Thursday, November 17, 2011
An Open Letter (and Invitation) to the So-Called 99% from People of Color
We’re attracted to the movement, but we need assurance that you’re not gonna just up and leave and get tricked again, like you did before.
Now the invitation: we will join you. We are attracted to this movement. We want to join you. The truth is that we need this movement at least as much as you do. The truth is that we want to make something very serious and very permanent happen for the betterment of all poor and middle-class Americans—Native, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, everybody! The truth is that you have always been our brothers and sisters—you just didn’t know it. But we need to know that you’re serious. And what we mean by “serious” is that you aren’t going to back to thinking that you’re part of the 1% again and forget about us. You are not. We are in this together, whether you, my white brothers and sisters, choose to acknowledge it or not. We’re waiting. Read More Here | Native, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, everybody!
Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Scores Victories Without a Camp
Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Scores Victories Without a Camp
As Occupy Chicago nears its second month, its visible presence on the streets may have diminished, but its influence and reach has grown.
Three weeks ago, Chicago police evicted and arrested supporters of Occupy Chicago in Grant Park for the second time. Unlike other cities where demonstrations have been suppressed violently with batons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades, Occupy Chicago's encampment was dismantled without a single instance of violence. A round of failed talks with the Mayor's Office ensued, and Occupy Chicago decided not to pursue a permanent encampment downtown. Instead, they continued to maintain a 24-hour presence at the intersection of Jackson and LaSalle and worked to strengthen their outreach into the community. Read Full Article Here | Occupy Chicago Scores Victories Without a Camp
The Other Penn State Cover-Up: Death Threats Against Black Students | Loop21
The Other Penn State Cover-Up:
"The hate mail sent to black students had nothing to do with Sandusky’s proclivities, but the two incidences shared something in common: both were ultimately covered up by the university, even as both chain of events grew worse. Sandusky went on to molest and possibly rape more boys, according to a grand jury report (Sandusky denies foul play), and hate mail against black students became death threats.
Ultimately, a black man’s dead body was found by police near Penn State as one of the death threats said it would. And some black students had to attend their graduation the following May with bulletproof vests on in fear of their life.
But few know about the death threats because Penn State and Joe Paterno were not willing to allow bad publicity to ruin the university’s image, say some of the black students at the center of the tragic events." Read Full Article Here | The Other Penn State Cover-Up:
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New Benton Harbor City Commissioner is just 23 years old
New Benton Harbor City Commissioner is just 23 years old
The Benton Harbor City Commission is getting a little more youthful.
Tuesday night,
An impressive task, considering he's just 23 years old.
Already, he shows a lot of determination and a passion to improve his city.
"I worked day and night on this campaign, and it paid off," Bowen said. "My goal is to get Benton Harbor back on track. We need to promote job growth, promote good resident skills, and we need to hold people accountable."
Facebook84 Year Old Dorli Rainey Says Being Pepper Sprayed By Cops Has Energized Her
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Wisc. Lt. Gov. Kleefisch urges voters not to sign ‘expensive’ recall petitions | The Raw Story
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Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R) is urging voters not to sign recall petitions against herself and Gov. Scott Walker (R) because the special election would cost “about 7.7 million dollars.”
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Hey you creatives, artists, environmentalists, workers, moms, dads, students, malcontents, do-gooders and aspiring martyrs in the snow:
The last four months have been hard fought, inspiring and delightfully revolutionary. We brought tents, hunkered down, held our assemblies, and lobbed a meme-bomb that continues to explode the world's imagination. Many of us have never felt so alive. We have fertilized the future with our revolutionary spirit … and a thousand flowers will surely bloom in the coming Spring.
But as winter approaches an ominous mood could set in … hope thwarted is in danger of turning sour, patience exhausted becoming anger, militant nonviolence losing its allure. It isn't just the mainstream media that says things could get ugly. What shall we do to keep the magic alive?
Here are a couple of emerging ideas: See Full Post Here | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Facebook tracking is under scrutiny – USATODAY.com
Facebook tracking is under scrutiny – USATODAY.com
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system. Full Article Here | USATODAY.com
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - NYTimes.com
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - NYTimes.com
The San Francisco police, in confirming his death, did not give the cause. Friends and associates of Mr. Zhitomirskiy said there were indications of suicide.
Mr. Zhitomirskiy was a student at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2010 when he and three fellow undergraduates conceived the idea for a Web-based community that would give users, rather than the Web site itself, control of the information they shared.
