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From Yale Daily News: Contrasting Opinions on Occupy New Haven

The Yale Daily News has been covering the Occupy New Haven movement in the past week or so… illustrating that #Occupy Movement is very much still a contentious issue here on the Yale campus.

1. The YDN initiation

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The Whale Hunt

The Whale Hunt

Photographer Jonathan Harris charts a traditional Inupiat Eskimo whale hunt.  One community, two bowhead whales, 3,214 incredible photographs. See the full story or highlights.

 

 

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The World’s Craziet Bike Racks

The World’s Craziet Bike Racks

In which The Atlantic Cities looks into the problem of bike storage in booming urban centers.…

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David Graeber: “On Playing By the Rules – The Strange Success of Occupy Wall Street” life

“The social scientist in me has to ask: Why? Why now? Why did it actually work?”

David Graeber posted this worthwhile piece this morning at nakedcapitalism.com. Albeit rambling and informally off-the-cuff (perhaps rightly so) Graeber’s commentary fires on more …

by × October 19, 2011 × 6 comments

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Commentary: “Don’t Confuse the Complexity of this Movement with Chaos”

 

I went down to Occupy Wall Street last night on my own.

I heard it before I saw it: drums, voices, general hubbub. First I walked the perimeter, talking pictures of the protesters standing tall with signs in hand, …

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Occupy Against Big Corporate Food – October 29th

Occupy Against Big Corporate Food – October 29th

In the context of expanding the movement and its criticisms to address environmental issues and other types of inequity…

Organzations at Yale such the Coalition for Agriculture, Food & the Environment; Environmental Justice @ Yale; and The Yale Sustainable Food …

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