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Arts/Media/Education

2011-10-26T12:12:55Z

Lulu43:

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 '''[http://tinyurl.com/occupyboston Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List]'''.

== Info and News about Money, Politics, Corruption, Corporations, Housing, (Un)employment, and the Economy ==

===== 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 http://bit.ly/qWB5sm] Updated 13:15 24 October 2011,

'''"Anonymous" Inspiration''' [http://www.whatis-theplan.org/ The plan]

'''Charts/Numbers Framing "the Issue"''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1 what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about]

'''This is the face of the 99%''' [http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.comn wearethe99percent]

'''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 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 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# 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html]

'''Dylan Ratigan’s Mad As Hell Moment''' ''MSNBC'' 8/2011 [http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigans-mad-as-hell-moment.html 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 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 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 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/ 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 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 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money]

'''Return to the Giant Pool of Mone'''y ''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 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/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/]

'''Thinking About Empowered Participatory Democracy''' Erik Olin Wright and Archon Fung 2003 [http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/%7Ewright/Published%20writing/DD-1.pdf http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/DD-1.pdf]

'''Envisioning Real Utopias''' Erik Olin Wright 2009 [http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/%7Ewright/ERU.htm http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ERU.htm]

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

'''Why tax havens cause poverty''' [http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/ 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 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 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 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGJjMTU3NDAtOTI1OS00YjlmLTg0OTYtOTZiYTIwMjRhN2Mw&hl=en_US]

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''Based on: [http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/Education Education at wikispaces]''

Talk:Arts/Media/Education

2011-10-25T00:39:06Z

Lulu43: /* Organization for Education Section */

==Educating Schools - volunteers needed==
:[[user:squibbish]] Thursday, 8:20 pm
Hi friends - I'm not exactly sure where to post this, so i've posted in a couple of places. I thought there had been an "education" working group (gen ed isn't it) on the wiki but I can't find it, and I think this is important. If you have advice, I would appreciate it.

A friend of mine who is a student teacher is planning a field trip for his 8th grade class next Friday (and has support/blessings from his school to do this). They need guides to show them around OccupyBoston and answer questions from the kids.

Who has an interest in educating and/or knows people who could help?

They will be visiting during the morning hours of 10/28. Please message me for more details. I plan on being one of their volunteers, but we really need 4 of us to go with small groups.

Thanks, everyone! Peace and ♥
Stephanie

==Organization for Education Section==
:[[user:yanikn]] Oct 15, 2011 10:46 am
Anyone have ideas on how to organize al this?

I took the info from the Google Doc and formatted it for the wiki. There is definitely more info that we could put here.

And maybe a link to certain sections of the SPP page? That would be considered 'education' of different types of proposals that are being considered or have at least some support by members of the movement.

I was thinking organizing by topic (economy, tax havens, wealth disparity, etc.) and then within each topic we could do it chronologically (and then books about certain topics on the bottom of each category).

Please add more if there are items because I'm sure there are many more.

Also, what about a 'required reading' or 'read this first' section? This would provide the bare essentials so that people don't have to wade through the entire index of resources.
====re: Organization for Education Section====
::[[user:OneKarma]] Oct 15, 2011 10:04 pm
i like all of these ideas.

we also need to really consider the correlation to the 'Press' pages, and make sure that each of these are obviously defined and remain consistent.

:::[[user:Lulu43]] Oct 24 2011 8:36 pm
I don't understand - why copy paste from the Google Doc, thereby creating a branched version? Why not just link to the Google Doc, or embed it on this page? People seem to continue to update directly to the Doc, which predated this wiki by about a month at least. I guess it's fine to have multiple parallel versions as long as people get informed, but does seem a shame to fragment efforts. Then again, this is not the only wiki, either. ;-)

Occupy Boston

2011-10-24T00:14:20Z

Lulu43:

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=== [[Urgent News|News]]: ===

*[[Bank Transfer Day|Bank Transfer Day]] - Take a stand and move your money out of the big banks ''before'' 5 November 2011.
*13-14 October 2011 - Emergency Call to Action: [http://occupywallst.org/article/emergency-call-action-prevent-forcible-closure-occ/ Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting #OWS]
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