I was very happy to spend time at Occupy Wall Street this week. A while back I reported on a comrade’s observations; here are mine to add to the picture. I purposely didn’t bring a camera, so as not to be a tourist. I just talked to a lot of people and…
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wmtc: back, more soon
We had a terrific little trip to New York. It was a real treat for us to be there together without the crush of holiday crowds, to see family without the big Thanksgiving gatherings, and just enjoy the City. Perfect weather didn’t hurt either, especial…
Continue readingwmtc: urgent! new threat to toronto public library: make your voice heard
Read and sign the petition!From Our Public Library::* * * *The first order of business of Mayor Ford’s handpicked Toronto Library Board was to cut 100 librarians and other staff.Even though there is not a single children’s librarian in the entire s…
Continue readingwmtc: greetings from new york city
We’re here early this year, visiting friends and family now instead of over US Thanksgiving. Occupy Wall Street is definitely on the agenda. Probably not much blogging though.
Continue readingwmtc: monday, november 7 in toronto: a very special evening with s. brian willson
S. Brian Willson is a Vietnam veteran and peace activist. In September 1987, he lost both his legs when he was run over by a US government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action. Willson recently published a memoir, Blood on the Tracks; yo…
Continue readingwmtc: guerrilla librianship meets the occupied wall street journal
From the Occupied Wall Street Journal #3:Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here, and all free. Barnes & Noble may be endangered and the Borders across the st…
Continue readingwmtc: infographic: the u.s. should be ashamed, but canada has little to brag about
I found this telling infographic in a column by Charles Blow in the New York Times called “America’s Exploding Pipe Dream”. If you can’t read it here, go here and click on the pop-up box.We have not taken care of the least among us. We have allowed a r…
Continue readingwmtc: rob ford’s next campaign?
This would be so much funnier if people’s lives and a great city weren’t being damaged in the bargain.
Continue readingwmtc: occupy toronto vigil for iraq veteran and peace activist scott olsen
If you missed the story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/26/occupy-oakland-veteran-critical-condition.
Continue readingwmtc: a short film about ows human rights: "i am not moving"
Solidarity with Oakland: The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette brought to you by the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street.The whole world is watching.Scott Olson, 24-year-old Iraq War veteran, is in critical condition after his head was bashed in by Oakland …
Continue readingwmtc: pollitt: we are all occupiers now
Katha Pollitt on “The Mainstreming of OWS”: Maybe OWS will vanish with the lovely fall weather, or drift off into the anarchist subculture, or break down in fights and factions. But already it has accomplished more than anything put forward by organize…
Continue readingwmtc: being erica whores for mccain pizza
I don’t watch this show, but if I did, this would piss off the hell out of me.CBC and McCain, the frozen food company, are “partnering” for a contest. Viewers are invited to submit audition videos. The winner lands a spot as an extra on “Being Erica”…..
Continue readingwmtc: fbi "mapping": racial and ethnic profiling at the highest levels of so-called law enforcement
I just received this from the ACLU. I will run it here verbatim, except for a few extraneous bits. This is racial and ethnic profiling at its most extreme. If the top law “enforcement” agency in the US does this, how can the police departments of New Y…
Continue readingwmtc: life, by keith richards, canadian content alert
This post – like its subject – is old but still relevant.Over the summer I read Life, Keith Richards’ memoirs. When I blogged about it here, I was loving it, but the book didn’t turn out to be as fascinating and excellent as that post implies. The best…
Continue readingwmtc: howard zinn on not predicting the future
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion …
Continue readingwmtc: occupy: the people’s library and how to build the movement
In my post here, recapping a report-back from Occupy Wall Street, I mentioned The People’s Library – but I neglected to see if the people’s librarians have a blog. Silly me, of course they do! Please visit and scroll through, it’s quite amazing: Occupy…
Continue readingwmtc: top 10 ows signs (as chosen by a friend of wall street)
Top Ten OWS signs, courtesy of International Business Times.
Continue readingwmtc: income inequality in canada: the facts
From ReWORKit: In light of Occupy Wall Street and the spinoffs that are growing in many other cities, there have been a large number of excellent articles and studies going around looking at the top 1% of income earners in the United St…
Continue readingwmtc: occupy woof street: dogs of the 99%
The dogs of Occupy Wall Street
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