Archive for October, 2011
#OccupyOakland Raid, Bill Black, and more
I’ve got a backlog of stuff to post–it will be mostly links, and in no particular order. Here goes: (1) Mike Davis on #OWS: Nice piece by Mike Davis in the LA Review of Books, No More Bubblegum. Today’s Possibly Irrelevant Image accompanied Davis’s piece; it’s from a series of wonderful greeting cards by Erika ...Read more.
Freedom Plaza and BoA Action in DC
A quick report from DC: On Thursday around lunch time I visited the other #OccupyDC encampment, at Freedom Plaza. It was about at sleepy as the one at Macpherson Square (which I visited, and blogged about, on Wednesday), and the space is wide open and inhospitable, across the street from the massive Ronald Reagan building. ...Read more.
Quick Update from DC; America Beyond Capitalism
(1) Quick Visit to #OccupyDC: I stopped by one of the two #OccupyDC encampments last night. The Mcpherson Square encampment (known as “#OccupyKSt”) was quite soggy last night when I walked through at about 6:45pm. There was the usual info tent, food tent, lots of tents (more pictures below), but not the kind of interaction ...Read more.
Charts, Comix, Columnists
(1) Incredible Charts from BusinessInsider: Hat-tip to Arjun Jayadev, who inaugurated the series of teach-ins we’ve been organizing for #OccupyBoston, for alerting us to anincredible slideshow of charts, Here’s What the Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About, at the odd website BusinessInsider (odd because though it appears to be an ordinary personal investment site, ...Read more.
Hillbilly Nationalists, Radical Greasers, & Black Power
This is a book launch for a book co-authored by James Tracy who has written for D&S. 7pm tonight. I hope to make it myself. Hillbilly Nationalists, Radical Greasers, & Black Power Monday, October 17, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Encuentro Cinco, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor, Chinatown, Boston. The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized ...Read more.
“I’m Getting Arrested!” Droid App; etc.
(1) “Help–I’m Getting Arrested!” Droid App: Hat-tip to Julio Huato on lbo-talk: at CNET Jaymar Cabebe reviews a new Droid app that could be useful for #Occupy activists: Imagine you’re in New York (or perhaps another major metropolitan city) peacefully protesting. Your cause? Let’s say, to curb excessive influence of big business and the wealthiest ...Read more.
Video of Arjun Jayadev’s Teach-In
Find a video of Arjun Jaydev’s teach in at the #OccupyBoston Free School University Facebook Group Page, here. I am not seeing how I can embed the video.
Alejandro Reuss and Juliet Schor on Friday
(1) More Teach-Ins on Friday!: Alejandro Reuss of the UMass-Amherst Labor Center and a Dollars & Sense Associate and Juliet Schor of the BU Sociology Department and author of The Overworked American and Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth will lead teach-ins this Friday at #OccupyBoston, as part of the Economics Forum we at ...Read more.
#OB Crackdown; More Teach-Ins; etc.
(1) Teach-Ins Continue at #OccupyBoston: UMass-Boston economist Arjun Jayadev did a great teach-in yesterday at #OccupyBoston. His focus was on arguments for austerity that go under the oxymoronic name “expansionary contraction” (all the arguments are faulty, it turns out). There was a nice and steady audience of about 30 people, and they seemed hungry for ...Read more.
#OccupyBoston Teach-Ins, etc.
(1) Great Press for OWSJ and #OWS: In addition to the above photo featuring my #OWS protest comrade Amy Offner (former D&S book editor), the WSJ‘s blog Metropolis had a relatively positive piece on its namesake, the Occupied Wall Street Journal. And David Carr, business columnist for the New York Times (focusing on media) devoted ...Read more.
