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    <title>four words for the art you love, part 2 - by Sara Hendren</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-20T16:42:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the same spirit of kids giving haircuts, this project is deployed as a what if question—it’s meant to suggest a possible future (again, that’s the strong principle of probity) while also defamiliarizing the status quo. This project could, yes, be an earnest initiative from your local gardening advocates, or a top-down project from your region’s city planners. But rolling out an idea like this as a bureaucratic thing—an initiative—automatically invites skepticism, pushback, and limited debate only among people who already care about the issue, whether for or against. As a social practice art project, this work has a wily joyousness about it: a form of culture that is both useful and expressive at once, and one that gets into the public eye as a prototype to think differently about the norms holding up the way things are. Lots of HOAs would get in a snit about some rogue gardener bucking convention. But an artist might galvanize a community with this lucid reframing of the world around you: an invitation to turn extant green space, now a site of useless, endless mowing, into raucous and beautiful front-lawn food.

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    <title>New book project: The hopeless university | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-20T11:04:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University has become a place that has no socially-useful role beyond the reproduction of capital, and has become an anti-human project devoid of hope. It projects and protects a condition that is irredeemable. It is hopeless in all senses, and this reflects its inability to respond meaningfully with crises that erupt from the contradictions of capital, including that between capital and climate. Yet in its maintenance of business-as-usual, the University remains shaped as a tactical response to these contradictions.

The book describes and analyses this position against the terrain of higher education (HE) in the global North. It does so in relation to the ways in which the University has been re-engineered in relation to the law of value. This process of subsumption situates the University inside a transnational geography of accumulation. This changes the very idea of the University, and what it means to work inside the Academy, such that they are emptied of political, democratic content, and instead reorganised around surplus. The University has become a key site for reproducing the separation of polity and economy.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Listening to those who have made or tried to make formal complaints about abuses of power within institutions is teaching me about institutional mechanics; how institutions work; how different parts fit together. The testimonies I have gathered zoom in on processes that are usually obscure, if perceived only dimly perceived, because of how institutions work. The accounts I have heard have helped me to make sense of the concrete ways we are directed along institutional paths, those well-traveled paths that are assumed to lead to better or happier outcomes, as well as how we are directed away from other paths.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dees was as successful at selling causes as he had been at selling cakes. Fueled by Dees’ direct mail campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center brought in million after million. Last year it took in $136 million, and it now sits upon an endowment of nearly half a billion dollars. Yet even after some within the organization thought it should stop raising money, and despite promises by Dees that it would do so, its fundraising pitches in the mail became ever more desperate and frantic. A 1995 pitch, sent when the SPLC was sitting on more than $60 million in reserves, told potential donors that the “strain on our current operating budget is the greatest in our 25-year history.” All sorts of tricks were tried, and a former Dees associate reported that the organization once used about six different low-value stamps on envelopes, to give the appearance that it could barely afford to cobble together 35 cents of postage.

(Sometimes all of this became downright grotesque. In the 1980s the SPLC sued the Klan over the lynching of Michael Donald, and won a $7 million verdict for Donald’s mother. The Klan, however, had by this time diminished to almost nonexistence. Its sole asset was a warehouse that was sold for $55,000, which was all Donald’s mother got. She apparently used a large portion of this to pay back an interest-free loan that the SPLC itself had extended her. Afterward, the SPLC began using photos of Michael Donald’s corpse in its fundraising letters, raising $9 million off the case. Donald’s mother evidently saw none of this money, though when she died barely a year later Morris Dees was quoted in her obituary praising her bravery.)

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    <title>The End of the Line • Commune</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The practice of mapping infrastructure in order to disrupt it has spread throughout the ecological activist milieu. On the other side of the Detroit River a leg of the Enbridge pipeline system called Line 9 has been disabled multiple times, for example. Pump stations are located above ground along the route of the pipeline at regular intervals, and can be disabled by simply turning a wheel. This “valve-turning” tactic has since been repeated elsewhere, as information about pipeline resistance gets disseminated.

While the fossil fuel infrastructure in its planetary girth is as impossible to grasp as the cataclysmic enormity of climate change, a single pipeline or even a network of pipelines is comprehensible: it is a long arrow pointing from departure to destination. Not only do pipelines make the global flows of capital legible, they render them tractable, connecting struggles waged thousands of miles apart. There are approximately seventy-two thousand miles of crude oil pipe in the US. These pipelines establish a material link, and a basis for real solidarity between disparate groups, connecting a blockade in Michigan to the struggle of indigenous people in Ontario, connecting black and Latinx Detroiters fighting against a refinery to resistance against the Athabasca oil sands thousands of miles away. These oil-based networks are both the source of our misery and the basis of our hope that we might transcend it.

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    <title>Patterns for… by Richard D. Bartlett [PDF/iPad/Kindle]</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-24T15:34:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a book about working in groups, based on 7 years experience in community projects and startups.

I’m not so interested in what you’re working on together, I’m just going to focus on how you do it. To my way of thinking, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a better electric vehicle, or develop government policy, or blockade a pipeline; whenever you work with a group of people on a shared objective, there’s some stuff you’re going to deal with, some challenges. How do we decide what we’re working on? who does what? who can join our team? what are our expectations for each other? what happens when someone doesn’t fulfil those expectations? what do we do with disagreement? how do decisions get made?

I’m convinced there is not a “one size fits all” recipe, a management structure that you can take off the shelf and install in your collective or your company. But my hypothesis is that there are patterns: common design elements you can draw on as you construct a recipe that’s right for you. Each pattern in this book names a challenge that you are likely to face, and offers tools and techniques you can try in response to that challenge.

