A recent Truthout.org article called "Beyond Scarcity: Reinventing Wealth in a Progressive Society" shares different perspectives of wealth.
The article points out different definitions and understandings of wealth -
"Wealth is Well-being
Wealth is seen as the well-being of individuals, society and the earth. Wealth is already present in nature; it is not "created." Clean air and water, strong communities and fertile soils are inherently valuable because our well-being depends on them - independent of markets.
In this view, to "do good" is a form of wealth preservation. We can see this with a form of common wealth that we all depend upon - the air we breathe. The logic works like this:
1. Wealth is anything that creates well-being.
2. Clean air increases well-being, so it is a form of wealth.
3. Dirtying the air reduces well-being, so it is a loss of wealth.
4. Keeping the air clean is preserving wealth.
Put another way, as progressives we recognize that even the hardest working person will starve if there is no food. Conversely, we believe that the Good Life is about more than money (beautifully depicted in this video by Free Range Studios)."
Here's the video - which narrates the classic story I heard first from my first spiritual teacher Swami Muktananda.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Green Stimulus Package - details from Green Dig!
Karl Burkhart creator of the excellent blog "Green Dig" -outlines some of the high points of his article on MNN - "The Green Stimulus Package Decoded"
* The Department of Energy’s appropriation jumps dramatically upward, from a typical $2 billion annual budget for EERE (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) to $14.4 billion. With this increased funding comes a dramatic shift in DOE operations. Normally, that $2 billion is used mostly to cover R&D. No money goes out for implementation except for a few grants. Now the DOE will distribute the money to grant applicants directly, adding their decades of expertise to on-the-ground implementation.
* Finally the restrictive $2000 cap was removed from an existing law that provides a 30 percent tax rebate for building owners installing solar systems. The cap made the bill almost irrelevant, and lifting it is expected to dramatically spur adoption of solar. It also is broadened to include other systems like geothermal.
* $7 billion will go directly to upgrading and retrofitting federal buildings to higher levels of water and energy efficiency. This is geared towards rapidly creating green jobs.
* $6.5 billion will go into revamping the nation’s energy grid. Right now the U.S. is a 21st century civilization powered by an early 20th century electrical grid (metaphorically it’s a bit like having our freeway system paved in dirt). This appropriation will upgrade the grid to allow the expansion of intermittent power sources like solar and wind, though there are some skeptics.
* $22 billion in tax breaks spread over 10 years (not counting accelerated depreciations) will give companies an incentive to implement EERE.
* $60 billion in load guarantees will be run out of DOE backing the expansion of new energy companies. The federal government becomes 10 percent backer of the loan, providing a reduced interest rate, much like a T-bill. Some of this will go to emergent technologies like nuclear and cellulosic biomass and, yes, “clean coal.”
* $4.2 billion for block grants for EERE inside the DOE’s $14.4 billion. Half of this money, $2.1 billion, will go right to the states for community development awarded based on population and will include local and tribal government projects (casinos excluded!). The other half will be competitively awarded, with priority given to projects that incorporate energy efficiency and include broad coalitions, such as groups of cities.
* Ways & Means repaired another tax problem that prohibited taking the renewable energy tax credit if other sources of funding, like county financing, were received. Congressman Mike Thompson succeeded in spearheading he reversal of this IRS ruling.
There are some additional moneys coming down the pipeline, most notably…
* The Clean Counties Grant Program. Here NOCa was highly effective working with decision makers on the Hill to incorporate a special program inside the upcoming Energy Bill (not part of the Recovery Bill). The grant program is a huge victory in breaking down the barriers between technologies. Normally, if an applicant wanted to do both solar and water conservation, they would have to apply twice to two different entities. Now the grant will no longer be segmented by technology, but rather be fundable as an integrated whole.
* $3.2 billion for qualified environmental conservation bonds awarded at the county level based on population.
* Senator Waxman is hard at work on a Clean Air Bill that is expected to come up for a vote in the Spring. Details are not yet available, but it is widely expected that a cap & trade system will be put in place, allowing renewable energy producers to raise additional funds by selling carbon credits to manufacturers who will now be subject to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions.
