12:14 AM: Bill Black - 3 Demands:
10:02 AM: Paul Krugman takes on the inequality deniers (who seem to be out in force since OWS):
But why does this growing concentration of income and wealth in a few hands matter? Part of the answer is that rising inequality has meant a nation in which most families don’t share fully in economic growth. Another part of the answer is that once you realize just how much richer the rich have become, the argument that higher taxes on high incomes should be part of any long-run budget deal becomes a lot more compelling.
The larger answer, however, is that extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy. Can anyone seriously deny that our political system is being warped by the influence of big money, and that the warping is getting worse as the wealth of a few grows ever larger?
Some pundits are still trying to dismiss concerns about rising inequality as somehow foolish. But the truth is that the whole nature of our society is at stake.
10:06 AM: I'm a sucker for all things comic book - Occupy Gotham!
10:13 AM: NYTimes on last 7 weeks of OWS.
10:19 AM: This is the second piece I've read this week about internet misogyny:
Many commentators, wondering aloud where all the strong female voices are, close their eyes to how normal this sort of threat has become. Most mornings, when I go to check my email, Twitter and Facebook accounts, I have to sift through threats of violence, public speculations about my sexual preference and the odour and capacity of my genitals, and attempts to write off challenging ideas with the declaration that, since I and my friends are so very unattractive, anything we have to say must be irrelevant.
The implication that a woman must be sexually appealing to be taken seriously as a thinker did not start with the internet: it's a charge that has been used to shame and dismiss women's ideas since long before Mary Wollestonecraft was called "a hyena in petticoats". The internet, however, makes it easier for boys in lonely bedrooms to become bullies. It's not only journalists, bloggers and activists who are targeted. Businesswomen, women who play games online and schoolgirls who post video-diaries on YouTube have all been subject to campaigns of intimidation designed to drive them off the internet, by people who seem to believe that the only use a woman should make of modern technology is to show her breasts to the world for a fee.
11:07 AM: Via Digby (h/t Chris Hayes). It's only a few minutes and it really is a must watch:
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
11:34 AM: Goldilocks is a corporate whore. You know, this used to baffle me. These are educated people, surely they know the Argument to Moderation is a logical fallacy. More and more I think they do know it's a fallacy, but it's a useful fallacy. It's a logical fallacy with a certain amount of common-sense appeal that can be trotted out when politicians need cover to screw over the 99%. Yes, of course, we should gouge Social Security without even a thought of raising taxes on the bloated 1%. Why? The centrist whores at the Third Way say it's a good idea. No further analysis required.
11:50 AM: Chris Hayes was recently on Sam Seder's Majority Report, discussing OWS and I thought Chris Hayes had some very insightful things to say about OWS.
12:27 PM: Koch gathering in DC attended by OWS.
1:04 PM: Remember, it's move your money day...
jamiekilstein Jamie Kilstein
Hey @citibank sorry you are loosing so many customers today. It almost seems like people don't like banking with asshole criminals.
2:13 PM: Report on bank transfer day.
2:16 PM: Oh, this made me laugh...
2:21 PM: And another Move Your Money video...
2:25 PM: WTF indeed...
@ OccupyDallas : Our people just got peppersprayed outside of #BofA!!! Wtf!!!
3:14 PM: From Kevin Gosztola at FDL's Dissenter:
Four arrests during Occupy Wall Street’s Bank Transfer Day march. (Not sure for what yet.)
3:32 PM: 3 people hit by a car at Occupy DC protest.
3:37 PM: Sounds like there have been more arrests in NYC and this...
@RDevro Officer just tossed a protester down the stairs. Crowd is freaking out, calling them "pigs." NYPD blocks stairs with kettle net.
4:49 PM: Story on today's events in NYC.
5:38 PM: I would love to interview every single person on this panel.
5:53 PM: Apparently NY papers have to explicitly argue that OWSers aren't animals.
5:57 PM: Remember the "We Are the 1% assholes from Chicago...
6:04 PM: New Citizens' Radio (I think it's all OWS and there's some great stuff).
6:06 PM: Major corps pay no taxes, but social services must be gutted or you're not a VSP.
6:23 PM: Tax havens by the numbers.
9:13 PM: Bob Dylan for my Mom...
Taryn, I'm depressed to hear that you have to put up with threats and rude comments just because you are a strong intelligent woman with ideas and opinions. It's everything that's wrong with men's perceptions of women's roles in society.
your teach-in's with respected economists and your blog articles explaining how the power elite has screwed us over have been amazing and I hope these stupid people just redouble your efforts to be a strong woman with a voice.
@Bob I've gotten a little of this, but the above was a quote from Laurie Penny, who gets a ton of it (including death threats).
Yesterday (early this morning) I posted a link to some of Roy Zimmerman's more general songs, for example "Socialist!" (my response to that ignorant teabagger heckler).
After sleeping on it, I realized I should have also mentioned his more economic policy related songs:
"End of the Ship"
"Dear Number 1036924053887"
"The Unions Are to Blame"
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion Dollars?" (Note the upload date of this one is 26 Sept 2008: Roy has been on clued-in of the corruption from the beginning!)
"California Couldn't Pay Our Education"
And note that at his YouTube front page he has an Occupy oriented song!
(I don't quite undertand why all his songs don't have millions of views, so I make it a point to do what I can to promote his songs.)
P.S. I have deliberately limited the number of links in this comment. I submitted a comment on your Oct 23 or 24 page with some reading and video suggestions, but in hindsight my comment may have contained "too many" links and so been re-directed to your Moderate / Spam folder. Heck, maybe my comment IS spam! Still, I ask if you can check around and approve my old comment. Also I recommend you create a permanent post somehow so that your very useful list of recommended reading always appears on the blog page, like the "Occupied Media Teach-Ins" link. Thanks for your very helpful blog, a great source for things Occupied!
@David - I very much appreciate the links and your many comments - not spam at all. :)
The Dylan song seems more appropriate now than it did then. In fact, and I'm embarrassed to admit it, I really didn't get the point of Ballad of a Thin Man back then. Now, given our clueless media and our arrogance-and-privilege-blinded elites, it's completely fitting.
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