Activismo
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Occupying the Imagination, Cultivating a New Politics.
Governing With "Class", Politics the Bloomberg Way.
Spirit Rising
The Importance of Occupy.
Videos:
Luis Barrios
Democracy Now on Occupy
Michael Moore y Vandana Shiva
Occupying the Imagination, Cultivating a New Politics.
Governing With "Class", Politics the Bloomberg Way.
Spirit Rising
The Importance of Occupy.
Videos:
Luis Barrios
Democracy Now on Occupy
Michael Moore y Vandana Shiva
Spirit Rising - Spiritual Activism Resurges
by Michael Nagler
In the spiritual folklore of India, there is a recurring image of Mother Earth, unable to bear the sufferings caused by human beings, going to Lord Vishnu to beg for relief. This image was invoked years ago by Ammachi, one of the most popular of India's living spiritual teachers, when she warned that the abuse of the Earth by modern economies would soon lead to a backlash if we did not learn to live sensibly—that is, lightly—on the planet that bore us.
Then came Katrina. At every level—from the global warming that likely increased the severity of the hurricane, to the ecological devastation that caused the flooding, to the shocking abandonment of the city's poor, to the severity of the deluge—this is a human-made disaster. And not the last. Bill McKibben now warns that “New Orleans ... very much resembles the planet we will inhabit for the rest of our lives.” You cannot fault him for this pessimism; people who seem to be intoxicated with their own reckless folly have unleashed a wrecking ball of greed and violence against the miraculous life-support system that is our Earth, already causing damage at every level, from our DNA to the weather.
Like most myths, the story of Mother Earth going to Vishnu for help contains wisdom that can be translated into modern terms: When things get this bad, the story is saying, only spiritual energy can save us. There is evidence that many of us feel that way.
In July, 2005, Tikkun's Rabbi Michael Lerner, along with myself and many others, convened a gathering of more than 1,200 participants for a Conference on Spiritual Activism. The number would have been larger, but we had to close registration two weeks early because we filled the space.
The enthusiasm is not hard to understand. It was partly a pent-up reaction to the highjacking of Christianity by the Religious Right to support policies that are, in fact, condemned by the wisdom traditions of all cultures?—not the first time this has happened to that otherwise fine religion. As Evangelical minister Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and a featured speaker at the Conference on Spiritual Activism put it, “When they're stealing your faith, you fight back.”
But there's a deeper and more positive reason, and that's the growing hope that “spiritual activism” might just be the missing ingredient, the lightning rod, to galvanize the progressive movement and help it radically turn things around. But what exactly is spiritual activism?
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Porque el cambio comienza contigo.
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It's better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.
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Governing With 'Class': Politics The Bloomberg Way
A new book argues that the popular image of Mike Bloomberg as a post-ideological mayor misses the profound way he has reshaped New York for the benefit of the corporate elite.
By Julian Brash
As only the fourth modern New York mayor to secure a third term, Michael Bloomberg's impact will be deeply etched in the city's physical shape and political culture. But it won't be a simple legacy. In “Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City” (University of Georgia Press, $69.95, cloth; $24.95, paper), Julian Brash argues that the mayor's aversion to traditional politics was, in fact, the hallmark of a new kind of politics—one that reconciled tensions between government and corporations by remaking the former in the image of (and for the benefit of) the latter. Here is an excerpt:
While corporate language and management practices in government have become more common in recent decades, the Bloomberg administration was more than inflected or influenced by the corporate experience of the mayor and his key economic development officials. Instead, corporate rationality was pervasive and foundational, the DNA of the Bloomberg Way. This gave economic and urban development policy a coherence and comprehensiveness lacking in the past. The corporate rationality of the Bloomberg Way, and the development agenda that emerged from it, clearly reflected the experience, underwrote the power, and furthered the interests and desires of the city's postindustrial elite.
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Occupying the Imagination, Cultivating a New Politics
This excellent article provides an in-depth analysis of the current political landscape in the US as it relates to globalization, changes in the economy, future demographic changes, the resurgence of conservatism, the death of multiculturalism, and the occupy movement.