Instead of creating a central database like Facebook’s, where information about hundreds of millions of members is stored and mined for advertising and marketing purposes, their idea was to develop freely shared software that would allow every member of the network to “own” his or her personal information.
Mr. Zhitomirskiy, an impish self-styled radical, unicyclist and competitive ballroom dancer, was a member of the nascent liberation technology movement, which views the conglomeration of personal information by large corporate and government bodies as a threat to civil liberties and human rights.
Urban Wilderness: Open letter to County Board regarding the budget
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Well said Eddee! Remove the Dam--Free the River, Save Millions in maintenance/repair fees, Fix a restroom so I can actually spend more time in a county park!
Protesters Occupy U.S. Chamber of Commerce In Longest, Awkwardest Interruption Ever | Mediaite
Protesters Occupy U.S. Chamber of Commerce In Longest, Awkwardest Interruption Ever | Mediaite
Whether you view this as a heroic attempt to speak truth to power or nothing but a silly stunt on par with the Rupert Murdoch/pie incident, there’s something hilarious with just how long it goes. I mean, seriously, this thing just keeps going. Serota’s face above really says it all.
Watch the clip from C-SPAN below. I suggest watching it twice. Once for the message, and the second time to watch everyone else at the luncheon awkwardly attempting to eat their food as this damn thing refuses to end. More Info Here | Mediaite
The Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance
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Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at "Beyond the 60's: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011," an Uhuru Solidarity Movement...
Robin Vos Gets Mic Checked at Pro Walker Rally
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Last night Robin Vos and Vicki Mckenna had a rally against the Recall.Thanks to the Autonomous Solidarity Organization
Robin Vos got a big ol Mic Check, and apparently Vicki Mckenna hugs when she gets worked up...
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Last night Robin Vos and Vicki Mckenna had a rally against the Recall.Thanks to the Autonomous Solidarity Organization
Robin Vos got a big ol Mic Check, and apparently Vicki Mckenna hugs when she gets worked up...
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The Dane County Young Republicans threw a "Recall the Recall" rally on the opening night of the Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin on 11-15-11. The ASO http://...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Others Opine on Occupy Wall Street - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Others Opine on Occupy Wall Street - New York News - Runnin' Scared
There were moments of last night's "Occupy Everywhere" symposium that felt like a debutante ball introducing Occupy Wall Street to polite liberal society.Heavy Hitters weigh in on Occupy Wall Street.
To be sure, several dozen occupiers with their sleeping bags on their backs traipsed up from Zuccotti Park to attend the event. But the panelists (Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, William Greider and Rinku Sen, as well as Occupy Wall Street spokesman Patrick Bruner) were mostly addressing an audience of exactly the sort of institutional, establishment liberals you'd expect at an event put on by the Nation Institute and the New School.
But if the evening had its share of cloying, self-congratulatory applause breaks, it also featured enough disagreement and debate to be interesting.
Perhaps the biggest disagreement on the panel was one of tone rather than substance. Michael Moore was so giddy with triumphalism over the burgeoning movement that half his remarks were delivered through high, breathy giggles.
"I just think this is all going to happen," he said. "You can play this tape back in about two years, because this is all going to move very fast."
