 Tech Name:Media Jumpstart Inc. Tech Organization:May First-People Link Tech Street1:P.O. Box 1804 Tech Street2: Tech Street3: Tech City:New York Tech State/Province:New York Tech Postal Code:10159 Tech Country:US Tech Phone:+1.7183033204 Tech Phone Ext.: Tech FAX:+1.7187707699 Tech FAX Ext.: Tech Email:[email protected] Name Server:B.NS.MAYFIRST.ORG Name Server:A.NS.MAYFIRST.ORG ========================================== Alberto Lopez is co-founder of MayFirst.org where progressives(aka MARXISTS) can have their sites hosted. They work directly with riseup.net, where many Marxist and anarchist groups coordinate Michelle Horstman Brecht Forum’s Fingerprints All Over Occupy Wall Street Along with the many socialist and communist groups battling for a piece of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we would be remiss to leave out the contributions from the Marxist Brecht Forum, host of well known radical speakers such as Frances Fox Piven and Stephen Lerner. Their fingerprints appear to be found in multiple places. Being the educators they are, our first connection was found in a special workshop put on just for OWS attendees on Oct. 4th, according to their event listings: October 4th, 2011 5:30 PM People’s University at #OccupyWallStreet @ Freedom Square (Liberty Plaza) Corner of Liberty and Broadway Economic Update with Rick Wolff Occupy Wall Street continues to capture the imagination of millions across the globe. Join us for a series “People’s University at Occupy Walls Street” as we connect the dots, build bridges and move forward for a world free of capitalism and war! As promoted on his own site, Professor Wolff describes it as a “teach-in”: October 4, 2011 – 18:00 – 19:30 Location: Zuccotti Park, Broadway and Liberty, New York, NY Professor Wolff will participate in a teach-in at Occupy Wall Street. His talk will focus on Marxism today and in light of the crisis. He will speak about possible, practical solutions. You can view Prof. Richard Wolff speaking at OWS here and also appearing on Russia Today (RT) to further stress the need for society to question capitalism and learn more about socialism. He teaches at the Brecht Forum and serves on its’ Left Forum board with Frances Fox Piven. Fellow Brecht Forum thinker, Arun Gupta, was shown recently when The Blaze posted this video, also from Russia Today, where he describes the failure of capitalism: Arun Gupta happens to be one of the primary faces behind the “Occupied Wall Street Journal” produced by his own Indypendent.org. Although The Blaze points out the funding connections to Soros, Tides, Code Pink and more, we need to recognize the support received from the Brecht Forum, where Brecht’s facilities serve as their workspace: They worked through the night Thursday into Friday and will reconvene this afternoon to wrap up the production work at The Indypendent’s temporary workspace at The Brecht Forum, a Marxist culture center on the West Side Highway not far from the demonstration site. Arun Gupta’s projects, according to The Baltimore Free School, include the following: Arun Gupta has been an editor of The Indypendent (New York) since 2000 and was an editor of The Guardian (New York) from 1989-1992. He was active in the anti-apartheid divestment and Central America solidarity movements in the 1980s and studied philosophy, history and mathematics at the University of Maryland. Gupta’s writing has also appeared in AlterNet, Z Magazine, and other publications. In 2010, Arun Gupta was a Lannan Foundation Writing Resident. Some of Gupta’s more disturbing writing includes a piece called “Off With Their Heads! Let’s Celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton by Reviving Another Timeless Tradition.” In this piece, he apparently advocates a return to the guillotine: What better way to help the English to topple a government rooted in medieval despotism, overcome their class deference and end a culture of hereditary idiocy than chopping off a few royal heads? Plus, imagine putting the Queen’s head in a jar on public display. It would be the ultimate tourist attraction. In another piece called “The Merchants of Hate,” he is somehow able to find a way to blame every crazy killer in recent history on conservatives, including Jared Loughner of course. It’s quite a wild list of accusations, seen here. The right thrives on mobilizing group resentment, and the range of its targets over the last 50 years is astonishing: gays and lesbians, African-Americans, Latinos, feminists, welfare recipients, reproductive-rights activists, Muslims, undocumented immigrants, government officials, prisoners, intellectuals, liberals, antiwar activists and unions. Gupta has also apparently worked with Alberto Lopez, who we previously described as part of the October2011 movement in Washington, DC and mentor for progressive techies. Gupta and Lopez have worked together as hosts for a Brecht Forum event to honor Bhairavi Desai, the Executive Director of the Taxi Workers Alliance, held at SEIU headquarters in Nov., 2010. Both Gupta and Lopez have both appeared on Brecht’s Left Forum panels along with others such as Stephen Lerner, recently