* The Department of Energy’s appropriation jumps dramatically upward, from a typical $2 billion annual budget for EERE (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) to $14.4 billion. With this increased funding comes a dramatic shift in DOE operations. Normally, that $2 billion is used mostly to cover R&D. No money goes out for implementation except for a few grants. Now the DOE will distribute the money to grant applicants directly, adding their decades of expertise to on-the-ground implementation.
* Finally the restrictive $2000 cap was removed from an existing law that provides a 30 percent tax rebate for building owners installing solar systems. The cap made the bill almost irrelevant, and lifting it is expected to dramatically spur adoption of solar. It also is broadened to include other systems like geothermal.
* $7 billion will go directly to upgrading and retrofitting federal buildings to higher levels of water and energy efficiency. This is geared towards rapidly creating green jobs.
* $6.5 billion will go into revamping the nation’s energy grid. Right now the U.S. is a 21st century civilization powered by an early 20th century electrical grid (metaphorically it’s a bit like having our freeway system paved in dirt). This appropriation will upgrade the grid to allow the expansion of intermittent power sources like solar and wind, though there are some skeptics.
* $22 billion in tax breaks spread over 10 years (not counting accelerated depreciations) will give companies an incentive to implement EERE.
* $60 billion in load guarantees will be run out of DOE backing the expansion of new energy companies. The federal government becomes 10 percent backer of the loan, providing a reduced interest rate, much like a T-bill. Some of this will go to emergent technologies like nuclear and cellulosic biomass and, yes, “clean coal.”
* $4.2 billion for block grants for EERE inside the DOE’s $14.4 billion. Half of this money, $2.1 billion, will go right to the states for community development awarded based on population and will include local and tribal government projects (casinos excluded!). The other half will be competitively awarded, with priority given to projects that incorporate energy efficiency and include broad coalitions, such as groups of cities.
* Ways & Means repaired another tax problem that prohibited taking the renewable energy tax credit if other sources of funding, like county financing, were received. Congressman Mike Thompson succeeded in spearheading he reversal of this IRS ruling.
There are some additional moneys coming down the pipeline, most notably…
* The Clean Counties Grant Program. Here NOCa was highly effective working with decision makers on the Hill to incorporate a special program inside the upcoming Energy Bill (not part of the Recovery Bill). The grant program is a huge victory in breaking down the barriers between technologies. Normally, if an applicant wanted to do both solar and water conservation, they would have to apply twice to two different entities. Now the grant will no longer be segmented by technology, but rather be fundable as an integrated whole.
* $3.2 billion for qualified environmental conservation bonds awarded at the county level based on population.
* Senator Waxman is hard at work on a Clean Air Bill that is expected to come up for a vote in the Spring. Details are not yet available, but it is widely expected that a cap & trade system will be put in place, allowing renewable energy producers to raise additional funds by selling carbon credits to manufacturers who will now be subject to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
The problem with single issue movements - ECONOMICS
Wendell Berry wrote this article in Resurgence Magazine on the shortcomings of single issue movements a number of years ago - yet it applies.
"Essay : In Distrust of Movements by Wendell Berry
The movements which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place."
In it he describes some of the core challenges to any single issue movement...
He lays out some conditions:
"... My first condition is that this movement should begin by giving up all hope and belief in piecemeal, one-shot solutions...
My second condition is that the people in this movement (the mtewiid) should take full responsibility for themselves as members of the economy.
...My third condition is that this movement should content itself to be poor. We need to find cheap solutions, solutions within the reach of everybody, and the availability of a lot of money prevents the discovery of cheap solutions...."
And I especially like his comments in support of local economy:
"If it is unreasonable to expect a bad economy to try to become a good one, then we must go to work to build a good economy. It is appropriate that this duty should fall to us, for good economic behaviour is more possible for us than it is for the great corporations with their miseducated managers and their greedy and oblivious stockholders. Because it is possible for us, we must try in every way we can to make good economic sense in our own lives, in our households, and in our communities. We must do more for ourselves and our neighbours. We must learn to spend our money with our friends and not with our enemies. But to do this it is necessary to renew local economies and revive the domestic arts."
