Archive for 2011
Labor Victory, Greece, Clowns, etc.
A quick bunch of links–I have been having trouble finding time to do a proper blog post, for which I apologize. (1) Labor Victory in Ohio: NYT report; interesting piece in the New Republic (which I usually don’t have much use for). (2) Dean Baker on Greece: In the Guardian, for TM to show to ...Read more.
The Weather; General Strike; Goldman Sachs
(1) The Weather and #OWS: The image above is from a German Socialist Students Union poster from 1968 (it was apparently a takeoff on a slogan from the national rail system, according to this site). The poster headed a nice piece from Viewpoint Magazine on #OWS and the weather–super-relevant now that many inches of ...Read more.
#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.
