#OWS #ElectoralReform Strategy Memorandum

Restoring the Republic – One  People – One Voice – One Community Grand Strategy is about combining means (inputs) and ways to achieve ends (outcomes). In very general terms, the strategic outcomes that appear to be sought by the mélange of participants in the emerging nation-wide—even global—rebellion against the existing system—center around social justice as …

Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 – Second American Revolution is Real

I visited New York City 6-7 October 2011. First I met with Alexa O’Brien, one of the brilliant minds behind U.S. Day of Rage and its focus on Electoral Reform and non-violence as an absolute.  [My memo that Fox news still has not read is here.] Although they are also focused on a Constitutional Convention, …

Alessandro Politi: Need for Euro to Default As a Group, Nail the Banks and Restore Integrity of Global Economy (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Phi Beta Iota:  This brilliant analysis cuts deeply to two core points: that a tiny handful of banks have been controlling 90% of the debt and manipulating the destruction of economies — shorting the Euro as well as the US dollar — and that governments have not been acting together.  He neglects two fundamentals: the …

DefDog: First Ignored, Now Fat Cats Organizing a Negative Information Operations Campaign Against “Protesters Behaving Like Spoiled Brats”

Little coverage to begin with, then mostly negative following ….. indications that the “fat cats” are calling in favors to discredit this initiative. With the Transport Workers Union filing a complaint about the commandeering of buses to move the detained, word is spreading….time for social media to step up to the plate as it has …

Patrick Meier: Ushahidi Emergent as Democracy in Being

Theorizing Ushahidi: An Academic Treatise Posted on October 2, 2011 by Patrick Meier [This is an excerpt taken from Chapter 1 of my dissertation] Activists are not only turning to social media to document unfolding events, they are increasingly mapping these events for the world to bear witness. We’ve seen this happen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, …

John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

Event: NYC Oct 10-16, MobilityShifts – An International Future of Learning Summit

Mobilityshifts.org Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the “digital literacies” paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions? How do we promulgate digital fluency as an understanding of the particular features of global information flows in which data, attention, capital, and reputation …