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January 10, 2012 1:53 AM
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@MJJJusticePrjct check this out; too true...
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January 10, 2012 1:41 AM
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“@chrislhayes: Someone wrote ab how progrsve wonks paved way for 99% message...” // article-Stiglitz: http://t.co/DtarSqT5...
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jean lievens
January 10, 2012 1:40 AM
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ShareTweetUNION CITY, CALIFORNIA Where else but Union City do events like today’s take place? I heard about American Licorice workers being on strike through the Occupy grapevine: Twitter, late night ...
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 7:50 PM
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A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably,...
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January 9, 2012 7:30 PM
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January 9, 2012 7:12 PM
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What does climate change and peak oil have to do with terrorism and the economic crisis? Everything, says Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Join us to discuss why.
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 6:12 PM
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Today, Steve Lacey at the Center for American Progress published 20 Ideas for Job Creation: Keep Focused on Clean Energy.
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January 9, 2012 4:41 PM
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When public opinion on the big social and political issues changes, the trends tend to be relatively gradual. Abrupt shifts, when they come, are usually precipitated by dramatic events. Which is why pollsters are so surprised by what has happened to perceptions about climate change over a span of just four years. A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent—well under half the population. According to Scott Keeter, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, this is “among the largest shifts over a short period of time seen in recent public opinion history.”
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January 9, 2012 12:29 PM
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Students in Gaza discuss the Occupy movement with Amin Husain, a Palestinian activist living in New York City and one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street.
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 12:29 PM
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* Protesters target campaign trail * Unions, students hold key in 2012 * Focus on new tech, social media tools (Changes headline, edits) By Laird Harrison and Michelle Nichols Oakland,...
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 11:05 AM
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Europe now resembles a chronically ill patient, receiving sufficient treatment to keep it alive. A full and complete recovery is unlikely on the present medical plan. Europe resembles a zombie economy, which functions in an impaired manner with periodic severe economic health crises. The risk of a sudden failure of vital organs is uncomfortably high.
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January 9, 2012 11:01 AM
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Richard Wolff, a New York City economics professor who hosts a weekly radio program, urged members of Occupy Marin Saturday to occupy corporations and democratize them.
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 4:46 AM
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Share this widely and get out the truth!
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January 9, 2012 4:30 AM
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HURLING brickbats at bankers is a popular pastime. The “Occupy Wall Street” movement and its various offshoots complain that a malign 1%, many of them bankers, are ripping off the virtuous 99%.
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January 9, 2012 4:29 AM
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How did we get to where we are now, with Wall Street occupied by a mini-tent city while financial instruments increasingly funnel funds towards the already-wealthy? How did we get to a state where corporations seem to have more legal (and financial) access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than the average citizen? How did we get to a point where money is invisible and computerized, yet distributed ever more unevenly?
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 4:28 AM
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Amidst massive worker disenfranchisement, cooperatives offer a possible way forward for politics, workers’ rights, and economic well-being.
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 3:33 AM
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Here is our selection and reading recommendations of the best books we reviewed and presented in 2011
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January 9, 2012 2:29 AM
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By Parag Khanna and Thomas Sevcik. Oil prices remain near record highs, gold has gone through the roof, technology sector equity valuations are frothing over and emerging markets are decoupling from the moribund West.
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January 9, 2012 2:29 AM
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Parag Khanna is an Indian-born, New York-based author of the international bestsellers How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New ...
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January 9, 2012 2:29 AM
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs Says Raise Taxes To Save CivilizationHere And NowCongress is deadlocked with another bitter debate over tax cuts and government spending and economist Jeffrey Sachs says his profession is partly to blame.
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January 9, 2012 2:19 AM
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Re-Writing Modernity: Zizek, Dussel and Lyotard: courtesy of Google Images Slavoj Zizek is… http://t.co/9dNhy1uC...
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 2:16 AM
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'Extreme Dishonesty' -- The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and Venezuela (MediaLens, July 7, 2011) (Guardian has a history of smearing leftists who breach the confines of acceptable opinion.)...
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 2:15 AM
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So where is that evidence that Mitt Romney or his party cares at all about equality of opportunity?
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 2:14 AM
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As always, you can find me on Twitter for more discussion of this. ___________________ An open source protest/insurgency doesn't have a formal doctrine.
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jean lievens
January 9, 2012 2:13 AM
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Occupy
Nashville demonstrators are taking-on a new fight on behalf of a 78-year-old woman
who has never even heard of the movement.
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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation
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