-
Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
[With subtitles and interactive transcript]
-
Daily Kos: Wall Street Protests | Senator Bernie Sanders
Here are several proposals that I am working on:
1) If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. …
-
Daily Kos: #OccupyBoston’s Most Critical Night
Today, though you wouldn’t know it from watching the MSM, 10,000 strong marched in solidarity across Boston and shut down the Charlestown Bridge. The people there were students, unions, seniors, the unemployed, the working poor — in essence, the 99%.
-
Daily Kos: Elizabeth Warren raises more than three million dollars
Elizabeth Warren’s first fundraising totals are in, and the numbers are eye-popping:
* Over $3,150,000 raised.
* 96% of donors gave less than $100.
* Over 11,000 donors from Massachusetts.All of these totals are through Sept. 30. Warren only started raising money on Aug. 18…
This is a tremendous start, but remember that Scott Brown is sitting on a Wall Street fueled warchest of more than $10,000,000.
-
Daily Kos: Recall of Scott Walker to start on November 15
It has just been announced that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin will begin gathering petition signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker on Nov. 15.
They will have 60 days to gather a minimum of 540,206 signatures, with a filing deadline of Jan. 13.
With numerous upcoming holidays and the onset of winter, this will not be an easy task. However, Wisconsin Democrats are forging ahead anyway, and have already begun to train volunteers to gather petitions. You can help them out by contributing $5 to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Act Blue.
-
Boston Police & Massachusetts State Police Raid #OccupyBoston Camp | The Dissenter
1:58 AM Occupy Boston raided by Boston security forces including the bomb squad and riot police. Massachusetts state police come assist Boston security forces in the raid. Protesters dragged and beaten.
-
In what may be the most stark statistical reality announced to date concerning escalating U.S. income inequality, the lead in Monday’s NY Times brings us news of the publishing of a study by John F. Coder and Gordon W. Green, Jr., two former employees of the U.S. Census Bureau, which finds that inflation-adjusted median U.S. household income has fallen more than twice as much during the first two years of our “recovery” than it did during the “recession,” itself.
-
Daily Kos: Occupy Wall Street roundup: Day 24
* A tense situation in Boston today, including threats of mass arrest.
* Occupy Wall Street got a visit from infamous fake-pimp-slash-videotape-re-editor James O’Keefe today, who YO JAMES I’M GONNA LET YOU FINISH BUT SUSAN SARANDON WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT CELEBRITY VISITOR OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME. What this was supposed to accomplish is unclear, but by the time O’Keefe finishes editing tapes of the event he’ll have himself single-handedly saving the Wall Street banks from a velociraptor attack. …
* Speaking of right wingers with little else to do, the American Spectator journalist who bragged online about “infiltrating” protestors in DC in order to personally “undermine” them, and who managed to get himself pepper sprayed at the National Air and Space Museum after rushing the guards there, is now changing his story. Possibly because he admitted to both unethical behavior and, well, crimes. …
* …at least three NYC arrests today. Two for photography, and one for drawing a line on a sidewalk with chalk. No, seriously.
* Nancy Pelosi reiterated her support for Occupy Wall Street, in the process responding to Eric Cantor’s snide dismissal of the protestors as a “mob.” -
Daily Kos: Romney vows to reverse Obama’s ‘massive defense cuts’ … that never happened
I’m struggling really hard to figure out what Romney means here. Perhaps he means that President Obama “cut” negative $74 billion from defense spending over the last year.
-
#OccupyWallStreet’s Art Exhibition: Celebration and Harsh Realities
This Saturday, I visited No Comment, an art exhibition in response to Occupy Wall Street at the historic JP Morgan Building. Sandwiched between the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall, this exhibition was the closest the protesters have gotten to actually occupying a Wall Street building with their signs and messages of economic struggle.
No Comment was born from a collaboration between Occupy Wall Street and the artist collective Loft in the Red Zone…
-
The OZ Collective is proud to announce the release of online and PDF versions of the zine!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The Of interest (Oct 11) by Lee (via Diigo) , unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Terms and conditions beyond the scope of this license may be available at leesalazar.com.