AS:
Im Fortgang der Erstellung dieses Eintrags den jetzt ganz zu Anfang
gebrachten, in der FAS vom 12.d.Mts. veröffentlichten Cartoon in ihn
aufgenommen. Auf der Seite "Geld & Mehr" stehend, wurde ihm
dabei die ideologische Aussage untergeschoben, der allein die großen
Kapitalanleger vertrauen, die im Zuge ihrer Beschaffungsstrategie und
der daraus abgeleiteten Taktiken die Lebensverhältnisse der Menschen
mehr und mehr korrumpieren.
Bei
der Fertigung dieses Posts ergaben sich zwei kleinere Probleme
dahingehend, dass a) bei der erforderlich gewordenen Collage des
Interviewtextes die zugehörigen Textabschnitte nur provisorisch
kenntlich gemacht werden konnten, und b) bei der Wahl des Titels nicht
von vorneherein klar war, wie das Verquere an der amerikanischen Denke
am schlagendsten zu fassen ist. Da für den Blogger die "fragwürdigen
Ideologien" in ihrer Allgemeinheit mehr Gewicht haben als die spezielle
Ideologie "Der Kirche der Glücklichen und der Gehirnwäsche", hat er den
ersteren diesbezüglich den Vorrang eingeräumt. Folgend zunächst das, was
er im Web zu der in der 2. Textspalte des Interviewtextes mit einem
Pfeil kenntlich gemachten Angabe herausfinden konnte.
Early application deadline: Feb 15
Final application deadline: Feb 21
Join the dialogue and create an economy that values people and planet.
Apply online and find out more at www.economyfutures.org.
Speakers include:
Anuradha Mittal Oakland Institute
Andrew Simms New Economics Foundation
Richard Heinberg Post Carbon Institute
Gar Alperovitz University of Maryland
Juliet Schor Boston College
Joshua Farley Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard Kennedy School
Nikos Passas Northeastern University
fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/332339620143841/
How is a summit different from a general assembly? At our Occupy Boston Student General Assemblies we generally focus on pressing issues, such as upcoming actions. However, the summit gives us a chance to discuss issues that we do not have time to expand on in general assemblies. Some examples include: confronting systemic oppression within the occupy movement, discuss the roots of education inequality, a historical memory of radical student movements, the organizational future of Occupy Boston Students, and more.
If you are curious but haven’t yet participated in #Occupy, this will be a great opportunity to experience the organic and collaborative nature of the movement.
Tentative agenda: will be posted soon.
Participating campuses:
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bridgewater State University
Emerson College
Harvard University
Lesley University
MIT
Northeastern University
Salem State
Simmons College
SMFA
Tufts University
UMass-Amherst
UMass-Boston
UMass-Lowell
University of Vermont
Cambridge, MA
See map: Google Maps
No Layoffs at Harvard!
Harvard administrators just announced a plan to restructure the library system that will make libraries “more efficient” by laying off workers. Workers will have jobs restructured and cut by “voluntary and involuntary means.” High unemployment rates make finding a new job nearly impossible, especially for older workers. Meanwhile, Harvard’s endowment grew 21% last year, to $32 billion. Harvard has the money to keep its workers employed. Join concerned members of the Havard community in a rally with Harvard’s library staff to oppose the layoffs in front of the the Holyoke Center!
*** Occupy Harvard General Assembly will be at 6p @ Holyoke Center on Thursday after the rally ***
Crimson article about workers’ responses: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/25/library-restructure-employee…
Op-ed by Lamont worker Geoff Carens: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/24/Harvard-no-layoffs-library-H…
Harvard No Layoffs Campaign blog: http://harvardnolayoffs.blogspot.com/
Harvard Student Labor Action Movement:http://www.harvardslam.com/
"ICH
WILL LEBEN" schreit in diesem Bild, für das der Maler Edvard Munch die
Vorlage geliefert hat, eine verzweifelte Frau. In diesen Schrei
einstimmen würden am liebsten Hekatomben von Menschen, aufbegehrend
gegen all die Ungerechtigkeiten und den Widersinn, die ihnen tagtäglich
zugemutet werden. Mit Blick auf diese Situation hat der Blogger sich
bezüglich der Frage, welchem der beiden eingangs gestellten Titel er bei
der Benennung seines Eintrags den Vorrang einräumen sollte, dahingehend
entschieden, dem Aspekt der "fragwürdigen Ideologien" wegen wegen deren
generellen Charakters den Vorzug zu geben.
