Occupy Radio: Remembering Our Favorite Guests
This is the end of a nearly four year run of Occupy Radio, Occupiers, and this week, Rivera and I are looking back at some of the best shows from our two years of sharing the mic.
Oligarchy, wealth, and debt, Basic Income, and constructive programme. A residents bill of rights, our favorite Marxist, Richard Wolff, and some fun with one half of the Yes Men. You should find something to spark your interest on this week’s Occupy Radio.
Music: Calliope Dreams
Oligarchy: Jeffrey Winters
Dr. Jeffrey Winters, NorthWestern University
Professor (also Director, Equality Development and Globalization Studies [EDGS] Program)
Democracy and Oilgarchy
Supreme Court protects wealth
The Wealth primary removes the vote from people without wealth
America’s Wealth Power Index
Dr. Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University
http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/jeffrey-winters.html
Excellent article describing America's dual democracy/oligarchy http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2011/09/28/oligarchy-and-democracy/
Oligarchy, textbook written by Jeffrey Winters http://www.amazon.com/Oligarchy-Jeffrey-A-Winters/dp/0521182980
Santa Fe
Residents’ Bill of Rights w/ Tomas Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective
Chainbreaker Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1503657019886219.1073741829.1503649673220287&
http://chainbreaker.org/chainbreaker-members-launch-residents-bill-of-rights-campaign/
http://chainbreaker.org/city-council-to-vote-on-bill-of-rights-resolution-this-wednesday/
City of Santa Fe Residents Bill of Rights (pdf)
http://www.santafenm.gov/media/archive_center/2r___207.pdf
Santa Fe Resident's Bill of Rights Launch (facebook photo album)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1503657019886219.1073741829.1503649673220287&
Constructive Program
w/ Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook of the Metta Center for Nonviolence.
The Metta Center for Nonviolence
Strike Debt
Filmmaker, organizer with the debt collective
Debt Collective
Collective Strategy
Free education is not a utopian concept, the US is relatively unusual for not having it
How Far to free
How to join the debt collective
Corinthian Case
Aggressive tactics
Hollie Chaffee: One of the original Corinthian Fifteen
Rolling Jubilee: http://rollingjubilee.org/
Strike Debt: http://strikedebt.org/
Hidden Driver, Laura Hanna's site: http://www.hiddendriver.com/
Project on Student Debt: http://projectonstudentdebt.org/
State by State Data: http://projectonstudentdebt.org/state_by_state-data.php
Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is the author of 99 to 1, and numerous other books and essays.
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us
http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
Chuck Collins: Have we hit peak wealth inequality?
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/02/have-we-hit-peak-wealth-inequality
Chuck Collins at Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.ips-dc.org/authors/chuck-collins/
Music: Beirut Surveillance
Scott Santens
Writer, Basic Income advocate
Moderator Basic income Subreddit
Defining Universal Basic Income
How to Pay for UBI
This is a breakdown of UBI vs NIT.
Richard Wolff
Host of the radio podcast, Economic Update
Democracy at Work http://www.democracyatwork.info/
Richard's Radio show: Economic Update http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/
Economic Update's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgaRiRDqE4wSolPkQ7k4FgQ
"Socialism and Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises"http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/wolff140914.html
Uberally
Mike Bonanno of the Yes! Men.
The Yes Men: http://theyesmen.org/
The Yes Men's latest hijinks: http://theyesmen.org/hijinks
The Action Switchboard: https://actionswitchboard.net/
Music: Turtle Neck Tea Party
