Reflections on a Revolution. For Immediate Release: Chase Bank Occupiers: Not Guilty. “A Huge Victory” « It's Right To #Occupy. We received the following press release from the Chase 5. Almost all the Chase 5 and many supporters minutes after the verdict was announced. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chase Bank Occupiers: Not Guilty. “A Huge Victory” The defendants Danielle Simmons, Liam Wright, Sarah Svobodny, Hudson Williams-Eynon, Michael Stevens and their lawyers Braden Price and David Hancock, are available for interview. Contact for the defendants: itsrighttooccupy@gmail.com Braden Pence (Lawyer) – 206.551.1516, braden@pencefirm.com David Hancock (Lawyer) – 206.422.0848, david@defenderoftheaccused.org Thursday, March 15th, five occupiers who shut down a Chase Bank in the city of Seattle on November 2nd of 2011 heard their verdict: Not Guilty.
The verdict was read at 4:15 of the third day of trial, having come after days of argument, examination of witnesses and cross examination. Danielle Simmons, one of the defendants, after trial said, “I am in shock. Like this: Like Loading... Tags: Chase5. OccupySD Gardens. We are the 100% When Occupy Wall Street started to break, I felt excited, captivated and weary. Democracy needs our involvement, I’ve always felt, and we haven’t been too involved the last few decades. Could this be a turning point? Thousands have demonstrated in New York and other cities around the rallying cry: “We are the 99%” However, the us vs. them attitude I feared may lurk behind the 99% vs. 1% dichotomy rubbed me the wrong way. It’s true that civic society hasn’t been properly represented at the table, next to corporations, but history doesn’t show good results when we kick anyone off the table in an attempt to correct an imbalance.
I find inspiration in my Zen Peacemakers training and also from yoga activist Michael Franti, who visited Occupy Wall Street this week. “When peacemakers vow to be oneness, there is no Other” “The banks aren’t evil” Bernie: “When we vow to be oneness, we vow to see everything as the Buddha, as Christ, as the Way.
“Heal our society as a whole” About Ari Setsudo Pliskin. Masters Center For Transformation | Community of Learning & Practice. We desperately need authentic community, not just as an appealing concept or occasional gathering of kindred spirits, but as a living reality firmly grounded in post-tribal, cult-transcending wakefulness, integrity, intimacy, and practicality. There is of course considerable personal and cultural resistance to this (but not necessarily to its surrogates!)
, resistance that must be thoroughly explored and understood before trying to establish such community. This resistance is rooted not only in the struggle between the needs of the individual and the needs of the group, but also in the often spectacular failures of so many so-called communities and “growth” centers over the past 40 or so years. Later I’ll say more about these failures, but for now let’s look more deeply at individual versus group needs, beginning with the necessity of having a clearly and strongly established sense of personal autonomy.
Strong boundaries don’t have to be rigid or impermeable. Cultism overseparates. Reinhabit sandiego. Peter S. Goodman: Protesters Are Occupying Wall Street, But Not Yet Changing It. Earlier this month, at the ocean-side Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, the people who nearly blew up the global financial system got together for a party. The event was called ABS East, with ABS standing for asset-backed securities, the investments built of mortgages, car loans and credit card debts that formed the building blocks for the disastrous, speculative bets that delivered the financial crisis of 2008. As the event's website made clear, the agenda in Miami Beach was all about resurrecting this lucrative trade: "Reshaping the Structured Products Industry Together. " The list of sponsors amounted to a rogue's gallery of the institutions that trashed the economy and looted taxpayer coffers while enriching themselves: Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Standard & Poor's.
At well-lubricated evening parties, lawyers and due diligence firms schmoozed traders and investors, jockeying for a piece of the spoils. 11 simple ways to support the occupy movement without sleeping in a park « i am lauren leonardi. 6. Make a Collection & Donate Put a flyer up in your building asking other tenants to donate any of the items on the list below. If you live in a private home, consider posting a flyer on the community message board at your local library, coffee shop or grocery.
Ask people to leave donations on your porch, or in front of your house, and put a bin or box out to collect the donations. Coordinate with your PTA or another community group to support your local occupiers through donations. When you’ve amassed some items, bring the donations to your local occupiers. Just pull up and unload. If you live in NY, I’ll personally volunteer to come collect whatever you’re able to gather to deliver to Liberty Square (leave a note in the comments and we’ll set up the pickup).
Appropriate Donations Have a look at my pictures to see how I’m handling the request in my building. 7. Visit your local Occupy hub and find yourself a donation box. 8. I am not sleeping in any parks. Talk to people. 9. 10. 11. 12. Got Seeds??? Pot Luck & Plant / Seed Exchange - SD Community Farms and Gardens Meetup Group (San Diego, CA. October 29, 2011 · 11:00 AM We'll share a meal & any extra plants and/or seeds you might have. I'll bring some envelopes for seeds, but to be safe, you please bring some containers or envelopes for yourself. Lake Murray is a great little spot where you can fish from the shore if you have a license.
