#occupywallstnyc

[ecologiadigital]

And Google is not even all that diverse! https://t.co/bMftDnOseq

— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) August 7, 2017

[ecologiadigital]

The Rise of a Cooperatively Owned Internet via @ntnsndr https://t.co/Q9N4EIsbk3 #BuyTwitter #PlatformCoop #sharing

— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) October 21, 2016

[freecityradio]

Josh MacPhee on JustSeeds and radical art activism

Listen to an interview with Josh MacPhee, an activist artist and founding member of the JustSeeds artists' cooperative. In this interview Josh offers reflections on the process of building the JustSeeds collective project, within the context of building an active, organizational relationship between grassroots activism and the arts. 

Specifically this discussion highlights the Celebrate People's History poster series, a project highlighting marginalized voices from within radical social movements of the past, from workers struggles for collective rights, to the women's movement, to indigenous struggles for land (like in Palestine), in US and beyond.

Josh offers insightful reflections on radical institution building from the perspective of an artist deeply involved with and connected to grassroots activist networks struggling for transformative social change.

this interview was recorded at the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Free City Radio on CKUT fm, accompanying designs by Josh MacPhee.

[theatredramaperformance-blog]

"If hope is an impossible demand / If hope is an impossible demand /

Then we demand the impossible / Then we demand the impossible"

[calcombsmusic]

Just saying

To accept capitalism is to wholeheartedly stand by the proposition that humanity is devoid of the higher order intelligences necessary to operate without the driving forces of greed and envy. To go without challenging capitalism and the powers that be is to agree that humanity, by nature, is so inherently focused on the profits of the individual that children must starve and war must rage for the rest of the time that the pollution and overproduction of capitalism will allow this planet to survive. To complacently sit on the hands that rise against the oligarchy and plutocrats is to accept the actions of those institutions in their key positioning behind war, poverty, pollution, destruction, greed, control, racism, sexism, and more. If you believe that people are capable of unified success and the abolishment of those previously listed results of war, poverty, sexism, ect., then the time to stand against the powers that be on Wall Street and in the corporations and government offices is now. This is not a leftist or a rightist issue, this is a vision created and painted without the shades of those political entities who are themselves in the pockets of Wall Street and corporations themselves. I’m not alone in my feelings and I will stand by my own belief in the inherent good and moral correctness of humanity. The problem today is that that the ideas of socialism, or even Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous democratic socialism (that you’re not supposed to know about shhh) is that people are distracted, complacent, and bastardized as Americans through the fear that the media provides. People fall back on what promises safety, conveniently enough that is what already is set up. We assembled a lot of weapons for this capitalist way of thinking, it’s a scary thought to stand for a large scale disassembly in an increasingly authoritarian state. Dr. Cornel West, African American studies professor of Princeton University stands for the reevaluation of the powers that be, addressing American complacency with this: “Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.” Where 1% of the country has enough wealth to buy out governments and a whopping total of 6 corporations own every company and nearly every new product that comes around in one way or another, citizens of the U.S. are consistently convinced that their ability to make upwards of a billion dollars is reasonable. This mindset keeps citizens of the U.S. convinced by the American Dream even though student debt, national debt, military spending, and overall poverty are very real and very debilitating to the projected future of individuals in the capitalist structure. Oh, and this just in China has surpassed the U.S. In economic superiority. What we need to keep in mind is this and this alone: our voices should be for unified progression before they are ever for individual gain. The future of the world is dependent upon love if the world is going to survive. The powers that be have to be reevaluated for the sake of unifying humanity under a world free from greed and material obsession. Love truly is the answer and I see no love in a society that believes in war and poverty as a means to an end for the profits of corporations that sell billions of dollars of harmful pollutants and poisoned foods in every state of this country and beyond. The American Dream made sense, capitalism made sense, years ago when there actually were opportunities to compete. Back when a baker could coexist with another baker a block away and not worry about Wal-Mart putting them both under. Now that we selfishly let the capitalism in rampant and 6 companies took up all of the poker chips, are we supposed to just standby while these criminals sleep on piles and piles of wealth they don’t deserve? Why don’t they deserve it you ask? Because they never cared about anyone but themselves. There was no love, only profit. It is time for a change. Our kids, our planet, our fellow birds and beasts of this globe deserve it. Love and a belief in unified progression is all it takes.

[claylaugier]

What we are seeing around the world in regard to #Ferguson, #occupycentral, #occupywallst #raisethewage, #Warondrugs and other movements is that the people are participating in government by sending a message that the status quo will not be accepted anymore. We all must support it no matter what party we are as global citizens. Change needs to come to our communities, our economies And our systems. We are saying to our leaders we don't care about your parties or talk we want action now! We must see Voting is only one step in the many steps to positive sustainable change to our systems. This is our call to the streets! Get out! Speak out! Ghandi once said" We just Be the Change we want to see in the world"

Clay Laugier TAKING BACK OUR GOVERNMENT