An der Universität Boston, die in der langen, der Website von Occupy Harvard 2.0 entommenen Passage ebenfalls auftaucht, herrscht offensichtlich ein ganz anderer Geist. Der es ermöglicht, dass es dort eine Vorlesung "Ökonomie für die 99 Prozent" geben wird, gehalten von einer Soziologieprofessorin, die, wie die Interviewpartnerin der Reporterin Becker ausführt, lange an der Universität Harvard gelehrt hat. Zu dem an ihr - laut Krienen "nach der katholischen Kirche die wohlhabendste 'nicht profitorientierte' Einrichtung auf der Welt" - herrschenden Ungeist noch dieses Zitat: "... viele Studenten werden ... in Branchen geschickt, die weiter dazu beitragen werden, die enorm ungleiche Vermögensverteilung in unserem Land zu verstärken."
Damit soll es aber auch bezüglich Harvard und des allüberall zu verzeichnenden unseligen Einflusses dieser "Eliteuniversität" sein Bewenden haben. An diesem Punkt erscheint es angezeigt, auf den äußerst unguten Einfluss zu sprechen zu kommen, der von der maßlos sich überhebenden Sekte der Mormonen besonders auf die in den USA lebenden Menschen ausgeübt wird. Wobei ja zu befürchten ist, dass mit Mitt Romney in schon absehbarer Zeit in diesem Staat wieder mal ein ganz ausgewachsener Hohlkopf an das Ruder der Politik gelangt, der besser daran täte, sich in diesen durch mancherlei Umbrüche geprägten Zeiten aus diesem Geschäft herauszuhalten. Gesetzt den Fall, er obsiegt bei den dort demnächst anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahlen: die Phantasie reicht gar nicht aus, sich das auszumalen, was dieser ehemalige Gouverneur von Massachusetts sich alles einfallen lassen wird, um der Welt die Flötentöne beizubringen.
Dass mit Jon Huntsman - ehemaliger Gouverneur von Utah - und Mitt Romney sogar gleich zwei mormonische Präsidentschaftsbewerber angetreten sind und sich Hoffnungen auf den Einzug in das Weiße Hause und das dortige Oval Office machen können, will dem Blogger als allemal nicht mehr runde Sache erscheinen. Wobei er sich fragt, wieso zumindest die frommen Christen unter den Amis dieser Sekte einerseits ein sehr gesundes Misstrauen entgegenbringen, andererseits aber Anstalten machen, gleich zwei Protagonisten dieser Glaubensrichtung die Steigbügel zum Aufsitzen auf dem Amtsschimmel hinzuhalten. Ob Huntsman oder Romney - in puncto Borniertheit können sich die Amis eigentlich nichts Schlimmeres wünschen.
"Wir
sind die Kirche Jesu Christi [der Heiligen der Letzten Tage], die
Glück, Frieden und Licht bringt", heißt es in dem von dem Journalisten
Andreas Geldner verfassten und mit der Überschrift "Die Kirche der
Glücklichen und der Gehirnwäsche" versehenen Text. Wobei das Glück in
ganz enger Beziehung zu dem Reichtum zu stehen scheint, welches diese
"""Kirche""" anhäufen konnte: "Schätzungen veranschlagen das Vermögen
der Kirche auf rund 25 Milliarden Euro. Das Kapital wäre damit etwa
200-mal größer als das vergleichbar großer christlicher Kirchen."
