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Mic Check: NYC pays for destruction of Occupy Library

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wilderside

We celebrate the news in The Village Voice article, City Settles Lawsuit Over The Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library showing that the Occupy movement received some measure of justice for the wanton destruction of their community. Occupy Wall Street claimed $47,000 in damages  [for the loss of books and computers], all of which the city agreed [...]

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Why You’ve Never Met A Man Named Shirley (A Book Review)

Posted on June 25, 2012 by kwilder

The full book review, and the answer to the “man named Shirley” question, is at Peace Couple: here. (excerpt) Book Review: Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte’s novel Shirley is a must read for people interested in the topics of: economic justice; Occupy Wall Street ideas; women’s social history; feminism; war and peace; and charity. [...]

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Complete 6th Welcome to Boog City Sked, 8/2 -8/5/2012

Posted on June 24, 2012 by wilderside

Boog City’s festival will feature 51 poets, 12 musical acts, 6 political and radio talks, 6 poets theater plays, 1 workshop, and 1 panel over the four days.

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Book review: What’s in your Occupy Handbook?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by wilderside

Full Book Review of The Occupy Handbook at Peace Couple A few months ago, Peace Couple was queried about receiving a free review copy of The Occupy Handbook (2012, Back Bay Books). We received it a few weeks ago. Over at our Peace Couple website, Ian wrote up his thoughts on the book, including what [...]

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Ending the culture of Corporate Personhood

Posted on June 8, 2012 by wilderside

To end the myth of corporate person hood, we must work to change our entire culture’s view, not just work for the legalistic solution of a constitutional amendment.

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Children’s author Maurice Sendak dies at age 83

Posted on May 8, 2012 by kwilder

“Thanks for the magic.” The NY Times reports: “Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in [...]

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Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town

Posted on February 9, 2012 by wilderside

I remember reading Wendell Berry writing about the concept of  a biography of place. In Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, the author Kelly McMasters takes that concept to heart.  She approaches the biography from all sides, from the personal to the geographic to the ecological. Once she has firmly placed us in [...]

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Valentines Day Gifts: Book suggestions | Peace Couple

Posted on January 23, 2012 by wilderside

When I was seeking a life partner I knew I wanted someone who was both passionate and compassionate. Someone who cared deeply and broadly.  I was lucky enough to find someone who would stop to play flute for a group of strangers to calm them after there was a fire at their nursing home. This [...]

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Just Kids by Patti Smith

Posted on January 3, 2012 by wilderside

Maybe I am not the most objective observer.  I love Patti Smith‘s music, and I love her politics.  And now I have to say I love her writing in Just Kids.  Her book was an addictive read.  I usually sit with a book for months.  I finished this book in a week.   Her style of [...]

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Jan 2012: BAN reviews 3 books for political junkies

Posted on January 2, 2012 by wilderside

As hopeless political junkies, we are long-time fans of Richard Winger and his publication, Ballot Access News.  Winger has been a champion of ballot freedom, and has become a recognized expert nationwide.  His is a generous and giving man who holds a nonpartisan mission to grant equal access for voters.  He edits a monthly newsletter [...]

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Help save Brontë’s 1830 version of “Mad Magazine” for the public

Posted on November 20, 2011 by kwilder

KW writes: For all of us Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte fans, this tiny book is a rare find! Written when Bronte was only 14 years old, it is a brilliant piece of satire. Bronte created this tiny work in the format of a men’s magazine. It includes a witty ad (see below), which observes [...]

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Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience | Peace Couple

Posted on October 14, 2011 by wilderside

The fourth chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace brings us to Henry David Thoreau‘s seminal 1849 essay on Civil Disobedience.  This is the essay that turned words into action.  It turned the future into right now.  This essay educated two of the most powerful leaders of the 20th century, Gandhi and King.  It [...]

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s War | Peace Couple

Posted on October 6, 2011 by wilderside

We continue with the third chapter from the The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace This week we discuss the third chapter of the book which is an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s essay entitled War. This chapter is in the Pre-Twentieth Century section of the book . Last week we discussed an excerpt from a 1693 essay [...]

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The Power of Nonviolence: Zinn-troduction | Peace Couple

Posted on September 12, 2011 by wilderside

The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace provides us with the Peace Book Chapter of the Week. You might have noticed this a slightly different concept. Duke Augustus is paring down the Book of the Week to just a chapter to make it more interactive.  We hope that you will join in a discussion [...]

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