November 2011
October 2011
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How to Occupy Shabbat in your community
occupyjudaism:
Photo of the first Shabbat potluck at Occupy Wall Street
Want to Occupy Shabbat in your community? Here’s how to get started!
Start planning a week in advance.
Decide whether you want to do Kabbalat Shabbat and a potluck dinner, or just a potluck dinner.
Check in with your local occupation’s relevant working groups to make sure you won’t be creating a disturbance and find a...
Are Occupy Wall Street Protesters Their Own Worst... →
This “drug problem” is especially evident in a line of tarps along the Northwestern edge of the encampment that some refer to as “skid row.” Pointing in its direction from the street, a uniform cop tells a bystander, “most of the problems come from this area.” Weaving through the section on Tuesday night, zonked-looking faces were all around. But I was still surprised when a longhaired skel...
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"I hope the weekend's weird weather didn't effect...
Email icebreakers from IT staffing agency.
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Boredom at Its Retiredest: The Final Post →
Maybe it seemed irrational at the time, but it sure doesn’t now. Last weekend, in the Central Maryland landscape where we were both raised, Holly and I had a Quaker wedding ceremony in the neighbor’s horse field next to her family’s massive barn. After that truly magical service, which brought tears to my eyes without the aid of musical accompaniment, over 300 friends and family members...
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I hate you Internet for making me Google "Courtney...
Help #OWS survive the winter
mobius1ski:
Occupy Wall Street needs your help to survive through the cold weather. If you’re in the area, please bring these items by the Comfort area. If you’re not and would still like to help, you can ship items to:
Occupy Wall Street 118A Fulton St. Box 205 New York, NY 10038
Occupy Wall Street Winter needs
insulated gloves, wool hats, scarves
long underwear / smart wool thermal socks
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"A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like... →
Someone wrote that. And the NYT published it.
"What happened to Takesha Griffin is something... →
A Brooklyn woman who was shot in the leg and then detained for five days by NYPD officers who demanded that she confess her shooter’s identity is now suing the city.
Takesha Griffin, 35, of Brownsville, announced Thursday with her attorney Sanford Rubenstein that she plans to sue the city for $5 million for her ordeal, during which she was left handcuffed and helpless, urinating and...
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Because words have meaning...
endasher:
Dear Internet Discourse,
Surely, you didn’t really mean to call the Ralph Lauren-clad man, or phenomenon, or epiphenomenonal formation known as The Hipster Cop “The Hipster Cop,” right? While there is a certain irony in the term “hipster”—i still use hepcat myself, but whatever—coming to simply mean “a male human being with something of an aesthetic sense,” I believe the far more...
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WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE? →
Recommended: the personal blog of photographer Glen E. Friedman.
(In case you didn’t know, he’s worked with Fugazi, Black Flag, Ice-T, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Misfits, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, KRS-1, Public Enemy, skateboarders Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta, among others.)
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Scroll Up! Bushwick-Based Mini-Startup Scores $222... →
The pair are roommates and work at standing desks on the mezzanine of their sunny Brooklyn apartment. Music is prohibited; Ms. Ray prefers to work with her headphones plugged in but no music playing, she told Betabeat, in order to feel connected to her computer.
Jesus fucking Christ. The Loutallica album isn’t that bad.
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WatchYM’s Eli Valley talks about his Halloween comic for the Forward, Never Miss an Opportunity. He’s Jewish, if you can’t tell.
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Watchtylercoates:
stryker:
haikuforthesinglegirl:
Check out Haiku for the Single Girl’s animated trailer, featured today on Cup of Jo!!! (Brilliant animation by Dan Meth.)
YAY BETH. Come to Powerhouse Arena tonight at 7:00 to pick up a copy of her TOME. I will be reading a haiku about thumb rings.
SO EXCITED! I will also be reading a haiku about Halloween, which is SEASONALLY APPROPRIATE.
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Which Bank Is the Worst? →
newsweek:
cheatsheet:
We’ve outlined the seven deadliest sins of the big banks. Read them here, and then tell us which one you think is the worst.
1. JPMorgan Chase kicks 54 military families out of their homes—despite a law against doing so.
2. Wells Fargo gives bonuses to loan officers to put minority borrowers into high-priced subprime mortgages—internally dubbed “ghetto loans.”
3....
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I thought if I had written “Joan Didion Is Big... →
Whatta town!
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Fuck the FDIC →
Wondering about the origins of Occupy Wall Street? It’s right here.
Actor Johnny Depp created a media firestorm this... →
Dear RAINN,
I am truly sorry for offending anyone in any way. I never meant to. It was a poor choice of words on my part in an effort to explain a feeling. I understand there is no comparison and I am very regretful. In an effort to correct my lack of judgment, please accept my heartfelt apology.
Sincerely, Johnny Depp
I wish more people would make these kinds of apologies.
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have... →
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Visit New York City: A Local's Guide To Fitting In →
Former Page Sixer Paula Froelich has self-published a guide to NYC because she “got sick of people NOT FOLLOWING RULES (because they didn’t know what they were).” It costs 99 cents on Amazon. You can’t beat that with an NYPD baton.
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Lego Robotics at Mosaic Preparatory Academy →
Introduce 3rd and 4th graders to the world of robotics! Volunteers will use Lego WeDo kits to build and program robots. Software and activity guides are provided. No experience is necessary. (Saturdays, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.: 6 volunteers; 6 session commitment through February)
Seriously, why aren’t you volunteering with NY Cares?
In Over The Transom
“Someone get De Niro on Kickstarter, stat.”
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