Die Beschränktheit dieser Leutchen kommt vor allem darin zum Ausdruck, dass sie sich bei ihren Missionierungsbemühungen allein auf den Wortlaut der Bibel stützen. Wie sagt dazu einer der "Ältesten" - bezogen auf den Missionseinsatz in Deutschland? " 'Unsere Sprachausbildung ist auf das Evangelium konzentriert ... Raus aus dem Flugzeug. Rein ins Feuer'." Was ja beinhaltet, dass sich diese unsäglichen Typen einen feuchten Kehricht um das kümmern, was die Menschen bewegt - wo und unter welchen Verhältnissen auch immer.
Das Zeugnis, welches ein abtrünnig gewordenes Mitglied dieser Versammlung von Irren ausstellt, sollte den sich für etwas vernünftiger haltenden Zeitgenossen ein Warnung sein. Dazu der Text: "Bücher, Fernsehen, Zeitungen, Internet - alles, was zum Nachdenken in andere Richtungen inspirieren könnte, ist verpönt. Es gibt aber auch in Utah [Stammland der Mormonen] Menschen, die dies kritisch sehen. Menschen wie Sean Levitt wissen, wie erstickend die Umarmung der Kirche sein kann. 2009 hat er nach Jahren stiller Zweifel mit der Kirche gebrochen. Er erinnert sich mit Schaudern an die Missionsschule: 'Es ist Gehirnwäsche. Zwei- bis dreimal die Wochen musst du ein Glaubenszeugnis ablegen...'." Wozu gesagt sein muss, dass diese Gehirnwäsche mit ausschließlich dem Ziel betrieben wird, die Gefolgsleute aus Gründen der Besitzstandswahrung und der Profitmaximierung zusammen zu halten.
Fazit aus dem bis hierher Ausgeführten resp. Referiertem: Das, was wohl von vielen Europäern noch als erstrebenswert angesehen wird, nämlich THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, ist durch seine monomane Ausrichtung auf den Faktor Kapital als so destruktiv wie nichts anderes zu sehen. An dieser Sachlage ändert sich auch nicht das Geringste, wenn Leute wie die Mormonen hergehen und versuchen, ihrem ausschließlich auf Gütermehrung gründendes Gedankengebäude einen religiösen Anstrich zu geben!
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AHIP Hooray! Occupy Harvard “Excellence in the Business of Denying People Medical Care” award
“Be
it hereby known that Karen Ignagni has successfully upheld the
interests of private insurance in the face of efforts to reduce the
costs of administrative waste and to insure all Americans, preserving
company rights to profit before the public’s right to health.”
AHIP’s success in this model is exemplary. Health insurance and drug companies donated $26.2 million to the 111th Congress. Politicians receiving the largest campaign contributions from health insurers were Barack Obama, John McCain, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Eric Cantor and John Boehner. After a vigorous ($86 million) campaign against health reform, health insurers not only defeated the public option but also got a bill that will compel all Americans to purchase private insurance. Critics may call AHIP two-faced, but we believe that its goals are clear: promoting the profitability of the health insurance industry.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/10/occupy-hbs-insurance/
Sources for AHIP’s Achievements:
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/reports/
http://www.opensecrets.org
www.phnp.org
AHIP’s success in this model is exemplary. Health insurance and drug companies donated $26.2 million to the 111th Congress. Politicians receiving the largest campaign contributions from health insurers were Barack Obama, John McCain, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Eric Cantor and John Boehner. After a vigorous ($86 million) campaign against health reform, health insurers not only defeated the public option but also got a bill that will compel all Americans to purchase private insurance. Critics may call AHIP two-faced, but we believe that its goals are clear: promoting the profitability of the health insurance industry.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/10/occupy-hbs-insurance/
Sources for AHIP’s Achievements:
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/reports/
http://www.opensecrets.org
www.phnp.org
Transition to a New Economy Conference 2012
Heads up on what will surely be a fantastic conference March 30-April 1st at Harvard, organized by Economy Futures! Application deadline Feb 15-21.
Early application deadline: Feb 15
Final application deadline: Feb 21
Join the dialogue and create an economy that values people and planet.
Apply online and find out more at www.economyfutures.org.