This is a book for community organisers, leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, founders... if you work with groups of humans, these patterns apply to you.

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    <title>Our Story</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-24T16:28:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The history of the Beehive goes back and forth between the local and the global, the little and the big picture — just like our graphics. In the big picture story, we emerged out of the energy of the anti-globalization/global justice movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, as massive protests were trying to shut down the meetings of global financial institutions and free trade negotiations, rocking cities from Seattle to Miami. We distributed our early work on the streets of these mobilizations, putting thousands of posters directly into people’s hands from all over the country, doing impromptu storytelling, and gathering contacts and collaborators for our first tours.

On the local level, the Beehive was sparked by a collaborative mosaic installation in Maine. The original group that became the Beehive came together as a mosaic cooperative to teach and practice the traditional craft of hand-cut stone mosaic, and take on commissions that would support this swarm of artists and activists in other creative endeavors as well. Out of this project a small group set down roots in eastern Maine, and began restoration work on the beautiful but endangered Machias Valley Grange Hall, originally with the desire to fix it up as studio space.

The building restoration soon grew into a much bigger project of bringing a community cultural center back to life, entirely with volunteer labor and donations from our posters. By the time the Grange was re-opened in 2005 in time for it’s 100th Birthday Celebration, the focus of the group had shifted from mosaics to working more full time on illustration projects. We often compare our mosaics and illustration work, as they are both forms of making storytelling murals that take a lot of patience, made up of a multitude of carefully gathered and assembled pieces that add up to a much bigger picture!

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<dc:subject>community to-watch cooperation activism</dc:subject>
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    <title>DSHR's Blog: It Isn't About The Technology</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-09T12:33:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In other words, for searches that are profitable, Google has moved all the results it thinks are relevant off the first page and replaced them with results that people have paid to put there. Which is pretty much the definition of "evil" in the famous "don't be evil" slogan notoriously dropped in 2015. I'm pretty sure that no-one at executive level in Google thought that building a paid-search engine was a good idea, but the internal logic of the "slow AI" they built forced them into doing just that.
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<item rdf:about="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-climate-scientists-fly/">
    <title>Should Climate Scientists Fly? - Scientific American Blog Network</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-27T12:28:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-climate-scientists-fly/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is why climate action is about moral courage. Yes, we must have the courage to align our personal actions with our understanding of the science, through decreasing and stopping our flying. But, more importantly, we must have to courage to speak truth to power, despite how this might change our public or professional standing. Climate action is one of the most fundamental social justice movements of our time. No more and no less, our choices now to act as brave stewards of planetary life, despite political realities and institutional denialism, will change the trajectory of the planet forever. It is worth it.
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    <title>DAVID GRAEBER / The Revolt of the Caring Classes / 2018 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-13T12:48:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The financialisation of major economies since the '80s has radically changed the terms for social movements everywhere. How does one organise workplaces, for example, in societies where up to 40% of the workforce believe their jobs should not exist? David Graeber makes the case that, slowly but surely, a new form of class politics is emerging, based around recognising the centrality of meaningful 'caring labour' in creating social value. He identifies a slowly emerging rebellion of the caring classes which potentially represents just as much of a threat to financial capitalism as earlier forms of proletarian struggle did to industrial capitalism.

David Graeber is Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and previously Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale and Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011) and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004). His activism includes protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, and the 2002 World Economic Forum in New York City. Graeber was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is sometimes credited with having coined the slogan, 'We are the 99 percent'.

This lecture was given at the Collège de France on the 22nd March 2018."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://psmag.com/education/how-deaf-president-now-changed-america">
    <title>How 'Deaf President Now' Changed America - Pacific Standard</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-14T15:27:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psmag.com/education/how-deaf-president-now-changed-america</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The lessons from Deaf President Now should be clear. Its success, fueled by direct action, shows that rights have to be claimed rather than given. Deaf President Now stands as a watershed moment in the history not just of Deaf and disability rights, but also of American civil rights more broadly. As I spoke to people who had been instrumental in the protests, and the current president of Gallaudet, I heard one additional message: a fear that too few Americans even remember this story.

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<dc:subject>civil-rights protest public-policy collective-action activism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://longreads.com/2017/12/05/the-consent-of-the-ungoverned/">
    <title>The Consent of the (Un)governed</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T12:18:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://longreads.com/2017/12/05/the-consent-of-the-ungoverned/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have big fights with an older female relative about this. She believes that women have a great deal of responsibility when they are assaulted, and I suspect that the reason she believes this is because it gives her comfort and a sense of control to think that there was choice involved. Because the alternative is worse. The alternative is that there’s nothing she can do to stop it, and by extension, nothing she can do to protect her daughters, her granddaughters, her friends, herself. Feeling complicit in our own harassment allows us to survive trauma, but it also prevents us from confronting it. This is how we get a world where women, for their own safety, are counseled by the people who love them against walking alone at night. It’s our choice, a choice we make for our own good, as independent women, to minimize our risk. But that’s not freedom. That’s something else.

