Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but by a scarcity of democracy. Read more [...]
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
On the Duty of Fiscal Disobedience
OWS stated implicitly and explicitly that Washington, DC though full of sound and fury, signifies nothing. The nation’s true political center of gravity is no longer Washington, but Wall Street. Read more [...]TED Talk: Why Income Inequality Hurts Society
After so many years of an increasing gulf between rich and poor, it should be obvious to even marginally objective observers that such a gap has very negative consequences.
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Occupy Radio Network: A Proposal to the Occupy Movement
Currently most of the broadcast media in the United States are controlled by six major corporations, none of whom are friendly to OWS or any of the other Occupy communities. Imagine a network of stations sharing information, getting the word out, and making the case for creating a better world. Read more [...]
Zuccotti Park and the Incompetence of Violence
You would think that by now, Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD would have learned the lessons from Spain and Egypt and Tunisia and Wisconsin, that repression only causes certain kinds of ideas to flourish. OWS is one of those ideas, and it will continue to grow. Read more [...]
The True Message of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is telling the powers that be, "We can make a better society than you can, and here's how to do it!" Read more [...]
Some Random Thoughts on “Occupy Wall Street”
As the general economic, political, and cultural climate continued to deteriorate it was hard for me to come up with hopeful, helpful things to say. I mean, what's the point of clipping coupons when massive, indifferent or even malevolent forces were (and remain) poised to do so much harm to so many for the benefit of so few? Read more [...]
A Thought on Government Spending
In other words, in order to win World War II, the United States essentially transformed itself into a socialist nation. And after the war, government spending on free college educations for GIs and excellent deals on home loans launched an unrivaled era of prosperity and economic growth. Read more [...]
DIY Medical Care?
This raises a question. Just how much health care can you do on your own? What's the threshold for practicing medicine without a license? Obviously, applying a band-aid is okay, but a home liver transplant is not. Nor is prescribing controlled medications. But in between those areas, more or less, there is a lot one can do. Read more [...]
Singing for Fun and Subversion
Making music is one of those things that is probably more fundamentally human than most of us realize. Think about it. Every human culture in every geographic space, and in every time period for which we have evidence one way or the other, humans are a music-making species. Read more [...]