Speakers include:
Anuradha Mittal Oakland Institute
Andrew Simms New Economics Foundation
Richard Heinberg Post Carbon Institute
Gar Alperovitz University of Maryland
Juliet Schor Boston College
Joshua Farley Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard Kennedy School
Nikos Passas Northeastern University
fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/332339620143841/
What is the Harvard Graduate Student Council good for?
A
great Op-Ed in the Crimson by Garga Chaterjee today about the decline
of a sense of mission in Harvard’s GSAS Graduate Council:
Many members of the GSC stated that the meeting at which the resolution was proposed, and the subsequent meeting at which it was debated, were the best attended and most engaging meetings they had ever seen at the GSC. Indeed, the passage of this resolution followed almost two months of deliberation, during which GSC representatives were asked to bring the resolution to students in their departments and programs to solicit opinions, and, where necessary, to conduct a student vote on it. The resulting public statement represents a reinvigorated notion of graduate student government that has been dormant for too long.
Contrasting with this vision, Dahianna Lopez and Laura McDaniel wrote in their February 3op-ed that the primary purpose of the GSC is “to allocate research and travel grants supported by the mandatory $25 fee assessed to every resident GSAS student in the fall of each academic year.” Though this may characterize the primary activity of the GSC in recent years, it is not the Council’s primary function. In fact, it does not even appear in the “Objects and Purposes” section of the GSC Constitution. Instead, this section opens by stating the role of the GSC: “to serve as the official representative body of the students of GSAS; to provide a forum for discussion of issues internal and external of concern to graduate students; to represent graduate student interests before the Harvard faculty and administration.” In fact, Lopez and McDaniel are also incorrect in stating that the $25 fee is mandatory, as it can be waived by any graduate student as long as this is requested in writing at the start of the year.
Their letter does, however, open an important conversation about the organization and structure of the GSC. The debate over the GSC’s latest resolution demonstrates that not only were most GSC representatives not elected in the first place, but many representatives also did not even know how to communicate with the students they were appointed to represent!
I was engaged with the GSC in various capacities for a long time (2006 – 2010). As a former executive board officer of the GSC, who has previously held responsibility for constitutional affairs at the Council, I am well aware of the undemocratic and ineffective nature of its structure and function. For example, the GSC president, vice-president, and secretary, to name a few, are not elected by graduate students in general, but by a handful of representatives, who form less than two percent of GSC membership. This may be news to undergraduates and the general Harvard community used to the participatory nature of the Undergraduate Council elections, where issues close to the undergraduate community become part of competing campaigns’ platforms. The fact that the GSC has allowed its democratic credentials to slip and its focus to narrow to that of a mere channel for funds puts it in shameful standing alongside comparable student councils in the country, and alongside the truly active organization that this month’s debate has showed it can be.
Even the GSC fee is a symbol of its undemocratic nature, as this represents an increase of 25 percent that was voted on at a meeting in the spring of 2011 with very poor attendance. Why would so few representatives turn up to vote on an issue as important as a 25 percent increase in an annual fee, to be levied on all Harvard graduate students? Because that crucial meeting was held on the Longwood campus, far away from the eyes of the vast majority of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students who may have opposed it. The upcoming meeting will also be held at Longwood.
The resolution proposed for discussion at the March meeting of the GSC is of profound importance to the future of the Council. If it fails, the GSC may be robbed of the ability to make any public statements on issues that don’t uniquely relate to graduate students. What about the university health plan, library hours, or recreational facilities? As these issues apply to more than just graduate students, rejection of this resolution gags the Council from commenting on any of these important issues. Lopez and McDaniel try to frighten readers by bringing up resolutions that have nothing to do with graduate student affairs, without noting that such issues, unlike that debated on this month, clearly fall outside of the realm of the GSC as defined by its constitution.
I call on the GSC to delay its vote on this important resolution until it can be held at a meeting that most of its members can attend. To attempt to use low attendance in order to overturn a resolution voted on with huge attendance is subversive to the democratic spirit, and betrays an unnecessary fear of the political, as if that weren’t what student government were all about. I also invite all graduate students to attend monthly meetings from here on, and to offer your voice as to what your council might mean to you.
