December 2011
37 posts
@mikedelic Wow, for many that will be true
An Occupy Grand Rapids protester said the nod from Time is an indication the message is resonating.
Via mlive.com
telling Police, “You wanted us to move the tent, We moved it! For every eviction, another Occupation.” via Tim Pool, OccupyIcon
From the article on TheArchaeologicalBox.com
Among the finds is a haunting, albeit partly lost, inscription in the words of King Nebuchadnezzar II, a ruler of Babylon who built a great ziggurat — massive pyramidlike towers built in ancient Mesopotamia — dedicated to the god Marduk about 2,500 years ago.
The inscription was carved onto a stele, a stone slab used for engraving. It includes a drawing of the ziggurat and King Nebuchadnezzar II himself. Some scholars have argued that the structure inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. In the inscription, Nebuchadnezzar talks about how he got people from all over the world to build the Marduk tower and a second ziggurat at Borsippa.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/19/ancient-texts-tell-tales-war-bar-tabs/#ixzz1h63O4H3d
At least 30 protesters from the Occupy movement interrupted a meeting on Thursday of the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, according to AnnArbor.com, a local news source. The protesters, from Occupy Ann Arbor …
Via chronicle.com
December 15, 2011 Dear Santa, What I want for Christmas is a better world. I want greed, consumerism and the unrelenting devotion to climbing to the top of the pyramid to be replaced with coo…
Via occupygr.wordpress.com
Late Wednesday afternoon, a small group of people involved with Occupy Grand Rapids held a protest in front of the federal building in downtown Grand Rapids. In addition to holding signs for nearly two hours as motorists …
Via griid.org
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.comGrand Rapids demonstrators urge Rep.
Via mlive.com
Via Scoop.it - OccupyGR
In Grand Rapids, members of We Are The People and Occupy Grand Rapids protested Thursday outside the office of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, urging him to support an extension. Demonstrator Michael Tuffelmire tells the …
Via wearethepeoplemichigan.com
Christmas Wish List / Open Letter to Santa Dear Santa, What I want for Christmas is a better world. I want greed, consumerism and the unrelenting devotion to climbing to the top of the pyramid to be replaced with cooperation, collaboration, and focus on our long term. I’d like corporations to be fundamentally structured for accountability and benefit to their workers, to their customers, to the overall effects of their operation …
Via occupygrandrapids.wikispaces.com
Last night, on his MSNBC show, Ed Schulz finished the evening with a piece about the Emergency Manager issue in Michigan. One particularly interesting point made by Rev. Alexander Bullock from the Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church of Highland Park, MI and also of Rainbow Push Detroit was that Emergency Managers can take control of the Clerk’s office when they take over a city. Since the City Clerks run the local elections, that has ominous portent for the future of democracy in our state. During the hand-off from Ed Schultz to Rachel Maddow, it became clear that there was much more to come on the subject of Michigan’s Emergency Managers and indeed there was.
Via bloggingformichigan.com
Whack A Mole Revolution: A guide to Pop Up Occupations
Version 1.0 12/1/11 OccupySF Committee of Correspondence and 101 Tribe Affinity Group
In the past few months, we have seen our Occupations rise and fall in the face of police raids and eviction actions. The political environment has become…
On Saturday, Michael Cole erected a plywood structure in Reutter Park to join an Occupy Lansing movement he hoped would give voice to the ‘99 percenters.’…
Via lansingstatejournal.com
Saving American Democracy Amendment - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont http://ping.fm/ZBAtJ
The clause of the National Defense Act governing the status of American detainees is now being discussed behind closed doors http://ping.fm/1iEBp
A significant blow for independent journalists, phototgraphers and videographers; moreover an outrage against those struggling to amass a portfolio worthy of showing to main stream media. It will…
Via giypsy.wordpress.com
Take a look at the current data for various #hashtags by #ows data nerd in light of the upcoming December 9, 2011 to December 11, 2011, event to be held by OccupyData Hackathon.
The Cost of Xmas http:// The true cost of Christmas Xmas from The Guardian. “ A typical working day during the peak season starts at 8am and does not end until 10pm. Workers routinely put in six-day…
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