Bottom line - the entire article is worth the read.
"Essay : In Distrust of Movements by Wendell Berry
The movements which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place."
In it he describes some of the core challenges to any single issue movement...
He lays out some conditions:
"... My first condition is that this movement should begin by giving up all hope and belief in piecemeal, one-shot solutions...
My second condition is that the people in this movement (the mtewiid) should take full responsibility for themselves as members of the economy.
...My third condition is that this movement should content itself to be poor. We need to find cheap solutions, solutions within the reach of everybody, and the availability of a lot of money prevents the discovery of cheap solutions...."
And I especially like his comments in support of local economy:
"If it is unreasonable to expect a bad economy to try to become a good one, then we must go to work to build a good economy. It is appropriate that this duty should fall to us, for good economic behaviour is more possible for us than it is for the great corporations with their miseducated managers and their greedy and oblivious stockholders. Because it is possible for us, we must try in every way we can to make good economic sense in our own lives, in our households, and in our communities. We must do more for ourselves and our neighbours. We must learn to spend our money with our friends and not with our enemies. But to do this it is necessary to renew local economies and revive the domestic arts."
Bottom line - the entire article is worth the read.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Report "High Road or Low Road - Job Quality in the Green Economy"
A report analyzing job quality in the new green economy.
The report outlines the challenges and opportunities faced in uniting labor interests and environmental stewardship. There is an opportunity in creating jobs that are good paying and improve quality of life and environmental performance.
"There is a significant ray of hope amid the current economic gloom: it goes by the name of green jobs. ACer several years of calls by advocacy groups for major public investments in a clean-energy revolution, the federal government now appears ready to include large sums for projects involving renewable energy, mass transit, energy efficiency and modernization of the nation’s electrical grid in the massive economic recovery and reinvestment plan being devised by Congress."
The report outlines the challenges and opportunities faced in uniting labor interests and environmental stewardship. There is an opportunity in creating jobs that are good paying and improve quality of life and environmental performance.
"There is a significant ray of hope amid the current economic gloom: it goes by the name of green jobs. ACer several years of calls by advocacy groups for major public investments in a clean-energy revolution, the federal government now appears ready to include large sums for projects involving renewable energy, mass transit, energy efficiency and modernization of the nation’s electrical grid in the massive economic recovery and reinvestment plan being devised by Congress."
Sunday, February 01, 2009
"Agenda for a New Economy From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth"
I'm looking forward to getting David Korten's New Book - "Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it – including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess – do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It’s like treating cancer with band aids. And the financial collapse now in the public spotlight is only the tip of the iceberg. The system’s social and environmental failures may ultimately be even more destructive."
"Korten identifies the deeper sources of the failure: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating phantom “wealth” without producing anything of real value. Its major players engage in speculative trading, buy into asset bubbles, create debt pyramids, and engage in predatory lending practices. Their seeming success created an economic mirage that led us to believe the economy was expanding exponentially, even as our economic, social, and natural capital eroded and most people struggled ever harder to make ends meet."
What others are saying about Agenda for a New Economy
The story behind the book
Our hope lies not with Wall Street, Korten argues, but with Main Street, which creates real wealth from real resources to meet real needs. He outlines an agenda to liberate the latent entrepreneurial energies of Main Street from Wall Street’s deadly grip and bring into being a new economy—locally based, community-oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all, not simply increasing profits. It will require courageous and imaginative changes to how we measure economic success, organize our financial system, even the very way we create money. Korten outlines a challenging, but practical agenda summarized at the end of the book in his version of the economic address to the nation he wishes Barak Obama were able to deliver.
Korten’s intention is not to offer final answers, but rather to provoke discussion of options that powerful interests prefer not be mentioned. These interests devised the system that has brought us to the brink of ruin. It’s time to turn away from the Wall Street system of phantom wealth and return to an economy firmly rooted in the long-term health of people and the planet.
Contents
Preface
Friday, January 30, 2009
Gort Cloud - New book: building businesses through the network....
