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

kristyGlobal Citizen, Wealth of Networks

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 …

Economics of the Walk Out

kristyAdvisors' Forum, Beyond GDP

Harvard Students Walk Out on Econ10 Class It is amazing that we continue to teach the same outmoded theories of economics in our most esteemed institutions of higher learning when it is almost universally acknowledged that the economic system spawned by those economic theories is broken. Last week a group …

Chris Hedges on the significance of #OccupyWallStreet: tinkering with the corporate state is no longer sufficient

Ethical MarketsWealth of Networks

What took place early Friday morning in Zuccotti Park was the first salvo in a long struggle for justice. It signaled a step backward by the corporate state in the face of popular pressure. And it was carried out by ordinary men and women who sleep at night on concrete, …