You know #OccupyWallStreet is preoccupying the conservatives when Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council feels he has make the convoluted argument that “Jesus was a free marketer, not an Occupier.†http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/occupy-the-bible-why-jesus-is-not-a-free-marketer/2011/12/06/gIQAGDnMaO_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_twitter
Here I try to edit out the noise of chaos in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and watch for the light of God’s truth during times of strife, change, and confrontations. I filter this through a Methodist – conservative upbringing, in context of values learned more through personal experience than through any church dogma. http://umc-unofficiallaymanopenforum.ning.com/forum/topics/occupy-wall-street-ows-what-s-it-about
From Occupy Seattle: “The Occupy Movement is finally identifying that there’s a problem with the system and poor people are a symbol of the problem.” http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11551765 The Rev. John Helmiere’s face shows wounds after he says a Seattle police officer beat him while he was trying to keep peace Continue Reading
See this section ( 11:55 – 12:50 ) of the video to see why I put “Citizen Journalist” in quotes. I like the phrase, but Tim’s point is a good one. “Journalists ARE citizens”. But as he later says re: Citizen Journalists: “It means you’re independent”. So we are talking “Independent” and “Citizen” as adjective, setting them apart from corporate Continue Reading
What I did NOT really like was the way they mangled what Tim actually says about “Citizen Journalism”. It’s simple: The term is a bit redundant, because “Journalists ARE citizens”. That would have been easy for the Mashable article/video to point out. How the Occupy Movement Is Creating News Innovation.
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.†– MLK via Interfaith Worker Justice – Home.
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