Here’s what The Occupier thinks you should be reading: #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Magazine – The writer of this article seems to favor the view that all large gatherings are mobs. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic – Anonymous…
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Political Science 101 For Those Confused By The Occupy Movement
by Gina Ronning The Occupy movement has been a catalyst for much needed national discourse on the issues of corporate greed and political corruption. More importantly, this discourse is coming from those most affected by the actions of self-driven profiteering businesses, which have long sought to silence this discourse. However, unsustainable practices will inevitably fall…
Occupy Their Minds
By: KJ Ink (more of KJ’s work can be found on his blog)
This Week in Banking News, Saturday, December 31.
If nothing else, it should probably at least be free to be poor A California resident has recently filed a lawsuit against Umpqua Bank over its assessment of overdraft fees. The lawsuit claims that the practice violates the contract between the bank and its customers. It alleges that the bank reordered debits to the plaintiff’s account,…
The Declaration of Occupy Portland
by Adam Rothstein I have seen a vision of the end of Occupy Portland. It looks like a meeting with no actionable agenda, no notes, and no plan for a follow-up meeting. It is organized–maybe–on Facebook alone. And it will have the phrases “ninety-nine percent”, “unity”, and “positive” repeated upwards of twenty times each. It…
Goals for Occupy Portland
by John Springer To successfully change America, the people must win control over our government. It is government where the changes must ultimately happen because government sets the rules that all the rest of us live by, whether we are stock brokers or stockroom clerks, bankers or barristas, corporations or small businesses or homeless. Corporations…
Elsewhere in Occupy for December 28-30th
Here’s what The Occupier thinks you should be reading: TO OCCUPY PORTLAND « occupymandolin –
The Creeping Death of an Elitist Notion
by Lester Macgurdy You don’t need to be wealthy to be elitist. In fact, you don’t even need two nickels to rub together. The 99% are just as prone to elitism as the 1%. Despite the wide economic chasm separating us, we’re all still endowed with the same psychological building blocks. What does every bullied…
Perspectives of an Anarchist
by Cascadian Joe The media loves the word “anarchist”. To them, anarchist means a group of people all wearing black who break things. It makes for great media coverage. Sometimes they’re right, but most of the time they’re wrong. Here is a simple writing that will attempt to explain what the Anarchist believes about the…
Elsewhere in Occupy for December 29th
Here’s what The Occupier thinks you should be reading: When The Thames Froze – Smith & Burrows | Music Video | VEVO –