Here's the highlights from the book's website:
Looks interesting!
"Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed over two dozen "ecopreneurs" from a broad range of industries - home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage, energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experience of leaders such as Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons of Dr. Bronner, as well as other green experts, are a rich source of wisdom for green businesses getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance."
"The result of these interviews is the discovery of "The Gort Cloud" - a term coined by the author that describes the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs, trendspotters, advocacy groups, social networks, business alliances, certifying organizations, and other members of the green community that have the power to make or break new green brands."
"Integrating The Gort Cloud into brand development and marketing strategies is critical to the success of any aspiring green brand. This "green community" can supply technical assistance, venture capital, the first line of core customers, and tremendous "echo effect" in getting the word out quickly and inexpensively."
"Creating a cause, building credibility, developing a simple and compelling message, identifying core customers and sales channels, deftly playing the green alternative media, and fending off second-to-market competitors are all required to build a green brand. How these skills are put into practice will vary for each business, but Seireeni's research points toward a set of shared characteristics and basic tenets that every business can use to build a credible and successful green brand."
Image from website as well.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Corporate Responsibility as Innovation Engine
CSR is increasingly driving corporations to change - and innovate!
I found it of interest that Stanford Social Innovation Review posted this on their site.
I found it of interest that Stanford Social Innovation Review posted this on their site.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A letter to Obama... from a visionary.
I couldn't agree more!
From a visionary and true supporter of brilliance - wherever it lives...Duke Stump:
"Dear Mr. President
Kudos!
Your emergence as President of the US has given new meaning for living the extraordinary. Stoked you made it. Now the hard part - igniting a nation to focus on what could be versus what is.
I know your busy, but I simply wanted to offer up five quick thoughts for you to consider as you continue to build out your green team:
1. Call it Team Humanity and awaken us to the real essence of the green movement
2. Adopt Life’s Principles to inform your strategy
* Build from the bottom up
* Self-assemble
* Optimize rather than maximize
* Use free energy, cross-pollinate
* Embrace diversity
* Adapt and evolve
* Use life-friendly materials and processes
* Engage in symbiotic relationships
* Enhance the bio-sphere
3. Develop a Northstar (i.e. vision) for 2020 in a way that we are incredibly inspired and greatly empowered because we see our place and our contribution in the journey.
4. Break the rules that bind. Add an Anthropologist, Biologist, Humanist and representation from Gen Y (affectionately referred to as Generation WE) to the team.
5. Cite Buckminster Fuller frequently and often so that his teachings and principles will be optimized.
Good luck!
Live, love & laugh,
Duke
PS. I think it would be great if you built a local CSA farm on the White House lawn. Cool?"
Social Investment Forum's recommendations for Obama
The trade association of which I am a member "Social Investment Forum" has made a list of recommendations for the Obama administration as to corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investing.
The recommendations are part of a larger document and the basic points are here:
"The socially responsible investment community urges the Obama Administration to:
• Establish clear parameters and effective regulations for the financial system and
stimulate transparent assessment of financial as well as environmental, social, and good governance factors;
• Enhance access to the corporate proxy ballot so that long-term shareholders have a say in the nomination of corporate directors and in protecting shareholder value;
• Support corporate responsibility or sustainability reporting by public companies;
• Restate the consensus view that fiduciary duty may compel fiduciaries to consider
environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors;
• Assert global leadership in combating climate change, including through tax incentives and significant public investments in clean energy technology, energy efficiency, and green collar jobs and training;
• Take a critical look at lending policies and create more accountability in the lending marketplace;
• Create more opportunities for financially struggling homeowners to restructure their mortgages, helping them stay in their homes and out of foreclosure;
• Endorse legislation that provides for socially responsible investing options in the federal government’s retirement plan;
• Create an Office for Innovation in Corporate Social Responsibility to enhance and
coordinate interagency CSR activities, allowing the federal government to become a
state-of-the-art leader in CSR across its vast domestic and international arenas of
influence."
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Resilient Cities...
