Tag Archives: re-humanizing

Planting the rainbow flag, and occupying the Water Street commons

By Mark | March 16, 2012

I’d wanted to share this image, taken a few days ago at the Occupy Water Street event, but I lacked the words to accompany it. Fortunately, however, I just stumbled across the following quote by Phil Rockstroh, which I think we do quite nicely. …When one attempts to stand against surging social and political tides, […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged commons, consumerism, corporate state, democratizing space, fighting back, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Phil Rockstroh, public space, Water Street | 9 Comments

Attend an urban gardening potluck, and avoid the cannibal holocaust

By Mark | January 4, 2010

Whenever I start to get a little too optimistic about the future, and I want to regain my foothold in the word of dystopian pessimism, I like to check in with author Jim Kunsler. Jim, for those of you who don’t know him, is the author of such books as The Long Emergency: Surviving the […]