Time to fire up the antiwar anthems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTzWNfdCG_w
#SongsforSocialChange #protestsongs #OccupyWallStreet #OWS

#Longshoremen at the Port of #Oakland, #Strike prep! Remember... this INDEPENDENT union is #AntiWar, supported #OccupyWallStreet, and is predated on for members and contracts by the Teamsters Operating Engineers which supports war and was mum about Occupy.

"'Nobody works for free': Why Port of Oakland workers walked out" https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/why-port-of-oakland-workers-walked-off-17553861.php

"Oakland longshoremen walk-off portends possible strike" https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-longshoremen-walk-off-portends-possible-strike

'Nobody works for free': Why Port of Oakland workers walked out

The Pacific Maritime Association called the walkout "counterproductive" in a Wednesday...

Economic Update ~ Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=saE-OQlXtno
https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_noam_chomsky_fragile_us_empire

#ProfWolff gives updates on #US #freight #workers #strike #preparations; #progressives and #labor targeting #municipal #government; #Chipotle #store-closing to stop #unionizing, and #OccupyWallStreet's " #Debt-Collective" $5.8 billion #student-loan-forgiveness #win. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff #interviews #NoamChomsky on the #decline and #fragility of the #US #empire, the role of US #military and the rise of #fascism as a coping mechanism.

#economic #update #prof #richardwolff #rdwolff #wolff #chomsky #fragile #audio

Economic Update: Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire

[S12 E30] Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff gives updates on US freight workers strike preparations; progressives and labor targeting municipal government; Chipotle store-closing to stop unionizing, and Occupy...

Anarchist in the UK

David Graeber

En accès libre , émission publiée le 26/08/2017
Durée de l'émission : 82 minutes

Avant que David Graeber n’accepte l’invitation de Hors-Série, je n’avais lu de lui que deux ouvrages ; les deux plus courts disponibles en français. L’un consacré à #Occupy-Wall-Street et l’autre à l’ #anthropologie, sa discipline d’appartenance. J’avais ainsi évité de me coltiner le plus volumineux de ses livres : 5 000 ans d’ #histoire de la #dette. Pour l’occasion, j’ai donc englouti cette enquête monumentale. J’y ai découvert comment, derrière la prétendue évidence morale selon laquelle « il faut toujours payer ses dettes », se cache une violence insidieuse : la domination des créanciers sur les débiteurs. Ceux qui ont souscrit un jour à un prêt pour acheter leur véhicule, régler leurs factures ou payer leurs études connaissent cette violence, cette crainte de ne pouvoir rembourser, ils connaissent l'épée de Damoclès tenue par leur banquier. Le cas des pays africains, qui continuent de payer à leurs anciens colonisateurs une dette dont ils ont déjà remboursé vingt fois le montant initial, prouve combien l’endettement repose toujours sur un rapport de forces. Comme le dit le proverbe : « Si tu dois 100 000 dollars à la banque, elle te tient. Si tu lui en dois 100 millions, tu la tiens ».

Je me suis également plongé dans le dernier ouvrage de Graeber, consacré à la #bureaucratie. Avec une ironie mordante et des montagnes de données, l’auteur montre combien le #néolibéralisme, qui se présente comme un remède aux lourdeurs de l’ #Etat, pousse au contraire à son paroxysme la #bureaucratisation de nos existences. « Toute initiative gouvernementale conçue pour promouvoir les forces du marché aura pour effet ultime d’accroître le nombre total de réglementations, le volume total de paperasse et l’effectif total des agents ». L’Etat néolibéral ne manque jamais d’imagination pour rédiger des lois qui interdisent les semences artisanales, les #monnaies alternatives et les #solidarités collectives. Et, pendant qu’il se débarrasse de ses enseignants et de son personnel hospitalier, il octroie des milliards à des officines #privées auxquelles il confie d’inutiles missions de #consulting et de dangereuses missions de #surveillance. Mais le #libéralisme ne se contente pas d’intensifier la bureaucratie étatique ; il en fait de même pour la bureaucratie privée. Qui a été trimbalé deux heures au bout du fil pour résilier un contrat sait combien les #multinationales constituent des labyrinthes au moins aussi anxiogènes que les administrations publiques.

Au cours de notre entretien, nous avons discuté des quatre ouvrages mentionnés à l’instant, ainsi que de la #révolution-espagnole de #1936, de la #lutte des #Kurdes au #Rojava, de Michel #Foucault, de Donald #Trump, et d’autres choses encore. Sur chacun de ces thèmes, David Graeber expose sa pensée avec une clarté exemplaire. J’ai été frappé, en le lisant comme en l’écoutant, par le fait que David Graeber est un homme #entier. Il n’y a pas d’un côté l’ #anthropologue et de l’autre l’ #activiste, il n’y a pas de séparation entre celui que le New York Times décrit comme « l’un des #intellectuels les plus influents du monde » et le type en tee-shirt qui se ballade au festival de la #CNT. David Graeber fait fusionner la figure du #chercheur et celle du "militant. Et c’est peu dire que le mélange porte ses fruits ! Je vous laisse en juger…

