Posts Tagged ‘#OccupyBoston’
#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.
UC Davis Brutality; Greenway Letter; etc.
(1) Police Brutality at UC Davis Watch the video for yourself. Watch to the end–there’s a happy ending! Find another video of the same scene here. Good coverage at the Davis Enterprise. A useful primer on the legalities of pepper spray and excessive force. Here’s the money quote (this is from Vineyard v. Wilson and ...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.
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.
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.
#OWS/#OB; Afghan War Anniversary; Mark Ruffalo
A quickie post, because I have been busy setting up an Economics Forum for #OccupyBoston. (1) Voices from #OWS: A video from a guy who was sticking a camera in people’s faces on Sunday at Zuccotti Park and asking: Why are you here? I remember him, and my comrade Amy Offner and I appear toward ...Read more.
