January 2012
10 posts
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Study: 'What Neighborhoods Need to Succeed at... →
plantedcity:
From Atlantic Cities:
New research from Southern California has found that residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and services – a pattern typically found in older, traditional communities – walk nearly three times more often than do residents of neighborhoods whose nearest shops and services lie along a major arterial roadway, a pattern typically found in newer...
Petition: No more protests in Rahm Emanuel's... →
socialismartnature:
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging his City Council to enact strict new restrictions on many forms of protest on Wednesday, January 18. Local advocates say the Council is distracted by a fierce redistricting battle and that the new ordinance is likely to pass unnoticed, unless there’s a huge outcry.
Occupy Rogers Park and Occupy South Side started an urgent petition...
New Shins: "Simple Song" →
#occupywallstreet: MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A... →
cultureofresistance:
The growth-seeking political-economic system has failed us. Today that system is dominated by Wall Street. “Goldman Sachs rules the world,” trader Alessio Rastani told us in a now-viral BBC interview. I met people like Rastani in researching my book, The End of Growth. At one lavish conference, 800 global investors packed a hotel ballroom to consider climate change. There...
December 2011
13 posts
Sorry Copenhagen , but I think Zurich has you beat on price.
Dinner then plane to Munich.
“The problem is, is that our politics has gotten to the point where we can’t have an honest conversation about the greatest income inequality since the 1920s, and we can’t have an honest conversation about the irresponsibility that resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, without somebody saying that somehow we’re being divisive,” Obama said....
Peacoats are pretty bad ass
Watchoccupyallthethings:
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
TED
November 2011
18 posts
Anthropologist David Graeber on OWS's anarchist... →
occupy-anthro:
London, UK - Almost every time I’m interviewed by a mainstream journalist about Occupy Wall Street I get some variation of the same lecture:
“How are you going to get anywhere if you refuse to create a leadership structure or make a practical list of demands? And what’s with all this anarchist nonsense - the consensus, the sparkly fingers? Don’t you realise all this radical...
communication island.
#ows critics: ‘get a job’. too bad there aren’t enough jobs to go around. 4 people available for every job opening. its not that easy
Life lesson. Need to Be the first person to make dinner in the kitchen.
If a corporation can give HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF...
Basha: I’ve been thinking a lot about how my time... →
basha:
I’ve been thinking a lot about how my time in France has changed me. Today I went out into the city on my own, grabbed some coffee on the quai, the street that runs along the river. I sat down on a bench with my CocoRosie soundtrack ready on my iPod, pen and paper in hand to do some writing….
similar observations in Paris.. other places aren’t like that tho. Copenhagen...
Off to Mainz. Bye Berlin
October 2011
26 posts
Tomorrow does not feel like my birthday.
off to berlin . see you in two weeks Copenhagen.
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I fucking hate printers. It does not take 45 min to print 4 pages in any circumstance.
got a peacoat-like jacket today. its going to be much colder than I’m used to for sure this winter.