Garga Chatterjee, PhD ’11, is a non-resident tutor in Winthrop House.
The fact that the GSC has allowed its democratic credentials to slip and its focus to narrow to that of a mere channel for funds puts it in shameful standing alongside comparable student councils in the country, and alongside the truly active organization that this month’s debate has showed it can be.article here.
GSC and Democratic Engagement
The Harvard Graduate Student Council recently made news with a resounding vote in favor of a resolution that proclaims solidarity with nonviolent protesters at the University of California and condemns the use of violence against students on campuses everywhere. This resolution passed 29-9 at a widely publicized meeting of the GSC, which took place in Dudley House on February 1st.Many members of the GSC stated that the meeting at which the resolution was proposed, and the subsequent meeting at which it was debated, were the best attended and most engaging meetings they had ever seen at the GSC. Indeed, the passage of this resolution followed almost two months of deliberation, during which GSC representatives were asked to bring the resolution to students in their departments and programs to solicit opinions, and, where necessary, to conduct a student vote on it. The resulting public statement represents a reinvigorated notion of graduate student government that has been dormant for too long.
Contrasting with this vision, Dahianna Lopez and Laura McDaniel wrote in their February 3op-ed that the primary purpose of the GSC is “to allocate research and travel grants supported by the mandatory $25 fee assessed to every resident GSAS student in the fall of each academic year.” Though this may characterize the primary activity of the GSC in recent years, it is not the Council’s primary function. In fact, it does not even appear in the “Objects and Purposes” section of the GSC Constitution. Instead, this section opens by stating the role of the GSC: “to serve as the official representative body of the students of GSAS; to provide a forum for discussion of issues internal and external of concern to graduate students; to represent graduate student interests before the Harvard faculty and administration.” In fact, Lopez and McDaniel are also incorrect in stating that the $25 fee is mandatory, as it can be waived by any graduate student as long as this is requested in writing at the start of the year.
Their letter does, however, open an important conversation about the organization and structure of the GSC. The debate over the GSC’s latest resolution demonstrates that not only were most GSC representatives not elected in the first place, but many representatives also did not even know how to communicate with the students they were appointed to represent!
I was engaged with the GSC in various capacities for a long time (2006 – 2010). As a former executive board officer of the GSC, who has previously held responsibility for constitutional affairs at the Council, I am well aware of the undemocratic and ineffective nature of its structure and function. For example, the GSC president, vice-president, and secretary, to name a few, are not elected by graduate students in general, but by a handful of representatives, who form less than two percent of GSC membership. This may be news to undergraduates and the general Harvard community used to the participatory nature of the Undergraduate Council elections, where issues close to the undergraduate community become part of competing campaigns’ platforms. The fact that the GSC has allowed its democratic credentials to slip and its focus to narrow to that of a mere channel for funds puts it in shameful standing alongside comparable student councils in the country, and alongside the truly active organization that this month’s debate has showed it can be.
Even the GSC fee is a symbol of its undemocratic nature, as this represents an increase of 25 percent that was voted on at a meeting in the spring of 2011 with very poor attendance. Why would so few representatives turn up to vote on an issue as important as a 25 percent increase in an annual fee, to be levied on all Harvard graduate students? Because that crucial meeting was held on the Longwood campus, far away from the eyes of the vast majority of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students who may have opposed it. The upcoming meeting will also be held at Longwood.
The resolution proposed for discussion at the March meeting of the GSC is of profound importance to the future of the Council. If it fails, the GSC may be robbed of the ability to make any public statements on issues that don’t uniquely relate to graduate students. What about the university health plan, library hours, or recreational facilities? As these issues apply to more than just graduate students, rejection of this resolution gags the Council from commenting on any of these important issues. Lopez and McDaniel try to frighten readers by bringing up resolutions that have nothing to do with graduate student affairs, without noting that such issues, unlike that debated on this month, clearly fall outside of the realm of the GSC as defined by its constitution.
