March 2013
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WatchMerav Michaeli’s inaugural speech to Knesset.
Michaeli is an Israeli journalist, TV anchor, radio broadcaster, activist, feminist and newly elected Member of Knesset. Born in Petah Tikva, she is the granddaughter of Rudolf Kastner, who facilitated the departure of Jews out of Nazi-occupied Hungary during World War II and the Holocaust.
WatchWealth inequality in America. If you are not a numbers person, then the infographics in this video may help you wrap your mind around the wealth distribution in the US.
November 2012
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MAP: You Won't Believe What These States Did Last... →
They legalized what for the who now!
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#Blankets4Brooklyn says THANK YOU on Day 3!
The following post is the e-mail that my girlfriend Rachel sent out last night thanking those who helped us and our friends help so many people around New York City for a third day in a row:
Dearest Friends, Friends of Friends, Parents of Friends, Friends of Parents (and, therefore, me!), Utter and Complete Stranger(angels), and Makers-of-Dreams-Come-True,
The sun has set on Day 3 of...
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#Blankets4Brooklyn says THANK YOU on Day 2!
The following post is the e-mail that my girlfriend sent out last night thanking those who helped us and our friends help so many people around New York City for a second day in a row yesterday:
Dearest Friends, Friends of Friends, Parents of Friends, Friends of Parents (and, therefore, me!), Rabbis of Wonderful Fundraising-Religious-School-Students, Utter and Complete Stranger[angels], and...
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#Blankets4Brooklyn Says THANK YOU!
The following post is the e-mail that my girlfriend sent out last night thanking those who helped us help so many people around New York City yesterday:
Dearest Family, Friends, Strangerfriends, Colleagues, Congregants, BEAUTIFUL people and makers-of-dreams-come-true –
It is 10:50pm (or, it was when I started writing you this email).
I can barely feel my feet. I’m pretty sure I have...
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Holding the NYC Marathon will harm recovery, not...
Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
I think most of how you have prepared for and responded to this hurricane has been good. But I wish you had asked me about whether or not to hold the marathon this weekend. I would have told you that it is a monumentally bad idea.
I know why you want to hold the marathon. You want things to get back to normal as quickly as possible. You want to get the revenue for the city...
October 2012
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September 2012
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Transformative Organizing in Park Slope: my piece...
Over the last five months a remarkable, powerful, and transformative process has been unfolding in living rooms in Park Slope. A group of employers of domestic workers has been meeting to draft a neighborhood-wide “Park Slope Domestic Employers Commitment Statement” that covers both the legal requirements as well as the ethical and professional standards of being an employer. This group, a brain...
WatchVoter ID laws are bull shit. And if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll listen to Sarah Silverman.
July 2012
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March 2012
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“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a...”
– Adrienne Rich
In her letter to President Clinton refusing the National Medal for the Arts, 1997
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How Dispossession Happens - The takeover of... →
A brief introduction to the March 2012 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): In recent years, Israeli settler activity in the West Bank has significantly impaired Palestinian access to, and use of, a growing number of water springs. Springs are the single largest source of water for irrigation in the West Bank and an important coping mechanism for communities...
January 2012
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you...”
– E.E. Cummings
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WatchB’Tselem is the preeminent Israeli human rights organization and information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories. B’Tselem endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in...
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“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you...”
– Angela Davis
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December 2011
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WatchNow here is some caroling I can really get behind: the 99% Choir forecloses on Bank of America!
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“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the...”
– Rosa Luxemburg
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“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution…...”
– Emma Goldman
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Blame the Banks? →
This article was in my DU alumni magazine that came today. George DeMartino was one of my favorite professors in grad school. I only had one class with him, Great Books in International Political Economy, but it was an amazing class. I’m so glad I got to study with and learn form this type of person.
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This is How To Respond to Overwhelming Police...
Here is another post from my cousin Owen out in Oakland/San Francisco. I’m sharing it because it is a great first person account of what peaceful demonstrators are facing on a daily basis in this country that is supposed to not only allow, but protect, the rights of free speech and assembly. I am sharing this because I want to help remind all of us of the power that we the people, we the 99%,...
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WatchCheck out this good piece by The Guardian on the #OccupyOurHomes action yesterday in East New York. I would like to point out that The Guardian is a British publication, yet they covered this story better than any US publications (hint hint New York Times).
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WatchToday, #Dec6, #OWS goes home. #OccupyOurHomes
November 2011
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Tell the JNF NOT to Evict Palestinians from East... →
Himnuta, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Jewish National Fund in Israel (KKL-JNF), planned to evict the Sumarin family from their home in Silwan, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem on November 28. The Sumarins, a family of twelve, including five children, a pregnant mother, and a grandfather on dialysis, have lived in their home for more than forty years.
Due to public outcry, led by Rabbis for...
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“Traditionally, THE COMMONS was cropland, grazing land, or the forest that...”
– From www.reclaimthecommons.net as quoted in J.K. Gibson-Graham’s A Postcapitalist Politics p.96
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“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault in Practicing Criticism
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Watch99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement - animation
It has been the one of the rallying cries 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 gotten? This video explains what the key data says about the state of American economic inequality today. This video is from my favorite...
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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?...”
– Rabbi Hillel (first three sentences) and Adrienne Rich (last sentence) 