What #Occupy readings and videos would you recommend - Occupy Cafe2024-03-28T14:45:28Zhttp://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/what-are-your-favorite-occupy-readings-and-videos?commentId=6451976%3AComment%3A27883&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThis is an interesting item. …tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-07-05:6451976:Comment:278832012-07-05T04:41:56.301ZMark Anthonyhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/MarkAnthony
<p>This is an interesting item. Carne Ross being interviewed by Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers' only other guest that evening was Paul Volker.</p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/39482332">http://vimeo.com/39482332</a></p>
<p>Carne Ross is the founder of Independent Diplomat in New York City, and is very involved with Occupy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.carneross.com/">http://www.carneross.com/</a> --- also has clip from the Colbert Report</p>
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<p>This is an interesting item. Carne Ross being interviewed by Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers' only other guest that evening was Paul Volker.</p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/39482332">http://vimeo.com/39482332</a></p>
<p>Carne Ross is the founder of Independent Diplomat in New York City, and is very involved with Occupy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.carneross.com/">http://www.carneross.com/</a> --- also has clip from the Colbert Report</p>
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<p>-Mark Anthony</p>
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<p> </p> Two months ago the little kno…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-23:6451976:Comment:188592011-12-23T20:15:00.945ZRaffi A.http://www.occupycafe.org/profile/RaffiA
<p>Two months ago the little known St. Petersburg (Russia) rock group RabFak came out with a searing, hysterical, and shocking anti-Putin song, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsuY5RBdb2w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our Nuthouse Votes for Putin</a>. (Note: the video is NSFW in parts; I make the choice of posting this kind of link here because I think the core message captures our global zeitgeist impeccably.</p>
<p>This song has particular resonance for me as I lived for ten years…</p>
<p>Two months ago the little known St. Petersburg (Russia) rock group RabFak came out with a searing, hysterical, and shocking anti-Putin song, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsuY5RBdb2w" target="_blank">Our Nuthouse Votes for Putin</a>. (Note: the video is NSFW in parts; I make the choice of posting this kind of link here because I think the core message captures our global zeitgeist impeccably.</p>
<p>This song has particular resonance for me as I lived for ten years in Russia, was witness to the USSR's collapse...</p>
<p>The song has had such an effect that it may be in the running in the annual Eurovision contest.</p>
<p>I wonder if this song may serve as a source of inspiration for the US Occupy movement to put out a "Our Nuthouse Votes for Obama?" </p>
<p>As one American friend pointed out, perhaps we Americans are even nuttier than Russians if most of us still believe we <em>have</em> a democracy?!</p>
<p>Some laughter can be therapeutic!</p> “President Obama Just Stated…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-22:6451976:Comment:187942011-12-22T23:06:00.765ZRaffi A.http://www.occupycafe.org/profile/RaffiA
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<p><em>see the 16 minute point.</em></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/president-obama-just-stated-that-he-can-have-any-american-citizen">http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/president-obama-just-stated-that-h...</a></p>
<p>Really discouraging...</p>
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<p></p> New article by Charles Eisens…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-17:6451976:Comment:178692011-12-17T15:38:20.347ZStella Osorojoshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/StellaOsorojos
<p>New article by Charles Eisenstein entitled "Where Next for Occupy?" here:</p>
<p><a href="http://charleseisenstein.net/essays/where-next-for-occupy/" target="_blank">http://charleseisenstein.net/essays/where-next-for-occupy/</a></p>
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<p>New article by Charles Eisenstein entitled "Where Next for Occupy?" here:</p>
<p><a href="http://charleseisenstein.net/essays/where-next-for-occupy/" target="_blank">http://charleseisenstein.net/essays/where-next-for-occupy/</a></p>
<p></p> <3 lakoff ... & the ge…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-13:6451976:Comment:175422011-12-13T20:19:07.882ZTristan Learhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/TristanLear
<p><3 lakoff ... & the general semanticists ... david bourland, kellogg ... e-prime</p>
<p><3 lakoff ... & the general semanticists ... david bourland, kellogg ... e-prime</p> i <3 lakofftag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-13:6451976:Comment:173742011-12-13T20:16:49.942ZTristan Learhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/TristanLear
<p>i <3 lakoff</p>
<p>i <3 lakoff</p> Here is a documentary that i…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-11:6451976:Comment:171612011-12-11T15:03:55.977ZJon Crawleyhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JonCrawley
<p>Here is a documentary that i feel anyone involved or interested in Occupy would benefit from. Many of you may have seen it already.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnE8D3tgZ5c" target="_blank">The Corporation</a></p>
<p>Here is a documentary that i feel anyone involved or interested in Occupy would benefit from. Many of you may have seen it already.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnE8D3tgZ5c" target="_blank">The Corporation</a></p> Walt Roberts at Occupy 2.0 on…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-10:6451976:Comment:168682011-12-10T14:38:16.248ZOccupy Cafe Stewardshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/21u3twzbb9qcp
<p>Walt Roberts at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/Occupy2.0/" target="_blank">Occupy 2.0 on Facebook</a> just posted this excellent video on the heart of Occupy (don't be fooled by the Portland framing!):</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/30417933">Why Occupy Portland?</a> from…</p>
