John Steiner: Occupy Hearts – Compassion New Currency

Compassion Is Our New Currency : Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com, December 22, 2011. Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it …

Reference: The Privatization [Corruption] of Democracy – Honoring & Documenting the Work of Eva Waskell

I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …

#OWS: List of Senators Up for Re-Election in 2012

These specific individuals are the starting point for a nation-wide move to demand the Electoral Reform Act of 2012. ARIZONA:  Jon Kyl, Republican CALIFORNIA:  Dianne Feinstein, Democratic CONNECTICUT:  Joseph Lieberman, Independent DELAWARE:  Thomas Carper, Democratic FLORIDA:  Bill Nelson, Democratic HAWAII:  Daniel Akaka, Democratic INDIANA:  Richard Lugar, Republican MAINE:  Olympia Snowe, Republican MARYLAND:  Benjamin Cardin, Democratic …

Gordon Cook: On the State of Economics – An Exchange Dedicated to #OWS and Society Achieving a Broader Understanding

Here is the final paragraph from an essay by John Kay titled The Map is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics The preposterous claim that deviations from market efficiency were not only irrelevant to the recent crisis but could never be relevant is the product of an environment in which deduction …