This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
On that impossible day when the skyline of New York City collapsed on its southern tip - I watched from a rooftop across the East River - we entered an unexpectedly peaceful eye of the storm. We all fell toward the terrible scene. We fell through tunnels, over bridges.
Good day - I am new to Evolver and excited to see what happens here. Nice to meet you all. I am starting off with a request - since one member of our mastermind will be traveling over the next couple of months- we will need another person. Look forward to adding to the group. Take care.
There is a moment half-way through “Tweets from Tahrir” – the new tweet by tweet running quotation of the Egyptian Revolution – where the reader gets goosebumps. It’s when you realize, “I could do this. I could have my own personal Tahrir.”
The one question I return to: From the center of our vast population can we human beings reach out to the thing that created us? The industrial inebriation of traffic-life, computer-life, and military-life - is so complete. We as the top dog species isolate ourselves from the Earth – just as the Earth makes the effort to talk to us. And oh – it’s trying to get our attention!
if you are in new york city this weekend, come check out the tribal market in long island city on Saturday 10/9. Alyssa (blacksheephybrid) and I will be there with a selection of surreal clothing and music from ENKI, philadelphia's new psychedelic boutique. (http://www.enkienterprise.com/)
Three weeks to go to the election. Last night I interrupted Mike Bloomberg’s opening statement in the debate. We’re trying to poke through the $65 million TV screen that weighs down on us in Gotham City. My prayer for bravery was posted with you earlier yesterday, “…there is something powerful in a quiet voice when the words are whole.”
On my trip back from New York City on a Saturday morning in August, I inserted the Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles to listen to on our traffic jam laden voyage out of Manhattan.
New York City. Living here the past year I've found the speed at which the city moves is not set by the pace of traffic and sneakers, but by the endless possibilities which the city provides.
"In an infinite chaotic universe, anything and everything that can occur- will occur, infinitely many times."
Synopsis: British binary mind theorist and author, Anthony Peake, is expanding his considerable technique and influence into an increasingly American audience and readership.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