The same is true of both the democratic process and, to some extent, the labor market. Individuals are offered very little choice indeed, but the choices we do have are inflated into much more than they are. Since it allows us to believe that we are free and it suits those in power that we continue to believe this, we cling doggedly to our anemic choices and call it love.
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<item rdf:about="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fashion-is-political-period">
    <title>Fashion IS Political, Period | Teen Vogue</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T12:14:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fashion-is-political-period</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We all know politics is about power and as feminist theory famously posits, the personal is political. While our clothing reflects who we are, in many ways it can also determine our ability to gain entry into influential spaces. Yet when women express an interest in fashion, it is often weaponized as a means of denying us access to political conversations—as if these interests were mutually exclusive.
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<dc:subject>fashion sexism politics diversity activism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/">
    <title>Complaint as Diversity Work | feministkilljoys</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-27T14:10:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another academic described to me how she participated in a complaint because she “wanted to help” the institution deal with a problem that had already been recognised because there had been other cases in which the problem came up. But the complaint was still treated as a problem; just as it had in the other cases. This is important because the organisation had developed new procedures as a result of earlier cases. The conduct surrounding the complaint had not been changed by a change to the procedure (2). A wall can be a matter of conduct. Conduct refers not simply to behavior; conduct derives from “leading.” Conduct is how a group is directed.

A complaint teaches about institutional direction because a complaint is often treated as misdirection by the institution. Another way of saying this: to locate a problem is to become the location of a problem. Diversity work: becoming the location of a problem. The accounts of becoming the problem in this study are descriptions of institutional violence. One person spoke of how “the viciousness started to kick in.” The institutional response to complaint is to treat the complaint not necessarily as malicious (although many complaint policies do in fact include warnings about malicious complaints) but as being motivated in some problematic way: as if the complainer has some other agenda such as a desire to target others or to damage the university or to elevate themselves. Simply put: the efforts to stop a complaint include attempts to discredit the complainer. Indeed many of those I have spoken to have spoken of how they became the complained about; a complaint can be redirected to the complainer; as if she says something is wrong because something is wrong with her (3).

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    <title>In, against and beyond the Co-operative University | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-14T12:24:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/11/10/in-against-and-beyond-the-co-operative-university/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In part my questioning is situated against my own weltschmerz, in particular in the face of ongoing, secular capitalist crisis with its attendant punishing and disciplinary austerity. However, my questioning extends the nature of this socio-economic crisis, which is destroying the lives/futures of millions of people, into the terrain of socio-environmental crisis. I also wonder why we are building a model in this way that is deliberately connected to a hegemonic system of oppression, and which is rooted in contradictions and tensions around the ongoing nature of work and the availability of employment that is increasingly predicted to be marginalised/made redundant by technology in so many sectors. So in building for an unstable world that is increasingly governed by debt as a moment of social discipline, I found myself asking why are we building in this way for a capitalist world that is collapsing? Is building an alternative form of sociability impossible? I found myself questioning how to enact Rosa Luxemburg’s idea (on socialism or barbarism) that ’to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers.’

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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:institutional-design"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets/blob/master/README.md">
    <title>missing-datasets/README.md at master · MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets · GitHub</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T13:03:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets/blob/master/README.md</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>data-science data activism public-policy open-access</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a9a0a174eca1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:open-access"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://onbeing.org/blog/miguel-clark-mallet-weve-hoped-our-way-into-our-current-crisis/">
    <title>We’ve Hoped Our Way Into Our Current Crisis | On Being</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T11:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onbeing.org/blog/miguel-clark-mallet-weve-hoped-our-way-into-our-current-crisis/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If I believe in justice, do I express that belief? Do I work against injustice? Do I choose to undermine oppression or further it? Not because I know I’ll “win” or “succeed,” but because I’ve committed myself to living the way I think I should live.

At my best, I answer what each moment and my values call me to do. Sometimes it’s to rest, to reflect. Sometimes it’s to play. Sometimes it’s to connect with friends and loved ones. Sometimes it’s to struggle, critique, speak out. Sometimes to listen. Sometimes to celebrate. Sometimes to grieve. Each moment makes its demand, and I’m seeking the kind of life where I hear and answer that need as often as I can.

Contrary to our control-obsessed culture, the alternative to hope isn’t passivity or despair. It’s living. It’s being humble and real. It’s being here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hope essay mindful-practice worklife public-policy activism to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a0747ec45f42/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://status451.com/2017/07/11/radical-book-club-the-decentralized-left/">
    <title>Radical Book Club: the Decentralized Left | Status 451</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-09T11:52:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://status451.com/2017/07/11/radical-book-club-the-decentralized-left/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This failure of the mainstream has opened doors for more radical individuals to show value. The College Republicans and the Leadership Institute could have organized conservative students to peacefully disrupt Leftist speakers and Leftist activities in response to Leftist disruption, but they didn’t, so that opened a door for rougher guys like Based Stickman (on the off chance you don’t know, he’s a fellow named Kyle Chapman, who got internet famous when he was filmed breaking a wooden dowel over the head of a charging antifa at the First Battle of Berkeley; he has since worked to organize Righties as defensive streetfighters). Any number of mainstream Righty organizations could have organized Righty lawyers, but none did, so now Based Stickman is being aided in organizing the Based Lawyers’ Guild by Augustus Invictus, a former Libertarian congressional candidate who is — and I can’t stress this enough — absolutely garking insane.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>organization politics activism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:36e62ef6e81d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://notesonatheory.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/the-most-basic-fact-about-politics-is-slack/">
    <title>The Most Basic Fact About Politics is Slack | Notes on a Theory...</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-10T13:38:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://notesonatheory.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/the-most-basic-fact-about-politics-is-slack/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer is both yes and no. Obviously, there are many institutions, like the Democratic Party, unions, advocacy organizations, which have resources which could be put toward mobilization. And while I’m not suggesting that no one is doing this, there is not enough of it. Telling them to do it seems pointless to me. If a union or candidate wants to hire me to give them advice, I will give them this advice. But if they don’t, they probably don’t care what I think, and odds are this applies to you as well.