In contrast to Moore's jubilant victory lap, Naomi Klein's sober assessment of the challenges ahead seemed almost bleak:
"If the task is to figure out how to rein in ephemeral virtual global capitalism, let alone transform it, let alone doing what we need to do to actually deal not just with the economic crisis but the ecological crisis which means to challenge the entire ideology of endless growth and asking if we can grow forever on a finite planet -- I mean, nobody has ever figured out how to do this. So we have to start from the premise that we are in uncharted territory." Read More Here | New York News - Runnin' Scared
NYPD raze the #OWS library, throw out over 5,000 books - Boing Boing
NYPD raze the #OWS library, throw out over 5,000 books - Boing Boing
Some collateral damage in the police raid on Occupy Wall Street: over 5,000 books comprising the #OWS library have been thrown in the trash. I visited the library yesterday and interviewed one of the volunteer librarians who slept in the book-filled tent at night and helped patrons find reading material and conducted information literacy work during the day. Read Full Article HereBoing Boing
Occupy movement grows in Italy, as protesters occupy a cinema, warehouse and university in Bologna | Take The Square
Occupy movement grows in Italy, as protesters occupy a cinema, warehouse and university in Bologna | Take The Square
It has been an intense week in Italian politics. Long-time leader and ‘buffoon’ Silvio Berlusconi has been forced from power, new austerity measures passed and the occupy movement has begun to take hold. For on the 11th of November, as the parliament passed an EU imposed reform bill, thousands demonstrated across the country under the banner of ‘No austerity occupy everywhere’. In Bologna, a university city famous for political activism in the 1970s, three permanent occupations were established. The actions kicked off the night before, with a group of ‘indignati’ (indignant) occupying an abandoned warehouse in the centre of the city. The 11.11.11 started with a march by thousands of high school students, who had skipped class to demonstrate against the austerity bill. Students held signs reading “bail out schools, not the banks” and “occupy education”. Later in the afternoon hundreds participated in a ‘flash mob for change’. While at the same time another group began an occupation of the university, demanding free education for all. At around 7pm the ‘Procession of the Bankrupt Saint’ began. Thousands danced through the streets chanting “We won’t pay for the banker’s crisis”, stopping along the way at banks to put on satirical theatre performances. When the procession arrived at the main square, flares were set off and a human chain created around the entrance to an abandoned cinema. A small group of protestors entered the building first, checking for safety hazards and connecting the lights. When it was determined to be safe, an announcement was made over the loud speaker and all of the protesters poured into the building to begin the occupation. Crowds cheered as a banner which read “Occupy everywhere“ was erected at the entrance. Read More Here | Take The Square
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Facebook Opens Doors To A New Way of Suppressing Information, Activists Constantly Banned | Addicting Info
Facebook Opens Doors To A New Way of Suppressing Information, Activists Constantly Banned | Addicting Info
This is a job. Post and spam a person’s Facebook articles and posts for a profit. Some get paid up to $20 an hour. There is one individual who has at least fifty fake profiles that he uses to spam Wisconsin activists. It’s not hard to find these services. A quick google search pulled this up real quick. But they seem to have taken an even lower form of low. Trolls are now having activists removed by filing fake Facebook complaints. That is right, people are suppressing information in Wisconsin by actively reporting people they deem to be a threat on Facebook. I myself have been reported and banned for one to three days for simply posting “Good job” or “The majority of Wisconsin doesn’t like Scott Walker.” People have been reported on pages for saying nothing more than my name and have been reprimanded by Facebook. The strategy is simple and Facebook lets it continue. If someone reports something as abusive to Facebook they don’t actually look at it, they just remove it and warn the person who posted it. If you get enough you are not able to dispute them at all, and with no admin contacts and no one at Facebook actually looking at the posts reported as “abusive,” the person gets blocked. Read More Here | Addicting Info
On Facebook, activists are slandered & harassed by rightist trolls, or banned
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Facebook Opens Doors To A New Way of Suppressing Information, Activists Constantly Banned November 13, 2011 By Segway Jeremy Ryan Suppression of information has existed for quite some time. It used to be easy for the billionaires of society to control the message that got out. Yo
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GAB decisions on voter ID, recall petitions come under fire at committee hearing
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The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) voted on party lines Tuesday morning to order the Government Accountability Board to promulgate rules based on decisions it made at last week's meeting regarding use of technical college IDs and stickers for voter ID, as well as how reca...
Judge orders New York to allow protesters, tents, in park - CNN.com
Judge orders New York to allow protesters, tents, in park - CNN.com
While many protesters left without resisting, many others moved to the center of the park to an area known as the "kitchen." There, they built barricades with tables to keep police away.
The air was thick with smoke, which some protesters said was from tear gas that officers lobbed.
Others said officers took thousands of books from the camp's makeshift library and tossed them in Dumpsters.
buynothingchristmas - Alternatives
buynothingchristmas - Alternatives
"Homemade gifts are an excellent way to tell someone close to you that you love them, but allows you to disengage from the consumer attitudes that have come to dominate this wonderful season. For those who are not particularly crafty making gifts can be a daunting idea, but it's easy, and fun! For a great list of homemade gift ideas click here, these will get you off to a great start. Some of the best are foods made with home grown ingredients, or the homemade hand warmer. These can also be used to relieve aching muscles after a hard day of shoveling snow, and they do the job very well!
