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ZCommunications | Occupy is Not Just About Occupying: The Goal is Not to Occupy it is to End Corporate Rule by Kevin Zeese | ZNet Article
"The elites are foolish to think they will stop this movement by closing occupations. The Occupy Movement will evolve in new and unpredictable ways that will make the elites wish for the days of mere public encampments. The 1% should know they will be held accountable. The people have found their voice and will not be silenced. The era of the rule of money is nearing its end."
occupy  occupywallst  occupywallstreet  activism  politics  inspiration 
7 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | Theory and Practice in Occupy by Shamus Cooke | ZNet Article
"The left has long suffered from the self-induced fear that, if we have actual power, we'll become like our oppressors, since "absolute power corrupts absolutely" (a hangover from yet another shallow analysis of past socialist experiments)."
occupy  occupywallst  occupywallstreet  politics  activism 
7 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | Wake Up Congress; Before the Next Collapse by Pam Martens | ZNet Article
“Sometimes you don’t find your cause, Leila…Your cause finds you. There is a fight buried in all of us.”
politics  activism  congress  inspiration  usa 
10 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | The Untouchables of Zucotti Park by Stanley Rogouski | ZNet Article
"Far from being a model for the emerging democracies of the Middle East, the people who rule the United States have revealed them to be democracy's bitter enemy. One Ray Kachel may not have the power to threaten Michael Bloomberg or Ray Kelly, but the hundreds of thousands of Ray Kachels all over America now know of one another's existence. Look at that photo in the New Yorker, you people in the "1%," look at that pale little man you kicked out of his home in Zucotti Park, that lonely little soul you drove away from his newly found companions. That man is your grave digger. He will destroy you."
occupy  occupywallst  occupywallstreet  inspiration  activism  politics 
11 weeks ago by msszczep
www.culturalcognition.net - home
The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs. Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their beliefs about disputed matters of fact (e.g., whether global warming is a serious threat; whether the death penalty deters murder; whether gun control makes society more safe or less) to values that define their cultural identities.
cognition  culture  politics  psychology  sociology  globalwarming  climatechange  climatecrisis 
11 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | A Conversation by Noam Chomsky | ZNet Article
with Dada Maheshvarananda, about a variety of topics, especially the Occupy Movement
occupy  occupywallst  occupywallstreet  chomsky  activism  politics 
11 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | WikiLeaks and Other Reformers: Has Machiavelli Met His Match? by Kellie Tranter | ZNet Article
"..what Stratfor seems to be really a bit obsessed with is whether we or other organizations are going to draw this into a bigger critique of corporate power... they seem to be really concerned that we, Amnesty, Greenpeace, etc., would be broadening this into a systematic critique and attacking the basis of corporate power. And it's interesting that that's what they were concerned with, rather than anything to do with the exact bottom line of Dow itself. And that might be a clue that they were really concerned about systemic critique and, you know, making statements that could affect policy. Maybe that's also why they've been so afraid of Occupy Wall Street...."
inspiration  activism  politics  wikileaks  stratfor  expose 
11 weeks ago by msszczep
ZCommunications | The Plow and the Iphone: Conservative Fantasies About the Miracles of the Market by Robert Jensen | ZNet Article
A central doctrine of evangelicals for the “free market” is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets -- all flow not from governments but from individuals and businesses allowed to flourish in the market, we are told.
technology  history  science  research  politics  economics  markets  commandplanning  conservative  fantasy  ideology 
january 2012 by msszczep
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that the DHS and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its emerging agenda is going to look like...what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.
occupywallstreet  government  congress  politics  protest  police  ows  occupywallst  revolution  power  activism 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | United States: Occupy the Democratic Party? No way! by Dan La Botz | ZNet Article
Should the Occupy Wall Street try to enter the Democratic Party in the hopes of influencing it? No. The past 100 years of history tells us that's a move doomed to fail.
democrats  politics  activism  occupywallstreet  history  usa  civilrights  populist  democratic  party  elections  occupy  occupywallst 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | Occupy Wall Street and the World We Want by Yotam Marom | ZNet Article
We are building a global movement, and elites are beginning to mobilize the incredible power at their disposal to do it whatever damage they can...Make no mistake about it: They are fighting us now because we are winning.
occupywallstreet  occupy  occupywallst  activism  politics  grassroots  winning 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | Throwing Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House by Rebecca Solnit | ZNet Article
If you want to fight the police, look at who’s succeeded in changing their behavior: lawyers, lawmakers, police watchdog groups like Copwatch, investigative journalists (including a friend of mine whose work just put several New Orleans policemen in prison for decades), neighborhood patrols, community organizers, grassroots movements, often two or more players working together. You have to build.
occupywallstreet  occupywallst  occupy  protest  activism  police  violence  state  government  politics 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | Who Will Be the Un-Bloomberg? What Mayors Should Say About Wall Street by Tom Hayden | ZNet Article
Occupy Wall Street has changed the political climate, making it possible to pass legislation over the intense opposition of special interests. It’s time to regulate and police Wall Street. A government that crushes unarmed protesters to protect private power and property is approaching political and moral, not simply economic, bankruptcy.
occupy  mayor  bloomberg  occupywallst  occupywallstreet  protest  activism  politics  government  local 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | Occupy and Anarchism's Gift of Democracy by David Graeber | ZNet Article
It is only when a small group of anarchists in New York decided to adopt the opposite approach – refusing to recognise the legitimacy of the existing political authorities by making demands of them; refusing to accept the legitimacy of the existing legal order by occupying a public space without asking for permission, refusing to elect leaders that could then be bribed or co-opted; declaring, however non-violently, that the entire system was corrupt and they rejected it; being willing to stand firm against the state's inevitable violent response – that hundreds of thousands of Americans from Portland to Tuscaloosa began rallying in support, and a majority declared their sympathies.
occupy  occupwallst  occupywallstreet  protest  activism  politics  anarchism 
november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | All Day, All Week (All Century), Occupy Wall Street by Thai Jones | ZNet Article
"The protests of 1914, which unfolded through a series of tactical decisions concerning the use of violence, potentially suggest a variety of useful lessons to today's protesters and administration. "
occupywallst  occupywallstreet  newyork  protest  rockefeller  newyorkcity  politics  activism  history  usa 
november 2011 by msszczep
A Progressive Dialogue on the Future - Six Important Questions
Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
strategy  politics  economics  vision  znet  activism 
october 2011 by msszczep
Baboon Study Shows Benefits for Nice Guys, Who Finish 2nd
Might parallels be drawn here between human and baboon hierarchies?
science  baboons  hierarchy  sociology  human  markets  parecon  economics  politics 
july 2011 by msszczep
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