But they can be pressured into changing their behavior. And the rest of us can put our energies into that, or mobilizing those around us. And it’s not like we don’t have some good ideas lying around to use–think, for example, about Medicare For All.

Is that hard? Yes. Anything worthwhile in politics is hard. And while resources are important, people power is one of the most important resources. Face to face interaction is the best way to move someone to action. And it’s the one thing that regular people have.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics fascism activism essay political-economy</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:226d25c72b9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hyperallergic.com/115200/thinking-about-art-practice-and-the-role-of-compromise/">
    <title>Thinking About Art Practice and the Role of Compromise</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-27T13:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hyperallergic.com/115200/thinking-about-art-practice-and-the-role-of-compromise/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I do not think that pushing back against this condition is something that I, or any artist, can do alone. Let’s imagine that artists were encouraged to compromise less in order to make overtly sellable objects and be more honest about the compromises we do make. Would that subtract from the viewing experience or add to it? Yes, it might deflate the experience in the gallery, museum, or fair cubicle. It would partially de-fetishize art objects, peeling back their veneer as conveniently decorative, culminations of artistic pursuits. It would leave viewers wanting more, encouraging them to venture to artist’s studios, get to know artists better and understand the true intentions behind and, more importantly, beyond our work. Wouldn’t that be a world with better art? For now, though, I, like many artists, am asking myself the question, “What can I do to make my work more sellable?” Whatever comes of it, surely will not be described as such in our artist statements, so get ready to keep reading between the lines.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-norms cultural-assumptions worklife compromise activism on-going-broke-being-right</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb57fb53c056/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/">
    <title>On common educational ownership and refusing human capital | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-06T10:37:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can academics support both critique and the development/nurturing of alternative forms of learning and teaching that in-turn push-back against the dominant political agenda that commodifies humanity? We see such possibilities inside alternative educational forms, and through the politics of occupations, as well as in the collective resistance to austerity in Europe. Somehow, this means taking Schumpeter’s point in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, that we need to reconnect our work against the dematerialised, defunctionalised and absentee domination of our lives, which is enacted through the market. There is a need to think through how the curriculum and its organising principles might be liberated as a form of open, co-operative, common property that is itself rooted in social struggle beyond the University.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disintermediation-in-action worklife activism post-normal</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9f1075c1628c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jeffreifman.com/2013/02/26/why-you-should-care-about-seattles-phonebook-debacle/">
    <title>Why You Should Care About Seattle’s Phonebook Debacle</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T13:50:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jeffreifman.com/2013/02/26/why-you-should-care-about-seattles-phonebook-debacle/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This ruling represents a lot of what’s broken with America and its legal system:

We allow corporations (foreign and domestic) to intimidate, limit and overturn the lawmaking capacities of our local elected bodies, even when we’re trying to preserve our quality of life

We allow ongoing environmental harms regardless of public nuisance or value and allow corporations to externalize the resulting costs to taxpayers.

We allow corporations to parlay human rights victories from the Civil War-era to bend communities to their will.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism lawyers activism public-policy woops</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e3259d15cca8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politics.html">
    <title>Aaron Swartz’s Politics « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-14T12:13:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aaron suffered from depression, but that is not why he died. Aaron is dead because the institutions that govern our society have decided that it is more important to target geniuses like Aaron than nurture them, because the values he sought – openness, justice, curiosity – are values these institutions now oppose. In previous generations, people like Aaron would have been treasured and recognized as the remarkable gifts they are. We do not live in a world like that today. And Aaron would be the first to point out, if he could observe the discussion happening now, that the pressure he felt from the an oppressive government is felt by millions of people, every year. I’m glad his family have not let the justice system off the hook, and have not allowed this suicide to be medicalized, or the fault of one prosecutor. What happened to Aaron is not isolated to Aaron, but is the flip side of the corruption he hated.

As we think about what happened to Aaron, we need to recognize that it was not just prosecutorial overreach that killed him. That’s too easy, because that implies it’s one bad apple. We know that’s not true. What killed him was corruption. Corruption isn’t just people profiting from betraying the public interest. It’s also people being punished for upholding the public interest. In our institutions of power, when you do the right thing and challenge abusive power, you end up destroying a job prospect, an economic opportunity, a political or social connection, or an opportunity for media. Or if you are truly dangerous and brilliantly subversive, as Aaron was, you are bankrupted and destroyed. There’s a reason whistleblowers get fired. There’s a reason Bradley Manning is in jail. There’s a reason the only CIA official who has gone to jail for torture is the person – John Kiriako - who told the world it was going on. There’s a reason those who destroyed the financial system “dine at the White House”, as Lawrence Lessig put it. There’s a reason former Senator Russ Feingold is a college professor whereas former Senator Chris Dodd is now a multi-millionaire. There’s a reason DOJ officials do not go after bankers who illegally foreclose, and then get jobs as partners in white collar criminal defense. There’s a reason no one has been held accountable for decisions leading to the financial crisis, or the war in Iraq. This reason is the modern ethic in American society that defines success as climbing up the ladder, consequences be damned. Corrupt self-interest, when it goes systemwide, demands that it protect rentiers from people like Aaron, that it intimidate, co-opt, humiliate, fire, destroy, and/or bankrupt those who stand for justice.

