watch?v=4MkkyEPQL5A&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1 On October 15th people will jump together to the streets and squares united by the desire of a global change. It will be the first worldwide citizenmovilization in our planet, to say ‘enough is enough’ to the elites that govern us, and to start building new ways of organizing ourselves. It is us, the people of… Continue reading
Date archives "October 2011"
The potential for left-right, right-left alliances against corporate power after “OccupyWallStreet”
Excerpted from Josh Silver: “While the protests are proudly decentralized and leaderless, the unifying theme is “revoking corporate personhood” and “campaign finance reform” that would reverse the January 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that lifted the flood gates to unlimited corporate money in elections. Some call the protests a progressive response to the Tea… Continue reading
Charles Eistenstein: Currencies, Governments, and the Commons
Excerpted from the book, Sacred Economics, chapter 11. We recommend you follow this up with an excerpt from chapter 12, i.e. Money, the Self, and Negative Interest Money.? Charles Eistenstein: “In this chapter I will refer to “government” in the context of currency issue, but keep in mind that like all of our institutions, government… Continue reading
Vandana Shiva: We must replace food dictatorship with food democracy
Excerpted from Vandana Shiva: “The biggest threat we face is the control of seed and food moving out of the hands of farmers and communities and into a few corporate hands. Monopoly control of cottonseed and the introduction of genetically engineered Bt cotton has already given rise to an epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India…. Continue reading
Jean-François Noubel on Defining Free Currencies
Noubel first distinguishes currencies from money, and free currencies from complementary ones, before diving into a detailed explanation of what free currencies are, and are for. Recommended explanation: JF Noubel interview about money – Social Media week Sept 2011 – raw footage from Collective Intelligence Research on Vimeo.
Why Wikileaks is good …
Agitprop video from Wikileaks:
Global participatory mobilizations want to go beyond the ‘captured’ democratic model
Citizens in the whole world are increasingly protesting the capture of the democratic process by predatory interests. Excerpted from the New York Times, by NICHOLAS KULISH et al.: “Increasingly, citizens of all ages, but particularly the young, are rejecting conventional structures like parties and trade unions in favor of a less hierarchical, more participatory system… Continue reading
Alternative hedonism and the global aspects of well-being
Excerpted from a long essay by Kate Soper in Red Pepper magazine: “A predictable consequence of the current recession has been a renewal of interest in the politics of welfare and community values. As they seek to patch up a fresh consensus amidst the fallout from the latest crisis of capitalism, both sides of the… Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
By Naomi Klein I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a?k?a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very… Continue reading
The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters
In the first video, Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters. In the second video, Max Keiser advises the movement to use reverse capitalism to decapitalize the financial predators. This is followed by a support editorial by David Korten. 1. Watch the video: 2. Max Keiser’s advice to the movement: 3…. Continue reading
Contact Summit: How Can Technology Accelerate Social Evolution?
Posted by Venessa Miemis on her blog Emergent By Design What is the true potential of a networked planet? How do we use all this great social technology to develop a new operating system for society – one that creates abundance, sustainability, and lasting value? What do we need to do to improve the… Continue reading
What Europe Must Do against the All-Out Speculative Attacks
The speculative attack by Wall Street and City of London banks and hedge funds against European countries, European banks, and the euro is now reaching a crescendo. The current European crisis does not derive primarily from economic fundamentals, but rather represents a cynically planned assault carried out by Anglo-American financiers. The full article explains the… Continue reading
The governance and leadership mechanisms of the open source #OccupyWallStreet protest
What is interesting about the movement there is that they eschew leaders of any kind. The first excerpt is from Chris Corrigan; and stress the ‘absence’ (but not lack) of leadership. In the second, John Robb analyses the movement as a open source protest. We conclude with the analysis of Naomi Klein for DemocracyNow. 1…. Continue reading
Check your Vibes – Twitter-like App used at ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Vibe, the “new kid on the social media block,” is a Twitter-esque messaging system built by Hazem Sayed, a professional developer from California who built the app as an anonymous alternative to Twitter, usable in situations where privacy and anonymity may be more important than world wide visibility. See Vibe: The Anonymous, Anarchist Version of… Continue reading
Bounded Input Bounded Output – How to design a stable currency
One of the major issues of our times is financial instability. Markets are subject to the availability of finance, which however tends to get syphoned off into purely speculative ventures. Consequently, production and trade suffer breakdowns because “there is no money”. So a stable currency and financial system could be said to be essential. Here… Continue reading
Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
Princeton University hopes its new Open Access policy will pressure academic publishers to stop requiring the copyright to the papers they publish. Flickr/Yakinodi Prestigious US academic institution Princeton University has banned researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted. The new rule… Continue reading