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2013-05-11T19:06:42Z

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Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
– ►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
– Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent

[...]
[S]ix American universities are sites where campus police funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the administrations' knowledge (p51); banks sat down with FBI officials to pool information about OWS protesters harvested by private security; plans to crush Occupy events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI – and offered to the representatives of the same organizations that the protests would target; and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire – by whom? Where? – now remain redacted and undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader (p61).
As Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, put it, the documents show that from the start, the FBI – though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization – nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a “terrorist threat”:
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#ows #occupy #surveillance #FBI #classification #USA

As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester - NYTimes.com

2013-03-31T22:32:02Z

As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/us/osha-emphasizes-safety-health-risks-fester.html?_r=0

Sur les ravages humains et financiers de l'utilisation professionnelle de produits chimiques aux Etats-Unis et l'inefficacité de l'OSHA, l'agence fédérale de prévention des maladies professionnelles.

Chronic ailments caused by toxic workplace air — black lung, stonecutter's disease, asbestosis, grinder's rot, pneumoconiosis — incapacitate more than 200,000 workers in the United States annually. More than 40,000 Americans die prematurely each year from exposure to toxic substances at work — 10 times as many as those who die from the refinery explosions, mine collapses and other accidents that grab most of the news media attention.
Occupational illnesses and injuries like Ms. Farley's cost the American economy roughly $250 billion per year because of medical expenses and lost productivity, according to government data analyzed by J. Paul Leigh, an economist at the University of California, Davis, more than the cost of diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Roughly 40 percent of medical expenses from workplace hazards, or about $27 billion a year, is paid by public programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
And yet the full price of this epidemic is measured not just in hospital bills and wages lost, but also in the ways, large and small, that life has changed for Ms. Farley and other sickened workers. (...).”

Making Worlds

2013-03-06T17:36:14Z

Making Worlds
http://www.makingworlds.org

Making Worlds: a #Commons Coalition is a collaborative effort by #OWS and other groups and individuals to explore the utility of the commons in creating a better world.
Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition brings projects working to reclaim the commons to the fore of the #Occupy movement. Commons are resources that are neither private nor state-owned like air, water and soil, the internet and human culture. We need to safeguard them from the private market. Making Worlds grows out of an understanding that Occupy itself is a form of commoning, a process in which everyone can participate, every voice can contribute, an open movement that belongs to no one and to everyone. Through holding conversations in communities around the city among organizations, activists and others, we aim to create links between the Occupy movement, the Commons movement, activist organizations and people who may not consider themselves activists. This way we can become visible to each other and work together on our common problems.

#communs

Revealed : how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free |…

2013-01-02T14:28:23Z

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

The document shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.

As Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, put it, the documents show that from the start, the FBI – though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization – nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a “terrorist threat”.

Danish Bank Uses Occupy Imagery in Advertising Campaign : New Normal | Occupy Washington, DC ❝_For…

2012-11-29T14:21:49Z

Danish Bank Uses Occupy Imagery in Advertising Campaign: New Normal | Occupy Washington, DC

For those who have walked the streets of CPH recently, it was impossible to ignore. Danske Bank started a new campaign to brand itself through posters and banners, associating images of protests by occupy movements, paraplegics runners, women in power in a men's world and endless lines of enslaved workers to the danske bank logo and to the slogan “the new normal”.
Apparently, the mounting global wave of challenge against the established powers devoted to the exploitation of humans and environments, can become an advertising for the very same actors who collaborate in this exploitation, banks. This urges questions about the power of the capitalist pseudo-cultural machine to reverse and to recycle anti-systemic movements of ideas into innocuous advertising material. The real “normalization of dissent”, indeed.
Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Ph.D Human Geography Department at Lund University
Sweden"

Ad Campaign Provokes Angry Response of Bank Hypocrisy

http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/danish-bank-uses-occupy-imagery-advertising-campaign-new-normal
By Kevin Zeese - Posted on 26 November 2012

Den Danske Bank has a new campaign out where they can slap their label “The new normal” on practically any controversial staged news image shot by Peter Funch. The campaign is created by the ad agency named Mensch. The entire campaign is so hypocritical it's making Danes blood boil and people are raging everywhere from forums to newspapers about it.

In newspaper Politiken the headline reads: Hey bankers, do you think we've forgotten that you are the über-bad guys?, Danish Kommunikationsforum even goes so far to dig up images that compare shots from the Occupy movement to Den Danske Bank ad, to a Benetton campaign. Tobias Lau at Børsen dubs the campaign “the worst piece of communication of 2012”, and the Danish arm of Occupy even bothered to reply with a spoof full of typos. “Nice pictures and music in the video of yours, but must you misuse a humanitarian movement?” it asks.

This is from our group in CPH, crisis mirror:

“New Normal”? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery | CrisisMirror

http://www.crisismirror.info/political-analyses/new-normal-assimilating-the-anticapitalist-imagery-by-danske-bank

“New Normal”? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery
The latest Danske Bank's communication strategy is full of images of unrest; the Occupy movement, protestors with stones and Greek flags against the police, images of slave workers in the world's production lines, pictures of despaired citizens from across the globe. Danske Bank, Denmark's biggest bank institution surfaces behind these images with the slogan ‘new Normal'. What does it mean? Perhaps the normalization of the times' ambiguity is the campaign's target, avoiding references to the causes of global unrest, and bypassing critical explanations of the growing citizens' discontent, related to systemic injustices caused by financial and industrial strategies to exploit people and the natural environment, or the anti-social policies of austerity that the neoliberal sharks pursue with a fundamentalist zeal in Europe and elsewhere, as ‘essential' (‘essential for what', we need to remember to constantly ask ourselves and others).

And this is some nice counter-guerrilla-marketing:

http://newnormalnewstandards.tumblr.com

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7mfhwoHA1rm92gno1_500.jpg

New Normal New Standards

Installations, videos and projects in public space by Oliver Ressler Je profite d'un message…

2012-10-23T11:44:03Z

Installations, videos and projects in public space by Oliver Ressler

Je profite d'un message d'Olivier pour vous présenter son remarquable travail : résistance, géographie, territoire, espace... l'artiste autrichien Olivier Ressler, joue et se joue de tout

http://www.ressler.at/category/projects

1. Take The Square A 3-channel video installation, 2012

http://www.ressler.at/take_the_square

The emergence of the movements of the squares and the Occupy movement in 2011 can be seen as a reaction by people who opposed and began to fight the massive increase in social inequality and the dismantling of democracy in times of global financial and economic crisis. The movements of the squares are non-hierarchical and reject representation; direct democracy shapes their activities. The occupation of public places serves as a catalyst to develop demonstrations, general strikes, meetings and working groups on different focal points. Successful site occupancies in one place often inspire occupations in other cities, without a linear relationship.