More prosaically, the person who warned about the downside in a meeting gets cut out of the loop, or the former politician who tries to reform an industry sector finds his or her job opportunities sparse and unappealing next to his soon to be millionaire go along get along colleagues. I’ve seen this happen to high level former officials who have done good, and among students who challenge power as their colleagues go to become junior analysts on Wall Street. And now we’ve seen these same forces kill our friend.]]></description>
<dc:subject>for-aaronsw activism politics progressivism memory openness eulogies</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a742801e98d0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/12/brad-delong-why-next-to-no-political-reaction-to-the-second-gilded-age.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong : Brad DeLong: Why Next to No Political Reaction to the Second Gilded Age?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-30T13:48:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/12/brad-delong-why-next-to-no-political-reaction-to-the-second-gilded-age.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But the political economy of Gilded Ages? Why the first Gilded age produces a Populist and a Progressive reaction and the second, so far, does not? There I throw up my hands and say that my economic historian training betrays me. I have no clue as to what is going on here.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics activism call-and-response Gilded-Age</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb0f3195640d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jacobinmag.com/2012/12/occupy-beyond-occupy/">
    <title>Occupy Beyond Occupy | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-30T11:13:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jacobinmag.com/2012/12/occupy-beyond-occupy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The most recent action, pictured above, was as simple and media-friendly as it was politically powerful. We helped to move a homeless family of three into a vacant, foreclosed house in St. Paul, just in time for Christmas. The woman shown speaking above is the previous owner of the house, who is in the process of losing it to US Bank. She gave her blessing and support to the activists from Occupy Homes and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (an ACORN successor organization) as they reclaimed the place for Carrie, Xavier, and young Caleb, shown on the Left.

The activists are demanding that US Bank give the house to a community organization and take it as a tax write-off, so that it can be used to house people again instead of sitting empty. But even if the bank won’t play ball, Espinosa told me that they should be able to keep the family from being evicted for at least a month, and quite possibly longer. And Occupy Homes has every intention of creating a publicity nightmare for the local authorities, if they decide to start evicting families on behalf of big banks. With luck, the action I took part in in St. Paul will be the first of many.

Getting a personal look at what Occupy activists are doing in Minnesota reinforced my conviction that the hopeful note on which I ended my editorial was the right one: “The old may still be dying, but the new is already being born. Our task is to help it grow.”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Occupy-movement housing financial-crisis activism politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:29806925b7b2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.berfrois.com/2012/04/maps-governments-cannot-ignore/">
    <title>‘The aim is to produce maps that governments cannot ignore’ | berfrois</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-06T11:35:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.berfrois.com/2012/04/maps-governments-cannot-ignore/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Consider events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. There, in the aftermath of a long civil war, the government is currently zoning its forests — which cover as much as 316 million acres, an area nearly the size of France, Germany and Spain combined — in preparation for their mass allocation to logging companies. Old European timber conglomerates want to reactivate their concessions, some dating back almost to the brutal days more than a century ago when the entire country was run by King Leopold of Belgium. Logging newcomers from Malaysia and China also want a slice of the action."]]></description>
<dc:subject>GIS mapping corporatism activism ontological-war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f5bd478626b5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.berfrois.com/2012/03/share-books/">
    <title>Share Books | berfrois</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-18T10:27:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.berfrois.com/2012/03/share-books/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Libraries are a recognition that scholarship and culture are more than the business of creating and consuming. They are a human conversation, and libraries provide common ground where that conversation can take place and be remembered. By taking aim at the right for the public to maintain this conversation and its memory, publishers have shown us what we have to lose. It’s time we resisted the outsourcing of our common heritage by occupying the library."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Occupy libraries intellectual-property open-access public-policy activism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:711fbd79dafb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6874">
    <title>[1109.6874] #h00t: Censorship Resistant Microblogging</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-04T13:29:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6874</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Microblogging services such as Twitter are an increasingly important way to communicate, both for individuals and for groups through the use of hashtags that denote topics of conversation. However, groups can be easily blocked from communicating through blocking of posts with the given hashtags. We propose #h00t, a system for censorship resistant microblogging. #h00t presents an interface that is much like Twitter, except that hashtags are replaced with very short hashes (e.g., 24 bits) of the group identifier. Naturally, with such short hashes, hashtags from different groups may collide and #h00t users will actually seek to create collisions. By encrypting all posts with keys derived from the group identifiers, #h00t client software can filter out other groups' posts while making such filtering difficult for the adversary. In essence, by leveraging collisions, groups can tunnel their posts in other groups' posts. A censor could not block a given group without also blocking the other groups with colliding hashtags. We evaluate the feasibility of #h00t through traces collected from Twitter, showing that a single modern computer has enough computational throughput to encrypt every tweet sent through Twitter in real time. We also use these traces to analyze the bandwidth and anonymity tradeoffs that would come with different variations on how group identifiers are encoded and hashtags are selected to purposefully collide with one another."]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-media steganography robustness activism cute</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1dc7cb2f77bd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:robustness"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dark-mountain.net/wordpress/2011/04/02/the-quants-and-the-poets/">
    <title>The quants and the poets « The Dark Mountain Project</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-22T12:08:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dark-mountain.net/wordpress/2011/04/02/the-quants-and-the-poets/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The friction between the quant and the poet could be represented by focusing on a few bickering individuals, or by trying to divide the greens up into Two Cultures. But it could also, perhaps more honestly and productively, be represented as a tension that is present within all. None of us is wholly, or even primarily, rational and analytical, and none of us is quite devoid of poetry either, though it is sometimes hard to find it. These divisions are themselves stories that we, in this particular culture, tell ourselves about how humans work. The quants and the poets are both needed, but I would argue that, right now, the poets ought to take the lead – if indeed that is ever something that poets are capable of. We have no shortage of arguments about numbers and machines, but we do have a great shortage of workable stories. That is to say: stories that don’t just have happy endings, but have convincing plots as well."]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics pragmatism-it-ain't Green-movement sustainability schism activism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8ff38eddcf38/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sustainability"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/">
    <title>Who Rules America? Power, Politics, &amp; Social Change</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-13T11:04:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:tsuomela social-dynamics activism government transparency</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1732bb9824d3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:government"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7780&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter">
    <title>The BRAD BLOG : CA A.G. FINDS 'NO VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL LAW' IN 'SEVERELY EDITED' ACORN 'PIMP' VIDEOS; RELEASES RAW TAPES FOR FIRST TIME</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-11T14:17:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7780&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nonetheless, the anti-poverty organization of 400,000 low- and middle-income member families in 75 cities was successfully targeted and put out of business by Republicans; the long, concerted smear campaigns intended to do little more than undercut ACORN's successful voter registration drives. Those drives had succeeded in legally registering hundreds of thousands of low- and middle-income voters, many of whom tend to vote Democratic. For that, for enfranchising Americans to participate in their own democracy, the GOP had to put them out of business.

