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As economic growth fails how do we live? Part I: The four horsemen of the economic apocalypse

December 15, 2020December 15, 2011 by Craig A. Severance

As The Big Engine That Couldn’t has faltered for several years, it is becoming increasingly clear the economy is running off the tracks. Both investors and the public are beginning to realize the long-revered goal of endless economic growth is failing. Anger and fear are widespread, as the livelihoods and hopes of ordinary Americans are being destroyed. Anger runs among the “99%” over economic injustices that favor the “1%”. Fear, however, may run among 100% over this question: How do we live when economic growth fails?

Occupy – Dec 14

December 15, 2020December 14, 2011 by Staff

– TIME Person of the Year 2011: ‘The protester’
– Why I Protest: Dr. Arthur Chen of Oakland, California (TIME profile)
– Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back
– With Port Actions, Occupy Oakland Tests Labor Leaders
– Walter Moseley: 10 Things You Can Do to Sustain the Occupy Movement

Economics – Dec 14

December 15, 2020December 14, 2011 by Staff

– Krugman: Depression and Democracy
– Anarchist Anthropology – OWS house theorist on debt and the gift economy
– What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber
– Global rebellion: The coming chaos?

Occupying Post-Collapse America: What if the industrial death-urge lived on?

December 15, 2020December 13, 2011 by Dan Allen

The Occupy movement is a start. But the stakes are rising. The earth is dying. The biocidal industrial economy, while coming apart at the seams, still rages on. …And what if the industrial disease DOESN’T die with collapse? What then? And what does that imply for resistance movements?

Party of swindlers and thieves

December 15, 2020December 13, 2011 by Dmitry Orlov

Just how far gone is Putin’s government? The evidence so far is that they are still feeling invincible, and are willing to resort to repression in order to make the election results stick. But the Russian people want to express themselves; they want to be heard; they want those who hear them to make the required changes in response.

Small town Sebastopol contributes to Occupy movement

December 15, 2020December 12, 2011 by Shepherd Bliss

Occupy events in big cities like New York, Oakland, and Los Angeles receive considerable coverage in the corporate media, especially when police react. Yet in small towns and mid-size cities throughout America, peaceful occupations occur that engage people in conversations and education in public spaces and beyond.