By: Vijay Prashad
My heart makes my head swim - Franz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks"
Part I: Bare Life
Reports and rumors filter out of government documents and family distress signals to locate precisely the ongoing devastation of social life in the United States. Unemployment rates linger at perilously high levels, with the effective rate in some cities, such as Detroit, stumbling on with half the population without waged work. Home foreclosures fail to slow-down, and sheriffs and debt-recovery paramilitaries scour the landscape for the delinquents. Personal debt has escalated as ordinary people with uneven means of earning livings turn to banks and to the shady world of personal loan agencies to take them to the other side of starvation. Researchers at the RAND Corporation tell us that absent family support, poverty rates among the elderly will be about double what they are now. In other words, economist Nancy Folbre’s “invisible heart” is trying its best to hold back the noxious effects of the “invisible hand.”
Read the full article here.
This excellent article provides an in-depth analysis of the current political landscape in the US as it relates to globalization, changes in the economy, future demographic changes, the resurgence of conservatism, the death of multiculturalism, and the occupy movement.
By: Vijay Prashad
My heart makes my head swim - Franz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks"
Part I: Bare Life
Reports and rumors filter out of government documents and family distress signals to locate precisely the ongoing devastation of social life in the United States. Unemployment rates linger at perilously high levels, with the effective rate in some cities, such as Detroit, stumbling on with half the population without waged work. Home foreclosures fail to slow-down, and sheriffs and debt-recovery paramilitaries scour the landscape for the delinquents. Personal debt has escalated as ordinary people with uneven means of earning livings turn to banks and to the shady world of personal loan agencies to take them to the other side of starvation. Researchers at the RAND Corporation tell us that absent family support, poverty rates among the elderly will be about double what they are now. In other words, economist Nancy Folbre’s “invisible heart” is trying its best to hold back the noxious effects of the “invisible hand.”
Read the full article here.
Erradicar la pobreza, sanar el dolor, y construir un mundo mejor
con amor, paz, y justicia es trabajo de todos.
con amor, paz, y justicia es trabajo de todos.
Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the diminishing fortunes of the middle class. The media blackout was especially remarkable given that issues like jobs and corporate influence on elections topped the list of concerns for most Americans. Occupy Wall Street changed that. In fact, it may represent the best hope in years that... “we the people” will step up to take on the critical challenges of our time.
Here’s how the Occupy movement is already changing everything:
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Here’s how the Occupy movement is already changing everything:
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The Importance of Occupy and How It Is Already Affecting the Future, and What's Next.
El reverendo y activista politico Luis Barrios habla sobre la relacion entre el activismo, la espiritualidad, y la desobediencia civil como instrumento para la justicia social.
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Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, y otras figuras hablan sobre las grandes corporaciones, el comercio, y la democracia.
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where a new generation of "indignados" seized city centers for participatory responses to capitalist austerity. Then New York City entered the international discussion with the rise of the Occupy Wall St and a newly combative 99%.
Please join friends, teachers, students, activists, and rabble-rousers for a historic evening with Oscar-winning filmmaker MICHAEL MOORE and distinguished professor and social critic DR. CORNEL WEST as they discuss the new political situation in the US and internationally. The conversation will be moderated by noted author and activist, dream hampton. This event is a special benefit for your favorite New York City movement center, the Brecht Forum.
May 18th, 2012 7:00 PM
Assembly Hall @Hunter College
68th St. btw Park and Lexington Ave.
$20 General Admission, $50 to $100 includes special reception with Michael Moore and Cornel West
More info www.brechtforum.org
Please join friends, teachers, students, activists, and rabble-rousers for a historic evening with Oscar-winning filmmaker MICHAEL MOORE and distinguished professor and social critic DR. CORNEL WEST as they discuss the new political situation in the US and internationally. The conversation will be moderated by noted author and activist, dream hampton. This event is a special benefit for your favorite New York City movement center, the Brecht Forum.
May 18th, 2012 7:00 PM
Assembly Hall @Hunter College
68th St. btw Park and Lexington Ave.
$20 General Admission, $50 to $100 includes special reception with Michael Moore and Cornel West
More info www.brechtforum.org
THE BEGINNING IS NEAR:
AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL MOORE AND CORNEL WEST
AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL MOORE AND CORNEL WEST
Double click here to edit this text.Following years of capitalist triumphalism and imperial overreach, cynical horizons were challenged by 2011's popular uprisings. Starting with labor's powerful fight-back in Wisconsin and the earth-shaking Arab Spring, the spirit quickly spread to Greece and Spain,