Posts Tagged ‘Gar Alperovitz’
#D17; OB eviction; Gar everywhere; Eurozone; odds and ends
(1) D17: Big protests in NYC and elsewhere to commemorate the third month of #OWS. Click on the image above for info about NYC events; visit your local Occupy’s website for info about protests near you. I know some places are having rallies in support of Bradley Manning whose birthday is tomorrow and who is ...Read more.
#OB Restraining Order Lifted; Alperovitz Videos, etc.
(Find more great Occupy art here.) (1) Restraining Order Protecting #OccupyBoston Lifted: The judge who had imposed a restraining order against the city of Boston and the Boston Police Department against evicting #OccupyBoston from Dewey Square has lifted that order. An emergency General Assembly has been called for 7pm tonight. Here’s a statement from the ...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.
Various items
(1) Emmanuel Saez wins a MacArthur fellowship. With co-author Thomas Piketty, Saez has done great research on income inequality in the United States. Read about the fellowship here. An accessible version of their research here. Who knew he was only 37? I guess younger than me no longer counts as particularly young, alas… (2) D&S ...Read more.