Mission accomplished."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>lawsuit activism fraud Republicans conservatism MSM mainstream-media politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b15a62776ce2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Republicans"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:mainstream-media"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services">
    <title>Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-10T15:49:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One such story was our earlier case about the old lady and her troubles with the Revenue Department official over a land title. Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably, the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a half to obtain without success. Had the zero rupee note reached the old lady sooner, her granddaughter could have started college on schedule and avoided the consequence of delaying her education for two years. In another experience, a corrupt official in a district in Tamil Nadu was so frightened on seeing the zero rupee note that he returned all the bribe money he had collected for establishing a new electricity connection back to the no longer compliant citizen."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bribery economics social-engineering political-economics government activism currency public-policy social-psychology via:poormojo</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:19f5a87a3aa8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:government"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/11/eff-to-represent-yes.html">
    <title>EFF to represent Yes Men in Chamber of Commerce lawsuit - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-12T10:19:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/11/eff-to-represent-yes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Chamber has pulled out all the stops in its effort to silence the activists. First, it sent an improper copyright takedown notice to the Yes Men's upstream provider, demanding that a parody website posted in support of the action be removed immediately and resulting in the temporary shutdown of not only the spoof site but hundreds of other sites hosted by May First/People Link. Next, the Chamber filed suit against the activists in federal court, claiming among other things the activism infringed their trademarks."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>chamber-of-commerce Yes-Men politics lobbyists intellectual-property parody EFF activism activism-by-acting</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fa3e9938a161/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:parody"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:EFF"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/oregon-once-again-cl.html">
    <title>Oregon once again claims that law is copyrighted - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-05T15:23:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/oregon-once-again-cl.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Well, those copyright assertions are back, this time by the Attorney General, who asserted ownership over the (for real!) Attorney General's Public Record and Public Meeting Manual. I spent last week in Oregon meeting with law school faculty and giving lectures at 3 universities on the topic of who owns the law."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>copyright intellectual-property activism law culture-war public-policy public-domain openness</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d23a9ac96022/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:law"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:culture-war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-domain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://wewanteverything.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/communique-from-an-absent-future/">
    <title>Communiqué from an Absent Future « we want everything</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-29T11:11:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wewanteverything.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/communique-from-an-absent-future/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If the university teaches us primarily how to be in debt, how to waste our labor power, how to fall prey to petty anxieties, it thereby teaches us how to be consumers.  Education is a commodity like everything else that we want without caring for.  It is a thing, and it makes its purchasers into things.  One’s future position in the system, one’s relation to others, is purchased first with money and then with the demonstration of obedience."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia academic-culture cultural-norms politics education future activism ashes-make-glass</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:192763c1094b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:academic-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:future"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ashes-make-glass"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/benkler09/benkler09_index.html">
    <title>Edge: THE END OF UNIVERSAL RATIONALITY: A Talk with Yochai Benkler</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-16T17:05:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/benkler09/benkler09_index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Where we are now, and we already know that we are there, is in a much more permeable and fluid society and a much more permeable cultural environment where the difference between producers and consumers is much more blurred. Where this category of users has become absolutely central to everything we do. So when we talk about newspapers, we have to think about the users who communicate with a commercial organization like TPM, the users who basically get together and make their own new party presses, like DailyKos or Townhall, like the users who make up YouTube, like the users who make up Wikipedia. Suddenly you have radically decentralized practical capacity to act. And what do people do? They act."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>panarchy economics collaboration intellectual-property disintermediation-targets disintermediation-in-action publishing business philosophy sustainability activism networks behavior rationality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f06f74c8597a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:publishing"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://associatedrepress.tumblr.com/">
    <title>Associated rePress</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-27T12:13:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://associatedrepress.tumblr.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>Associate-Press morons copyright intellectual-property journalism irony fair-use activism fuck'em</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4df55a7e7134/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:copyright"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:irony"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fair-use"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/">
    <title>Steal This Footage</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-30T13:46:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Finally, in the spirit of cooperation and sharing, and by agreement with our interviewees, we are making this footage available to others who want to make films on this subject, and who may not have the resources to travel to and meet these exceptional individuals. We hope the HDV Torrents we have provided are of sufficient quality. If you have any issues, please contact us.