Many people can remember getting homemade toys for Christmas when they were young, but that really doesn't happen anymore. So many toys rely on batteries these days for any fun to be had. If you are considering buying nothing for Christmas, why don't you make your kids a toy instead? It's rewarding for you to build a skill and your kids will love it! Check out this easy tutorial for how to build a hobby horse for your child." See Video with directions here | buynothingchristmas
"Homemade gifts are an excellent way to tell someone close to you that you love them, but allows you to disengage from the consumer attitudes that have come to dominate this wonderful season. For those who are not particularly crafty making gifts can be a daunting idea, but it's easy, and fun! For a great list of homemade gift ideas click here, these will get you off to a great start. Some of the best are foods made with home grown ingredients, or the homemade hand warmer. These can also be used to relieve aching muscles after a hard day of shoveling snow, and they do the job very well!
Many people can remember getting homemade toys for Christmas when they were young, but that really doesn't happen anymore. So many toys rely on batteries these days for any fun to be had. If you are considering buying nothing for Christmas, why don't you make your kids a toy instead? It's rewarding for you to build a skill and your kids will love it! Check out this easy tutorial for how to build a hobby horse for your child." See Video with directions here | buynothingchristmas
GOP Dirty Tricks: Criminal Cyber Attack United Wisconsin | Wisconsin Politics
GOP Dirty Tricks: Criminal Cyber Attack United Wisconsin | Wisconsin Politics
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GOP Dirty Tricks: Criminal Cyber Attack Takes Down United Wisconsin Website
GOP Dirty Tricks: Criminal Cyber Attack Takes Down United Wisconsin Website
MADISON—The Democratic Party of Wisconsin released the following statement upon learning that the leading grassroots recall website, www.UnitedWisconsin.com, was taken down this evening by a coordinated, deliberate and criminal cyber attack....If Scott Walker and the Republican Party are really concerned with protecting the integrity of the recall process, they will immediately condemn the criminal cyber attack on United Wisconsin’s website and call on Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to launch a full investigation with the assistance of the FBI.
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Occupy Together - Open Letter From Buddhist And Yoga Teachers In Support Of The Occupy Movement
Occupy Together - Open Letter From Buddhist And Yoga Teachers In Support Of The Occupy Movement
As teachers and leaders of communities that promote the development of compassion and mindfulness, we are writing to express our solidarity with the Occupy movement now active in more than 1,900 cities worldwide.
"We are particularly inspired by the nonviolent tactics of this movement, its methods of self-governance and its emergent communities founded in open communication (general assemblies, the human microphone, the inclusion of diverse voices, etc). These encampments are fertile ground for seeing our inherent wisdom and our capacity for awakening....Most importantly, we believe that individual awakening and collective transformation are inseparable. For members of spiritual communities, mindfulness of the situation before us demands that we engage fully in the culture and society we inhabit. We do not view our own path as merely an individualistic pursuit of sanity and health, and we believe it would be irresponsible of us to teach students of mind/body disciplines that they can develop their practice in isolation from the society in which they live. We are inspired by the creative and intellectual work of the Occupy movement as an essential voice in facilitating a more compassionate and ecologically grounded basis for practice.The Occupy movement has re-ignited our belief that it's truly possible to build a culture of non-harm, honesty and respect for all creatures. We recognize our human failings and know that we'll fail 10,000 times in our efforts to awaken. We now vow to bring our practices and methods of teaching more into alignment with our deepest values.
The structural greed, anger and delusion that characterize our current system are incompatible with our obligations to future generations and our most cherished values of interdependence, creativity and compassion. We call on teachers and practitioners from all traditions of mind/body awakening to join in actively transforming these structures." Read More | Open Letter From Buddhist And Yoga Teachers
Buy Nothing Day + Buy Nothing Christmas | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Buy Nothing Day + Buy Nothing Christmas | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
If you want to go one step further off the consumer treadmill, consider one of these actions from previous holiday seasons:
- Give your friends and family a "gift exemption" card
- Ask shoppers "What Would Jesus Buy?"
- Get some friends together (or go solo), dress as santa and meditate in the middle of a busy shopping mall
- Check out buynothingchristmas.org to check out more actions (or inactions) you can take this holiday season
A few people start breaking their old patterns, embracing what they love (and in the process discovering what they hate), daydreaming, questioning, rebelling. What happens naturally then, according to the revolutionary past, is a groundswell of support for this new way of being, with more and more people empowered to perform new gestures unencumbered by history. Read More Here Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
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