I call on the GSC to delay its vote on this important resolution until it can be held at a meeting that most of its members can attend. To attempt to use low attendance in order to overturn a resolution voted on with huge attendance is subversive to the democratic spirit, and betrays an unnecessary fear of the political, as if that weren’t what student government were all about. I also invite all graduate students to attend monthly meetings from here on, and to offer your voice as to what your council might mean to you.
Garga Chatterjee, PhD ’11, is a non-resident tutor in Winthrop House.
Occupy Boston Student Summit @Harvard University
Emerson 105 (Harvard Yard), Harvard University
Sunday, 2/12/2012
12:00pm until 8:00pm
Why an Occupy Boston Student Summit? The purpose of the summit is to strengthen relationships and exchange ideas among students who have been or want to be involved with the #Occupy movement. Occupy Boston has given student activists across Boston the opportunity to meet other like-minded students who wish to alter and/or dismantle the current political/economic system.How is a summit different from a general assembly? At our Occupy Boston Student General Assemblies we generally focus on pressing issues, such as upcoming actions. However, the summit gives us a chance to discuss issues that we do not have time to expand on in general assemblies. Some examples include: confronting systemic oppression within the occupy movement, discuss the roots of education inequality, a historical memory of radical student movements, the organizational future of Occupy Boston Students, and more.
If you are curious but haven’t yet participated in #Occupy, this will be a great opportunity to experience the organic and collaborative nature of the movement.
Tentative agenda: will be posted soon.
Participating campuses:
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bridgewater State University
Emerson College
Harvard University
Lesley University
MIT
Northeastern University
Salem State
Simmons College
SMFA
Tufts University
UMass-Amherst
UMass-Boston
UMass-Lowell
University of Vermont
Rally: No Layoffs at Harvard
Thursday, February 9, 2012 – 5:00pm
1350 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA
See map: Google Maps
No Layoffs at Harvard!
Harvard administrators just announced a plan to restructure the library system that will make libraries “more efficient” by laying off workers. Workers will have jobs restructured and cut by “voluntary and involuntary means.” High unemployment rates make finding a new job nearly impossible, especially for older workers. Meanwhile, Harvard’s endowment grew 21% last year, to $32 billion. Harvard has the money to keep its workers employed. Join concerned members of the Havard community in a rally with Harvard’s library staff to oppose the layoffs in front of the the Holyoke Center!
*** Occupy Harvard General Assembly will be at 6p @ Holyoke Center on Thursday after the rally ***
Crimson article about workers’ responses: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/25/library-restructure-employee…
Op-ed by Lamont worker Geoff Carens: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/24/Harvard-no-layoffs-library-H…
Harvard No Layoffs Campaign blog: http://harvardnolayoffs.blogspot.com/
Harvard Student Labor Action Movement:http://www.harvardslam.com/
In Solidarity with Harvard Workers Threatened by Layoffs
A
massive layoff is underway, and we at Occupy Harvard stand in
solidarity with those whose jobs are threatened by this unnecessary
action. Please sign one of the following petitions to express your
support, and consider joining the No Layoffs Working Group at Occupy
Harvard by clicking here.
For members of the Harvard community, click here to sign the following petition:
For members of the Harvard community, click here to sign the following petition:
The Harvard University Library Executive Director Helen Shenton just announced a plan to restructure the Harvard library system and make it more “efficient.”All others can click here for Change.org or here for iPetitions.
She plans to fund this by laying off some workers and restructuring the jobs of others. She threatened to cut jobs by “voluntary and involuntary means,” leaving library workers anxious by refusing to provide details about the plan and recommending that they upload their resumes online.
Unemployment rates are still at record highs, making it nearly impossible to find new jobs, especially for older workers. At the same time, Harvard’s endowment just jumped 21% to $32 billion.
Harvard’s libraries are not overstaffed: in fact, they’re still recovering from staff cuts three years ago. Our university has the money to keep all of its workers employed.
A petition started by a library worker notes that “college and university librarians and library workers contribute to the advancement of scholarship of the academic community.”
As members of the Harvard community, we care both about the academic quality of our libraries and the ethical quality of our university. Thus, we demand that Harvard not lay off library workers while it has the money to keep them and that any restructuring of the librariestake place with consideration for the workers who staff them.
