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Nov.06.2011
Occupy Bakersfield
After returning from my three hour trip to Occupy LA, I learned that my nearer city of Bakersfield planned their own Occupation. I found them on Facebook and attended their first General Assembly. The group consisted of mostly early twenty-somethings who...
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Nov.01.2011
Back in LA for an afternoon on business, we headed over to the Occupation before running more errands. Again, it was a weekday. Again, the mood was subdued. As we wandered around the hodge-podge of makeshift housing looking for the supplies tent, my husband remarked, "They...
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Oct.29.2011
The Wall Street Protesters ... you see ... are part, of the Protesters ...Protesting all over the world ...Wall Street side-walk occupation by Protesters ... is, Symbolic.
When such happens on the Universal scale ... its called ... "The Universal Change" ...Not a Political...
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Oct.27.2011
The growth of the Occupation Movement (OM) that began with, and continues to be led by, Occupy Wall Street, represents both an extremely welcome development and a novel experiment in social change. I'd like to speak here to certain core questions that this movement and those watching it confront....
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Oct.27.2011
Things are heating up in the Occupy Wall Street, Oakland, Atlanta, etc. movement. Not since the appearance of the CSI television franchise has America seen such rapid spread of a cultural phenomenon. Activists are camping and marching everywhere. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office announced...
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Oct.26.2011
I took part in an arts conference on Monday (more about that in my next blog). In a discussion I moderated on art and civic engagement, speakers had a lot to say about pursuing social change by engaging people in community life and democratic discourse via music, media, dance, drama, and other...
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Oct.26.2011
It’s hard to believe the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is just over a month old. Long expected by astrologers, long awaited by progressives and long dreaded by the One Per Cent, the movement hit the ground running.
It expresses the world moment so precisely that it seems to...
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Oct.26.2011
The corporate media tried to ignore the Occupy Wall Street movement. Lord knows it tried. Over the past three weeks, as protests filled the streets of New York and started springing up in cities all over the country, the TV news at first played blind, deaf and dumb.
They tried...
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Oct.26.2011
I've been reading a lot about the British Sufffragettes from a primary source, their WSPU magazine online. I see that in 1910ish, some principals posed in front of their brand new automobile. I also read somewhere that they made an arrangement with the new department store, Selfridges, to buy their...
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Oct.26.2011
Last month I flew to Seattle to attend the first GeekGirlCon (but not the last!). GeekGirlCon is for the Rest of Us; maybe not 99%, but definitely 52%, the women who have for so long been shut out of a male-dominated comics industry, and all the related male-dominated industries, like computers...
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