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OWS had an OCCUPY Brookfield Properties rally yesterday, I gather in the winter garden at the Financial Center. Both the atrium and Zuccoti Park are owned by Brookfield Properties whose board Mayor Bloombergs long time girfreind, Diana Taylor sits on. She gets paid $109,000 to attend 8 meetings a year and......dare we imagine..exert influence with the Mayor. Brookfield currently owes the City $139,000 in back taxes.
A huge police force met the 100 or so Occupy Brookfild…
ContinueAdded by Lindsay Newland Bowker on December 14, 2011 at 2:50pm — 1 Comment
A friend who I really respect just sent me this article by Naomi Wolf that came out in today's London Guardian.
At first blush, I didn't think it was offering anything new to the conversation.
It's worth reading, if only for this:
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley,…
ContinueAdded by Raffi A. on November 26, 2011 at 12:01am — 2 Comments
A PASTORAL LAMENT FOR MY COUNTRYAmerica, America, my country ‘tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing
America, oh America
America the Beautiful has fallen.
You could feel the tension and raw energy crinkling throughout the air as the marchers once again began their journey into downtown Seattle. The Occupy Movement is the prophetic voice of God calling out to the nation to “repent” and turn from its…
Added by Gary Horvitz on November 16, 2011 at 4:54pm — No Comments
It appears to me that the current evolutionary thrust, as symbolized by the Occupy Movement and assorted police actions being taken against them, comes to some stage of each significant evolution in human society. The tendency is to maintain the status quo, which against such movements is represented by the agreed to government of that time and enforced for them by police authority. When resistance to the status quo becomes too strong, for the comfort of those who’s…
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