We students, faculty, and staff join Harvard library workers in demanding: NO LAYOFFS AT HARVARD LIBRARIES.
Solidarity March for Oakland today 7pm
You all heard the troubles in Oakland yesterday when Occupy Oakland set out to occupy a vacant building with community (no? See here and here.
300 arrests, flash grenades, bean bag rounds, and more.) Today, across
the nation, Occupy will march in solidarity – inter-occupy solidarity.
Solidarity with Oakland
Solidarity with Oakland
Today, Sunday, 7p
Copley Square
Yesterday,
Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community
center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%.
Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds and
mass arrests. The State has compounded its policy of callous
indifference with a ruthless display of violent repression.
The Occupy movement will respond, as we have always responded: With an overwhelming show of collective resistance.
Today, we take to the streets. Across the country, we will demonstrate our resolve to overcome repression and to continue to build a better world grounded in love and solidarity for one another.
All eyes on all Occupies.
SOLIDARITY SUNDAY
The Occupy movement will respond, as we have always responded: With an overwhelming show of collective resistance.
Today, we take to the streets. Across the country, we will demonstrate our resolve to overcome repression and to continue to build a better world grounded in love and solidarity for one another.
All eyes on all Occupies.
SOLIDARITY SUNDAY
Bread & Puppet visits Occupy Harvard
We
invited Bread & Puppet for three performances of Occupy
Calisthenics around the Harvard Yard. They performed three acts of
street theatre; starting in front of the alleged John Harvard, moving
onto Harvard Square, and ending in front of the Science Center, marching
with the band from one act to the other.
The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont.
The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont.
2012 Spring Course Catalog Supplement
In solidarity with Occupy UMass
Members
of Occupy Harvard visited Occupy Umass Boston, the only public college
occupation in the area. Having sent a call out to other occupies to
bolster support against a possible eviction, OUMB was expecting a
solidarity rally at 8pm. With great support from faculty and callers
from around the world to voice their opinion to their chancellor, the
occupiers felt that their camp was safe for the night and opted to host
a speak out. With a diverse crowd of people including former and
current students, members of other occupations and community members,
the attendees shared their opinion on the state of education, the
occupy movement and the relevancy of college occupations. There was a
strong feeling of solidarity, speakers explicitly stating their
gratefulness for the support that they feel from fellow occupiers and
encouraging the continuation of the movement. Looking forward to the
national March 1st day of action!
Aus
dem Gespräch, welches die Reporterin Lisa Becker im Auftrag der FAS mit
der Mitorganisatorin von Occupy Harvard, Fenna Krienen, hat führen
können, geht vor allem der starke Einfluss hervor, welcher von der Wall
Street über die Politiker und den Lehrkörper auf die Studenten ausgeübt
wird. Äußerst bezeichnend diesbezüglich die folgende Angabe über
Personalia: "Manche, zum Beispiel der frühere Harvard-Präsident Larry
Summers und das Mitglied des Boards, Robert Rubin, haben als Politiker
an der Deregulierung mitgewirkt, die zum finanziellen Zusammenbruch im
Jahr 2008 geführt hat."
An der Universität Boston, die in der langen, der Website von Occupy Harvard 2.0 entommenen Passage ebenfalls auftaucht, herrscht offensichtlich ein ganz anderer Geist. Der es ermöglicht, dass es dort eine Vorlesung "Ökonomie für die 99 Prozent" geben wird, gehalten von einer Soziologieprofessorin, die, wie die Interviewpartnerin der Reporterin Becker ausführt, lange an der Universität Harvard gelehrt hat. Zu dem an ihr - laut Krienen "nach der katholischen Kirche die wohlhabendste 'nicht profitorientierte' Einrichtung auf der Welt" - herrschenden Ungeist noch dieses Zitat: "... viele Studenten werden ... in Branchen geschickt, die weiter dazu beitragen werden, die enorm ungleiche Vermögensverteilung in unserem Land zu verstärken."
