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Tuesday
Nov292011

The occupation of Zuccotti continues with the Augmented Reality project

The AR project: http://markskwarek.com

Tuesday
Nov292011

Pedro Reyes: Baby Marx and Smith at OWS

Baby Marx at Occupy Wall Street from Pedro Reyes on Vimeo.

Karl Marx and Adam Smith bump into each other at the Occupy Wall Street in Liberty Plaza. Marx sees in the current economic crisis the self-destruction of capitalism that he predicted 200 years ago, an opportunity to revive socialism. Smith sees in it a different opportunity… Inside the precarious tents, the resistance goes on, in a place that the privileged few have fled in a golden parachute.

For more information on Pedro Reyes's Baby Marx project visit: http://www.blog.pedroreyes.net/?tag=baby-marx

 

Wednesday
Nov092011

The Undiscovered New World

A Song for the Soldiers of Occupy Wall Street

By Vogel and Vogel

The first acts of protest only began in September, less than two months ago, but they were carried out with such breathless defiance, passion and unlikely sanity, it's no wonder that Occupy Wall Street soon began to captivate the world. From that moment to this, the Wall Streeters and their brave satellites have emboldened many of us far from the front lines, inspiring millions of Americans to rethink our predicament and rededicate ourselves to the true ideals of our country: fairness, community and compassion. But the OWS struggle will be long, their detractors will become more fearsome with each turn of the screw, and their ultimate success will not happen - it is becoming increasingly clear - without the efforts of many more of us. And so, with gratitude for what the protesters have already accomplished, and with the wish that our music might inspire even more Americans to take up the cause, we offer the movement this song of hope.

"The Undiscovered New World"
She was just halfway down the road to death from Plymouth
Yet never had such a New World felt so old
So weak from pain, so filled with gloom
She had to stop awhile
And surrender to the chase of her yesterdays dipped in gold

As one by one her years of greatness fast approached her
The New World begged each one, "Please set me free."
"Release me from the memory of my eminence"
"And the glories of a youth I never more shall see."

"We're not here to incarcerate"
Whispered 1968.
"We only want to take you back to you."
"To help you reach that distant shore,"
Added 1864,
"So, won't you kindly join our crippled crew?"

The broken must not be strangers
Lonely worlds will never live anew
But make the broken man your lover
We'll set sail and find the undiscovered
New World still alive inside us all

Then, all at once the New World felt a mighty rumble
Her panicked people filled the streets
They ran from mansions,
And they ran from tents beneath the bridges
The living and the dead couldn't help but meet

The souls of slaves, no longer buried, fled the graveyards
Discussed their fates with men who worked three jobs
While the Gilded Age's pioneers of oil and steel
Wondered was it worth the lungs and landscapes robbed

The grocer met the five-year-old
Whose hand picked the grapes he sold
Four hundred years of mothers were distraught,
They asked why, "Why is it parents now elect
To build their lives on gross neglect
What did our children need that yours do not?"

The broken must not be strangers
Lonely worlds will never live anew
But make the broken man your lover
We'll set sail and find the undiscovered
New World still alive inside us all

And when at last each man had found unlikely allies
The New World once again was dipped in gold
Felt gladness like no other season she'd lived through
A vitality that made her youngest years seem old

"And all your people feel alive,"
Uttered 1935.
"You've shown them such a world beyond their tears."
"To tell the truth, I envy you,"
Admitted 1492.
"The kind of youth that only comes with years."

Tuesday
Nov082011

flUSH ~ visual poetry by Daniel Baez 

Thursday
Oct272011

We Are the 99% (as we gather together) 

video by http://getgrounded.tv/

These are the words of The Declaration of the Occupation

director// reverend billy & the church of stop shopping