The Spirituality of #OccupyWallStreet (2): the Logic of Usury vs the Logic of the Gift

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The Spirituality of #OccupyWallStreet (2): the Logic of Usury vs the Logic of the Gift It is absolutely no accident that the Occupy encampments in NYC and throughout the world are operating as communal gift economies with free healthcare (in the form of medic tents), free education (in the form …

FOCUS: Media Blackout on Mayor Bloomberg’s Raid on Zuccotti Park

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Reader Supported News | 15 November 11 It’s Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Media Blackout on Mayor Bloomberg’s Raid on Zuccotti Park Mayor Michael Bloomberg suspends the First Amendment. (photo: Andrew Burton/Reuters) Barbara Morrill, Daily Kos Intro: “When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to …

Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (2): Consensus is not Self-Management

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Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (2): Consensus is not Self-Management Excerpted from Michael Albert: “In Greece and Spain, a single message predominated. It had nothing to do with analyses of capitalism or other analytic focuses. Instead, Greek and Spanish activists reported that they had massive assemblies in widespread …

Is Your Local TV Station Hiding Something?

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What’s Your Local TV Station Hiding? If you want to know exactly what your local broadcasters are doing to meet public-interest obligations, the best place to look is their public files. Unfortunately, public files are currently difficult to access, requiring curious residents to drive down to the station during business …

Crowdsourcing democracy through social media

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As reported on physorg.com Liberia, a country that only recently emerged from a brutal civil war, is having presidential elections. A Georgia Tech professor is experimenting with a novel idea: Crowdsourcing reports on how elections are running and making available timely reports to prevent any dangerous situations from occurring. Read more…