emer: For every $10 donated, a struggling American can be liberated from $200 of debt. Do it.  I did. “Strike Debt is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. First started in New York City, but inspired by movements around the globe, Strike Debt now has affiliates across the country. We believe people should not go into debt for basic necessities like education, healthcare and housing. Strike Debt initiatives like the Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual offer advice to all kinds of debtors about how to escape debt and how to join a growing collective resistance to the debt system. Our network has the goal of building a broad movement, with more effective ways of resisting debt, and with the ultimate goal of creating an alternative economy that benefits us all and not just the 1%.”
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For every $10 donated, a struggling American can be liberated from $200 of debt.

Do it.  I did.

“Strike Debt is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. First started in New York City, but inspired by movements around the globe, Strike Debt now has affiliates across the country. We believe people should not go into debt for basic necessities like education, healthcare and housing. Strike Debt initiatives like the Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual offer advice to all kinds of debtors about how to escape debt and how to join a growing collective resistance to the debt system. Our network has the goal of building a broad movement, with more effective ways of resisting debt, and with the ultimate goal of creating an alternative economy that benefits us all and not just the 1%.”

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This sentiment keeps popping up around the web. I think this version is a more productive angle than some others, but still risks becoming a red herring because of its finger-wagging attitude. I explained my position about the worst versions of this meme a few months back. If I were to remake this graphic (and maybe I should), I would phrase it in the positive: “Things that become possible if Occupy succeeds”. One of which being, depending on the definition of “succeed” is the eradication of global poverty. I think it’s important to note in this conversation that those with the most resources are the best hope of those without. I don’t believe in the trickle-down theory of laissez faire economies, but I do believe that if the first world countries can really “get it right”, we could much more easily lift those in the third world. If our time, money and emotional energy are always tied up in our own fucked up lives, how can we help others?
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This sentiment keeps popping up around the web. I think this version is a more productive angle than some others, but still risks becoming a red herring because of its finger-wagging attitude. I explained my position about the worst versions of this meme a few months back.

If I were to remake this graphic (and maybe I should), I would phrase it in the positive: “Things that become possible if Occupy succeeds”. One of which being, depending on the definition of “succeed” is the eradication of global poverty.

I think it’s important to note in this conversation that those with the most resources are the best hope of those without. I don’t believe in the trickle-down theory of laissez faire economies, but I do believe that if the first world countries can really “get it right”, we could much more easily lift those in the third world.

If our time, money and emotional energy are always tied up in our own fucked up lives, how can we help others?

The danger the corporate state faces does not come from the poor. The poor, those Karl Marx dismissed as the Lumpenproletariat, do not mount revolutions, although they join them and often become cannon fodder. The real danger to the elite comes from déclassé intellectuals, those educated middle-class men and women who are barred by a calcified system from advancement. Artists without studios or theaters, teachers without classrooms, lawyers without clients, doctors without patients and journalists without newspapers descend economically. They become, as they mingle with the underclass, a bridge between the worlds of the elite and the oppressed. And they are the dynamite that triggers revolt. This is why the Occupy movement frightens the corporate elite. What fosters revolution is not misery, but the gap between what people expect from their lives and what is offered. This is especially acute among the educated and the talented. They feel, with much justification, that they have been denied what they deserve. They set out to rectify this injustice. And the longer the injustice festers, the more radical they become.

Chris Hedges (via azspot)

The truth of this statement is astounding.  The corporate elite should be afraid because not only do we have the numbers on our side, we have morality and equality on our side as well.

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Interesting idea - something to think about. I’ve been largely combining what is referred to here as the poor and the educated middle class as the “working class” as a whole. What’s interesting to me is the idea of blogging and social media, which I suppose is more likely to happen among the middle classes (maybe that’s a rude assumption though - historically it was the lower classes involved in struggle that put out newspapers, spread the word, and in some cases further educated themselves for the struggle). Hmmm..

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May Day Strike, 2012 I love it when my graphic design and socialist nerderies overlap - this is inspired by a classic poster by Alexander Rodchenko, a soviet artist during graphic design’s growing up period (which soviet propaganda did a great deal to influence and move forward). This poster has been borrowed a lot already - but I’d argue that this is more appropriate. IMPORTANT UPDATE! Rodchenko was a hottie.
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I love it when my graphic design and socialist nerderies overlap - this is inspired by a classic poster by Alexander Rodchenko, a soviet artist during graphic design’s growing up period (which soviet propaganda did a great deal to influence and move forward).

This poster has been borrowed a lot already - but I’d argue that this is more appropriate.

IMPORTANT UPDATE! Rodchenko was a hottie.

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When we talk about people who spray-paint and break windows and start bonfires in the street and shove people and scream and run around,… let’s keep one thing in mind: they didn’t send anyone to the hospital, drive any seniors from their homes, spread despair and debt among the young, snatch food and medicine from the desperate, or destroy the global economy.
From The Truth About Violence at Occupy

Seattle HS Teacher and Socialist Jesse Hagopian on Countdown with Keith Olbermann Tonight

“On Monday, Nov. 28 Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher and member of the Seattle ISO, along with members of the Social Equality Educators, attempted a citizens’ arrest of the Washington State legislature. Their crime? A well-documented failure to comply with the State constitution to fully fund education. Jesse, with parents, teachers, and students, from across the state demanded the legislature tax the rich to decrease class sizes, rehire laid off teachers, and equalize funding between districts.

Jesse will be on Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann Wednesday night at 8pm to discuss the arrest.”
 

I’ve admired and cheered Jesse for some years now. He’s a caring person and a tireless activist - I say that with no exaggeration. He was coincidentally in Haiti during the earthquake, attempting to save lives despite complete lack of medical experience. He’s been at the front of the #occupy movement in Seattle, organizing teach-ins at banks and writing always clever articles for Common Dreams and other publications. He’s an amazing speaker and has a way of using humor and metaphor to help us understand injustice.

Please watch him if you get a chance!

andernathanson:

Two of my favorites. The fist makes me think of vintage antifa art (which always get my heart pounding with excitement), and the second is a like a proto-socialist stream of thought. The working class is learning through experience, yall!

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runfromtheherd: thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day. The dumpster at the 57th Street Sanitation Garage in NYC. These are a pile, a portion of the 5500 books from the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library that were found in the trash in a highly damaged state. Photo Credit: @OWSLibrary/Twitpic Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo. This is a sacrilege. There are no words.
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thepoliticalnotebook:

Picture of the Day. The dumpster at the 57th Street Sanitation Garage in NYC. These are a pile, a portion of the 5500 books from the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library that were found in the trash in a highly damaged state.

Photo Credit: @OWSLibrary/Twitpic Via.

View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

This is a sacrilege.

There are no words.

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cocaincadence:

Emotionally intense images of retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis - who has joined the #OccupyWallStreet protests - being arrested by the NYPD.

Captain Lewis has been outspoken against the NYPD’s wrongful use of violence against peaceful protesters.

From what I have seen, Ray Lewis’ conduct defines honor, bravery, and dignity.

There is a media blackout on images of his participation in the protest, and on his arrest:

It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere.  I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph.  One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/

Make this viral and they will come.

Ray Lewis gets 2 posts this morning, because this needs to be seen. I’m not even sure why, but this pair of photos made me cry hysterically.

oh my god. so much props to this man. this country has turned into utter fucking insanity. 

I have so much respect for this man.

Always reblog Cpt. Ray Lewis.

That’s some real shit there.

“The media blackout is not a threat - the whole world is watching on the internet!” Please reblog.

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