In the week since the Occupy May Day General Strike, I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of the event. Friends who were in New York City that day say it was tremendously exciting, especially the permitted march from Union Square to Wall Street, which apparently stretched out strong over some 30 blocks. As [...]
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Occupy Earth
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 7, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/occupy-earth/
Webizens Unite!
The fuss over the SOPA/PIPA legislation last week is the marker of a generational shift in our understanding of the media: we’re at the transition point between 20th century media models, which rely on centralized, profit-driven control over production and consumption, and 21st century media models, which are all about open access and the free [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 23, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/webizens-unite/
Psst–did someone say…CLIMATE CHANGE???
A Year Full of Weather Disasters and an Economic Toll to Match – NYTimes.com. Here is yet another example of the way the mainstream press reports on climate change without actually using that oh-so-loaded term. “Normally, three or four weather disasters a year in the United States will cause at least $1 billion in damages [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on August 20, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/psst-did-someone-say-climate-change/
I mean, who wants to look at pictures of skinned baby seals?
Doing Battle with the Blob I had a moment of eerie and upsetting disjunction this morning while listening to the CBC (that is, Canadian Broadcasting Co) radio news. The announcer says that humanitarian aid organizations believe that 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in past 90 days as a result of the [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on August 4, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/i-mean-who-wants-to-look-at-pictures-of-skinned-baby-seals/
Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were steadily gaining steam when I was born in the early 1960s; “progress” seemed infinite, and infinitely [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on July 19, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/paradigm-shift-from-competition-and-destruction-to-nurturance-collaboration/
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