November 2011 Blog Posts (92)

Mark Ames on Greece, the "1%" and decisionmaking

What is happening in Greece is of great relevance to us in the US. We may very well find ourselves in a similar situation. This piece by Mark Ames highlights how a powerful anti-democratic impulse drives the decision-making around spending there.

I've been following Ames for quite some time, from his days at the Moscow-based shock publication, Exile. As usual, I…

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Added by Raffi A. on November 25, 2011 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

#OWS => New forms of Nonviolence & Leadership emerging?

“A leader leads by example, not by force” SunTzu

#OLSX #Occupy

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 3:48pm — No Comments

The shocking truth about the crackdown on #Occupy

"...then they attack you, then you win." Gandhi

#OWS #OLSX

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Foreclosed Homeowners Re-Occupy Their Homes

On Dec. 6, there will be a national day of action, “Occupy Our Homes,” where people across the country facing predicaments similar to Gage and Richardson may follow their lead.

Partly inspired by the Occupy movement, the day of action is supported by various community…

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Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Occupy movement inspires rise in US campus activism

Students today, Debt-Slaves tomorrow... Resist or Die!

#OWS #OLSX

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 12:53pm — No Comments

451 at Zuccotti Park

"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people.", Heinrich Heine, 1821

#OWS #OLSX #Occupy

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 12:23pm — No Comments

NON-VIOLENCE AS A POWERFUL WEAPON … LESSONS FROM HISTORY

NON-VIOLENCE AS A POWERFUL WEAPON

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win!

#OWS …

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Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Next up, Occupy Christmas

Jesus would be on the side of the Occupy Movement, & WAS against the 1%!

#OWS #OLSX #Occupy

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 10:20am — No Comments

Moving from Occupying Wall Street to Occupying Strategy

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized”, Sun Tzu's "Art of War"

#OWS #OLSX #Occupy…

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Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 25, 2011 at 9:28am — No Comments

NBC TV on Occupy San Diego encampments

a surprisingly balanced piece on the legality of the Occupy San Diego encampment.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/SD-Explained--Cost-of-Occupy/134445653

Added by Raffi A. on November 25, 2011 at 5:09am — No Comments

Occupy LA responds to City Council's offer to leave

another curious development.... http://t.co/jbZhAm7r

Added by Raffi A. on November 25, 2011 at 5:01am — 2 Comments

David Graebar

curious read-- piece by David Graebar, one of the key people behind #OWS- an anthropologist, professor, and committed anarchist: http://newleftreview.org/A2368

Added by Raffi A. on November 25, 2011 at 4:23am — No Comments

"What's Next?" Ask "What's Here?"

“What’s Next?” Ask “What’s Here?”

11-24-11

This is a death we are living through, the slow unfolding of multiple interlocking catastrophes, the deconstruction and reformation of every social and natural system you can name: politics, economics, social relations, culture, the eco-system, the human spirit. It is also a birth of something new. In fact, what is being birthed is a mass realization that there is no way to separate any of these realms from one another. At the deepest…

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Added by Gary Horvitz on November 24, 2011 at 3:39pm — 45 Comments

A VISION OF A FUTURE WE CAN CO-OCCUPY

From Michael Moore to the Occupy General Assembly..sounds good to me!!!

http://www.truth-out.org/print/9544

I am thankful for occupy ..thnakful the riisng up we all undertake together.

Added by Lindsay Newland Bowker on November 24, 2011 at 3:06pm — 5 Comments

“The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You Are Free.”

by Phil Rockstroh

I've noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to "distract" the citizenry from the wicked…

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Added by Robert Riversong on November 23, 2011 at 8:07pm — No Comments

Algorithms and Red Wine: Is the 'digital hive' a soft totalitarian state?

As an authentic anarchist, I don't even follow my on rules. One more for the old fart: Joe Bageant (may he rest in peace), America's Redneck Prophet, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, and the posthumous Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball, addresses in this essay (one of his last) a number of issues that, I believe, are insufficiently acknowledged in today's "progressive" culture -…

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Added by Robert Riversong on November 23, 2011 at 8:05pm — No Comments

"The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."

Resistance is Fertile: Grow some Today!

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 23, 2011 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Unequal = Indebted

from The Progressive Economics Forum…

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Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 23, 2011 at 4:50pm — No Comments

The Revolution Is Sorry for Getting in the Way of Your Apathy

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 23, 2011 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Time to Test Corporate Leaders to Weed out Psychopaths

http://j.mp/tqIiGj

Not Forgetting Politicians,Judges,Journalists,etc!

Added by Gildas ApCaw Sapiens on November 23, 2011 at 12:14pm — No Comments

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