Sunlight has dropped three points since the autumnal equinox, and conservative analysts predict a steady fall until the beginning of the next financial year. Prana and orgone have increased steadily in the same period, whilst chi continues to fall with the exception of kidney chi, which remained static. The sharp […]
Over the past year there has been a resurgence in body-hair activism and discussion within the feminist community. From the appearance of Those Pesky Dames – a video-blogging collective – on Cherry Healey’s ‘How to Get a Life’ on BBC3, to Emer O’Toole’s spot on This Morning, to the Armpits4August […]
From a right-wing perspective, copyright is an unnecessary and unwarranted intrusion of government power on individual liberty. According to the US constitution, the ostensible power for Congress to issue laws on copyright is “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and […]
Scientific research is a dynamic system for creating new ideas. Researchers develop ideas, test them and publish the results, allowing others to build on them. Now imagine that scientists could claim ownership to formulas, such as E=mc2, requiring future researchers to pay royalties to use them. This would put a […]
The Twelve Days of Crisis On the twelfth day of crisis, The system gave to me Twelve councils cutting, Eleven bubbles bursting Ten states a-failing, Nine markets crashing, Eight corps a-voiding, Seven seas a-rising, Six hacks a-hacking, Five racist cops, Four bailed out banks, Three student loans, Two part time […]
In 1994 the rallying cry for land and freedom that sparked the Zapatista rebellion echoed across the globe and landed on the front page of the The New York Times, which hailed it as the “first postmodern Latin American revolution”. Nineteen years down the line the corporate media seems to […]
Intellectual Property laws are immensely controversial in their effects, which range from everyday restriction of free expression through abuse of copyright, to the abuse of patent law, rigged mobile phone markets and the denial of medicines to people in the majority world. The term Intellectual Property was deliberately chosen and promoted by […]
Community The digital commons is about freedom, sharing, and creating community. Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has been less geographical: people gather to share common concerns regardless of physical location, although geographical concerns are certainly one reason why people come together. The word “community” is […]
‘Operation Pillar of Defense’, the latest sustained Israeli assault on Gaza with a headline-hitting name, lasted for eight days. The bombing from land, sea and air lasted from 14-21 November and killed 158 Palestinians, of which 103 were civilians (including 30 children). Meanwhile, six Israelis were killed by Palestinian factions. Israel […]
The OT talked to Rebecca Solnit, author of ‘A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster’, about Hurricane Sandy and the Occupy Sandy response. The Occupied Times: After Hurricane Sandy, Occupy activists have been amongst the first to rush in with aid and support – it […]