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Tag Archives: Occupy Movement
How To Tell If Someone Is Controlled Opposition
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Every day in my article comments and social media I get people warning me that this or that journalist, activist or politician is “controlled opposition”, meaning someone who pretends to oppose the establishment while covertly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, black ops, consciousness, culture, divide and conquer, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state
Tagged activism, Authenticity, Black Lives Matter, Controlled Opposition, Discernment, divide and conquer, Infiltration, Media Literacy, Narrative, Occupy Movement, Paranoia, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, social control, surveillance state
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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care By Laurie Penny Source: The Baffler Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Audre Lorde, capitalism, Economics, Life Hacking, Life-Hacks, Neoliberalism, Occupy Movement, Precariat, Precarity, Self-Care, Self-Love, Wellness, Yoga
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I Participate
By Jonathan Bessette Source: Adbusters Recall that you’re sitting in a rapid transit vehicle, carried along the sky-line above cement highways, paved in homage to the Romans, who designed a system of militarized paths stretching everywhere, causing everything to lead … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged civilization, Conformity, Consciousness, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, industrial society, Information, Jacques Ellul, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, Occupy Movement, Philosophy, politics, Revolution, Science fiction, Technological Society, technology
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Dallas Shootings: White Supremacists Succeeded in Provoking Black Extremism
(Editor’s note: Though at this time it’s still too early too tell whether the shooting was in fact an act of black extremism and/or a more complex situation intended to appear that way, the author’s central argument, that the social chaos … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Law, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Alton Sterling, Black Lives Matter, Chilcot Report, divide and conquer, geopolitics, Hegelian Dialectic, Hillary Clinton, Institutionalized Racism, Occupy Movement, Philando Castile, police shootings, Police Violence, Problem Reaction Solution, racism, Tony Blair, White Supremacists
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Politics as therapy: they want us to be just sick enough not to fight back
By Michael Richmond Source: Transformation On 10 October it is World Mental Health Day. I used to be outgoing, but a descent into crushing depression left me housebound. After Occupy I started asking: how does social environment shape our psychology? … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, Psychology, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, depression, Economics, Foucault, Medicalization, Mental Health, Occupy Movement, Psychiatry, psychology
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Juxtaposing Anarchy: From Chaos to Cause
By Colin Jenkins Source: The Hampton Institute Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly-structured, and authoritative. Because of this, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, culture, History, Philosophy, society
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchists, Anarcho-Punk, Anarchy, Libertarianism, Nihilism, Occupy Movement, society, The Hampton Institute, Underground Hip-Hop
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Notes Toward a Future of Activism
By Micah White Source: Reconstruction 10.3 <1> Contemporary activism begins from the realization that for the first time in history, a synergy of catastrophes face us. Our physical environment is dying, our financial markets are collapsing and our culture, fed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, media, news, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society
Tagged activism, Adbusters, Micah White, Notes Toward a Future of Activism, Occupy Movement, Reconstruction 10.3
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Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Sentenced to 3 Months in Jail, 5 Years Probation
By Dave Lindorff Source: This Can’t Be Happening Occupy activist Cecily McMillan, convicted on May 5 of second-degree felony assault of a New York cop whom she and witnesses claimed had grabbed her breast from behind, bruising it, stood her … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Law, news, Podcasts, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, Uncategorized
Tagged Cecily McMillan, Dave Lindorff, JusticeforCecily.com, Lucy Parks, Martin Stolar, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, This Can't Be Happening!
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