Submitted by Heather on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 9:07am
For Pride Weekend Occupy San Francisco invited me to do Occupy Listening (asking people their thoughts and taking notes) at their booth. I took them up on their offer. Here are the results:
Person 1) Like Occupy but don't care for violence, prefer the MLK approach. I care most about people losing homes and economic issues. I don't see how Pride fits in with Occupy. Telling people to take money out of banks and supporting prisoners is good. Read below the fold...
Submitted by Heather on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 3:53pm
These notes are from the Occupy Berkeley's May 20 BBQ at San Pablo Park in South Berkeley. I asked people their thoughts and this is what they said: Read below the fold...
Submitted by Heather on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 10:55am
The town of Volos, Greece recently introduced the local currency TEM . I wonder if a local currency like that could be introduced in a US town and whether it could fund a jobs guarantee. I think of Philip Pilkington's description of a community controlled jobs guarrantee program: Read below the fold...
Submitted by Heather on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 11:07am
Yesterday at the 99% Knowledge Share in Oakland I tried something new, Occupy Listening. I asked people their thoughts on the Occupy movement and took notes. The notes are here and pasted below. People had so much to say! I plan to do this many more times.
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Person 1. Top priorities: Economic Justice -Occupy not focused enough; too many groups becoming multi-issued to the point of losing economic focus Read below the fold...
