
- TOPICS
- Calling 99:1
- Power versus the people becomes inevitable.
- What should be done?
- How can we help?
- We will follow on with our exploration of the work of legal observers.
- LINKS
- 11 Simple Ways to Support the Occupy Movement
- http://iamlaurenleonardi.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/eleve-simple-ways-to-support-the-occupy-movement-without-sleeping-in-a-park/
- "This list includes actions large and small that just about anyone, anywhere, can do to support the movement."
- Volunteer Attorneys Steer Occupy Protesters Through the Legal System
- http://www.truth-out.org/volunteer-attorneys-steer-occupy-protesters-through-legal-system/1320066447
- "Some of the volunteer lawyers draft and file motions or simply monitor the protests as legal observers. Some advise the activists on how to negotiate with city leaders. Others show up in court — usually on short notice — to represent jailed protesters at their initial court appearances."
- The Occupied Wall Street Journal
- http://occupiedmedia.com/download-the-paper/
- "This is the publication, Occupy Wall St. Journal, being put together and published out of NYC on newsprint as a three-page ( having six sides) broadsheet, just into its third issue. Now it's available online -- not as exciting as the one you hold in your hands, but everything it is online as it is in hardcopy when it comes to what you'll have to read, along with the photos and illustrations you'll see!." - N
- People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country"
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/occupy-wall-street_b_1071288.html
- "Evidence abounds that large inequalities undermine community life, reduces trust among citizens, and increases violence. In one major study from data collected over 30 years (by the epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger ) the most consistent predictor of mental illness, infant mortality, educational achievements, teenage births, homicides, and incarceration, is economic inequality. And as Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow has written, "Vast inequalities of income weakens a society's sense of mutual concern...The sense that we are all members of the social order is vital to the meaning of civilization."
- Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
- http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-10-25&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email
- Patriot's Dream: Arlo Guthrie
- http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/patriots-dream.shtml
- "Who'd believe that we're the ones asked
- To try to rekindle the patriot's dreams."
November 03, 2011 8:00 - 10:00 P.M.