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Members present: Andrea Carter, Praba, Holly Hellerstedt, Cathy Mendonca, David Krimmel, Paul, Penny, Cara Cadwallader, Joan, Joseph, Fred, Mariah Gayler Situation: Specific context for San Diego. What is the landscape here? What are our opportunities and challenges? What are the needs that this can be a vehicle to serve? As a group, we also discussed: our initial first steps; how we will ensure responsibility and accountability along the way; what our organizational leadership model will look like; and how to prioritize our goals.
The San Diego County Community Coalition: [SDCPJ] Timebank? Community via Alternative Currency -- Meeting this Sat 6/4
Get started In order to give and receive services in exchange for "time" you need to be registered and approved in the time bank management web app. You do not need to sign up for anything to use this site, participate in our discussion group, or do good old fashioned volunteer work. Time banking is a form of "pay-it-forward" bartering where individuals and organizations exchange services (and sometimes goods) for "time" aka "time dollars" which are "earned" and "spent" on services with any member of the time bank.
NCTB North County San Diego Time Bank
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read all about it: Chelsea Potter distributed the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal near Zuccotti Park Saturday morning. Just before noon, Chelsea Potter stood on the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street holding a sheaf of newspapers and offering them to passers-by. Over the last two weeks, as people participating in a protest called Occupy Wall Street have called attention to what they say are inequities in the economic system, the ways in which news organizations have covered the protests have been a subject of hot debate. Some protesters have wished aloud for reporting more in line with their own conception of themselves. Now, they have their own newspaper.
Occupying, and Now Publishing, Too - NYTimes.com
Are "Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe" feeling some heat?: Panic of the Plutocrats, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times : It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction.
Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Panic of the Plutocrats
The Occupy Movement began on Sept. 17, 2011, when a diffuse group of activists began a loosely organized protest called Occupy Wall Street, encamping in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park in New York’s financial district. The protest was a stand against corporate greed, social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process. The idea was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind, if not the scale, of protests that had erupted earlier in 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt. The group’s slogan — “we are the 99 percent” — touched a raw nerve across the nation. The 1 percent refers to the haves: that is, the banks, the mortgage industry, the insurance industry, etc.; and the 99 percent refers to the have-nots: that is, everyone else.
Occupy Wall Street - The New York Times
And gaining attention for it. Mr. Appelbaum recalled asking a colleague over the phone to find out who was behind Occupy Wall Street — a bunch of hippies or perhaps troublemakers? — and whether the movement might quickly fade. So far, at least, it has not, and on Wednesday, several prominent unions, struggling to gain traction on their own, made their first effort to join forces with Occupy Wall Street.
Major Unions Join Occupy Wall Street Protest - NYTimes.com
Occupy Wall St.: A New Generation of Dissenters - NYTimes.com
If the Occupy Wall Street protesters ever choose to recognize a person who gave their cause its biggest boost, they may want to pay tribute to Anthony Bologna. Deputy Inspector Bologna, to be more precise, was the senior New York police officer who on Sept. 24 blasted pepper spray at four female demonstrators, knocking them to the sidewalk in pain. An oft-viewed video of that moment offers no evidence of their having posed a threat or doing anything more sinister than shouting.America’s ‘Primal Scream’ - NYTimes.com
There are differences, of course: the New York Police Department isn’t dispatching camels to run down protesters. Americans may feel disenfranchised, but we do live in a democracy, a flawed democracy — which is the best hope for Egypt’s evolution in the coming years. Yet my interviews with protesters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park seemed to rhyme with my interviews in Tahrir earlier this year. There’s a parallel sense that the political/economic system is tilted against the 99 percent. Al Gore, who supports the Wall Street protests, described them perfectly as a “primal scream of democracy.” The frustration in America isn’t so much with inequality in the political and legal worlds, as it was in Arab countries, although those are concerns too.
October 15, 2011, 5:24 pm My Sunday column hopes and prays that the Occupy Wall Street movement will help put the issue of economic inequality on the national agenda for the 2012 election. It seems to me to be one of the background challenges our economy faces, and it’s an issue of fairness, yet it has received very little attention until recently. So what do you think? Do you agree with my column argument that inequality has become an impediment to economic growth? And do you think Occupy Wall Street has set it firmly on the agenda?
"Occupy Wall Street" and Inequality - NYTimes.com
Mr. Cuesta told the newspaper , The St. Petersburg Times, that he had never participated in a protest before. The reporter, John Barry, said he was drawn to Mr.
Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story - NYTimes.com
Aryans - Arya - Vedic Civilization - Vedas - Sanskrit - Arya Samaj - Haryana Online - India
Aryan is an English word derived from the Sanskrit , and Vedic term Arya , meaning noble . One of the meanings of this term refers to a hypothetical single group of people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages. German philologists believed that the Germanic group originated from the steppes north of Historic Khwarizm, and this Germanic group followed the Aryan group into Iran before splitting from Arya. It then migrated north to the Black Sea, where they again moved north to the Baltic lake. Thus, German philologists concluded, the German people have a direct ancestry with the people of the Arya region in Iran.Geraniums vs. Smokestacks San Diego's Mayoralty Campaign of 1917 | San Diego History Center
By Uldis Ports ... it is well known that public improvements requiring the acquisition of large property must recede population; otherwise they are impossible. 1 John Nolen In 1908, John Nolen, a nationally respected landscape architect and city planner, wrote and illustrated a book, San Diego, A Comprehensive Plan For Its Improvement, primarily at the request of citizen George White Marston. Nolen wrote to Marston that San Diego "has no wide and impressive business streets, practically no open spaces in the heart of the city, no worthy sculpture." As a solution, he proposed more open space for public use and the conversion of certain streets into boulevards, or prados, with large boulevards connecting the bayfront, civic center, and Balboa Park.Finding libraries that hold this item...
Twelve who shaped San Diego : a series of thirteen one-hour radio programs (Audiobook on Cassette, 1978) [WorldCat.org]
Reflections from Executive Director Terry Chadsey during his first month on the job I feel like a kid in a candy shop. My days are filled with conversations with an eye opening diversity of interesting people, intriguing ideas and engaging experiences. I know I am richly privileged as I seek to harvest my own experience into giving back. Some of these experiences simply flow over me and move on. Some stick in the way Chip and Dan Heath describe here .