{"id":17973,"date":"2012-01-01T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/new-years-eve-noise-demos-against-the-prison-industrial-complex\/17973\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T09:48:00","slug":"new-years-eve-noise-demos-against-the-prison-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/new-years-eve-noise-demos-against-the-prison-industrial-complex\/17973\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#039;s Eve Noise Demos Against The Prison-Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-1408583772585547\";\n\/* SMW - News Links *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3490797620\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--Ad Injection mfunc mode ad include code--><!--mfunc include_once('\/mnt\/Target01\/327806\/www.thestockmarketwatch.com\/web\/content\/stock-market-news\/wp-content\/plugins\/ad-injection\/adshow.php') --><!--\/mfunc--><\/p>\n<p>The challenge of focus for Occupy protests is not necessarily one of targets or tactics. Though strategic maneuvering of their members to the pinch points and bottle necks of the dominant culture is a conversation of constant necessity, more pressing is the discovery of the poisonous heart of the dominant culture. What is the common thread which grafts together the banks, the oil companies, the degradation of the planet\u2019s ecosystems, the drugging of children, the indefinite detention of \u201cterror suspects,\u201d and the imprisonment of non-violent drug possessors?<\/p>\n<p>To me, it seems clear that the dominant culture is a culture of domination. The dominant culture, that is \u2014 the culture of industrial capitalism, that is \u2014 our culture \u2014 is a culture that rests on a foundation of violence, exploitation, slavery, and brutality. In the privileged West, it is harder to see this than in, say, the Niger Delta, the Brazilian rain forests, or in the sweatshops of Asia. To be sure, the barbarity of our culture is present domestically, but as most modern, \u201ccivilized\u201d people have lost connectivity with the natural world, they likely don\u2019t see their city, suburb, or local shopping mall as an exploitation of the land. Further, they take little notice of the flowers, the salamanders, the moths, or any of the over two hundred species which go extinct every day on Earth, including those who forever exit their own communities. Somehow, the exported violence of the tar sands mining operations in Alberta Canada, the Pacific or Atlantic garbage \u201cislands,\u201d or the petroleum wastes of Azerbaijan or newly liberated Iraq remain invisible to those who benefit from these graveyards the most<\/p>\n<p>Article source: <a href=\"http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/article\/nye-noise-demo-against-prison-industrial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/article\/nye-noise-demo-against-prison-industrial\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Posts by this author<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/occupy-umass-boston\/19433\"><br \/>\nOccupy UMass Boston<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/occupysf-boa-peoples-food\/19359\"><br \/>\nOccupySF: &quot;BOA: People&#039;s Food&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/uc-riverside-regents-youre-fired\/19265\"><br \/>\nUC Riverside Regents: &quot;You&#039;re fired!&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/america-occupies-the-capital\/19053\"><br \/>\nAMERICA OCCUPIES THE CAPITAL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/ows-thanks-our-supporters\/18962\"><br \/>\nOWS Thanks Our Supporters!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/we-are-the-146\/18961\"><br \/>\nWe are the 146%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/recent-events\/politics\/martin-luther-king-jr-day\/18960\"><br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr Day<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<table style=\"border:none;margin:0;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:5px;vertical-align:top;\" valign=\"top\">\n.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:5px;vertical-align:top;\" valign=\"top\">\n<div style=\"font-size:11pt;\"><b>Post Written By: Occupy Wall Street <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:10pt;\">\n<p>Occupy Wall Street (http:\/\/occupywallst.org) is a horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America. 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