<p>Walt Roberts at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/Occupy2.0/" target="_blank">Occupy 2.0 on Facebook</a> just posted this excellent video on the heart of Occupy (don't be fooled by the Portland framing!):</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/30417933">Why Occupy Portland?</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/softbox">Softbox</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> Here's a powerful blog post o…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-05:6451976:Comment:155142011-12-05T20:09:42.492ZBen Robertshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/BenRoberts
<p><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/12/tar-sands-pipeline---action-update" target="_blank">Here's a powerful blog post</a> on Occupy and the corrupt politics that are supporting the poisoning of our water via the tar sands industry, courtesy of activist Bud Wilson. An excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>We know this to be true, individuals engaged in social change and evolutionary movements must know they are not alone. Advocates of change must also believe that proposed solutions have a…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/12/tar-sands-pipeline---action-update" target="_blank">Here's a powerful blog post</a> on Occupy and the corrupt politics that are supporting the poisoning of our water via the tar sands industry, courtesy of activist Bud Wilson. An excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>We know this to be true, individuals engaged in social change and evolutionary movements must know they are not alone. Advocates of change must also believe that proposed solutions have a good chance of succeeding. In spite of the corporate manipulation of our elected officials and their nearly complete control of our regulatory agencies, we must remember, there remains great strength in numbers. Only we can restore integrity and settle for nothing less than ethical behavior, based upon principles of justice, spiritual awareness and ecological sustainability. I’ve said it before, we deserve the government we allow. For me, this is at the heart of the Occupy Movement.</p>
</blockquote> Just read this excellent blog…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-20:6451976:Comment:114402011-11-20T10:52:14.467ZOccupy Cafe Stewardshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/21u3twzbb9qcp
<p>Just read this excellent blog post by Steve "Swami Beyondananda" Bhaerman: <a href="http://notesfromthetrailblog.com/?p=298" target="_blank">It's Time for the 99% to Occupy the Occupy Movement</a>. Steve will be a conversation starter on one of our upcoming Monday Cafe Calls. Here's an excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>...Occupy has heartened disheartened Americans, so it’s understandable how one could get preoccupied with the Occupy movement and not consider what a post-occupation strategy…</p>
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<p>Just read this excellent blog post by Steve "Swami Beyondananda" Bhaerman: <a target="_blank" href="http://notesfromthetrailblog.com/?p=298">It's Time for the 99% to Occupy the Occupy Movement</a>. Steve will be a conversation starter on one of our upcoming Monday Cafe Calls. Here's an excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>...Occupy has heartened disheartened Americans, so it’s understandable how one could get preoccupied with the Occupy movement and not consider what a post-occupation strategy might be. Fortunately, the Corporate State is making it “easy” for us to shift the focus from occupying physical space to occupying the conversation so thoroughly that we the people can finally “overgrow” the current corrupt and dysfunctional system.</p>
<p>How have they made it easier? By using massive and brutal force to evict the Occupy encampments, first in New York and then elsewhere. Making New York’s Mayor Bloomberg the “villain” as <a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8451-occupy-wall-street-needs-michael-bloomberg" target="_blank">Keith Olbermann</a> does here is tempting from a symbolic standpoint. But it misses the bigger point – that these evictions were orchestrated at the national level. According to this article in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mayors-plotted-occupy-evictions-2011-11" target="_blank">Business Insider</a> 18 mayors of large cities were instructed in a conference call how to use their police to remove the demonstrators. It is quite telling that all of the mayors – regardless of their political affiliation – went along with the scheme. Why? Because under the current circumstances where there is no unified moral leadership coming from the public sphere, they had no choice.</p>
<p>The scenes of these evictions – intentionally blacked out by our free (oops, I mean “paid for”) press – tells us all we need to know about who is being protected by our protective forces. A militarized police – helicopters and all – is being used against not just the demonstrators, but against the First Amendment – and ultimately against all Americans...</p>
<p>It’s time for us to stop banging our heads against police batons, and emerge to a new level of power.</p>
<p>It’s time to use the ace-in-the-hole … the dormant yet powerful moral authority of the 99%. It’s time for the 99% to “occupy” the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>OK. But how?</p>
<p>By first of all, convening conversations across America, and inviting anyone who identifies with the 99% to participate. A recent Fox News <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8837" target="_blank">poll</a> indicates that 67% consider themselves part of the 99%, and that’s not a bad start. In fact, let’s invite the other 33% as well, and even the 1% — provided they speak as individual citizens rather than controllers of the conversation.</p>
<p>Imagine what it would be like to really find out what the 99% of us feel, think – and have in common. What if 80% or even 90% of us supported just one idea, just one rule of governance? What if – for the first time – a unified voice of We The People said, “We the People of America stand for THIS” (however “this” is articulated) and that voice spoke with such collective authority that our legislators had to legislate it – or face certain defeat in 2012?</p>
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