Steal This Film is a work in progress, incomplete, open to contradiction and response. The task of talking back to our point of view is one we leave at the feet of you, the viewers, users and produsers of the film."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:hrheingold via:smalljones video copyright archive activism p2p piracy documentary commons remix mashup collaboration seed-corn</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8d0c1194b33d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:copyright"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto/">
    <title>RiP: A Remix Manifesto</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-26T11:23:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["RiP: A remix manifesto is a documentary film about copyright and remix culture. You can contribute to the film, and follow the conversation on the social networks below."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>art copyright mashup commons copyleft opensource intellectual-property activism activism-by-acting</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:981d979f3a5f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/255/a2dda-blocks-asterisk-parking-data/">
    <title>A2DDA Blocks Asterisk Parking Data | VoIP Tech Chat</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-13T18:17:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/255/a2dda-blocks-asterisk-parking-data/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Hi all.   Over the last day or so I have talked about your project with a few DDA members and what arose from these conversations was a shared concern that because the project was not an initiative created by/run by the DDA there are no controls in place for this at present.  For instance, there is no DDA policy about how to allow /or even if it should allow an outside group to use the DDA’s parking data for a private enterprise.  There is a concern about how unsecure/secure the DDA website is made when sharing this data.   And finally, a concern that if the project had value to parking patrons, that the DDA itself should consider providing this service as an extension of what it is already doing on-line.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>community activism data-access openness government government2.0 local Ann-Arbor disintermediation watershed</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:36ae747083f2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-access"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Ann-Arbor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:watershed"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://futuryst.blogspot.com/2009/02/thoughts-about-feelies.html">
    <title>the sceptical futuryst: Thoughts about feelies</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-06T12:48:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://futuryst.blogspot.com/2009/02/thoughts-about-feelies.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even if the golden age of "interactive fiction" has passed, and its feelies are now the glorious preserve of only the most committed boffins, I can't shake the feeling that feelies have a future, too. It's curious that seeking antecedents to the future artifacts meme takes us down an overgrown path into the not-too-distant past, there to find that feelies -- tangible auxiliaries to a cutting-edge storytelling technology, concessions to meatspace -- may have a transreality staying power that as a practice, seems timeless, compared to the wonderfully quaint electronic games they were created merely to supplement."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>not-an-employee marketing planning activism gaming storytelling ARG kawgooshkawnick feelies</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3a1ec911eca8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:marketing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:gaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:storytelling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ARG"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:kawgooshkawnick"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:feelies"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://readthebill.org/">
    <title>Read The Bill: Improve the legislative process by posting bills online for 72 hours before debate!</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-27T12:23:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://readthebill.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You didn't have the time to read the 1100 page stimulus bill. And neither did members of Congress—by their own choice. Most lawmakers—on both sides of the aisle—were only given 13 hours to read the bill before it was passed."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:hrheingold legislation transparency politics community government activism democracy information moderation collective-attention</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b0e2847b2f89/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:legislation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:transparency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:information"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:moderation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collective-attention"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009449.html">
    <title>Worldchanging: Bright Green: Common Security Clubs: Finding Support in Hard Economic Times</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-25T02:26:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009449.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“What becomes clear to participants is we are facing some major economic and ecological changes,” said Andree Zaleska from the Boston office of Institute for Policy Studies, who is coordinating clubs in the Northeast. “We are not going back to some golden age of economic growth based on empire, unfettered capitalism, and cheap energy—nor do we want to! We have to prepare ourselves and our communities for transformation.”"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics localism communitarianism community self-help activism social-networks cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:69ade9a133cf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:localism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:communitarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-help"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.dontbuyfrombigots.com/">
    <title>Don't Buy From Bigots</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-08T22:16:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dontbuyfrombigots.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These businesses have the right to support whatever ballot measures they want, but fair-minded citizens of all sexual orientations also have the right to take their money elsewhere and not patronize businesses that support bigotry.  This site is not a witch-hunt but is a tool intended to help people make informed decisions when they shop for products and services.  This site hopes to overcome some of the limitations of existing Prop 8 donor databases on the web and in time hopes to become a useful repository of all companies in the U.S. with anti-gay policies.
 
Using publicly available information from the California Secretary of State’s website, DontBuyFromBigots.com strives to be the most comprehensive business-specific listing of donors to Prop 8.  This site is a work in progress created and maintained in the spare time of one person, so forgive the spartan appearance.  Contact me if you want to help improve the website."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:nelson boycott politics conservatism bigotry prejudice activism transparency</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e5a26927a484/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://abouttechnocracy.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/why-not-have-charettes-for-societya-social-charrette/">
    <title>Why not have charettes for society…a social charrette? « Thinking About Technocracy</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-07T12:53:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abouttechnocracy.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/why-not-have-charettes-for-societya-social-charrette/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Who would be invited to a social charrette in a technocracy?  One thinks of blue ribbon panels and legislative hearings, but those are not public deliberations in most cases…they are public hearings.  A charrette is a publicly deliberative process.  It has rules and structures that are pliant and disruptive influences are addressed by a combination of rhetoric and interest, not “leadership,” which is a term I find increasingly dubious. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>activism design decision-making meeting local organization design-pattern</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c1281820489a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:decision-making"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:meeting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:local"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:design-pattern"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/2009/01/self-organizing-kickoff.html">
    <title>Network Weaving: Self-Organizing Kickoff</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-07T12:24:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/2009/01/self-organizing-kickoff.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In upcoming posts, we'll review some of the ways people are starting to organize online and look at the key design elements of self-organizing, whether online or off.