Damit soll es aber auch bezüglich Harvard und des allüberall zu verzeichnenden unseligen Einflusses dieser "Eliteuniversität" sein Bewenden haben. An diesem Punkt erscheint es angezeigt, auf den äußerst unguten Einfluss zu sprechen zu kommen, der von der maßlos sich überhebenden Sekte der Mormonen besonders auf die in den USA lebenden Menschen ausgeübt wird. Wobei ja zu befürchten ist, dass mit Mitt Romney in schon absehbarer Zeit in diesem Staat wieder mal ein ganz ausgewachsener Hohlkopf an das Ruder der Politik gelangt, der besser daran täte, sich in diesen durch mancherlei Umbrüche geprägten Zeiten aus diesem Geschäft herauszuhalten. Gesetzt den Fall, er obsiegt bei den dort demnächst anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahlen: die Phantasie reicht gar nicht aus, sich das auszumalen, was dieser ehemalige Gouverneur von Massachusetts sich alles einfallen lassen wird, um der Welt die Flötentöne beizubringen.
Dass mit Jon Huntsman - ehemaliger Gouverneur von Utah - und Mitt Romney sogar gleich zwei mormonische Präsidentschaftsbewerber angetreten sind und sich Hoffnungen auf den Einzug in das Weiße Hause und das dortige Oval Office machen können, will dem Blogger als allemal nicht mehr runde Sache erscheinen. Wobei er sich fragt, wieso zumindest die frommen Christen unter den Amis dieser Sekte einerseits ein sehr gesundes Misstrauen entgegenbringen, andererseits aber Anstalten machen, gleich zwei Protagonisten dieser Glaubensrichtung die Steigbügel zum Aufsitzen auf dem Amtsschimmel hinzuhalten. Ob Huntsman oder Romney - in puncto Borniertheit können sich die Amis eigentlich nichts Schlimmeres wünschen.
Die Beschränktheit dieser Leutchen kommt vor allem darin zum Ausdruck, dass sie sich bei ihren Missionierungsbemühungen allein auf den Wortlaut der Bibel stützen. Wie sagt dazu einer der "Ältesten" - bezogen auf den Missionseinsatz in Deutschland? " 'Unsere Sprachausbildung ist auf das Evangelium konzentriert ... Raus aus dem Flugzeug. Rein ins Feuer'." Was ja beinhaltet, dass sich diese unsäglichen Typen einen feuchten Kehricht um das kümmern, was die Menschen bewegt - wo und unter welchen Verhältnissen auch immer.
Das Zeugnis, welches ein abtrünnig gewordenes Mitglied dieser Versammlung von Irren ausstellt, sollte den sich für etwas vernünftiger haltenden Zeitgenossen ein Warnung sein. Dazu der Text: "Bücher, Fernsehen, Zeitungen, Internet - alles, was zum Nachdenken in andere Richtungen inspirieren könnte, ist verpönt. Es gibt aber auch in Utah [Stammland der Mormonen] Menschen, die dies kritisch sehen. Menschen wie Sean Levitt wissen, wie erstickend die Umarmung der Kirche sein kann. 2009 hat er nach Jahren stiller Zweifel mit der Kirche gebrochen. Er erinnert sich mit Schaudern an die Missionsschule: 'Es ist Gehirnwäsche. Zwei- bis dreimal die Wochen musst du ein Glaubenszeugnis ablegen...'." Wozu gesagt sein muss, dass diese Gehirnwäsche mit ausschließlich dem Ziel betrieben wird, die Gefolgsleute aus Gründen der Besitzstandswahrung und der Profitmaximierung zusammen zu halten.
Fazit aus dem bis hierher Ausgeführten resp. Referiertem: Das, was wohl von vielen Europäern noch als erstrebenswert angesehen wird, nämlich THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, ist durch seine monomane Ausrichtung auf den Faktor Kapital als so destruktiv wie nichts anderes zu sehen. An dieser Sachlage ändert sich auch nicht das Geringste, wenn Leute wie die Mormonen hergehen und versuchen, ihrem ausschließlich auf Gütermehrung gründendes Gedankengebäude einen religiösen Anstrich zu geben!
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