This an excellent presentation full of information for the renewing of our cities in teh face of peak oil, climate change, economic crisis.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Terra TRC - A white paper on a very sophisticated alternative currency
This White Paper is right on track - as it is the essence of the vision of Terra TRC developed by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne, who are some of the visionaries behind this innovative currency.
Here's what they write on their website to articulate the essence of their Terra TRC strategy:
"The Trade Reference Currency (TRC) TM is a new currency privately issued by the TRC Alliance, with a built-in circulation incentive that could play a significant role in getting the world out of recession. Its unit of account is the Terra. It would systematically stabilize the effects on the business cycle and re-align financial interests with long-term sustainability."
"Without the Terra
"The experience for Business in particular is:
"More expensive and riskier international activities
Deeper and longer recessions worldwide
Non-standardized and expensive counter-trade deals
Irresolvable conflict between the short-term financial demands of their shareholders and long-term sustainability
Massive losses of jobs"
Here's what they write on their website to articulate the essence of their Terra TRC strategy:
"The Trade Reference Currency (TRC) TM is a new currency privately issued by the TRC Alliance, with a built-in circulation incentive that could play a significant role in getting the world out of recession. Its unit of account is the Terra. It would systematically stabilize the effects on the business cycle and re-align financial interests with long-term sustainability."
"Without the Terra
"The experience for Business in particular is:
"More expensive and riskier international activities
Deeper and longer recessions worldwide
Non-standardized and expensive counter-trade deals
Irresolvable conflict between the short-term financial demands of their shareholders and long-term sustainability
Massive losses of jobs"
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Secrets of Collaborative Leadership - an article by Andy Manle
My friend Andy Manle wrote this piece on Arcwire.com based on an event that I attended.
Sustainable Consumption report
Since a majority of our economy is driven by the consumer - how do we maintain economic growth in the old paradigm and not consume our planet's resources to nothing?
Hmmm... something to consider.
Download this report which discusses the issues of "Sustainable Consumption - Facts and Trends"
Hmmm... something to consider.
Download this report which discusses the issues of "Sustainable Consumption - Facts and Trends"
Monday, January 05, 2009
Los Angeles: The History of the Future = from the visionary behind Ithaca Hours
Many people may not be aware that years ago in the eighties the Paul Glover - the creator of the well known complementary currency, Ithaca Hours and Ithaca Hours Online, was an activist in Los Angeles!
He was instrumental in creating "Citizen Planners of Los Angeles." It looks like he was very much ahead of his time with his vision "Los Angeles: A history of the Future"
His website states:
"Los Angeles has four awesome powers:
- There is such potent soil under the pavement that this county was the greatest garden in the United States, the top food producer of all counties, between 1910 and 1950.
- The sun shines on this place 290 days yearly. A growing season 350 days long permits continuous harvest.
- Our ten million people can work together. Skins all shades of night and smoke, of soil and wood, of fire, seashells and sand cluster and mix on the plain. We resent and love and hurt and help each other. We are magnificent.
- Water under this desert gives half the amount now used countywide. The ocean desalted is an endless supply.
How do we begin to employ these strengths to create a fruitful, self-reliant city, a sensual city worthy of excellent people and land? How do we prove the region's resources can sustain us?
The first work of citizen planners would be to redesign Los Angeles as boldly as government and industry do: to plan transformations with solar technology and orchards like commerce plans with highways and realty. We would plan broadly enough to coordinate regional use of our resources and flexibly enough to rely on initiatives by individuals and neighborhoods."
I agree!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Twitter Democracy = Mobilize.org
I have been thinking for a while about making a project to rewrite the Constitution and Bill of Rights to be relevant to our time together in this country today.
Naturally the heart and spirit of the documents are vital and present, I believe that engaging citizens in the process on a wiki page will invite deep and thoughtful civic engagement.
I posted my thoughts on twitter about 10 days ago: "Rewrite wikipedia style - Constitution 2.0? Bill of Rights 2.0?"