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2. After the Crisis is Before the Crisis

http://www.wyspa.art.pl/title,OliverResslerSpatialOccupations,pid,44,oid,38,cid,381,type,4.html

Oliver Ressler will present a new body of work that addresses the starting points and implications of the global financial and economic crisis as well as the underlying flaws in the model of parliamentary democracy revealed by the crisis. Ressler's films and installations are often based on interview situations in which the artist creates a platform for the concerns of his protagonists. Exemplary is the 8-channel video installation /What is Democracy/ (2009), which was shown at Wyspa Institute of Art in 2010, in which by means of interviews with activists he essentially formulates a global analysis of the deep political crisis facing the western model of democracy. This crisis is manifested in the fact that elections in parliamentary democracies increasingly become rituals devoid of meaning, while the real decisions are made outside of public debates. Ressler's wall text /Elections are a Con/ (2011) alerts us to this danger, while the wall text /Too Big to Fail/ (2011) and the films /The Bull Laid Bear/ (2012, co-directed with Zanny Begg) and /Robbery/ (2012) explore the handling of the financial and economic crisis, the bailout of banks and its social consequences.

3. Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives

►http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibitions/cartographies-of-hope-change-narratives

“It's not the story of the battle; it's the battle of the story!”
Patrick Reinsborough
In the last few years we have witnessed how the corrosion of the three main modes of social imaginary that defined modernity – the market economy, the public sphere, and the self-government of citizens – has reached a critical point. As a result, the increasing number of people in different fields, social scientists, artists, public intellectuals, and activists are calling for rethinking and reinventing social change. Such voices, however, are too often fragmented in their respective boundaries, and, consequently, they have not yet been able to articulate a compelling alternative metanarrative that the public would identify with and which would thus result in a major positive change.

4. Occupy Everything

http://www.grazmuseum.at

Die mit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise verstärkt einhergehende Umverteilung von unten nach oben brachte 2011 neue Protestbewegungen hervor: den „Arabischen Frühling“, die Platzbesetzungsbewegungen in Spanien und Griechenland, und die von den USA ausgehende Occupy-Bewegung. Obwohl diese Bewegungen nicht direkt miteinander in Verbindung stehen, haben sie doch einiges gemeinsam: Es sind regional agierende, nicht-hierarchische Bewegungen, die Repräsentation ablehnen und Entscheidungen auf direkt-demokratische Weise fällen. Der Besetzung von zentralen öffentlichen Plätzen kommt die Rolle eines Katalysators für die Formulierung und Herausbildung politischer Projekte und Arbeitsgruppen durch die Beteiligten zu. Erfolgreiche Platzbesetzungen an einem Ort inspirieren dabei oftmals zu Besetzungen in anderen Städten.

#art #géographie #résistance #cartographie-radicale

Commentary on the struggle for Freedom I'm a soldier (largely online) helping in the international…

2012-06-11T21:12:54Z

Commentary on the struggle for Freedom

I'm a soldier (largely online) helping in the international fight for freedom. Be it the Arab Spring, Occupy Movement - you name it. On this blog I run a commentary on the latest news in the struggle (largely the Arab Spring) from evidence from a variety of outlets and sources, a little of my own interpretations, and genuine compassion for the oppressed.

Le diacétyle et les saveurs artificielles dans les produits alimentaires - IRSST

2012-05-27T20:17:05Z

Le #diacétyle et les saveurs artificielles dans les produits alimentaires - IRSST

http://www.irsst.qc.ca/media/documents/fr/avis-irsst/diacetyl.pdf

Avant-propos : Ce document ne constitue pas une revue de littérature sur le sujet et n'a pour objet que de situer un sujet dans un contexte plus global. Il contient de l'information provenant d'organismes tels NIOSH, OSHA, Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association of the United States (FEMA), de sites Web et de quelques chercheurs. Le point de départ est le diacétyle contenu dans le maïs soufflé pour micro-ondes, mais le document déborde sur la problématique plus large des saveurs artificielles utilisées dans les produits alimentaires.

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Conclusion
Les saveurs artificielles utilisées dans l'industrie alimentaire pour simuler l'arôme et la saveur du beurre contiennent du diacétyle. Malgré que le diacétyle soit suspecté être l'agent causal de la bronchiolite oblitérante, d'autres produits comme l'acétoïne contenus dans ces saveurs pourraient également en être la cause ou du moins contribuer au développement de cette maladie. Tout travailleur manipulant ou synthétisant ces saveurs est à risque s'il est exposé lors de périodes prolongées pendant plusieurs mois.

#Pop-Corn #santé

Aux sources iconographiques de l'hacktivisme contemporain | Samuel Archibald (Pop-en-stock)

2012-04-25T15:30:01Z

Aux sources iconographiques de l'hacktivisme contemporain | Samuel Archibald (Pop-en-stock)
►http://popenstock.ca/dossier/article/remember-remember-5th-november-aux-sources-iconographiques-de-lhacktivism

Je ne me propose pas ici de faire une critique sauvage des membres d'Anonymous, j'aurais bien trop peur que mon ordinateur explose. Je ne voudrais pas non plus tourner en dérision l'emploi du masque de Guy Fawkes par les membres d'Occupy. Comme tout geek qui se respecte, cependant, je suis spontanément irrité lorsqu'une chose que je connais bien est recyclée à grande échelle par des gens qui, je le soupçonne, la connaissent moins bien que moi. C'est ce qu'on pourrait appeler le syndrome du t-shirt des Ramones. Source : Pop-en-stock

Dave Lucas : OWS NYC Occupation Terminated

2012-03-18T15:44:04Z

Dave Lucas: #OWS NYC Occupation Terminated
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.fr/2012/03/ows-nyc-occupation-terminated.html

According to media reports, the Occupy Wall Street movement's six-month anniversary celebration on Saturday was truncated by police arresting dozens of protesters at its focal point, Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan.

