Education

This is for GENERAL READING AND EDUCATION...to both help folks get up to speed on the issues, or to store reference writings/data/documentation for the issues/visioning/policy groups to refer to in their posts. Also refer (and contribute!) to the Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List.

Back to main [Issues] page.

Great discussion about "Occupy Methods" (ways, etc): OccupyTheory.org They publish a series of essays in each issue. Here's a sample issue:

Basic information that might be helpful in understanding and explaining Occupy Boston to new people is available at Occupy 101.

OB-Free School University

Occupy University of OWS

20 Compelling Lectures on Occupy

Bibliography from OWS library... add comments, list will be revised

Anarchism Bibliography

Info and News about Money, Politics, Corruption, Corporations, Housing, (Un)employment, and the Economy
[Income Disparity Charts from Mother Jones]

[Documentary on Corporate Control: "The Corporation"] 2.5 hours...it says it all, confessions of corporate execs, evidence...you name it.

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. - by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie New Scientist: http://bit.ly/qWB5sm Updated 13:15 24 October 2011,

National Security Agency - NSA

Documentary on the Mortgage Crisis
["Inside Job"] documentary (2 hours) detailing how regulators ignored the signs, while rating agencies and politicans were paid off as the mortgage industry imploded and took the world down with it.

"Anonymous" Inspiration The plan

Charts/Numbers Framing "the Issue" what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about

This is the face of the 99% http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.comn wearethe99percent

Why Occupy Communities Have Libraries http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/892578-264/why_the_occupy_wall_street.html.csp

Chart of the Day: These are the 47 Percent Brian Beutler Talking Points Memo 10/14/11 http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent.php

Could This Time Have Been Different? Ezra Klein Washington Post 10/8/2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/could-this-time-have-been-different/2011/08/25/gIQAiJo0VL_blog.html

SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America; Refusing Customer Withdrawals 10/4/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Db_P0wHsSz0#

Group Pushes for Corporate Tax Holiday NPR 10/4/11 http://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/141054578/group-pushes-for-corporate-tax-holiday

5 Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans Zaid Jilani ThinkProgress 10/4/11 http://www.alternet.org/economy/152601/5_facts_you_should_know_about_the_wealthiest_one_percent_of_americans

The Reign of the One Percenters Orion Magazine 9/10/2011 http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470 Author’s postscript/response to Occupy Wall Street: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/newsfrom187/entry/6518

'''Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever' Will Hutton The Guardian Observer'' 10/1/2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/02/will-hutton-ed-miliband-new-capitalism

The Truth About “Class War” in America Richard D. Wolff 9/28/2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-truth-about-class-war-in-america-by-richard-d-wolff

The Curse of Tina Adam Curtis BBC's Adam Curtis Blog 9/13/2011 Blog post on the creation and proliferation of neoliberal think tanks http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html

Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone 8/24/11 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/obama-goes-all-out-for-dirty-banker-deal-20110824

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans Bloomberg 8/21/11 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html

Who Owns What

Dylan Ratigan’s Mad As Hell Moment MSNBC 8/2011 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigans-mad-as-hell-moment.html

How to fix America's jobs crisis Fareed Zakaria CNN 6/5/2011 http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/fareeds-take-how-to-fix-americas-jobs-crisis

Debt Crisis Hangs Over Washington Politics Mara Liasson NPR 4/29/11 http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135829375/debt-crisis-hangs-over-washington-politics

Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street Michael Lewis Columbia Journalism Review 3/15/2010 http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/michael_lewis_drops_some_wisdo.php

The Quiet Coup Simon Johnson The Atlantic 5/2009 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/

How Washington's Bailout Will Boost Wall Street Bonuses Stephen Gandel Time 10/27/2008 http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853846,00.html#ixzz1ZgCSAOVZ

The Giant Pool of Money This American Life and NPR's Planet Money 5/9/2008 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

Return to the Giant Pool of Money This American Life and NPR’s Planet Money 9/25/2009 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/390/return-to-the-giant-pool-of-money

Planet Money’s blog NPR September 2008 - present Comprehensive explanation of how our economic system works. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Thinking About Empowered Participatory Democracy Erik Olin Wright and Archon Fung 2003 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/DD-1.pdf

Envisioning Real Utopias Erik Olin Wright 2009 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ERU.htm

A global assessment of wealth and wellbeing http://www.prosperity.com/country.aspx?id=US

Why tax havens cause poverty http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/

Widely acclaimed report on tax havens, banking secrecy jurisdictions, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Tax-Havens-Globalization-Cornell-Studies/dp/0801476127/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317858538&sr=1-5

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1996-2000 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGNlOWMxMzItMjIzNy00MDA1LWJjZTYtMTExNDMxMTBhYjhj&hl=en_US

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGJjMTU3NDAtOTI1OS00YjlmLTg0OTYtOTZiYTIwMjRhN2Mw&hl=en_US

Campaign Finance unraveled by Larry Lessig

[Lessig Lecture at OB's Campaign Finance event in January], about 40 minutes

Chris Hedges Interview

["Brace Yourself, the American Empire is Over and the Descent is Going to be Horrifying"] 3 hours, about 45 minutes in, he starts talking about Occupy

Union vs Business Campaign Spending

Based on: Education at wikispaces