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/
May Day: Here, There and Everywhere
A reader asks why I did not stay home from work and join the May Day protests today, and I feel like this question deserves a serious response. Partly, I have always had a phobia about crowds, and never willingly put myself into a crowd situation. I don’t even like to go to an agricultural [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 1, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/may-day-here-there-and-everywhere/
Which Side Are You On?
So here we sit on the eve of May Day 2012, and there is an eerie calm-before-the-storm kind of feeling. The mainstream media is still doing its best to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. The only May-Day related event reported in the NY Times today was that a lawsuit was [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 30, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/which-side-are-you-on/
Occupying Leadership: What will it take to accomplish real change?
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher and Jamphel Yeshi, the young Tibetan monk who set himself on fire last week, are more alike than might first meet the eye. DeChristopher, one of the founders of the group Peaceful Uprising, took direct action to disrupt the sale of wilderness to mining companies in a closed Federal auction. He [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 31, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/occupying-leadership-what-will-it-take-to-accomplish-real-change/
Shades of an American Kristallnacht?
Tonight at dinner the conversation turned to politics, although it seemed that everyone at the table was reluctant to mention the name “Obama”—a sign of the deep disappointment in our erst-while hero. There was some enthusiasm for the political satire of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who are probably doing more to educate young people [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 22, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/shades-of-an-american-kristallnacht/
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