The People's Skype

2012-02-21T21:08:04Z

The People's Skype
http://www.peoplesskype.org

A phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement

http://vimeo.com/33392928

#vote #voix #cccp #téléphonie

The Movement To Teach The Economy What It Is Doing | Disinformation

2012-02-15T23:04:20Z

The Movement To Teach The Economy What It Is Doing | Disinformation
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/the-movement-to-teach-the-economy-what-it-is-doing

In an essay penned over a decade ago titled “In Distrust of Movements”, farmer, author, and critic Wendell Berry beautifully summed up the nature of and need for an Occupy movement. Via the irrisistible fleet of bicycles:
One way we could describe the task ahead of us is by saying that we need to enlarge the consciousness and the conscience of the economy. Our economy needs to know — and care — what it is doing. This is revolutionary, of course, if you have a taste for revolution, but it is also a matter of common sense.
People in movements…often become too specialized, as if finally they cannot help taking refuge in the pinhole vision of the institutional intellectuals. They almost always fail to be radical enough, dealing finally in effects rather than causes. Or they deal with single issues or single solutions, as if to assure themselves that they will not be radical enough.
And so I must declare my dissatisfaction with movements to promote soil conservation or clean water or clean air or wilderness preservation or sustainable agriculture or community health or the welfare of children. Worthy as these and other goals may be, they cannot be achieved alone. I am dissatisfied with such efforts because they are too specialized, they are not comprehensive enough, they are not radical enough, they virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can remedy or control effects while leaving causes in place.

Mais qu'est ce qu'ils lui trouvent donc à ce Ron Paul ? (Des bassines et du zèle)

2012-02-14T08:23:07Z

Mais qu'est ce qu'ils lui trouvent donc à ce Ron Paul ? (Des bassines et du zèle)
http://blog.emceebeulogue.fr/post/2012/02/14/Mais-qu-est-ce-qu-ils-lui-trouvent-donc-%C3%A0-ce-Ron-Paul

Aux Etats-Unis, certains militants de gauche, ainsi que des membres du mouvement Occupy, séduits par certaines de ses théories, soutiennent la candidature de Ron Paul. Source : Des bassines et du zèle

Protesters urged to occupy Chicago during G8 and Nato summits | World news | guardian.co.uk

2012-01-27T18:58:28Z

Protesters urged to occupy Chicago during G8 and Nato summits | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/protesters-urged-occupy-chicago-g8-nato

Chicago is unique in the Occupy movement for not ever setting up a permanent occupation.

#ows

le mouvement occupy vire à la parano ou la vérité est ailleurs , si ce qui est affirmé dans ce…

2012-01-21T16:53:16Z

le mouvement occupy vire à la parano ou la vérité est ailleurs , si ce qui est affirmé dans ce texte est vrai c'est grave. Se reporter aux liens précédents du gardian sur l'infiltration de la police parmi les activistes fort possible.

As reported earlier, social media going by the name of OLAASM (Occupy Los Angeles Anti Social Media) and BlackBlocMedia have invaded Occupy LA in order to cause rifts between people and to try to cause the end of the Occupy Los Angeles group. OLAASM and BlackBlocMedia are part of a larger psy-ops campaign against the Occupy movement that was launched nationally a couple weeks ago. This post is about OLAASM. OLAASM has a twitter, a Facebook, and a tumblr (website). Since last writing, I have found out a lot more. OLAASM is run by several people – among them are angry young, inexperienced newbie protesters. Also among them are undercover FBI /DHS trying to catch or draw in those angry protesters. By now, quite a few people know who is who.
http://occupylosangeles.org/?q=node/4285
The INTERESTING thing is that FBI/DHS undercover agents behave almost exactly like actual terrorism planners — so if you avoid anyone that acts like this, you are avoiding both. Both undercover operatives and people actually planning bombings or attacks try to draw you in using the same techniques — which I explain below, but which you can also read about on many place on the internets.
The techniques being used by OLAASM are typical Psy-Ops, or psychological operations. Psychological operations are often used by undercover law enforcement agents infiltrating protest groups. The marks in OLA — the people being drawn in as “insiders,” are supposed to view themselves as special, in on something big, and against the other lame, more mainstream people. These “lame” people are being harassed on twitter and tumblr.
Several people from OLA have told me that they now fear for their lives and safety because of this OLAASM group.
I personally was harassed on the OLAASM twitter after I wrote my first blog exposing them. If you do not know me, I am a lawyer who helped OLA with legal information before the camp began. Since then, I have helped with many things for OLA, including getting major news coverage for a recent arrest/ overcharging situation. I have also called attention to the trademarking situation and have worked with several of the OLA Legal team members, whose hands have been tied by obstructionists.

Eye blog » Higher ground. Occupy_Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change.

2012-01-21T03:08:31Z

Eye blog » Higher ground. #Occupy_Design is an opportunity to change #design, and design for change.
http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=10577

We are all now familiar with the slogans of the movement such as ‘We Are the 99%', and despite attempts to discredit the Occupy movement, it has been successful in pushing to the top of the news agenda the failure of the banking system, exposing the corruption, inequality and the hollowing out of our democracies that this has engendered.
But this year will be of crucial importance to the movement. Can it move beyond the various physical occupations to connect with and expand into society at large?
One initiative of interest to designers is the forthcoming launch of Occupy Design in London which is an attempt to both help the Occupy movement by Design and change the design world through Occupy.

Alan Moore inspired by Occupy activists he helped inspire (video) | Death and Taxes

2012-01-17T00:13:16Z

Alan Moore inspired by Occupy activists he helped inspire (video) | Death and Taxes
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/174228/alan-moore-inspired-by-occupy-activists-he-helped-inspire-video

As the movement's grown, and that mask, based on the likeness of famed revolutionary and Gunpowder Plot planner Fawkes, has become more recognizable, Britain's Channel 4 and Moore took a trip to the epicenter of London's Occupy movement to chat with the protesters.
A self-proclaimed anarchist, Moore's said he's “amazed and touced” by how his work has influenced the ongoing uprising.
“I think this is the best-organized and most forward-thinking protest that I have ever had [the] experience of,” he said.

