noted. 11/16/2011

• Other Sites Hope N.Y. Raid Will Energize Cause

  • Mayor Quan said Tuesday in  a radio interview that she was one of 18 officials on a conference call last Thursday organized by the United States Conference of Mayors to discuss local responses to Occupy encampments around the country. Mayor Sam Adams of Portland, Ore., said there had been two calls hosted by the organization “to share information about the occupying encampments around the country.” He described the calls as check-ins to share information and advice on how various cities were handling the demonstrations.

  • “We did not talk about what any mayor was considering in terms of any action or inaction,” Mr. Adams said.

     

• A police raid suffused with symbolism - Salon.com

  • A New York state judge this morning temporarily enjoined the city from keeping the protesters out of Zuccotti Park, but Mayor Bloomberg is simply ignoring the Order and deliberately breaking the law by refusing to allow them back in. Put another way, Bloomberg this morning has broken more laws than the hundreds of protesters who were arrested. But as we know, the law does not apply to the Michael Bloombergs of the nation; the law, instead, has simply been exploited into a weapon used by the politically and financially powerful to prevent challenges to their standing.

• All Power to the General Assemblies? Or, the Strange Case of Take Artists Space « Viewpoint Magazine

  • As  Rosa Luxemburg said,“freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently” – to not discuss this, and bring it forthwith, is to say only endless opinions matter.

• Jacques Rancière - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the structural Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.^[1]

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