occupy | occupy
Dec.19.2011
Whenever the election cycle starts up, some people tell us that they feel that they have no choice but ”to hold their noses” and vote for the “lesser evil,” by which they usually mean the Democratic candidate (although there’s a right-wing version of this in which they choose the Republican...
|
Dec.16.2011
Using my little smarty pants phone, I found Occupy Seattle. Being technically advanced, the Seattleites made their website quite clear. They, too, were marching. In fact, they were taking a bridge, too, but at the convenient time of 3PM. Again, not knowing the...
|
|
Dec.14.2011
Contrary to most people’s understanding, real political power does not principally exist either by the vehicle of voting or through the publicly displayed actions of the existing political institutions such as Congress and the White House.
Real political power actually rests upon two bases:...
|
Dec.13.2011
Unfortunately, I arrived in Portland around midnight heading into the second day after they'd been evacuated from the park. Using the Internet, I knew they were holding a meeting indoors the following night, but I didn't know where I was, exactly, to know where the assembly was,...
|
Dec.10.2011
No Place for the Little Lyric / Poetry Off the Shelf : The Poetry Foundation
[click here]
No Place for the Little Lyric @ The Poetry Foundation
Should Adrienne Rich be the poet laureate of the Occupy movement?
|
Dec.09.2011
The American Dream, as everyone knows, is that if you work hard, play by the rules, and persevere, that you will have a comfortable life for you and your family: (what used to be described as) the house with a white picket fence, 2.5 children, a chicken in the pot, and a Winnebago.
What is the...
|
Nov.23.2011
The line stretched around the block. Men in workboots and straw hats. Women in mismatched clothing. Children playing with one another between families. Wheelchairs. Walkers. Hmong, Hispanic, African-American, white, all stood in line for hours today to pick up a free holiday turkey from our local...
|
Nov.22.2011
Most people with a Facebook account or one eye on the Internet have by now seen the infamous and viral-in-nothing-flat video of campus police officer Lt. John Pike pepper-spraying non-violent, silent protestors sitting on the ground at the University of California at Davis. Pike, a swaggering...
|
Nov.21.2011
It’s considered a little uncool these days to call out hypocrisy. The general idea is that leaders are expected to lie, and just as fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, officials gotta claim high purpose to cover low deeds. In many circles, the exposure of faux principles is more likely to be...
|
Nov.20.2011
On November 19, 2011, Republican candidates Santorum, Bachmann, Paul, Gingrich, Cain and Perry appeared at a forum on moral values in Des Moines, Iowa. Among other statements made that day was one from Newt Gingrich to the Occupy movement: "Go get a job right after you take a bath." ...
|