Here's their website. There's a parking lot there & they have some picnic tables & BBqs there, but you might want to bring a chair just in case we get a big crowd. If they allow canopies, I'll bring a brightly colored, striped umbrella - setup at one of the picnic areas near the concession stand. Hopefully the weather will hold out. Please note: the park doesn't allow glass bottles or alcohol. What to bring: -a dish or drink to share with the group (some folks are vegetarians, some are not) - your own plate & utensils - Extra seeds or plants that you want to exchange - Some containers or envelopes for your new seeds - a Sharpie to label your seed containers - a chair - in case we need extra seating.
I Am … We Are … It Is. I usually talk about the flamboyant aspects of Burning Man. These are what attract attention. Black Rock City, as many of you know, is a hyperconnective environment. It's full of interactive art. It's very antic and it's a lot of fun. But I've decided to focus here on economics, the dismal science, because, in the end, doesn't everything come down to economics, of one kind or another? I will begin by quoting an almost forgotten author, Richard Jefferies. His writings belong to a British literary genre called "country writing" that flourished in the nineteenth century. This is the contrast he draws. I'm thinking, of course, about Burning Man and Black Rock City, the civic entity we annually create in the Black Rock Desert.
But if they peel off the onion skin and peer a bit closer, there is another story. And that's one of the problems reporters have. The essential cause of all this is the giving of gifts. Let me draw a contrast between the market and a gift economy. Living Sacred Economics. The wildfire spread of protests inspired by Occupy Wall Street suggests that we're at a crucial turning point: more and more people now yearn for a way to make money and human economy as sacred as everything else in the universe. Sacred Economics has a social dimension, a political dimension, an activist dimension, a personal dimension, and a spiritual dimension. All are interrelated, and all are deeply necessary as the pace of planetary change accelerates. In his new book, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition, author and lecturer Charles Eisenstein writes: "Today we associate money with the profane, and for good reason.
If anything is sacred in this world, it is surely not money. Money seems to be the enemy of all our better instincts, as is clear every time the thought 'I can't afford to' blocks an impulse toward kindness or generosity. Fortunately, the money system as we have known it is breaking down. Through this course, you will understand: The Serpent's Promise: The Oldest Exchange of All. "Sorcerers say death is the only worthy opponent we have. . . .
Death is our challenger. . . . Life is the process by means of which death challenges us. . . . Death is the active force. Life is the arena. And in that arena there are only two contenders at any time: oneself and death. . . . Anyone who has smoked DMT knows why Terence McKenna called it "white knuckle stuff. " What follows in this article is not based on hard science or accepted facts about brain or body chemistry and entheogens. As "condensed death particles," then, entheogens attack the nervous system, targeting specifically the neurons, not only of the brain but of the entire body, within which more and more neurological systems are being discovered (such as in the heart and intestines). Shamanically speaking, to smoke DMT or ingest any other hallucinogen is to offer up our cells as a sacrifice to the spirits. Spirits are inorganic intelligences (which may include what we call souls of the dead). Gaia's Secret Revenge? Calleman's Pyramid Scheme.
You may have heard that the end date' ofthe Mayan calendar is actually going to be this Friday, October 28th,2011, rather than December 21st 2012. This idea is based on the idiosyncratic work of Dr. Carl Calleman. This theory is idiosyncratic in that it bears no relationship whatsoever to any other Mayan scholarship, or indigenous Mayan teaching.
The origin of the idea is proposed in Dr.Calleman's book The Mayan Calendar: Solving The Greatest Mystery of Our Time. Calleman then further developed this theory into a grand nine level "pyramid of time" based on a Mayan stele' inscription found at the site of Coba. Calleman's model uses just the nine time cycles within this inscription that have been given names. Another problem for Calleman's nine level pyramid as a description of the evolution of consciousness is that the idea that the Bolontiku', or nine gods, represent multi-leveled underworlds, is an early invention of "Colonial period writers" and has long been discredited. Beyond Money. With thousands of protesters opposing a global economic system that creates vast inequity and consumes natural resources at an exponentially unsustainable rate, What Comes After Money?
Challenges society to go beyond current financial paradigms in order to create the better, more equitable world we dream of. This anthology of articles from Reality Sandwich, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan and just released by EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books, offers a wealth of alternatives to the current monetary system. In the book, twenty-six visionary thinkers explore the roots of the modern economic crisis and propose diverse solutions: instituting local and complementary currencies; creating reputation or gift economies (based on historical and contemporary examples); introducing spirituality into the equation; and many more. [What Comes After Money? Join us at the book release party on Friday, October 28, in NYC.
Extreme Democracy (9781411631397): Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe. The Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth (9780385531665): Michael Raynor. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (9781583943977): Charles Eisenstein. Customer Reviews: What Comes After Money?: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community.