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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B’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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Now 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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Check 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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Today, #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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99% 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)
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October 2011
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Responses to 5 Myths About the Occupy Movement
Here is another post from my cousin Owen Andrews written on 10/29/2011. Owen is involved with Occupy Oakland. Yesterday I also had a conversation with my friend Suzie who is involved with Occupy Pittsburgh. She also talked about the importance of evolving people with all sorts of different ideas in the conversation. I make it down to Occupy Wall Street about once a week. I agree with both...
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Owen at Occupy Oakland: a first person account
The following is a first person account of the events at Occupy Oakland over the last few days. A few short words about the author, this piece, and why I am choosing to pass it on:
1. I am posting this here with the author’s permission.
2. This piece was e-mailed to me and many other people, unsolicited, by the author simply because he wanted to provide his perspective of what he is...
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From TED: Ideas worth spreading
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
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US police, the First Amendment and the #OWS...
For the second day in a row Oakland police have used violence to disperse peaceful demonstrators, and last night Atlanta police conducted a mass arrest of peaceful demonstrators in that city. I would like to remind the police departments across this country of the following: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or...
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or...
– The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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The99PercentDecalaration: An OWS Working Group... →
A look at the work in progress coming out of the Occupy movement. I have to say, I think this is really good stuff.
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