OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The UN has confirmed they will be visiting our encampment at old city hall in Berkeley on Sunday, January 21st, at 12:30. Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right To Housing, will be coming to speak with us on several issues. Court, housing, shelter from the… Continue reading
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“Occupy: Reflections on Class War, ReBellion and Solidarity” by Noam Chomsky In this updated and expanded edition of “Occupy,” Chomsky speaks to and with supporters of the Occupy movement about the structural injustices of the current economic and political system and the prospects for real change. The new edition includes all… Continue reading
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Release date: Jan 19, 2018 A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world—and a road map for rescuing our ownDonald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in… Continue reading
01.08.18 (fastcompany.com) As activists pressure governments to remove their deposits from banks that back bad policies, cities are considering a new option: become their own financial institution that serves the needs of the citizens, not investors. [Photo: Etienne Martin/Unsplash] BY ADELE PETERS When the movement to push the city of Los Angeles… Continue reading
January 7, 2018 (johnlaurits.com) Alienation. Noun, the state of being an outsider — a feeling of separation. The sensation that a familiar person, place, or thing has become unfamiliar, strange, or distant — like passing through a neighborhood where you used to live. Or maybe it’s you who are the stranger now — like… Continue reading
It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place… Continue reading
KJ McRae Published on Apr 26, 2015 Mahalia Jackson, March on Washington, August 28, 1963. ALL RIGHTS TO CBS. I’ve Been Buked Mahalia Jackson I’ve been buked and I’ve been scorned I’ve been buked and I’ve been scorned Children I’ve been ‘buked and I’ve been scorned Tryin’ to make this… Continue reading
“It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. It may be true that you can’t legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It… Continue reading