#OccupyWallStreet #anarchiste #anarchie #anarchisme

Hors-Série - Des entretiens filmés avec de la vraie critique dedans

● NEWS ● #ProjectCensored #OWS ☞ #OccupyWallStreet With Author Michael Levitin - The Project Censored Show https://www.projectcensored.org/occupy-wall-street-with-author-michael-levitin/

Occupy Wall Street With Author Michael Levitin - The Project Censored Show

September 17, 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street. Journalist and author Michael Levitin was there at its beginning, and,

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #OWS ☞ Opinion | #OccupyWallStreet Was Good, But It Was Never Going to Be Good Enough https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/10/occupy-wall-street-was-good-it-was-never-going-be-good-enough

Opinion | Occupy Wall Street Was Good, But It Was Never Going to Be Good Enough

Social movements can create change, but need proper organizational structures to dismantle hegemonic power.

● NEWS ● #TheNation #OWS ☞ Was #OccupyWallStreet More Anarchist or Socialist? https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?

Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.

● NEWS ● #TheNation #OWS ☞ Fighting Inequality After #OccupyWallStreet https://www.thenation.com/article/society/occupy-wall-street-inequality/

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Policies to address America’s enormous wealth disparities are now on the political map in a way they weren’t before Occupy Wall Street.

● NEWS ● #TheNation #OWS ☞ Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since #OccupyWallStreet https://www.thenation.com/article/society/occupy-wall-street-race-gender/

Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since Occupy Wall Street

Dozens of Zuccotti Park activists pushed the movement to confront race and gender oppression—and have continued that work in the decade since.

Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’?

#booksandliterature #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #occupywallstreet #zuccottiparkmanhattanny #incomeinequality #unitedstates #generationoccupyreawakeningamericandemocracybook #levitinmichael #news

Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’?

In “Generation Occupy,” Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #OWS ☞ Opinion | What We Can Learn From #OccupyWallStreet for Today's Tax Fight https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/17/what-we-can-learn-occupy-wall-street-todays-tax-fight

Opinion | What We Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street for Today's Tax Fight

"The movement galvanized public outrage and begged for a fundamental shift from a system that was rigged in favor of corporations and the wealthy. The lesson from the last year and a half is that this kind of shift can happen."

● NEWS ● #TheNation #OWS ☞ What #OccupyWallStreet Organizers Would Do Differently https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-bernie-99-percent/

What Occupy Wall Street Organizers Would Do Differently

Do they still stand by the leaderless revolution?

● NEWS ● #TheNation #OccupyWallStreet #OWS ☞ Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ows-occupy-zuccotti-protest/

Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?

Flash in the pan or the prelude to political organizing as we know it today?

● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow #OccupyWallStreet #OWS ☞ “Another World Is Possible”: How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics & Kicked Off New Era of Protest https://www.democracynow.org/2021/9/17/occupy_wall_street_10th_anniversary

“Another World Is Possible”: How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics & Kicked Off New Era of Protest

On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp, now the director of strategy and partnerships at the Working Families Party; Jillian Johnson, a key...

Changing the conversation: The Big Problems, Davos Edition

From BusinessInsider, a graph of Top 5 Global Risks in Terms of Likelihood as identified by the Davos conference from 2007 - 2013.

BI focuses on How Occupy Wall Street Won In One Chart in identifying income inequality as the leading risk for the past four years running, and yes, absolutely, Occupy has changed the debate.

I still see this as missing the bigger problems....

Continued at the dreddit

#BigProblems #Davos #population #resources #environment #sustainability #changetheconversation #OWS #Occupy #OccupyWallStreet

#techpolicy #Internetfreedom #unemployment #privacy #lostgeneration #wtfeconomy

Feeling frustrated with the state of things? Unemployed or underemployed? Can't understand why Greece's debt makes you poorer? Think that the #OccupyWallStreet protesters are foolish hippies? What does tech have to do with this--with you feeling so anxious and out of control about now, the future, and everything in between?

Jon Lanier believes "tech" is causing massive unemployment. He thinks tech in itself is neutral, but the way we've structured tech (e.g., to encourage free content) makes us, the average peeps, poorer and creates a deep class divide.

Watch here for Lanier thoughts on technology, from the horse's mouth: http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip. (Video to the right, and ignore the dreadlocks if they bother you :)).

Lanier's thinking is along the lines of Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen's RE: we've been duped by companies that own the servers to give up our communications freedom/earning power/etc. for Internet shiny objects like free email storage and status update likes.

Moglen's famed 2010 talk about that is here: http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/interactive/5848/view-more-professor-eben-moglens-2010-internet-society-speech

After hearing these guys explain what's happening and will keep on happening if we don't do something, doesn't it make you root for and want to use Diaspora even more? Diaspora is more than just privacy-based, distributed social networking. It's part of our desire toward freedom and sanity itself.