99% of what ? » Freedom Press - The Home of Freedom Books and Freedom Newspaper

2012-01-16T13:34:57Z

99% of what? » Freedom Press - The Home of Freedom Books and Freedom Newspaper
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2012/01/16/99-of-what

The wave of occupations that has rolled around the world from Madison, Wisconsin to Tahrir Square in Cairo, from the Spanish M15 movement and onward via Occupy Wall Street has been deeply inspiring to us, and deeply challenging to the system we live under. While it is reaction to a global, though particularly western, economic crisis we must give credit to all those camping out for their commitment, for instigating the debate as to where we can and want to go, and for breaking the deadening political stagnation of recent years.
So to make a critique of the Occupy movement at this moment, seems at first absurd. To think five years ago that city centres across the globe would be occupied by hundreds of thousands of people, would have been laughed off. Yet they are. And it is a fantastic. It has created a space where capitalism, democracy and revolution are being openly discussed like never before. But that debate also needs to look at the Occupy movement itself and the fundamental problem with the concept of the 1% versus the 99%.
Anti-capitalist vs anti-banker
As someone who has been politically active on the libertarian left since the late 1970s, there is something in the rhetoric of this 99% movement that I and many of my generation find disturbing. We were, and are, anti-capitalists and revolutionaries but this new movement is neither anti-capitalist or even just reformist, but explicitly concerned with elites. Exemplifying this, the banner at Occupy London stating “Capitalism is Crisis” was removed after much debate and replaced with “What would Jesus do?”

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And that is what needs restating; the 1% are out of control not because they are a conspiracy but because that is how capitalism works! And people only notice when the trickle down stops trickling! There is no pure capitalism without finance capitalism, but finance capital does not control capitalism. It is still production that is the key, because that is where ‘surplus value' (profits) are extracted by paying people less than they produce. And in the West that mode of production is in crisis.
Enter the conspiracy
But the other very dangerous problem that comes for the 1% idea is how it leads very easily and smoothly into the idea that we are dealing with an out of control elite which operates through conspiracies. And indeed we see this all over the camps, and online, where the crazies of Zeitgeist, David Icke, and other random conspiracy theorists, often go unchallenged [2]
And from the idea of conspiratorial elites it is a stones throw to anti-Semitism i.e. anti-Jewish. It is suggested that Jews have historically controlled all the worlds' finances/banks and that therefore it is their actions that are behind the crisis. This anti-Jewish bullshit is never usually overt though, the right-wing scum who push this have words and phrases they couch their lies in, but it is there. [3]
Another classic device these racists/fascists use is the deliberate confusion of a very real Zionism, the brutal nationalist and expansionist project of the Israeli ruling class, aided by the US, with a mythical Zionism that runs the world. [4] And sooner rather than later this bullshit manifests itself in reality. At the beginning of November a young Jewish woman was told to fuck off at Occupy Finsbury Square (London) as she, it was suggested, was part of the problem.

Right-wing documentary targets Occupy - Salon.com

2012-01-13T17:22:05Z

Right-wing documentary targets Occupy - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/right_wing_lens_for_occupy_documentary/singleton

Citizens United, which specializes in making documentaries with strong right-wing messages, is currently in production for a film about the Occupy movement, a spokesman for the group confirms to Salon.
The landmark 2010 Supreme Court case that loosened campaign finance restrictions was brought by Citizens United and centered on an anti-Hillary Clinton movie made by the group. Opposition to that ruling has been a consistent message of participants in Occupy movement.

Occupy Wall Street's lasting effect : rich vs. poor increasingly tense issue ❝Here's one sign that…

2012-01-12T19:21:49Z

Occupy Wall Street's lasting effect: rich vs. poor increasingly tense issue

Here's one sign that the Occupy Wall Street movement might be having a lasting effect on the American public:
Americans believe that the greatest source of tension in the U.S. is now the conflict between the rich and poor, taking the top spot from immigration issues, a new Pew survey is reporting.
Two-thirds of respondents surveyed last month think there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the wealthy and the poor in the country. That's an increase of 19 percentage points from those who answered the same question two years ago.
The New York Times spoke to Richard Morin, a senior editor at Pew Social & Demographic Trends, where the survey was conducted, who offered two apt pull quotes: “income inequality is no longer just for economists” and “it has moved off the business pages into the front page.”

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/12/occupy_wall_street_s_lasting_effect_rich_vs_poor_increasingly_tense_i

pas trop tôt !

Occupy Religion : Don't Let Religion Occupy You | NEWS JUNKIE POST ❝Religion, and religious…

2012-01-03T11:04:16Z

Occupy Religion : Don't Let Religion Occupy You | NEWS JUNKIE POST

Religion, and religious institutions, are not only granted undeserved credit for their role in social movements, but are also not afforded the responsibility they deserve for the damage they inflict to the movements they infect, and the communities represented by those movements. Christians are all too ready to yell about the involvement of Islamic organizations in the Arab Spring, yet, as Occupy Churches spring up in American tent cities, and Occupy Faith groups begin to flourish, they turn a blind eye to the history of hierarchy, misogyny, and homophobia that has plagued revolutionary communities from the early European protestants, to the nationalist Irish under British rule, and the African-American community civil rights movement.
Religions are, by their nature, hierarchical. They worship a godhead and follow the rules ordained purportedly by that godhead. They do not arrive at decisions through consensus. They cannot. They must obey the rules and dictates of the godhead, and, at most, allow that a select group of god experts interpret those rules and dictates. Believers, adherents, and followers, do not have a say in what the teachings of the godhead are. The Occupy Movement is not only leaderless, but, by extension of that, be ‘followerless' as well.
If any think that the Democratic Party, or MoveOn.org, or large corporate/political/bureaucratic unions are the biggest threats of co-option, they are completely missing what is being allowed to happen right under their nose.

http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/OccupyPriestPhone.jpg
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2012/01/01/occupy-religion-dont-let-religion-occupy-you

Chomsky to Occupy : come back bigger, better, and with much more of the 99% | The Future of Occupy

2011-12-31T21:50:34Z

Chomsky to Occupy : come back bigger, better, and with much more of the 99% | The Future of Occupy
http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2011/12/30/chomsky-to-occupy-come-back-bigger-better-and-with-much-more-of-t

Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it's time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.

