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.
And PJ O’Rourke behaves like an ass (again). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcjeUFodYfQ Alan Grayson is awesome here.
From The Church and PostModern Culture. Excellent. Badiou calls these eruptions ‘events’, an event (in this case a political event) is the revealing or acknowledging of something within the situation that had not been previously represented by the state, and not only not represented by also repressed by the state. In this way, an event disrupts the smooth functioning of Continue Reading
This retired Episcopal bishop, George Packard, has been blogging about his advocacy for the Occupy Movement. He quotes from the “Tidal” , an Occupy journal: We wouldn’t be here if Wall Street fed off itself; we are here because it is feeding off everyone. http://bishopsnotebook.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-occupy-is-read-tidal.html Another choice bit from Tidal: If the phantoms of Wall Street are confused by our presence Continue Reading
Can we truly collaborate with religious “Nones†in the co-creation of new kinds of religious/faith communities? Or will our commitments to institutional structures or ecclesiological/denominational traditions keep us from experimenting together?http://knightopia.com/blog/2011/12/13/pushback-on-participatory-church/ I have thought about this, and if there is a possibility of saying YES, I see opportunity in the Occupy movement. This is a movement where it seems to Continue Reading
Roger Ebert with a really good, articulate reflection on his feelings re: Occupy Republicans as well as Democrats should be fed up with the rot in our financial system. It should be apparent to them that the Republican Party is the legislative wing of Wall Street theft. Populists are called socialists, but then “socialism” is always the term aimed at Continue Reading
From General Secretary Jim Winkler’s column today at @GBCS The prophet Isaiah was awakened to two realities: the awesome holiness of Yahweh and the depth of his own nation’s sin. http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=frLJK2PKLqF&b=7887565&ct=11523271
From @RogerWolsey via his post on patheos.com (link below) God is in the those who are reclaiming their gifts of prophecy and are speaking truth to power. God is in that slip of paper that a protester slipped to Obama. God is in that guy with the funny hat who handed that fox reporter his a$$ with a barrage of Continue Reading
I’ve seen quite a bit of this: in some circles there are voices who claim that at its core Occupy is not nonviolent and that the fringe is not a fringe at all but the real face of the movement. I found this to be a rather ironic twist: The only thing resembling violence that we saw was the annoying disruption caused Continue Reading
at about 16:50 in this video, the above quote was like music to my ears. I thought, “now that’s a keeperâ€! Good Morning LA! !!!, Recorded on my Android phone. OccupyFreedomLA on USTREAM. Citizen Journalist
Another humorous comment on the Pepper Spray product (not really about Pepper Spray, but still funny. Recipe for increased public outrage: 15 to 20 – medium sized students, 18 to 24 years, more if smaller or underage. 100 – Overly prepared riot police. 1 – Healthy dose of indiscriminate power. 1 – Publicly owned property in open setting. Generous selection Continue Reading