Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy - Jeff Ferrell. Jeff Ferrell: Department of Sociology: Faculty. Bio: Jeff Ferrell is currently Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK.
Variations on a Theme Park. @michaelsorkin. Pop-cult. Cyberspace, Capitalism, and Encoded Criminality: The Iconography of Theme Park by Jeffrey Cass Texas A & M International University Jeffreycass@delphi.com Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3 (May, 1995) pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Copyright (c) 1995 by Jeffrey Cass, all rights reserved.
This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notified and no fee is charged for access. World Wide Plaza: the corporatization of urban public space. The Occupy Movement and the New Public Space - Politics. Governments are trying to figure out what to do with the Occupy movement that’s moved into public spaces in major cities all over the world.
Some have figured out only as much as getting them out of there; mayors from Oakland to New York have evoked concerns about public safety, sanitation, and good old law and order to justify forced evictions of campsites. OWS: Reclaiming Public Space, Reclaiming Dignity. As the public-space prairie fire known as Occupy Wall Street spreads across the country from New York to Portland, it's becoming glaringly apparent activists are pinging the political target.
In the face of both predictable right-wing detractors as well as high-profile liberals who want a crisp list of specific demands, activists have rejected top-down, slicker than slick press-release politics in favor of messy, slow, ground-up politics -- the essence of radical democracy. Because the movement is leaderless, it has left the media rudderless. At first many journalists were befuddled, wondering what the movement stood for. This is a bit odd. After all, the movement is called Occupy Wall Street and one of its central slogans is "We are the 99 percent. " Occupy Portland, October 7 (photo: Bart Howard Everts) Let's not forget, corporate America is squatting on $2 trillion. Occupy PUBLIC Space. I just returned from New York where I had the pleasure of seeing The High Line in the fall for the first time.
Here are some pictures. I almost said ‘where I had the privilege of seeing…’ because the place is that great. Re-Occupy Public Space. A Modest Proposal for a Coordinated Effort in Honor of MLK Day by Keith McHenry The occupation movement is the most important movement of our lives.
I get calls everyday from average middle Americans asking how they can help, OWS, the Corporatization of Public Space, and Immigrant Detention, by Ruben Murillo « Razor Wire Women. The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has successfully impacted the national conversation on many important issues such as the bank bailouts, the Bush tax cuts, persistently high unemployment and stagnant wages (while at the same time, the wealthiest 1% of Americans are enjoying significant growth in their wealth).
For many of us who have been paying attention to the radical socio-economic restructuring that has been taking place over the past three decades—of which massive prison expansion has been an acute iteration—we have already been talking about and attempting to raise awareness about these issues. But the images of the occupiers in cities, towns, and rural areas all across the nation has indeed caused many to discuss and reconsider the deleterious and sometimes disastrous effects that corporations and big business have had on our society and environment.
Democracy Now ran a story about a protester who was arrested for meditating on the streets of Oakland. Reclaiming Public Spaces. Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, after the Occupy protesters were evicted.
Reinhold Martin believes the removal of the protesters exposed a hidden reality in New York City -- that which makes our public space public is the fact that it is contested. Flickr/shankbone. With the forcible evictions from sites in Oakland, Portland, Denver, New York and elsewhere in mid-November, and the violent suppression of campus protesters at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis, the Occupy movement has entered a new phase in the United States, if not globally.
Occupy Highlights Authoritarian Behavior by Police. Share A funny thing happens when one uses the term “police state” to describe behavior by authorities in response to the Occupy protests.
Very Serious Company turns pale and insists that the United States is not turning into a police state—at least not yet. America isn’t North Korea or East Germany or Russia, for goodness sake, Very Serious Company continues. Police don’t physically snatch journalists off the streets and murder them in back alleys, so no one has the right to label the United States a “police state.” Yet what the Occupy Wall Street protests have helped reveal is that it is this hesitancy to acknowledge the authoritarian behavior of police that gives them cover when they—along with city officials—blatantly violate the rights of citizens.
Wall Street Mercenaries Back in October, I wrote about how Occupy helped to highlight the problem of disappearing public space. After all, private property is private property. The Love Police. @CharlieVeitch. Bloomberg Security Try to Stop Occupy Interview - and Fail (Charlie Veitch) To Our Faithful Current.com Users: Current's run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online.
Bloomberg Security Try to Stop Occupy Interview - and Fail (Charlie Veitch) @markweaver. US elite spur working class infighting' 'US elite spur working class infighting' Mon Dec 5, 2011 11:49AM Interview with Charlie Veitch, founder of 'Love Police', Paris. Megaphone Wars - The Suppression of Free Speech. EVERYTHING IS OK 1 (Corporate Property) Canary Wharf Security Guards - PoliceSpecials.com Forum. T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. Temporary Autonomous Zone. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism is a book by anarchist writer Hakim Bey published in 1991 by Autonomedia.