captured speaking at the Left Forum about using economic terrorism to crash the system. The Brecht Forum recommends and links to Alfredo Lopez’s MayFirst internet services and MayFirst hosts their mailing lists. Many fingerprints are to be found all over every aspect of OWS, but when assigning credit (or blame), surely the Brecht Forum and Friends are enjoying their share of this opportunity for “change.” Permalink | Comments Posted at 6:53 am on October 13th, 2011 by Meet Your Hosts for the “October2011″ Occupation Whenever planning to attend an event, it’s always important to know who your hosts are. Sometimes you are dragged along to a party and have no idea who is hosting, and that can end up being a disaster. In the case of this month’s “October2011″ event planned to begin at the end of this week in Washington, DC, you may find some of the hosts quite interesting. On their Facebook page, one wall post says “We will not co-opted! While we seek support from everyone agrees with our agenda, we will not be co-opted by political parties or organizations tied to them.” However, when visiting their site, October2011.org, you’ll find Code Pink, FireDogLake and others among the many involved organizations listed. The person who registered their website is David Swanson, currently the director of Washington’s progressive Democrats.com. Is it just me, or does that sound a bit political? In addition to the not-so-bipartisan David, the site itself (as well as David’s own site) is hosted by MayFirst.org, operated by Marxist Alfredo Lopez. So we can get to know the hosts, here is a brief resume for each: DAVID SWANSON David currently works as the Washington director of Democrats.com, but has many other accomplishments including creating the radical site AfterDowningStreet, authoring “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush,” by Dennis Kucinich (2008), working for ACORN, creating websites for CODEPINK and Cindy Sheehan and much much more. You can view his many reccommendations here including former employer ACORN, where he was a Communications Coordinator. Also available are references from unions such as the AFL-CIO and former employer Dennis Kucinich. ALFREDO LOPEZ Alfredo, it may come as no surprise, is a 1960′s activist. He was a top leader in the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the 70′s. In more recent years, he has worked to harness the power of the internet as well as win over the techies to the progressive cause. Very union oriented, he worked to get NY unions an online presence in the late ’90′s. He has taught at various institutions including Columbia University. Alberto is co-founder of MayFirst.org where progressives can have their sites hosted. They work directly with riseup.net, where many Marxist and anarchist groups coordinate. As recently as March 2011, MayFirst.org sponsored a panel discussion at the LeftForum (board member Frances Fox Piven) entitled “The Revolution Just *Might* Be Televised,” at Pace University in NYC. Apparently he is not too big on national sovereignty and borders. An example of his philosophy might be found in this quote: Alfredo Lopez writes about our first event in Bolivia, “Through this work, we challenge the false and destructive border and national divisions imposed on the indigenous peoples of our Hemisphere and continuously imposed on us all. We will make this conference a truly Hemispheric conference.” In his “Organic Internet” video, Alfredo references his mentor as having been Arthur Felberbaum of the Marxist Brecht Forum. In explaining the definition and uses of the “organic internet,” he states: “Capitalism has never produced a thing in its’ entire history…” Alfredo’s current focus appears to be organizing the techies and the internet worldwide: With over a billion people engaging in a collective activity, today’s Internet is one of humanity’s largest social movements, reflecting the kind of social interaction and collective achievement activists like us struggle for world-wide: fundamentally collaborative, democratic and based almost entirely on tools and software that has been produced collaboratively, developed by large, democratic communities and distributed freely. It is truly international and resilient against constant attempts to control its direction and curtail its positive growth. Techies have been fundamental to this movement and will continue to play an increasingly important role in the progress of humanity. In learning just a bit about only two of the many organizers of these events, we have to be very aware of who they are and what kind of nation they would plan to fill the void with. Unless you are a supporter of a global, Marxist government, I suggest taking an in-depth look at the “hosts” behind your next Occupation. Permalink | 3 Comments Posted at 12:01 pm on October 6th, 2011 by The Billionaires Club and Occupy Wall Street: Strange Bedfellows As progressives nationwide jump on board the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon, I visited the San Antonio “Occupy Wall Street” -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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