License Exam: Community Practice

Community Practice

SWOT Analysis from Community Toolbox

Quit Smoking NOW: Smokefree.gov Resources

Smokefree.gov: Reasons for Quitting

Smokefree.gov: Smoking Triggers

Smokefree.gov: Putting a Stop to Smoky Thinking

Clearing the Air (2011) - Smokefree.gov's Online Guide to Quitting for all smokers interested in quitting

This booklet is designed to help you at any stage—whether you’re still thinking about quitting, have made the decision to quit, or have already taken steps to quit and just need help maintaining your new lifestyle. Both ex-smokers and experts have contributed to this guide. Clearing the Air can help people at all stages make it to their final goal—living smokefree. AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Forever Free™ (2011) for smokers who have recently quit

Congratulations! You’ve made the decision to stop smoking, and have taken real steps to quit. Now comes the next step: Staying smokefree. People who quit smoking initially fight to overcome their body’s addiction to the drug nicotine. But afterward, they still face challenges that can tempt them to smoke. Forever Free™ includes eight booklets that describe these challenges and ways to deal with them without smoking. Among the topics are controlling weight gain, dealing with stress, and what to do if you have that first cigarette. AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Forever Free for Baby and Me™ (2004) for pregnant smokers who have recently quit

Congratulations on quitting smoking! You have taken one of the most important health steps that a woman can take. The fact that you asked for Forever Free for Baby and Me means that you want to stay smokefree for you, your baby, and your family. You can succeed! Your commitment, along with the Forever Free for Baby and Me booklets, should increase your chance of success! AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Libres Para Siempre por mi Bebé y por Mí™(2004) para fumadoras embarazadas que han dejado de fumar recientemente

¡Felicidades por dejar de fumar! Usted ha dado uno de los pasos más importantes que una mujer puede dar. El hecho de haber pedido información sobre "Libres para siempre por mi bebé y por mí" significa que desea vivir sin fumar: por su bien, el de su bebé y el de su familia. ¡Puede lograrlo! ¡Ese compromiso y los folletos de "Libres para siempre por mi bebé y por mí" mejorarán sus probabilidades de éxito! AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Guía: Viva de forma más saludable para usted y su familia, deje de fumar hoy mismo (2011) para fumadores de habla hispana

El número de habitantes de habla hispana está aumentando rápidamente y, pronto, ellos llegarán a ser el segundo grupo étnico más grande en los Estados Unidos. Junto con este crecimiento, hay una necesidad mayor de materiales en español que podrían ayudar a la población de habla hispana a dejar de fumar y ha mantenerse así. Escritas para quienes piensan dejar de fumar o quienes ya han dejado de fumar, estas 44 páginas están llenas de fotos, dibujos llamativos y contenido que se basa en la cultura hispana. AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Pathways to Freedom for African American smokers
This guide was developed to address the national concern over the high rates of smoking among the African-American population. This updated edition (2003) offers proven strategies for anyone who wants to quit; how friends and family can help, and how the community and its leaders can promote the value of gaining freedom from tobacco. AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Smokeless Tobacco: A Guide for Quitting for young men who have decided to quit using spit tobacco
This booklet is designed specifically for young men who have decided to quit using spit tobacco or who are thinking about quitting. It includes reasons to quit, addresses myths about spit tobacco, and helps the reader develop a plan for quitting.

AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Fact Sheets and FAQs for smokers and non-smokers looking to learn about the impact of smoking
19 Fact Sheets and set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) providing information about cigarettes and other tobacco products, environmental tobacco smoke, and additional topics.  AVAILABLE AS PDF TO SAVE OR PRINT, TOO!