Jean pointed out that some of you are already experimenting, so please let us know what you are doing by responding to this post!"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks social-engineering organizing activism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:40208733648b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/112982-environmentalism-may-face-major-setback-in-2009?source=feed">
    <title>Environmentalism May Face Major Setback in 2009 - Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-03T22:00:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/112982-environmentalism-may-face-major-setback-in-2009?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The essential problem is the tragedy of the commons. Global warming and concern about CO2 emissions is a global, social problem that has extraordinary long term impacts, but when you look at it on an individual level, the marginal returns that a selfish individual can gain by ignoring the greater good far exceeds the marginal cost to that individual in the short run. In the long run, though, everyone pays more."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>sustainability economics behavioral-finance marginal-economics politics activism global-warming prediction social-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5d8e54e07815/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:behavioral-finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:marginal-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:global-warming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mayer/why-every-snarky-blogger_b_150088.html">
    <title>John Mayer: Why Every Snarky Blogger Should Thank Don Rickles (and What They Still Have to Learn from Him)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-12T13:14:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mayer/why-every-snarky-blogger_b_150088.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wouldn't it be nice, every once in a while, to read some sort of evidence of heart? An occasional 'We kid, the guy's okay??' Unless you really don't, in which case you won't be sorry when that bear shoots me with a rocket launcher. Mark my words: the gossip-monger whose style closest resembles that of Don Rickles' mastery of tension and release will stay successful the longest. Because the salient rules of entertainment will always apply. And Don Rickles should know, because he helped write them."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>humor courtesy social-obligation activism self-assessment self-image criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b9019e0f1dd3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:courtesy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-obligation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assessment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-image"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:criticism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/">
    <title>BOINC</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-12T13:09:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>grid-computing volunteerism crowdsourcing computation collaboration programming development community science research tools activism networking distributed opensource</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:983cc5e3404e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:grid-computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:volunteerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:crowdsourcing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:computation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:programming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:development"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:research"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:tools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:networking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:distributed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:opensource"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/12/09/column-survey-says-help-us-design-one/">
    <title>The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: Survey Says, “Help Us Design One”</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-12T12:39:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/12/09/column-survey-says-help-us-design-one/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In an attempt to make up partly for that information deficit, I’ll suggest that we put together an online survey available here on The Chronicle to serve two specific purposes. The first goal would be to add citizen input to Fraser’s directive to staff: how do you think we could save 15% over the next two years? The second goal would be to supplement the picture of Ann Arbor that the National Citizens Survey gives.

So until the end of the year, we’ll take suggestions in the comments section of this article for survey questions along those lines. We’ll launch the survey on Jan. 1, 2009. Thanks in advance for your help."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>survey activism local Ann-Arbor public-policy government</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5e2fb937fbc2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:survey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Ann-Arbor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:government"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/12/08.html#a2300">
    <title>How to Save the World</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-10T13:12:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/12/08.html#a2300</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My problem is that I don't think there are good guys and bad guys. Things are the way they are for a reason, and there is always a reason, even when the result is atrocity and outrage."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>futurism life planning reaction activism social-anthropology cultural-norms openness</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e3680f0e5514/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:reaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html">
    <title>'The Tyranny of Structurelessness' by Jo Freeman</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-04T13:08:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The basic problems didn't appear until individual rap groups exhausted the virtues of consciousness-raising and decided they wanted to do some- thing more specific. At this point they usually floundered because most groups were unwilling to change their structure when they changed their task. Women had thoroughly accepted the idea of 'structurelessness' without realising the limitations of its uses. People would try to use the 'structureless' group and the informal conference for purposes for which they were unsuitable out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-dynamics group-dynamics organizational-behavior collaboration politics community sociology activism structure anarchy leadership</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:33c4049aec3d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:group-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:organizational-behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:anarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:leadership"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.steamthing.com/2008/11/boycott-the-templeton-foundation.html">
    <title>Steamboats Are Ruining Everything: Boycott the Templeton Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-24T13:06:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.steamthing.com/2008/11/boycott-the-templeton-foundation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This suggests to me that the Templeton Foundation's pretensions to belief in the free exchange of ideas are fraudulent. And John Templeton, Jr.'s support of the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign suggests to me that the foundation he runs is willing to blur the line between church and state in order to deprive a minority of the civil right of marriage. Until the Templeton Foundation addresses the issue of its chairman's antagonism to gay civil rights, either by dismissing him or by issuing an apology, backed by equivalent funding to a group advocating gay civil marriage, I strongly discourage writers and intellectuals who believe in the free exchange of ideas, the separation of church and state, gay rights, or the protection of the civil rights of minorities from working with or accepting money from the Templeton Foundation."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics religion nonprofit agendas advocacy activism science-and-religion hypocrisy-isn't-heterodoxy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1796c49f291e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:religion"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agendas"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science-and-religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hypocrisy-isn't-heterodoxy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009021.html">
    <title>WorldChanging: Image of the Day: This Lawn is Your Lawn</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-12T12:31:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009021.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>localism sustainability politics activism video examples gardening landmarks Victory-Garden</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.stoweboyd.com/ground/">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.impublished.org/wordpress/helptheman/">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/23/the-end-of-capitalism/">
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via:Sivacracy
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