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…the future is already here; it’s just unevenly distributed.
William Gibson

The 50 Best Signs from #occupywallstreet

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Poor America (2012), is an excellent half-hour exploration of American poverty, and meditation on what we owe to others in any society that allows so many people so little social mobility.

In our own time, conservative politicians seem intent on letting people suffer forever until they find the Nietzschean will to power to become independently awesome enough to win at life. If you can’t survive on your own, no matter your childhood or misfortunes, then die already! People deserve better.

The fact that so many people are so unwilling to invest in the growth of fellow neighbors is beyond me. They push for bizarre social causes based on values instead of realities. They take their selves so seriously. The whole political apparatus strikes me less as a coherent ideology than one, powerful one cleverly camouflaging itself to make various conservative groups cheer for it like a sports team once in a while when elections come around. That’s if they even bother to vote — we can barely get half the country to come out when it’s the damned president being elected.

This poverty stuff is real, and people need to get real, and a little more imaginative.

tingalingmofo:

Innocent activist is arrested without explanation, tasered for no reason. 

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Democracy Now presents a concise tale of what happened in Oakland in ugly clashes between peaceful protestors and aggressive police:

“They are more interested in protecting abandoned private property than they are the people. And the idea that opening up a social center is terrorism is very telling of the narrative of the police state,” Lewis says.

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*snort, chuckle, bahahaha*

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How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’

A march in Ådalen, Sweden, in 1931.

“When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment…

“Although Norwegians may not tell you about this the first time you meet them, the fact remains that their society’s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers, along with middle class allies, waged a nonviolent struggle that empowered the people to govern for the common good.”

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The frighteningly simple-minded, messianic mind of Next Gingrich through his doodles and notes: “1. Articulate the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing all Americans (TASK 1)… 5. Define, plan and begin to organize the movement for civilization and the effort to transform our welfare state into an opportunity society to help people achieve productivity, responsibility, and safety so they can achieve prosperity and freedom so they can pursue happiness (task 3, 5, 8)” (See all the highlights) View high resolution

The frighteningly simple-minded, messianic mind of Next Gingrich through his doodles and notes:

“1. Articulate the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing all Americans (TASK 1)…

5. Define, plan and begin to organize the movement for civilization and the effort to transform our welfare state into an opportunity society to help people achieve productivity, responsibility, and safety so they can achieve prosperity and freedom so they can pursue happiness (task 3, 5, 8)” (See all the highlights)

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

“For the Times to descend into a tabloid hit piece on the front page when we had just exposed the deaths of more than 100,000 civilians was not commensurate.”

“…my experiences in understanding how the military-intelligence complex works at a practical level. I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.”

“The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.”

“…we’re not interested in shaking something up just for the hell of it. I believe that if we look at what makes a civilization civilized, it is people understanding what is really going on. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the end result was that people who knew something of what was going on could convey that information to others. And as a result of the Internet, we are now living in a time where it’s a lot easier to convey what we know about our corner of the world and share it with others.”


The simple message of the Occupy movement

For anyone not sure of what to make of Occupy — If nothing else, I think it is enough to be a part of it under the banner of dissatisfaction with the status quo of political representation, and/or loss of faith in our nation’s leadership as a whole to effectively tackle the problems of our time. There are nuances and differences between every participant, but that’s the baseline message.

Major social and obvious global issues are getting more attention than they have in decades. Millions of people are finding more people to talk to about their concerns about contemporary society. The loneliness of political ennui, for many of us, is over, as the conversation keeps on boiling.

3 protestors arrested for "felony conspiracy" after mic-checking mayor

There was no felony - only free, inconvenient speech. (VIDEO)

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Wake up!

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Occupy Everything

Occupy Everything

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stop thinking this is all there is… Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation… there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral…Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel…Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious…there’s your opening.
Mark Morford (via zenjournal)

(Source: articles.sfgate.com)

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