And on Twitter - godemocracy just started following me and on their tweets I found out about a group working along the same lines with people 12-32 years old:
From their website:
"Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We work to show young people how public policy impacts our lives, and more importantly – how we can impact public policy
"Our Theory of Change "
"Our theory of change starts with the individual citizen identifying problems at the local, state and national levels. Once problems are identified, citizens must engage in conversations searching for innovative solutions to the problems they have identified. Mobilize.org seeks to take the individual actor past the deliberation stage, enabling members of the Millennial Generation to implement their solutions. Through the success of citizen-generated initiatives, Mobilize.org's end goal is to institutionalize citizen-generated solutions as a staple of American governance at all levels."
"...With over 220 Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneurs on college and high school campuses and in communities across the country, Entrepreneurs organize around issues that are important to their local community."
Naturally the heart and spirit of the documents are vital and present, I believe that engaging citizens in the process on a wiki page will invite deep and thoughtful civic engagement.
I posted my thoughts on twitter about 10 days ago: "Rewrite wikipedia style - Constitution 2.0? Bill of Rights 2.0?"
And on Twitter - godemocracy just started following me and on their tweets I found out about a group working along the same lines with people 12-32 years old:
From their website:
"Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We work to show young people how public policy impacts our lives, and more importantly – how we can impact public policy
"Our Theory of Change "
"Our theory of change starts with the individual citizen identifying problems at the local, state and national levels. Once problems are identified, citizens must engage in conversations searching for innovative solutions to the problems they have identified. Mobilize.org seeks to take the individual actor past the deliberation stage, enabling members of the Millennial Generation to implement their solutions. Through the success of citizen-generated initiatives, Mobilize.org's end goal is to institutionalize citizen-generated solutions as a staple of American governance at all levels."
"...With over 220 Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneurs on college and high school campuses and in communities across the country, Entrepreneurs organize around issues that are important to their local community."
"This is what democracy smells like" - students protest and demand SRI - in "1960's version 2.0"
A recent article in cited a student protest where students of "New School" in NYC where students occupied a university building and demanded the school's president quit over a number of issues.
The protest ended this week:
An article states: "Kerrey also agreed to allow students the use of the Fifth Ave. building, 'until a suitable replacement is secured and instituted, which would include the reinstallment of suitable library and study space.' The school president also agreed to provide new library space in The New School’s Arnold Hall and 7,000 square feet of quiet study space in the school’s Sheila Jackson Galleries by the end of the spring semester.
The six-point document also granted student participation in establishing a committee for socially responsible investing; gave the University Student Senate 'the ability to communicate with the student body freely' — something they said they had previously not been allowed — and granted access for a student senate representative to attend meetings of the school’s board of trustees.
'We weren’t being radical, we were being reasonable,' Emmad explained. 'We were simply trying to defend our school.'
As 4 a.m. approached, the ebullient crowd walked to Union Square. After two nights and a day inside the cafeteria, one participant, riffing on a chant from earlier in the day, said, 'This is what democracy smells like.' Then someone turned on a boom box and students began dancing.
After a peaceful climax to 32 hours of occupation, it seemed like the dawn of the 1960s Version 2.0."
The protest ended this week:
An article states: "Kerrey also agreed to allow students the use of the Fifth Ave. building, 'until a suitable replacement is secured and instituted, which would include the reinstallment of suitable library and study space.' The school president also agreed to provide new library space in The New School’s Arnold Hall and 7,000 square feet of quiet study space in the school’s Sheila Jackson Galleries by the end of the spring semester.
The six-point document also granted student participation in establishing a committee for socially responsible investing; gave the University Student Senate 'the ability to communicate with the student body freely' — something they said they had previously not been allowed — and granted access for a student senate representative to attend meetings of the school’s board of trustees.
'We weren’t being radical, we were being reasonable,' Emmad explained. 'We were simply trying to defend our school.'
As 4 a.m. approached, the ebullient crowd walked to Union Square. After two nights and a day inside the cafeteria, one participant, riffing on a chant from earlier in the day, said, 'This is what democracy smells like.' Then someone turned on a boom box and students began dancing.
After a peaceful climax to 32 hours of occupation, it seemed like the dawn of the 1960s Version 2.0."
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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