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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.
12.14.11: "You 'Da Boss?" Collective Creation
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
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.
Judge orders New York to allow protesters, tents, in park
A New York Supreme Court justice opts not to extend a temporary restraining order Hundreds of police and private security guards fill the park and the surrounding area Demonstrators circle their former home base. The city plans to allow protesters to stage demonstrations in Zuccotti Park
10/28/2011
10/27/11
"I love the Occupy Wall Street Library," Jeff Sharlet tells me.
Occupy Writers: A Mirror of and a Stimulant for the Occupy Movement | Truthout
Without regulatory permission, Bank of American on October 18th has moved potentially trillions of dollars worth of European derivatives into their depository arm to give it access to the Fed window, and backstopping by the FDIC and US taxpayers .
2008 Redux: Taxpayers to help bailout Merrill Lynch and Bank of America - National Finance Examiner
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
Plan on dramatic cuts in tuition assistance - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/10/military-dramatic-tuition-cuts-coming-101911/Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with minor updates made on October 1, 2011.Editor's note: iReporters all over the globe are showing us what Occupy Wall Street is like in their towns and cities through the Open Story: from the Aleutian Islands to Raleigh, North Carolina; from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Zadar, Croatia.
'Occupy' movement goes global as a symbol of shared economic frustration
experiments of democracy
Can they reject their long history of fiscal irresponsibility? A century ago, america’s states and cities faced a crisis in government.
Debt: The Shame of Cities and States
My Suggestions - My Solutions I’m not naïve enough to think I have all the answers and I don’t pretend to understand every aspect of how the world works but I do believe in simple answers. These are my solutions to some of our current problems.
My Suggestions - My Solutions
Text by J. Richard Gott
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011–The Accelerating Universe
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