#ows

Press Action :: : Anarchist Nation ❝Thanks to the involvement of anarchists in the Occupy movement,…

2011-12-25T13:55:25Z

Press Action :: : Anarchist Nation

Thanks to the involvement of anarchists in the Occupy movement, anarchism is generating increased attention from the mainstream news media. Most of the press reports, however, have been negative — with some exceptions. The stories on anarchist David Graeber, for example, have been relatively even-handed.
Generally, the mainstream media has thrown around the words “anarchy” and “anarchists” without the slightest hint of insight into the theory and practice of anarchism. Members of the mainstream media aren't the only ones guilty of peddling unfounded stories about anarchism. Occupiers themselves, many of whom are unfamiliar with the tradition of anarchism, have attacked anarchists, blaming them for sabotaging or hijacking the Occupy
movement. How ironic is this, given that the global Occupy movement adopted the anarchist critique of hierarchy and domination.

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In his Dec. 19 piece in The Nation titled “Thank You, Anarchists,” Nathan Schneider does a decent job describing the role played by anarchists in the Occupy movement. He explains how anarchists and other autonomists “try to build a culture in which people can take care of themselves and each other through healthy, sustainable communities.”

Anarchists, however, do not want to make the system more “honest.” To anarchists, “the system” is the problem, and it's a problem that anarchists believe should be addressed as soon as possible.
Anarchists recognize the incredible damage caused by a grow-or-die economic system and its associated top-down political system. And eco-minded anarchists realize time is growing short to stop the system from killing the entire planet.

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/thenation12232011

The Year in Pictures : Part I (The Big Picture)

2011-12-20T14:13:51Z

The Year in Pictures : Part I (The Big Picture)
►http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/the_year_in_pictures_part.html

Any “best of” list must surely be subjective. This one is no different. Choosing the best photographs of the year is an enormously difficult task, with many terrific photographs slipping through the cracks. But with major news events as a guide, and with single images I fell in love with throughout the year forcing their way into the edit, I look at my favorite pictures from the first four months of the year. Two main stories dominated headlines in the first part of the year: the Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the rising of the Arab Spring. The protests in the Middle East would spread to Greece, Spain, and eventually inspire the Occupy movement in Western nations. Other stories included a historic wave of tornados in the U.S., a Royal wedding in London, and the creation of the world's newest nation in South Sudan. Images from the rest of the year will follow in posts later this week. (...) Source: The Big Picture

Inside Occupy Wall Street's (Kinda) Secret Media HQ | Threat Level | Wired.com

2011-12-12T16:20:22Z

Inside Occupy Wall Street's (Kinda) Secret Media HQ | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/inside-ows-media-hq/?pid=191

The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York's Bowery district have their way, it will be livestreamed.
Police seizures at occupations, as at the flagship camp in New York City on Tuesday, not to mention rain, cold and theft, are horrible for expensive media gear, as Occupy Wall Street found after setting up an ad hoc media operation in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in September.
So Occupy Wall Street decided the best way to keep livestreams of the protests online was to move much of the gear to a safer location somewhere indoors.

occupy resistance crise

2011-12-09T23:15:24Z

#occupy #resistance #crise

http://bjsonline.org/2011/12/understanding-the-occupy-movement-perspectives-from-the-social-sciences

Berkeley Journal of Sociology
Understanding the Occupy Movement: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
This forum is designed to bring together essays, critical commentary, and eventually research of social scientists on the Occupy Movement. As analyses and “spin” of Occupations grow, we confront the sort of public issue to which a social science response is urgently needed. Accordingly, the BJS has organized this forum addressing the underlying social, political, and economic issues surrounding Occupy and its broader implications.

Une impressionnante série de liens pour mieux comprendre le mouvement « occupy »

Occupy London's anger over police 'terrorism' document | UK news | guardian.co.uk Occupy London's…

2011-12-08T16:36:09Z

Occupy London's anger over police 'terrorism' document | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Occupy London's anger over police 'terrorism' document

A notice sent out to businesses in the City of London has listed the protest movement among groups such as al-Qaida and Farc

Occupy London activists are angered at a police document that lists them with terrorist organisations. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Police have angered Occupy London activists after listing the movement among terrorist groups in an advisory notice sent to the business community in the City.

The document issued by City of London police, headed “Terrorism/extremism update for the City of London business community”, included a detailed account of recent and upcoming Occupy London activities and was sent to “trusted partners” in the area.❞
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/05/occupy-london-police-terrorism-document?fb=optOut

Comics Beef : Frank Miller, Alan Moore Duke It Out Over Occupy Wall Street — Vulture ❝Two legendary…

2011-12-05T19:17:50Z

Comics Beef : Frank Miller, Alan Moore Duke It Out Over Occupy Wall Street — Vulture

Two legendary graphic novelists — Frank Miller, creator of The Dark Knight Returns and hard-boiled Sin City, and Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen and V for Vendetta — are finding themselves on opposite sides of a pretty gaping ideological divide regarding Occupy Wall Street and are expending a good amount of vitriol on the subject online. Frank Miller, trending evermore militantly to the hard right since 9/11, started the spat off with a post to his blog on November 7, a choice excerpt of which follows below.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/frank-miller-alan-moore-duke-it-out-over-ows.html

Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray ? (Wired Science)

2011-11-27T18:14:31Z

Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray ? (Wired Science)
►http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/pepper-spray-psychology/?intcid=story_ribbon

When pepper spray became a mainstream law enforcement tool in the 1990s, it was hailed as a relatively peaceful alternative to harsh physical violence. But as demonstrated by the routine spraying of Occupy Wall Street activists, culminating in the horrific assault at the University of California, Davis, pepper spray can too easily become a tool of first and excessive resort. (...) Source: Wired Science

Shift Magazine » Features » Occupied with conspiracies ? The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism,…

2011-11-26T21:03:57Z

Shift Magazine » Features » Occupied with conspiracies? The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism, and the Conspiracy Theorists
http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=512

All progressive social movements have dark sides, but some are more prone to them than others. Occupy Wall Street and its spin-offs, with their populist, anti-elitist discourse (“We Are the 99%”) and focus on finance capital, have already attracted all kinds of unsavory friends: antisemites, David Duke and White Nationalists, Oath Keepers, Tea Partiers, and followers of David Icke, Lyndon Larouche, and the Zeitgeist movement (see glossary below).

