– The following is excerpted from a group email sent by a friend on the ground who is involved with the Education and Empowerment Working Group at OWS, among other things. Alejandro speaks very well to ways in which the conversation has expanded, become self-sustaining in a way, to the spread of awareness, and to new avenues for dialogue. Personal […]
Author: Austin Lord
From Yale Daily News: Contrasting Opinions on Occupy New Haven
– The Yale Daily News has been covering the Occupy New Haven movement in the past week or so… illustrating that #Occupy Movement is very much still a contentious issue here on the Yale campus. — 1. The YDN initiation of coverage on October 11th. — 2. More recently, a second piece from the Yale Daily News covers the an […]
David Graeber: “On Playing By the Rules – The Strange Success of Occupy Wall Street” life
— “The social scientist in me has to ask: Why? Why now? Why did it actually work?” David Graeber posted this worthwhile piece this morning at nakedcapitalism.com. Albeit rambling and informally off-the-cuff (perhaps rightly so) Graeber’s commentary fires on more than a few cylinders. An anthropologist, academic (Graeber a former Yale professor, in fact), and veteran protest-leader, Graeber provides an […]
Commentary: “Don’t Confuse the Complexity of this Movement with Chaos”
I went down to Occupy Wall Street last night on my own. I heard it before I saw it: drums, voices, general hubbub. First I walked the perimeter, talking pictures of the protesters standing tall with signs in hand, signs like “99% + 1% = 100%, we are all one,” “don’t let the media force down your eyes, this […]
Occupy Against Big Corporate Food – October 29th
In the context of expanding the movement and its criticisms to address environmental issues and other types of inequity… Organzations at Yale such the Coalition for Agriculture, Food & the Environment; Environmental Justice @ Yale; and The Yale Sustainable Food Project were recently invited to participate in a protest planned for October 29th against Big Corporate Food, organized by graduate students […]