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Taking a look at MoveOn.org's 99% Spring initiative thru a few articles.  Charles Lenchner's post at the NYC General Assembly site discusses his experience in the Training for Trainers program.  Allison Kilkenny surveys the reactions of Occupiers to the 99% Spring initiative over at The Nation.  And then a couple of after the fact reports from Counter Punch that spend a bit too much time and energy ripping the whole initiative to shreds, anonymously.

Police State or no Police State, there is no longer a question here at Mic Check Radio.  It's here.  For example from the NYPD: spying on activists and Muslims, Stop & Frisk, DNA database, Retna scans, Commissioner Kelly telling 60 Minutes they can take down a plane with their firepower.  On a National level: Warrantless Wire Taping, PATRIOT Act, NDAA on NYE, Enemy Belligerent Interrogation Detention Prosecution Act of 2010, Military Commissions Act of 2006, HR 347 (Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011) and a brand new NSA facility to store all of the data from our phones/e-mails/texts/tweets/status updates and podcasts.

OWS and the Corporate Media...should there be a relationship there?  An article published in Tidal (Issue 2), Media As Direct Action by Katie Davison proposes and interesting way to look at the media.

The G8 retreats back to Camp David!  An argument for this move as a victory for the Occupy Movement, a victory based on just the threat of a protest.  But in reality, probably because this movement is so heavily under surveillance that the State knows exactly how big the scene is going to be...also, during an election year the President wants to be nowhere near a demonstration as big as Chicago.

Book review time here at Mic Check Radio...in the day and age of e-publishing, there are already several Occupy Wall Street books available.  In this episode, we take a look at Occupy Wall Street: Romance to Reality by David Hodgson Dennis.

A discussion of the topics raised by looking at the "Signs" of the Occupy Movement.

If we all teach our children to take turns, don't lie and share with others...then when do they unlearn this and become "money hoarding, screw everyone else investment bankers working for Goldman Sachs"?

A look at the overuse of the word Revolution; in advertising, movies, in the news and especially within the Occupy Movement.

A clip from Ward Churchill's spoken word album, Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America, as well as some more reflections on the January 28th action that Occupy Oakland undertook.

An interview with Kalle Lasn, publisher of Adbusters, on the Canadian Business website gives us some hints as to what might be in the works for the Occupy Movement.