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On one hand, this can be seem as a vague kind of socialism which counterposes the everyday worker against the truly rich. But it also lacks any kind of specific analysis of class or other social differences—the 99% are treated as one homogenous body. Usually the “people” are seen as the “nation,” and these 1% elites are perceived to be acting against the nation's interests. From a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint, this narrative may be wrong and “incomplete,” but by itself is not dangerous. In fact, many progressive and even socialist political movements have been based on it.
But the populist narrative is also an integral part of the political views of conspiracy theorists, far Right activists, and antisemites. For antisemites, the elites are the Jews; for David Icke, the elites are the reptilians; for nationalists, they are members of minority ethnic, racial, or religious groups; for others, they are the “globalists,” the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, the Federal Reserve, etc. All of these various conspiracy theories also tend to blend in and borrow from each other. Additionally, the focus on “Wall Street” also has specific appeal to those who see the elite as represented by finance capital, a particular obsession of the antisemites, Larouchites, followers of David Icke, etc. “The Rothschilds” are the favorite stand-in codeword of choice to refer to the supposed Jewish control of the banking system.
Much has already been said about the Occupy movement's refusal to elucidate its demands. On one hand, this has been useful in mobilizing a diverse group of people who can project what they want to see in this movement—anarchists, Marxists, liberals, Greens, progressive religious practitioners, etc. On the other hand, this has been useful in mobilizing a diverse group of people who can project what they want to see in this movement—Ron Paulists, libertarians, antisemites, followers of David Icke, Zeitgeist movement folks, Larouchites, Tea Partiers, White Nationalists, and others. The discourse about the “99%” (after all, these Right-wingers and conspiracy mongers are probably a far greater proportion of the actual 99% than are anarchists and Marxists), along with the Occupy movement's refusal to set itself on a firm political footing and correspondingly to place limitations on involvement by certain political actors, has created a welcoming situation for these noxious political elements to join.

Les indignés français n'ont pas le monopole de l'infiltration par des conspis zarbs OCCUPY KANSAS…

2011-11-25T19:54:55Z

Les indignés français n'ont pas le monopole de l'infiltration par des conspis zarbs

OCCUPY KANSAS CITY DEBATES THE 'PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION'

To underscore a fact, there has been a lot of news surrounding the Occupy Movement that in the week we have not been dealing with it, we need to get to. So it pretty much sucks that as we are trying to get back up to speed with everything, this comes up. When we began our coverage of the Occupy actions, one of the first was in response to Occupy Kansas City possibly giving a pass to racist and anti-Semitic scumbags who might want to be a part of the Occupation. It seems like much of the problem stems from the group's Facebook page where a few boneheads have decided to promote their racist crap to those group members. The thing about it it page administrators are not cutting them off. This is pissing off the people at Kansas City-based blog SCISSION, who is tired of having to sound this alarm. We are too, but sound it we must. Because that's the kind of crap that advances the 1% and you are not helping anyone if you keep ignoring it. Let's make this clear: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, and fascism are NOT “political disagreements”. It is all flat out unacceptable. Occupy Kansas City, you have to get on top of this.
SCISSON
I didn't think I would have to do this again. I really thought and have said that Occupy Kansas City (OKC) has dealt with the Jew haters in its midst. Unfortunately, I wasn't totally correct.
Recently I have tried to remain away from OKC facebook discussions because they have come to border on the absurd. Talk of conspiracy theories abound, for example. People arguing about where the money went and whether or not unions are a good thing.
Unfortunately, this AM I ran into a lengthy debate about David Ickes. Confession, I had never heard of the guy. I googled and discovered he is just one more out there conspiracy guy who seems to think something about reptile people, and maybe, maybe not Jews are doing something to us or whatever. In any event, he is just another charlatan of that type. I did note, however, that he often sites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a source for some of his nonsense, but he does say he has nothing against Jews.
It is bad enough that what passes for political debate in OKC is which theory conspiracy is okay and which isn't. As if...

I have no idea how prevalent such “debates” take place anywhere else in Occupy, but they should have been left behind a long time ago. They tarnish the entire Occupy campaign. It's a shame.

http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=909:occupy-kansas-ci

Black Friday : Don't Buy War and Corporate Greed ! | PINKtank

2011-11-23T21:52:47Z

Black Friday: Don't Buy War and Corporate Greed! | PINKtank
http://codepink.org/blog/2011/11/black-friday-dont-buy-war-and-corporate-greed

This Friday, November 25th, will be the annual American shopping spree, otherwise known as Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day. Nov. 25 is also the next national day of action for the Occupy Movement. Read this great piece on Grist about Occupy Black Friday. Here are some resources to hit the streets and make an impact with your local Occupy:

Sex, Class, and Occupy Wall Street « Sasha Said

2011-11-22T12:18:56Z

Sex, Class, and Occupy Wall Street « Sasha Said
http://sashasaid.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/sex-class-and-occupy-wall-street

Which brings me to my first issue with Occupy Wall Street. Who exactly are “the rest of us”? From a branding perspective, the 99% versus the 1% is very appealing. But is it accurate? Clearly not. If your household income is half a million a year, I'd say the system has been working very well for you. You may even be part of the problem if you outsource jobs or pay workers less than a living wage. But you're still part of the 99%.

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At the same time, “the 99%” has become synonymous with the downtrodden, debt-ridden, and dispossessed.

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No, actually, if you have a low six-figure income, you are the 99%. In fact, if your household income totals $190,000, it could triple and you would still be part of the 99%.
So. Not very useful, is it? The bottom 90%, on the other hand, have an average household income of $31,244, which is probably more like what people have in mind when discussing the economic difficulties experienced by “the 99%.”

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Okay, so maybe the focus is on the top 1% because they've been gobbling up a disproportionate share of income and productivity gains and wield a toxic amount of political influence. But then, why stop at the 1% mark (average annual income $1,137,684)? The top 0.1% (average annual income $3,238,386) are even more culpable and the top 0.01% (average annual income $27,342,212) are the most culpable of all.

Cette notion des 99 % est flou mon sentiment aussi... Juste une opposition sémantique au 1 % ( les capitalistes, pour ne pas les nommer).

