information on the occupation

Below I will be collecting links to what I regard as the best news and blog coverage about Occupy Wall Street and other such occupations. This post will be updated as I come across new articles and resources that stand out to me.

If you're interested in canvassing to support our joint occupation of the United States, there are some slick looking printable flyers here at Occupy Together.

News, Media Organizations, and Commercial Blogs:

The Awl
The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto The Street At Occupy Oakland

Boston Review
Why I was maced at the Wall Street Protests

Business Insider
CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...

CBS
A spark lit in Tunisia ignites the world

Dangerous Minds
Lemony Snicket's 13 Observations About Occupy Wall Street

The Guardian
Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination
Occupy Wall Street: 'Pepper-spray officer named in Bush protest claim

The Interdependence Project
5 real-life lessons in meditation from Occupy Wall Street

MSNBC
Rewrite: police vs. protesters (video and blog post)

The New York Times
As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe

New York Times Blogs
Paul Krugman: Unsavvy People

Reuters
Don't dismiss the Wall Street Occupation


Independent Bloggers:

El Baghdadi
Top 10 Parallels Between #OccupyWallStreet & Arab Spring Revolutions

how you can help #occupywallstreet

Are you following the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest? If not, check it out. If you're sympathetic, take a look at these Adbusters suggestions on how we can all help out, regardless of how far away we may be.

Mainstream media outlets were fairly quiet on the protest before today, when a large number of protesters were arrested. It's too bad that the media only pays close attention when scenes like that occur. I've been watching since the beginning of the protest and--while I always have my quibbles with the manipulative antics of some of the professional activists involved in matters like these--I support the movement and the ideas behind it without reserve.

Corporate interests are steering this country and the interests of the common people have taken a backseat. That's unacceptable.


Notes

November 3 - I'm currently uncomfortable with pretty much all preexisting organizations that support the Occupy movement, including Adbusters. I still support the movement itself, but I would really urge fellow supporters to act according to their own convictions and be cautious of the potential for manipulation.

November 19 - Glenn Greenwald's column today is something we should all read: Here's what attempted co-option of OWS looks like

June 20 - My former enthusiasm for this movement looks naive as fuck to me now. As does my former optimism regarding the potential endgame. Oh, well. That's life, I guess. I'm still not sure why the most effective of the available tools and blueprints for this sort of thing weren't very much taken advantage of during the heyday of OWS. It's not like any of it was a secret, how best to strategize and implement a movement of this kind. Our own government developed most of these strategies itself for use abroad. Many of the manuals and tactical breakdowns are even available online without charge. But here, things fizzled out. I could speculate as to why... and I do have some decently sound ideas... but it's still just speculation (i.e., pretty worthless to publish, at least in this context).

be greeted, psychoneurotics!

Came across this gem in the early summer and forgot to post it! Here it is now.


Be Greeted, Psychoneurotics!
a poem by Kazimierz Dabrowski

Be greeted, psychoneurotics! 

For you see sensitivity in the insensitivity of the world,

     uncertainty among the world's certainties.

For you often feel others as you feel yourselves.

For you feel the anxiety of the world, and

     its bottomless narrowness and self-assurance.

For your phobia of washing your hands from the dirt of the world,

     for your fear of being locked in the world's limitations,

     for your fear of the absurdity of existence.

For your subtlety in not telling others what you see in them.

For your awkwardness in dealing with practical things, and

     for your practicalness in dealing with unknown things,

     for your transcendental realism and lack of everyday realism,

     for your creativity and ecstasy,

     for your maladjustment to that "which is" and 

          adjustment to that which "ought to be",

     for your great but unutilized abilities.

For the belated appreciation of the real value of your greatness

     which never allows the appreciation of the greatness

     of those who will come after you.

For your being treated instead of treating others,

     for your heavenly power being forever pushed down

          by brutal force;

     for that which is prescient, unsaid, infinite in you.

For the loneliness and strangeness of your ways.

Be greeted!

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If you're not familiar with Dabrowski and his work, treat yourself to a little internet stroll--I recommend it especially highly if you're somewhat aspergian, "gifted"*, or otherwise unusually sensitive (Myers-Briggs INXXs represent).

Good places to start:

Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration

Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities

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* i.e., high IQ w/ asynchronous development