Many people form the 99% group feel that they just have enough money for a living. However, the top 1% are no different either. Many bankers experienced a reduce bonus for 2011 and they feel that they are trapped financially too. The amount of money they are bringing in is not enough for them to keep up with their current lifestyle.

“Schiff, (director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc.) 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.”

“M. Todd Henderson, a University of Chicago law professor who’s teaching a seminar on executive compensation, said the suffering is relative and real. He wrote two years ago that his family was “just getting by” on more than $250,000 a year, setting off what he called a firestorm of criticism.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html

To The Diseent/ Rebellion group:

Do the last few paragraphs on teh second page give you any ideas?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/kristof-after-recess-change-the-world.html

Oddly enough, I heard this through media that isn’t considered “print.”

“If I want to spend money on a black and white relic,

I’ll buy the New York Times.“

– Stephen Colbert

This article, found (online, oddly enough) in the New York Times, shows how the Times is trying to deal with the technological changes that their paper is fighting – and the media, in general. Author Arthur S. Brisbane knows these issues just can’t be avoided anymore:

“The problem is part of a much larger phenomenon. In the current environment, New York Times journalists are empowered to build their own personal following via social networks like Twitter and Facebook, while at the same time the wider audience can use blogs and curation sites to pull content away from The Times.”

This article has a few examples of good ideas to fix this problem – in terms of the papers themselves, at least. Check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/many-voices-but-still-one-times.html?ref=media

This is the article that Ned was talking about in class, and during our group discussion.

This is actually pretty incredible – Philadelphia will apparently be the first major city in America to not have a daily, print newspaper. The media is all about business now, check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/opinion/philadelphia-newspapers-are-a-target.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=philadelphia%20media&st=cse

I am surprised that this case is not receiving more publicity. The 1st Amendment is one of the most important amendments in the Constitution, and yet this is a back story on Yahoo News.

http://news.yahoo.com/penn-judge-muslims-allowed-attack-people-insulting-mohammad-210000330.html

On Tuesday, Nightline aired a special episode where Bill Weir got an inside tour of the Apple Factory in China. He talked about the people who work there and what their working conditions were like.

Click the link below to watch the Nightline episode: http://abcnews.go.com/watch/nightline/SH5584743/VD55173552/nightline-221-apples-chinese-factories-exclusive

Link to the article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/trip-ifactory-nightline-unprecedented-glimpse-inside-apples-chinese/story?id=15748745#.T0lbEHaDDX4

Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest

The Occupy Movement, originating at Wall Street, but spreading rapidly across the country and the globe, represents an important moment in the history of political protest.  It captured public imagination and shifted the terrain of political discourse. This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the strategies of the Occupy Movement to reclaim space, interrogate contemporary economic policy, rally the “99%” and rethink the meaning of democracy. The speakers will examine how the Occupy Movement may or may not be a lens to explore freedom as a democratic, anti-capitalist, nonhierarchical, feminist, and anti-racist practice. With Radhika Balakrishnan, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers; Helena Ribeiro, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY; and Ken Wark, Culture and Media, The New School. Moderated by Moustafa Bayoumi, English, Brooklyn College.

Feb 27, 2012, 6:00pm | The Skylight Room (9100)

Bring student ID

Iran’s restrictive policies could further tensions with the United States

Iran blocking 30 million from email, Web ahead of election 

http://occupyblues.blogspot.com/

“There’s a lot of messed up things in this world that are interrelated. Our oppression is linked to the dominion of a handful, and that’s why we occupy. When we bring together our bodies and minds, when we share knowledge and face injustice together, we realize pure power and also important, the fact that the system doesn’t control us or our lives; we realize that the system is imaginary, and that we, the people, are real and powerful.”

This is a blog about the Occupy Wall Street Movement, written by my friend Nino Rekhviashvili. She is a student at Barnard class of 2014. She is very friendly and passionate about this so if you want to know more shoot her an e-mail and tell her you know me, she would be happy to talk to you guys and/or debate these issues!