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There are many forms of collective creation that run the whole spectrum, from merely coloring in someone else’s existing drawing to the actual creation of a thing from scratch. Often this spectrum of distinction is lost in the rush to embrace the amazing and wondrous, collectively created works like Wikipedia and, um, Zagat guides—these being held up as models for the possibility of collective creation of all and every kind of activity—from politics to newspapers.
David Byrne's Journal: 12.14.11: "You 'Da Boss?" Collective Creation
Daily Opus
I call this one the “mining chamber” and tried to create a labyrinthine cavern of twists, turns, nooks, crannies and, of course, mine-ables.
War Costs
There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs.
Occupy the Agenda - NYTimes.com
The Occupy protests might have died in infancy if a senior police official had not pepper-sprayed young women on video. Harsh police measures in other cities, including a clash in Oakland that put a veteran in intensive care and the pepper-spraying of an 84-year-old woman in Seattle, built popular support. Just in the last few days, Bloomberg — who in other respects has been an excellent mayor — rescued the movement from one of its biggest conundrums.
Power in Numbers: Millions Crowd to Occupy Life | MichaelMoore.com
One of the most powerful and interesting things about the Occupy Movement is its reach well beyond Wall Street or even the smallest tent encampments around the nation.
Judge orders New York to allow protesters, tents, in park - CNN.com
New York (CNN) -- A New York Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Occupy protesters will be allowed to return to Zuccotti Park, but they can't bring their tents and generators -- once a mainstay of the movement. The Lower Manhattan property has been a home for the loosely defined group for nearly two months, spawning similar demonstrations in cities nationwide and around the world.
10/28/2011
10/27/11
"I love the Occupy Wall Street Library," Jeff Sharlet tells me. He is the best selling author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" and someone who has spent a lot of time here at Liberty Plaza Park recently, observing the general assemblies, tweeting his thoughts and filing reports on the Wall Street occupation. "I've brought a lot of books there.
Occupy Writers: A Mirror of and a Stimulant for the Occupy Movement | Truthout
If you have any doubt that Bank of America is in trouble, this development should settle it.
Bank of America Deathwatch: Moves Risky Derivatives from Holding Company to Taxpayer-Backstopped Depository « naked capitalism
Plan on dramatic cuts in tuition assistance - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times
Active-duty members should expect significant cuts to the highly popular tuition assistance program next year under a Pentagon plan to reduce the cap on how much the military pays for voluntary education.Starhawk’s new book is out. I think it might be of interest to all those who are looking to get work done within #Occupy.
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