Ultimately the 99% is more about branding than reality. Which, I suppose, is okay, as long as we don't forget that there are HUGE differences among the 99% and that we are NOT all in the same boat

une marque en réalité :

Jay-Z, jugé trop vénal, remballe son tee-shirt « Occupy all Streets »
►http://next.liberation.fr/musique/01012371480-jay-z-juge-trop-venal-remballe-son-t-shirt-occupy-all-st

As for the much-discussed demographics of the Occupy movement, it shouldn't surprise anyone that white dudes with middle class upbringings are disproportionately represented among the “full-time” occupiers. With the exception of those currently unemployed, the working poor are typically too busy working two or three jobs to keep a roof over their head to occupy stuff. If we don't show up for work, we don't get paid, and if we don't get paid, we can't make the rent. The Occupy movement doesn't just protest the economic realities in this country, it also reflects them.

sexiste, reflet de la société sans doute, mais dans un texte précédent, j'ai noté la difficulté de l'intégration des noirs dans le mouvement occupy :

Racial Fractures and the Occupy Movement | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

http://seenthis.net/messages/42354

Earlier this month, organizers took heat for refusing to allow state representative and civil rights legend John Lewis to address the crowd.

Frustrations refoulées malgré l'espoir qu'il semble représenté pour beaucoup, Occupy mouvement te laisse comme un arrière gout de vieux chewing- gum au fond de la gorge.

99% v 1% : the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation | World news | guardian.co.uk

2011-11-21T06:59:19Z

99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation?fb=native

It has been the rallying cry of the #Occupy_movement for the past two months - but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This animation explains what the key data says about the state of America today

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/nov/16/occupy-protests-data-video

Is it really 99% v 1%? It has become the rallying cry of the Occupy Wall Street movement - and the Occupy protests around the world. But is it true?
This is the data behind this animation, produced by Guardian interactive designer Mariana Santos. And that data does show some people have done better out of America's economic booms of the last 20 years than others - as this report from the Congressional Budget Office shows too.

#inégalité #cartographie

Racial Fractures and the Occupy Movement | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

2011-11-19T16:08:43Z

Racial Fractures and the Occupy Movement | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
http://www.racialicious.com/2011/11/16/racial-fractures-and-the-occupy-movement

Much has already been said about race and the Occupy movement. Some have criticized the movement for its perceived lack of diversity and aggressive “whiteness.” Earlier this month, organizers took heat for refusing to allow state representative and civil rights legend John Lewis to address the crowd. A protester at Occupy Philly claimed volunteers called her a “nigger” while she waited to use a communal cell phone charging station. She responded to the incident by forming her own coalition within Occupy Philly: The People of Color Committee.

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As we all know, racism exists, even within well meaning progressive movements. It exists as a kind of pathological denial of the privilege in which white progressive activists are actively rooted. Ignoring complex issues of race and privilege in the Occupy movement will only suggest that it actually is steeped in the kind of racial intolerance of which it has been accused.

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That being said, some Occupy movements are more racially inclusive than others. Many seem to have openly embraced the sometimes-thorny intersections of race and class that tend to pop up during discussions of economic injustice. In Albuquerque, occupiers renamed their movement “UnOccupy Albuquerque” out of respect to the Native American community's distaste for the word “occupy.” In LA, protesters reached out to black and Latino homeowners who were facing foreclosure. In Atlanta, Occupiers renamed their occupation site Troy Davis Park.

Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis - Boing Boing

2011-11-19T14:51:39Z

Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis - Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/18/police-pepper-spraying-arrest.html

At the University of California at Davis this afternoon, police tore down down the tents of students inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, and arrested those who stood in their way. Others peacefully demanded that police release the arrested.

http://youtu.be/WmJmmnMkuEM

Police Brutality 84-Year-Old Woman And Pregnent Teen Pepper Sprayed in Seattle

2011-11-16T22:07:28Z

Police Brutality 84-Year-Old Woman And Pregnent Teen Pepper Sprayed in Seattle
http://www.policebrutality.info/2011/11/84-year-old-woman-and-pregnent-teen-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle.html

A Seattle rally support of the Occupy Wall Street movement gone violent when police attacked a crowd of rowdy protesters — including a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old lady — with blasts of pepper spray in their faces.
Protest organizers denounced the use of force, saying that police indiscriminately sprayed the chemical irritant at peaceful protesters.

http://www.policebrutality.info/content/uploads/2011/11/occupy-paper-spray-older-woman.jpg

Demystifying Anarchism at Occupy Oakland - Infoshop News

2011-11-14T21:17:04Z

Demystifying Anarchism at Occupy #Oakland - Infoshop News
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20111112231

After the events of November 2nd and 3rd we have seen the government, the corporate media, and even some of our comrades within the Occupy Oakland camp make “anarchists” the scapegoats for actions they disagree with, and we've heard that “anarchists” take advantage of the Occupy movement without “being a part of it.” However, many essential aspects of the Occupy movement are based on anarchist principles and build upon years of anarchist organizing. To clear up any confusion, we, various individuals who participate in the anarchist community, offer this explanation of anarchist principles to prevent confusion and ignorance from defining us and dividing the solidarity of our Occupy Oakland camp.
Demystifying Anarchism at Occupy Oakland

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From a philosophy of freedom and equality, almost all anarchists extend the analysis against government authority to reject oppression, exploitation or any situation where some people hold established power over others. As such, anarchists stand against economic forms of domination like capitalism, private property, and any system that places profits over people. It follows that anarchists oppose interpersonal oppressions such as racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia. In accordance with these values, anarchists strive to build personal relationships free of domination. Thus, anarchists emphasize self-governance, organize without leaders, and embrace a diversity of opinions and actions.

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The word “anarchy” is often misused in the place of “violence”, “chaos” or “disorder” by both the ignorant and those interested in distorting the truth. Historically, social ideas like anarchism have inspired people to action of many types, from tactics such as property damage, to strategies like self-education and even armed revolutionary self-defense. However, violence is not part of the definition of what it is to be an anarchist, and it is important to be able to separate the two.
The flip side of this flyer illustrates how many anarchist principles are put into action throughout Occupy Oakland. For more info, we suggest you do your own research. Searching anarchism on wikipedia might be a good starting point, it contains many useful links. We also encourage conversation with various folks who identify as anarchists at the occupation and elsewhere.

