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TEACH IN MATERIALS – Videos.. Articles.. : Occupy Colleges. Occupy Everything. Sign Language. Why #OccupyWallStreet? Three Answers from DC Douglas. Msnbc: OSW & Naomi Klein Rachel Maddow Show. Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street ) Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night.

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. We Recommend The youth and those who are not so young participating in Occupy Wall Street deserve support, not scorn. Does the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has now spread from lower Manhattan to places as far flung as Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, signal a new beginning for the left? Since they can no loner ignore the occupation, the mainstream media has decided to mock and dismiss it instead. About the Author Naomi Klein.

Verso: Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street: “We are not dreamers, we are the awakening from a dream which is turning into a night. Slavoj Žižek visited Liberty Plaza to speak to Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Verso: Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street: “We are not dreamers, we are the awakening from a dream which is turning into a night

Here is the original text of his speech — not a transcript, as originally described in error. Don't fall in love with yourselves, with the nice time we are having here. Carnivals come cheap - the true test of their worth is what remains the day after, how our normal daily life will be changed. WP: Will Occupy Wall Street’s spark reshape our politics? The protesters in the nascent movement have been criticized for being too decentralized and lacking a clear list of demands.

WP: Will Occupy Wall Street’s spark reshape our politics?

But they are bearing witness to the corruption of our politics; if they made demands to those in power, it would suggest those in power could do something about it. This contradicts what is, perhaps, their most compelling point: that our institutions and politicians serve the top 1 percent, not the other 99. The movement doesn’t need a policy or legislative agenda to send its message. The thrust of what it seeks—fueled both by anger and deep principles—has moral clarity. It wants corporate money out of politics. Occupy Wall Street is now in more than 800 cities and counting. Republicans have reacted bitterly. WP: how to build a movement. (On Monday, I asked Rich Yeselson for his thoughts on Occupy Wall Street.

WP: how to build a movement

Yeselson, a research coordinator at Change to Win, is a skilled organizer and a thoughtful historian of social movements in America and Europe. On Tuesday, he sent over some notes, and I think they’re worth publishing in full. All opinions expressed here are his own. -- Ezra) Occupy Wall Street participants are protesting corporate greed. (Spencer Platt - GETTY IMAGES) The Wall Street protests seem to be gathering strength and expanding beyond the geographic limits of downtown Manhattan.

Americans--infatuated with the next new thing, and proud to believe they are outside the constraints and burdens of history--love neophytes, gifted amateurs. But anger alone can’t sustain action. Movement building is exhausting, highly skilled work. Saving State U: why we must fix ... - Nancy Folbre. Radical Teacher - <i>Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education</i>

Beyond the corporate Uni Henry A. Giroux, Kostas Myrsiades. Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy. In spite of being discredited by the economic recession of 2008, neoliberalism, or market fundamentalism as it is called in some quarters, has once again returned with a vengeance.

Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy

The Gilded Age has come back with big profits for the rich and increasing impoverishment and misery for the middle and working class. Political illiteracy has cornered the market on populist rage, providing a political bonus for those who are responsible for massive levels of inequality, poverty, and sundry other hardships. As social protections are dismantled, public servants are denigrated and public goods such as schools, bridges, health care services and public transportation deteriorate, the Obama administration unapologetically embraces the values of economic Darwinism and rewards its chief beneficiaries: mega banks and big business.

Memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely in economic terms. Footnotes: 1. 2. 3. 4. NYT: Stanley Fish "In Academia, Who Works for Whom?" If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for?

NYT: Stanley Fish "In Academia, Who Works for Whom?"

If you were a jeweler or an accountant or a court clerk, and the same question were asked, the answer would follow from the hierarchy of an organization and/or the origin of your paycheck. You would work for the store manager, who would work for the owner. Or you would work for a company that would be answerable to shareholders and a board of directors. Or you would work for the district attorney and, finally, for the state.