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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
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Filed under: Art, debate, News, poetry, rants, video | Tagged: Ain't Gonna Blog No More, bloggers, blogging, blogging community, blogging controversy, Comedy, Foamola, New Year's resolutions, NYC music, NYC poetry, poetry, poetry community, Sparrow, The Poetry Project, video, what is blogging | 1 Comment »
Kimberly writes: Thought I would share this exhilarating, though shaky, feeling, while it is still fresh. I just got off the phone with my local bank. I am so shocked, angered, and aggravated that Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and other bank/money companies have stopped allowing donations to Wikileaks. How dare they pile on arbitrarily to a […]
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If there is any possible way that you can skip any flight plans for Wednesday, November 24, 2010, please do. For a list of groups planning various levels of boycotts and demonstrations, please see the bottom of this post. If you allow yourself to get scanned by x-rays, or demeaned by having your genitals touched […]
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Kimberly writes: The disability community is currently digesting the decision that the NY State Board of Regents made this week which scales back speech service requirements. The Board released school districts from longstanding policies that they must give certain levels of speech services to students with autism and other disabilities. The decision by the Board […]
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IW: I remember being shocking by the cultural provincialism of a New York Times Magazine writer who decried Zen Koans as meaningless waste of time. (It might have been the Ethicist who made this pronouncement). A Zen Koan is described by Wikipedia as It consists of a story, dialogue, question, or statement, the meaning of […]
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See below for link to trailer at MTV. What are you going to do while you wait in eager anticipation for the new Jane Eyre movie, coming out in March 2011? Me: I made a video project. Hope you will be interested in watching it. I promise it does not have any real plot spoilers. […]
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KW: I am with Newsday columnist Joye Brown, who asserts we need a full, hand recount in Suffolk County. The reason you have paper ballots is in case things go wrong. Things went wrong. I want to be assured that the new system accurately counts the results of this first general election, where things got […]
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Update: Several groups are calling for an Opt-Out day on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 24, 2010. More information is at wewontfly.com ____________________ Kimberly writes: I am serious. I would never, ever expose myself to radiation in order to go on some vacation, or even a trip to see a relative. And, as a […]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSxbeM65oA] Attacking the very notion of a “jobless recovery”, Green Party of New York governor candidate Howie Hawkins‘ latest video contrasts reports of renewed Wall Street profits with real New York citizens passionately questioning why we haven’t seen as significant an increase in employment. “You would think getting random people to vent to a video that […]
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[Update: It is 9:20pm EST. All 33 miners are out safe! Now, they are taking up the 6 rescuers who went down to help…] [Update #2: My poem about the event is: here.] Chile Miners are being rescued… Kimberly writes: Well, I was reticent to share my personal obsession with the rescue of the Chile […]
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