From Yale for Occupy: “You can join the listserv at http://groups.google.com/group/occupyyale. Please forward this link to anyone else who might be interested.” — “Yale for Occupy” represents the convergence of #Occupy supporters and occupiers from all corners of the Yale campus – undergraduate and graduate students. This larger group was formalized through the general assembly consensus process at an Oct 27th congregation. The new group […]
Nebulous
“Everything the Tea Party Pretended to Be and Isn’t, Occupy Wall Street Is”
http://griid.org/2011/10/29/occupy-wall-street-v-the-tea-party Jeff Smith distinguishes between populism and “false populism” in a thought provoking piece that analyzes a now popular dialogue comparing the Occupy movement with the Tea Party movement. “Beyond easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the Tea Party-OWS parallel posited by Scherer and other mainstream commentators.” “The Tea Party was and is not a social movement at all […]
7 Billion – which are you?
World population is about to hit (or has hit) 7 billion. What number baby were you? Use this calendar from The Guardian to find out.
“Police Fire Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in Oakland” (NY Times)
Members of #Occupy Movement were forcefully confronted and arrested by riot police this morning in Oakland, CA as they triend to re-enter a space they had been removed from. – NYTimes full story with photographs and video here. – More detail from the Huffington Post here. *Images and video from this morning are quite intense.
NYT/CBS News Poll Shows Distrust in Government
See this link for the recent NYT/CBS News poll about perceptions of Obama, the US Government and OWS.