Military Veterans Join the 99% on Wall Street | OccupyWallSt.org

2011-11-01T21:25:35Z

Military Veterans Join the 99% on Wall Street | OccupyWallSt.org
http://occupywallst.org/article/military-veterans-join-99-wall-street
http://i.imgur.com/Gj5Ev.jpg

Military veterans will walk in uniform to join the Occupy Wall Street protests this Wednesday (Nov. 2nd). As the 99% movement spreads across the United States, the presence of veterans at rallies, marches, and occupations is becoming increasingly visible. Veterans who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and even World War II have participated in the movement, speaking out for the 99%, and raising the movement's visibility in the process. Most recently, the unconscionable treatment of Marine veteran Scott Olsen in Oakland has drawn national attention to veterans' participation in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Noam Chomsky's talk at the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square on Oct. 22. He spoke as part…

2011-11-01T17:16:52Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lab3eoRcrXo

Noam Chomsky's talk at the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square on Oct. 22. He spoke as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series held by Occupy Boston's on-site Free University. Zinn was a historian, activist and author of « A People's History of the United States. »)

You can't achieve significant initiatives without a large, active, popular base. It's necessary to get out into the country and help people understand what the Occupy movement is about, what they themselves can do, and what the consequences are of not doing anything.

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... Delivering a Howard Zinn lecture is a bittersweet experience for me. I regret that he's not here to take part in and invigorate a movement that would have been the dream of his life. Indeed, he laid a lot of the groundwork for it...
« The world is dividing into two blocs, the plutonomy and the rest, » Citigroup summarized. « The U.S., U.K. and Canada are the key plutonomies, economies powered by the wealthy. »
As for the non-rich, they're sometimes called the precariat, people who live a precarious existence at the periphery of society. The « periphery » however, has become a substantial proportion of the population in the U.S. and elsewhere.

So we have the plutonomy and the precariat: the 1 percent and the 99 percent, as Occupy sees it, not literal numbers, but the right picture....
For the first time in human history, there are real threats to the survival of the human species. Since 1945 we have had nuclear weapons, and it seems a miracle we have survived them. But policies of the Obama administration and its allies are encouraging escalation....
Something must be done in a disciplined, sustained way, and soon. It won't be easy to proceed. There will be hardships and failures, it's inevitable. But unless the process that's taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world continues to grow and becomes a major force in society and politics, the chances for a decent future are bleak.
You can't achieve significant initiatives without a large, active, popular base. It's necessary to get out into the country and help people understand what the Occupy movement is about, what they themselves can do, and what the consequences are of not doing anything.

Organizing such a base involves education and activism. Education doesn't mean telling people what to believe, it means learning from them and with them.
Karl Marx said : « The task is not just to understand the world but to change it ». A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you'd better try to understand it. That doesn't mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that's helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you're trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.
The most exciting aspect of the Occupy movement is the construction of the linkages that are taking place all over. If they can be sustained and expanded, Occupy can lead to dedicated efforts to set society on a more humane course...

http://assr38.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/ows-occupy-the-future-by-noam-chomsky

Organization:OC - Seenthis

via oAnth at D* :

As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester - NYTimes.com

Making Worlds

Revealed : how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free |…

Danish Bank Uses Occupy Imagery in Advertising Campaign : New Normal | Occupy Washington, DC ❝_For…

*Installations, videos and projects in public space by Oliver Ressler* Je profite d'un message…

Commentary on the struggle for Freedom I'm a soldier (largely online) helping in the international…

Le diacétyle et les saveurs artificielles dans les produits alimentaires - IRSST

Aux sources iconographiques de l'hacktivisme contemporain | Samuel Archibald (Pop-en-stock)

Dave Lucas : OWS NYC Occupation Terminated

The People's Skype

The Movement To Teach The Economy What It Is Doing | Disinformation

Mais qu'est ce qu'ils lui trouvent donc à ce Ron Paul ? (Des bassines et du zèle)

Protesters urged to occupy Chicago during G8 and Nato summits | World news | guardian.co.uk

le mouvement occupy vire à la parano ou la vérité est ailleurs , si ce qui est affirmé dans ce…

Eye blog » Higher ground. Occupy_Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change.

Alan Moore inspired by Occupy activists he helped inspire (video) | Death and Taxes

99% of what ? » Freedom Press - The Home of Freedom Books and Freedom Newspaper

Right-wing documentary targets Occupy - Salon.com

Occupy Wall Street's lasting effect : rich vs. poor increasingly tense issue ❝Here's one sign that…

Occupy Religion : Don't Let Religion Occupy You | NEWS JUNKIE POST ❝Religion, and religious…

Chomsky to Occupy : come back bigger, better, and with much more of the 99% | The Future of Occupy

Press Action :: : Anarchist Nation ❝Thanks to the involvement of anarchists in the Occupy movement,…

The Year in Pictures : Part I (The Big Picture)

Inside Occupy Wall Street's (Kinda) Secret Media HQ | Threat Level | Wired.com

occupy resistance crise

Occupy London's anger over police 'terrorism' document | UK news | guardian.co.uk Occupy London's…

Comics Beef : Frank Miller, Alan Moore Duke It Out Over Occupy Wall Street — Vulture ❝Two legendary…

Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray ? (Wired Science)

Shift Magazine » Features » Occupied with conspiracies ? The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism,…

Les indignés français n'ont pas le monopole de l'infiltration par des conspis zarbs OCCUPY KANSAS…

Black Friday : Don't Buy War and Corporate Greed ! | PINKtank

Sex, Class, and Occupy Wall Street « Sasha Said

99% v 1% : the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation | World news | guardian.co.uk

Racial Fractures and the Occupy Movement | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis - Boing Boing

Police Brutality 84-Year-Old Woman And Pregnent Teen Pepper Sprayed in Seattle

Demystifying Anarchism at Occupy Oakland - Infoshop News

Military Veterans Join the 99% on Wall Street | OccupyWallSt.org

Noam Chomsky's talk at the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square on Oct. 22. He spoke as part…

Installations, videos and projects in public space by Oliver Ressler Je profite d'un message…