Image: Freedom of choice by Krzysztof Poltorak The New York Times report on president Obama’s kill list put into stark relief something that has been easy to overlook at times over the past few years: the differences between those who prefer a personality-based political environment and those who emphasize policy.1 Those tensions really came to a boil after Chris Hayes discussed the drone program on his show last week. Kevin [...]
On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video where you are, this is a rough transcript of my own remarks.) Here is just one of them, and [...]
On the face of it there’s no good reason for anyone in Oakland to care about natural gas deposits in Ohio. Fracking hasn’t been an issue in the region, and even if your patch of northern California was on a potentially lucrative deposit it probably wouldn’t matter. Fracking has been primarily situated in rural areas, not in urban ones. This kind of drilling is dirty enough and water-intensive enough to [...]
This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help. The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable results. At the weekly Fuck the Police march there was a huge spike in vandalism (via) over previous ones, and there was a greatly escalated police response. [...]
This was originally published in mid-February, but not cross posted at OOM. A couple readers suggested it would be a good companion piece to Thursday’s post, so better late than never here it is. It was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help. When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be [...]
UPDATE: Two of the links in this post have been criticized for being misleading. I have changed them in order to clear up any confusion, and moved one of the original links to later in the piece for context. None of the text has been altered. Thanks to commenter anons for the feedback. This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them [...]
This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help. The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is public. The very idea that there could be a common good, that there are things that belong to all of us [...]
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help. Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and so on, but it seems like there has been a relative lull in its activity level. This is fine; you can’t stay cranked all [...]
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