Phi Beta Iota: Full reflections below the line. Wait for the aha at the end. God is what happens when we create community which is inherently in contradiction with our identifying deeply with anything other than God/community. This is deep and worth swimming in.
In response to internet rumor, DHS says, “Only in Portland”
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What has been documented over the past few days, but received little mainstream media attention, is clear coordination between big city mayors in working to evict Occupy protesters. Mayor Jean Quan let it slip that mayors had been discussing how to deal with Occupy protests on nationwide conference calls. On Tuesday, after initially disputing the account, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter acknowledged that such a call had taken place.
Phi Beta Iota: OWS is an open source insurgency – unconventional, asymmetric, domestic, peaceful, and 99%. The worst nightmare for a stovepiped government that has lost its intelligence and integrity.
Below the line: full text for automated translation. The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text below (which is also translatable).
Occupy is an open source protest. That means it doesn't have a specific message. It is a container for may groups/motivations/passions held together by simplest of ideas: it is possible to permanently occupy of places of power. Anyone that tells you it needs to have a specific policy agenda is a) not an expert and b) still living in the 20th Century.
The Occupy approach, a permanent 24x7x365 geographically ubiquitous protest movement, may be about to zoom. Reinforcements are coming.
From where? Europe. However, this reinforcement isn't in the form of bodies on the street or money. It's VALIDATION (that the global financial/economic/governmental system, as it works today, is a deadly threat to our future) in the form of global financial contagion.