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A Guide to the Occupy Wall Street API, Or Why the Nerdiest Way to Think About OWS Is So Useful - Alexis Madrigal - Technology
The most fascinating thing about Occupy Wall Street is the way that the protests have spread from Zuccotti Park to real and virtual spaces across the globe. Metastatic, the protests have an organizational coherence that's surprising for a movement with few actual leaders and almost no official institutions. Much of that can be traced to how Occupy Wall Street has functioned in catalyzing other protests.Andersoortig kapitalisme?
De Sloveense cultuurfilosoof Slavoj Žižek deed zijn optreden op Occupy Wall Street. U vindt de volledige tekst op Global Rights maar hier is een passage die ik heel interessant vond: The only sense in which we are Communists is that we care for the commons.
Millionaires Control 39% of Global Wealth - The Wealth Report
By Robert Frank Here’s another stat that the Occupy Wall Streeters can hoist on their placards: The world’s millionaires and billionaires now control 38.5% of the world’s wealth. According to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29.7 million people in the world with household net worths of $1 million (representing less than 1% of the world’s population) control about $89 trillion of the world’s wealth.