"What do you mean the store is closed?!"

What's the point in living in a capitalist society if I can't have instant gratification when I have money to spend?!

"when they swear their love is real, they mean I like the way you make me feel"

So is it possible to love someone for who they are, not what you want them to be for you?

It's heartening to see people finally standing up against the unlimited greed and power of corporations. This is especially so since it seemed initially that, in the wake of the recent Credit Crunch and Bailout Bonanza, the public was just going to roll over — with only some minor grumbling — and take it in the ass again.

But what I find most exciting about the 'Occupy' movement is not the message. It is large groups of people figuring how to make decisions and live together — not just protest, let me assert that again, but live together — in genuinely democratic, consensual, and egalitarian ways. The challenge to activits and radicals, I think, is to prove it is possible to construct communities and ways of life that are actually of free of hierarchy, coercion, exploitation. Otherwise, how can our criticism that society and its institutions are riddled and dependent on these things be valid?

And there's the 'Occupy' folks doing it, right there in public. And having fun doing it too!

(Zombie walks, acrobatics, occupy. Who says you can't have it all? The Occupy Ottawa folks are sure doing something right — and enduring even as the weather keeps getting colder).

Be your own iPod!

Let the song sing you...

Best political ad ever!

In this video, Jedrzej Wijas, a politician who ran for Poland’s Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) party, told voters:
"End the useless talking / Enough of the stupid wars / Secular government / Dignified life / Freedom / Is my goal / Vote wisely."

He didn't win.

mother,

what part of you have we not poisoned?
where does our noise not penetrate?

you sustain us

so why do we act as if that sustenance is something to be won and wrested from you,
with what amounts to little more than long-distance rape?

These things worry me

Is calling yourself the follower of a man who smashed the money-changers' property consistent with condemning the actions of the Black Bloc?

What exactly is violence?

Isn't there something violent about a Nike shoe, McDonald's burger, or cop's car? What exactly is more violent, to do nothing about them, or to smash them?