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Naomi Wolf is no Wall Street occupier either

Posted in America, bankers, banking, banks, essentialism, feminism, gender, How to Occupy the moral and political high ground, Naomi Wolf, New York, NYC, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, politics, protest, revolution now, shock doctrine, The Observer on November 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I think I am going to get more involved in Occupy Wall Street, in whatever way I can. I have been provoked. I hear that if you can’t join them, you beat them. Yes, I was provoked, first, by Pierce Penniless’s excellent call to participation, and then – this morning – by Naomi Wolf’s appallingly [...]

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politics away from home

Posted in America, communicative power, family, marriage equality, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, politics, shock doctrine, Zizek on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I attended a politics seminar this week that was solely about Occupy Wall Street (hurrah! etc) but which ostensibly addressed communicative power, and which I think threw up questions about the so-called public/private spheres. Deva Woodly, the seminar convenor, circulated a working paper by herself that outlined striking differences between the political fates of the [...]

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Beyond ninety-nine-percentism: dreaming of actually occupying Wall Street and not being frightened of ‘revolution’

Posted in America, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet on October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

One notable feature of OWS is its participants’ lack of hesitation in using the term ‘revolution’. Here comes the revolution! This is the first step of the revolution! Get up, get down, the revolution is in this town! You won’t stop our revolution! etcetera, etcetera. Distinguishing from these assertions of a revolution that has arrived, what [...]

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the Occupy Wall Street “We are the 99%” solidarity march

Posted in New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet on October 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Good morning Britain, good evening New York City, Bad revolutionary alert: I’m not at the protest. I am too ill to stay on the march. By most accounts I’m missing a 50-60,000-person ruckus in the Broadway/Fulton Street/Wall Street area around Liberty Plaza. The NYPD are pulling out the orange mesh and the horses and the [...]

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‘Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives out free healthcare: you’re thinking of Jesus’ – some more impressions of New York

Posted in America, bankers, Brooklyn, cycling, Liberty Plaza, monogamy, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, protest on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Extreme colour-coding: the people selling coffee are probably black; the people buying, probably white. The people cleaning the street: black. The people wearing suits on Wall Street: white. The farmers in the Union Square market: white. The supermarket check-out employees: black. Maybe Hispanic. The woman sitting against a lamp-post with a cardboard sign reading ‘Tired [...]

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Wall Street was already an illegal occupation

Posted in America, bankers, banking, banks, Liberty Plaza, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, revolution now on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A blog post for Bright Green – by Sophielle (http://lasophielle.com) contact: sophie.anne.lewis@gmail.com (+1) (0) 646 789 2629. Sophielle was at Oxford until mid-2011, being an activist with the Climate Camp and the anti-cuts movement, studying Environmental Policy; she is now studying Politics at the New School.   Insofar as its empty tarmac has most often been lined with standard [...]

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