Month: January 2012

chaosgarden:

A friend decided to send me some artwork. I knew I was going to love it the moment I saw the envelope.

They even sealed it with gold wax. The sun seal was so pretty that I tried to keep it intact, alas I couldn’t but I got this picture of it nonetheless.

Not only did they send me the piece, but they #1 used my symbol, and #2 wrote me a lovely letter thanking me for my support of their work/blog.

Thank you, louddetective!

It’s an essential feature of human nature that people should be free, should be able to participate, and should be uncoerced.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

I love Noam because he often reminds us what democracy really means.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell (via chaotrix)

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it’s growth in a sense…

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

schwarz-und-leer:

The Golden Chain of Homer (Aurea Catena Homeri)

It consists of two dragons fighting, each biting the tail of the other, one with wings and the other wingless. Between them is a “Star of David” with planetary and Elemental symbols assigned to various points. In addition, placed in the center are the Three Principles of Alchemy – Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury.

The “dragon with wings” can be interpreted as our Interior Master, or Holy Guardian Angel, and the dragon “without wings” as our ego, or “little King”. They need each other in order to express the power of Creation and its expression through the Elemental and planetary forces. Yet, they are often in combat with one another, instead of in harmony. Only when the “Superius” (higher) becomes “Interius” (interior) and the interior becomes the higher do we see the Elements (of either a material or psychic nature) return to their primordial source. The Fire, or creative power, returns to the center of the earth, or the “Secret Fire” of Malkooth. In the end, the two dragons are killed by each other, and in their combined “death” they are united in a more perfect expression of cosmic power.

solitaryforager:

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

The Occupy Wall Street movement traces its origin to a call to action in the Vancouver-based magazine Adbusters.

Now, Adbusters has issued a Call to Action to Occupy Chicago for the G8/NATO summit this coming May:

Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,

Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.

And so will we.

On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we’ll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.

And this time around we’re not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We’ll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people’s summit … we’ll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.

And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we’ll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency ‘flash’ trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you’re out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm – we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.

And if they don’t listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they’ve done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we’ll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we’ll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.

Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we don’t stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future … so let’s live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens …

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

All I want for my birthday is to occupy Chicago.