The phases of mitosis
- inter – ‘between, among’ - Latin
- pro - ‘in front of, on behalf of, instead of, on account of’ - Latin
- meta - ‘with, across, after’ - Greek
- ana - ‘up, back, again’ - Greek
- telo - ‘end’ - Greek
With all this extra stressing the question I wonder is:
After death, after my last breath —
When will I finally get to rest from this oppression?
They punish the people that’s asking questions,
And those that possess steal from the ones without possessions.
The message I stress
To make you stop: study your lessons,
Don’t settle for less,
Even the genius asks questions,
Be grateful for blessings,
Don’t ever change, keep your essence;
The power is in the people and politics we address.
Always do your best.
Don’t let the pressure make you panic,
And when you get stranded and things don’t go the way you planned it —
Dreaming of riches. In the position of making a difference.
Politicians are hypocrites.
They don’t want to listen.
If I’m insane it’s the fame.
I ain’t about to change.
It ain’t nothing like the game.
It’s just me against the world.
—Wise ol’ Tupac
A list of all the working groups at Occupy Wall Street
Communication: Networks.
Signals: We run the radio.
Tech: We used to be internet.
Women Occupying Wall Street: Women’s caucus
Queer Empowerment
Information: Information desk, etc.
Minutes: (you’re reading them right now!)
Worker Co-ops: Starting co-ops
Best Practices: Transparency
Sustainability: Composting, bike power, local food
Library: Free knowledge
Finance: Keep the money safe & accountable
Organization: Intergroup resources
Photo: Capturing your soul through images
Press: We talk to the press and help you talk to the press
Media: We produce media.
Design: We design flyers and posters, and make graphics for working groups.
Outreach: We field new volunteers and educate visitors how to appreciate OWS.
Anti-Racism & Allies
Occupy the Hood/POC Caucus: Bringing awareness in the hood
Archives: Preserving all of this
Comfort: Wassap y’all! We make everybody comfortable. [cheers]
Facilitation: We work to bring objective ambassadors to create direct democracy.
Security: Non-violence, mediation
Immigrants’ Rights: Telling the 1% we are human too.
Families: We try to make a safe space and connections for parents & children.
Kitchen: Food
Medical: Medical, herbal & emotional care.
Screen Printing: T-shirts!
Legal: Use the law & fight the law – jail support & court support
WOW – Safe space & stuff for women & female identified….
Arts & Culture: Make arts & stuff
Safer Spaces: Support & safety at camp.
Community Relations: We liaise with community groups, but have a strict policy of non-negotiation.
Town Planning: Plan the space
Sanitation: Direct action cleaning around the city- we clean up after you.
Direct Democracy: Work to get all voices heard.
Part Time: We send people to you (visitors & volunteers who want to help).
Strategy & Analysis: We collect information and reporting to analyze.
Direct Action: We kick ass.
Robin Hood: We help get your trillions back.
Training: Build power & skills in our movement.
Education & Empowerment: We organize teach-ins and education.
Architects: We make designs for temporary and permanent spaces.
Translation: We translate documents and real life.
Asemblea Espanol: [Spanish] We try to do the same as you without linguistic barrier.
SIS (Shipping, Inventory, and Storage): We hoard all the supplies.
Security: De-escalation, love, and respect.
Structure: We made all this happen.
Alternative Currencies: We try to create currency that reflects our values.
The people, yes,
Out of what is their change
from chaos to order
and chaos again?“Yours till the hangman doth us part,”
Don Magregor ended his letters.“It annoys me to die,”
said a philosopher.
“I should like to see what follows.”To those who had ordered them to death,
one of them said:
“We die because the people are asleep
and you will die because the people will awaken.”Greek met Greek when Phocion and Democritus spoke.
“You will drive the Athenians mad some day and they will kill you.”
“Yes, me when they go mad, and as sure as they get sane again, you.”
—Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes
People feel they have very little economic or political agency, very little control over their own lives; during the boom times, nobody told them this was an unsustainable bubble until it was already too late. The Greek people are furious to be told by their deputy prime minister that ‘we ate the money together’; they just don’t agree with that analysis. In the world of money, people are privately outraged by the general unwillingness of electorates to accept the blame for the state they are in. But the general public, it turns out, had very little understanding of the economic mechanisms which were, without their knowing it, ruling their lives. They didn’t vote for the system, and no one explained the system to them, and in any case the rule is that while things are on the way up, no one votes for Cassandra, so no one in public life plays the Cassandra role. Greece has 800,000 civil servants, of whom 150,000 are on course to lose their jobs. The very existence of those jobs may well be a symptom of the three c’s, ‘corruption, cronyism, clientelism’, but that’s not how it feels to the person in the job, who was supposed to do what? Turn down the job offer, in the absence of alternative employment, because it was somehow bad for Greece to have so many public sector workers earning an OK living? Where is the agency in that person’s life, the meaningful space for political-economic action? She is made the scapegoat, the victim, of decisions made at altitudes far above her daily life – and the same goes for all the people undergoing ‘austerity’, not just in Greece. The austerity is supposed to be a consequence of us all having had it a little bit too easy (this is an attitude which is only very gently implied in public, but it’s there, and in private it is sometimes spelled out). But the thing is, most of us don’t feel we did have it particularly easy. When you combine that with the fact that we have so little real agency in our economic lives, we tend to feel we don’t deserve much of the blame.
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Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm
Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm (best version)
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
The flattened skull and jewelry of Queen Puabi just as it was found in her tomb at Ur in Sumeria.
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