Check out the entries and resources on Naomi Klein’s website The Shock Doctrine to put some of the recent economic issues in perspective. There’s a bunch of good pieces & links under Disaster Capitalism in Action.
It gets more interesting everyday.
More personally, I left last Thursday’s demonstration without the usual malaise and disenfranchisement of NYC protest. A couple hundred folks gathered with a variety of slogans on hand-made signs, in supposedly one of over 200 demonstrations in a dozen states.
Naomi Klein on the Greatest American Economic Swindle
September 27, 2008
NYC Union members decided to come out as well
AFL-CIO
also found on
Reuters
thanks for the links, and for the pic of the cheeky signs. really made me laugh.
i just checked out klein’s site. very lucid analysis of the current crisis. i have been in halifax, nova scotia for the past two weeks, and in a way i feel removed from what is happening right below the border, but people here are talking about it. naomi klein gave a talk at a university here last week to over 1,000 people! those numbers give me some brutal hope—as do your actions.