Our Tent of Dreams by @micahbales #OWS
Excellent! Thanks for this Micah! http://lambswar.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-tent-of-dreams.html
Month: January 2012
What Next for the Occupiers? – Bill McKibben in @sojourners
Environmental activist and Sojourners contributor Bill McKibben on OWS Because they didn’t quickly say “we want this bill passed,†commentators have had to grapple with the actual message of many Occupiers: Our economy is unfair. It gives too much power to corporations, who abuse that power for their own ends. They’ve not just cheated us financially; they’ve cheated us out Continue Reading
Bank CEO & #OWS sat down over coffee? Unfortunate accurate depiction of TRICKLE down mythology
Ughh. This article is so typical. Bank CEO “talks some sense” into a strawman OWS person. Most #OWS peopel would see this as just the kind of impasse at which we presently find ourselves. http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/47776/what-if-a-bank-ceo-and-occupy-wall-street-sat-down-over-coffee/ Now doesn’t that make sense when you “settle down” and realize that we do this for EVERYONE? Yeah. Right.
Comforting the disturbed & disturbing the comfortable by @jonkuhrt
The Occupy movements around the world often bring to the fore many churches who have quietly been supporting movements of alternative values and confrontations of unjust government economics. The Occupy LSX camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral has meant that that the church’s relationship with causes of political and economic justice has been front page news in recent months in an unprecedented way. Continue Reading
People’s Prayer Breakfast Feb.2 in DC
I so wish I could be there. Hope someone is streaming. stand in unity with those suffering economic hardship and inequality in our nation http://occupyfaithdc.org/ This “People’s Prayer Breaskfast” is to the “National Parayer Breakfast” as #occupyfaithDC is to what has been communicated by the “go to church on Sunday ” use of the hashtag #occupychurch. A self-absorbed, blow your trumpet Continue Reading
Lessig & Hedges on Confronting the Corporate State #OWS
Just watched this impressive conversation between Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges on the situation in the United States re: the “Winner Take All Politics” (to borrow a title from a book whose authors Bill MOyers had on his opening week of his new show recently). I had downloaded a sample chapter of Lessig’s latest book Republic Lost, and now I Continue Reading
a great #OccupyTheology conversation
Listening right now to this podcast w/ @Micahbales and @JamesLee and Jeremy at @glassdimlyfaith. Great stuff , great #occupytheology http://www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive/2012/01/28/voices-of-the-99
#SOTU is into INDIVIDUAL stories, but apparently NOT movements ie #OWS #occupytheology
It just occurred to me that the SOTU tends to be GNOSTIC in it’s nationalism. It’s the fashion to feature “highlighted” individual stories in the State of the Union. But when it comes to movements, FIRE! BAD! No mention of what the obvious popular movement that has brought the very issues and themes upon which that Obama executed his oratory. Continue Reading
Why Davos is ignoring Occupy #OWS #Davos #1pctOfThe1pct
What a dandy swipe at the elite of the elite: If you’re Europe, and your struggling people are called “Greeksâ€, and your rich people are called “Germansâ€, then the World Economic Forum will spend pretty much limitless amounts of time and effort on attempts to understand the dynamics between the two and (doomed) plans to try to prevent it from Continue Reading
BP and Wall Street: Beyond the Edge via @RonSuskind in #ConfidenceMen
A good juxtaposition of two disasters in Ron Suskind’s book on the Obama economic team, Confidence Men. Like so many other disasters in this period, the spill was the result of executives pushing themselves to the very edge of legal limits, and then beyond, in the name of short-term profit. —Suskind, Ron (2011-09-20). Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Continue Reading
Is Obama’s ‘Economic Populism’ for Real? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
If Matt Taibi sees a possibility of some real hope here, then that itself is a reason for hope. Taibbi lays it out, and concludes with this: Obama’s decision to tap Schneiderman publicly, and dump Geithner, and whisper about a millionaire’s tax, signals a shift in its public attitude toward the Wall Street corruption issue. The administration is clearly listening to Continue Reading
The protest, Wall Street, and the vote #OWS
Another clueless critique , this time from Chrsi Christie , suggestingthat the Civil Rights movement would have gotten the gains by putting it to a vote. Similarly, there have been people who criticize Occupy saying that there is no need for “the silly protests” because they have the mechanism of voting to speak for them. But that IS why there Continue Reading
Obama on the Brink of Settlement With Big Banks? The Nation #OWS
Rather disturbing to see this , especially in light of Obama’s SOTU speech claiming to be “setting up financial fraud enforcement unit”. Civil immunity would be granted to the banks for any role in foreclosure fraud, and there would be no investigations. via Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious | The Nation. Don’t Continue Reading
Jesse Jackson: Occupy in memory of MLK
From Jesse Jackson op-ed for CNN: Dr. King was an occupier, our country occupied by the vicious and divisive legal segregation. His last great campaign was the Poor People’s Campaign, aimed at occupying the Mall in the nation’s Capitol to address abounding poverty, the demands for a job or an income for all, health care for all. When Dr. King Continue Reading
We need to explore theological issues in the American stories & reports Moyers brings us #OWS
Once again, I want to repeat how glad I am to have the voice of Bill Moyers back on television. A friend of mine has often lamented that Moyers should be on the news shows ALL THE TIME. I agree. He should be persistently pursued for the treasures of knowledge he aggregates in his wonderf ully informative interviews. He brings Continue Reading