Annie Leibovitz is being honored by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Trying to show you her photo’s is nearly impossible here so I leave you with one photo that I found at AlaFoto gallery. There is a full gallery of her work and that of many others. Please the time to visit and absorb genius.
You’ll have to be pretty young if this doesn’t strike an emotional chord inside you.
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While I will flesh out this very easy and practical action later this is the guts of it.
The one way to make that immediate, practical and massive change for both the Banks and Wall Street is to get the #OWS momentum behind an already growing sentiment that the historic Glass-Steagall Act. Glass Steagall breaks the blending of Banking and Wall Street.
The repeal of provisions of the Glass–Steagall Act by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act in 1999 effectively removed the separation that previously existed between investment banking which issued securities and commercial banks which accepted deposits. The deregulation also removed conflict of interest prohibitions between investment bankers serving as officers of commercial banks. (via Glass-Steagall Act Wiki)
Imagine the change, which has gown over 11 years between banks and Wall Street institutions. That repeal set the stage of the disaster we are experiencing today. Take that stage away and #OWS will have created Practical Political and economic change. The movement that is growing today can be used effectively to create financial institution Read More
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I have personal experience with this topic. I’ve marched with Caesar Chavez, been beaten down in an LA demonstration and filmed a local Southern California National Moratorium march and more. The peace movement was modeled after the civil rights marchers. They taught us that non-violence and persistence could work if the cause was just.
Was the non-violence perfect? No. There are wacko’s and provocateurs in any crowd. Others must watch for them and somehow defuse them. But wholesale violence was never part of the larger movement. Look at the 1968 Democratic Convention’s violent horrors in and outside the hall. Yet did the massive demonstrations start with the intent to go to war with the cops? No. Who was more discredited by those images on network television? We chanted “The whole world is watching!” It was. Our efforts, mostly in self defense when it seemed lives at stake, worked because we were not seen as a violent army come to occupy the seats of power.
Today we, the people that support #OWC, have media coverage, good or bad, growing. Any politician will tell you that publicity, good or bad within limits, is good publicity. #OWS must aim for name identification, push the 1% meme, push for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act ( an act supported by a majority) and push the fact that this movement is truly grassroots and driven by economic inequity.
If there are days of trying to fight, however non-passively, the Capitol Police they will damage the #OWS cause. If , however, the ‘Occupy__’ is in a park and the cops come with the intent to clear and arrest then true passive Read More
