“We Can’t Make It Here” free in solidarity with Occupy

James McMurtry is making the audio version free in solidarity with Occupy. My friend Cary Baker says it’s possibly the best protest song of our time. I agree.

Download the mp3 for free.

NYPD and Bloomberg ignoring court order

#bbpBox_136479840508448769 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_136479840508448769 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }Manhattan: 6 Ave & Grand #OWS Protesters using bolt cutters to cut chain fence & are pouring into the park. Heavy NYPD Responds.November 15, 2011 9:25 am via SocialScopeReplyRetweetFavorite@NYScannerNY Scanner

The court said protesters could re-enter Zuccotti until at least 11:30 AM, when there will be a hearing. Bloomberg and NYPD are now in contempt of that court order.

#bbpBox_136480062693310465 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0e1f26; }#bbpBox_136480062693310465 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }Hey #NYC your mayor just went on national TV & lied 2 you. The restraining order was against him & NYPD not #OccupyWallStreet as he implied.November 15, 2011 9:25 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite@livegreenordieGretchen Harwood

Judge rules protesters can go back into Zuccotti

At least until 11:30 AM when there will be a hearing.

Court order

A few notes on the eviction

@buddhagem for more as it happens.

Trapit. Artifical intelligence for search launches

Trapit is from Siri’s sister company, has serious deep pocket investors, was spun off off DARPA, and says they are in the business of discovery not search. Check it out.

Oh yes, one more thing, they say they’re going Google-hunting.

South Korea to build 2.5 GW offshore wind farm

It will cost $9 billion and be the world’s largest.

Meanwhile the US still has no offshore wind because arguing about it is surely more productive than actually doing anything.

The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen

Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That’s why we’re nearly bankrupt

Occupy Wall Street Footloose

On Wednesday, November 9th down at Liberty Square, Occupy Wall Street had a real life Footloose moment. A young man was arrested for dancing on the sidewalk and charged with disorderly conduct.

It may be one of the less significant moments in Occupy Wall Street history but the resulting action epitomized do much of [...]

History is written by whoever records it

Promoted from the comments, by John Couzin in Scotland

I have always maintained that if WE don’t record our history, it never happened. We then become a people without a history and without a culture. I have got together with a group of Glasgow activists and we are in the process of trying to collect [...]

Robert Rich & B. Lustmord – Hidden Refuge

Shutdown Wall Street. Thursday, Nov 17