Smokefree Women: Smoking in Your State: Data View

Smokefree Women: Smoking in Your State: Data View

Smoking in Your State: Data View

State	Percentage of Adults That Smoke	Pack Price	Pack Price Rank	Smoking Percentage Rank	Work Ban?	Bar Ban?	Restaurant Ban?
United States	20.6	5.51	--	--	no	no	no
Alaska	20.6	7.01	8th	12th	no	no	no
Alabama	22.5	4.42	48th	7th	no	no	no
Arkansas	21.4	5.22	28th	11th	yes	no	no
Arizona	16.1	6.20	12th	40th	yes	yes	yes
California	12.8	5.09	29th	50th	yes	yes	yes
Colorado	17.0	4.88	32nd	35th	yes	yes	yes
Connecticut	15.4	7.31	5th	43rd	yes	yes	yes
Washington, DC	15.2	6.56	10th	45th	yes	yes	yes
Delaware	18.2	4.99	30th	23rd	yes	yes	yes
Florida	18.1	5.40	21st	24th	yes	no	yes
Georgia	17.6	4.44	46th	30th	no	no	no
Hawaii	15.3	7.56	3rd	44th	yes	yes	yes
Iowa	17.1	5.26	27th	34th	yes	yes	yes
Idaho	16.3	4.53	43rd	39th	no	no	yes
Illinois	18.5	5.57	18th	22nd	yes	yes	yes
Indiana	23.1	4.82	34th	5th	no	no	no
Kansas	17.8	4.72	36th	29th	yes	yes	yes
Kentucky	25.6	4.55	40th	1st	no	no	no
Louisiana	22.0	4.40	49th	10th	yes	no	yes
Massachusetts	14.9	7.04	7th	49th	yes	yes	yes
Maryland	15.1	6.11	13th	46th	yes	yes	yes
Maine	17.2	6.08	14th	32nd	yes	yes	yes
Michigan	19.6	6.04	15th	18th	yes	yes	yes
Minnesota	16.7	5.27	25th	37th	yes	yes	yes
Missouri	23.1	3.97	51st	6th	no	no	no
Mississippi	23.3	4.55	40st	4th	no	no	no
Montana	16.8	5.36	23rd	36th	yes	yes	yes
North Carolina	20.3	4.55	40nd	14th	no	yes	yes
North Dakota	18.6	4.14	50th	21st	yes	no	no
Nebraska	16.7	4.64	38th	38th	yes	yes	yes
New Hampshire	15.7	5.46	20th	42nd	yes	yes	yes
New Jersey	15.8	7.06	6th	41st	yes	yes	yes
New Mexico	17.9	5.79	16th	26th	yes	yes	yes
Nevada	22.0	4.95	31st	8th	yes	no	yes
New York	17.9	8.97	1st	25th	yes	yes	yes
Ohio	20.3	5.30	24th	13th	yes	yes	yes
Oklahoma	25.4	4.86	33rd	3rd	no	no	no
Oregon	17.8	4.76	35th	28th	yes	yes	yes
Pennsylvania	20.2	5.39	22nd	16th	yes	no	no
Rhode Island	15.0	7.63	2nd	47th	yes	yes	yes
South Carolina	20.3	4.49	44th	15th	no	no	no
South Dakota	17.4	5.27	25th	31st	yes	yes	yes
Tennessee	22.0	4.72	36th	9th	no	no	no
Texas	17.9	5.47	19th	27th	no	no	no
Utah	9.8	5.70	17th	51st	yes	yes	yes
Virginia	19.0	4.44	46th	19th	no	no	no
Vermont	17.1	6.53	11th	33rd	yes	yes	yes
Washington	14.9	7.54	4th	48th	yes	yes	yes
Wisconsin	18.7	6.72	9th	20th	yes	yes	yes
West Virginia	25.5	4.49	44th	2nd	no	no	no
Wyoming	19.9	4.56	39th	17th	no	no	no

Back to the Smoking in Your State Map

Community Engagement Model Development plans

So, I want to spend some time learning about community engagement.  Since I began this final internship of my graduate education, this seems to be a huge part that's missing in community change efforts.  I want to know what I can learn from the research out there - what are well-researched methods? what are best evidence-based practices? what "should" we be using in our change projects? when is best to poll the community?  in the beginning, before we start, as a check-up on progress, to gain satisfaction rating on the job we're doing, in the end as an evaluative measure?  ALL OF THE ABOVE?  How can we partner with communities and their members, the people who are actually affected most by these changes, and the ones who probably know best (despite our best efforts at studying them)?  How can we act as community members' consultants, instead of what usually happens that we end up doing things to them?

Below is a mind map of some of the thoughts I have on the issue, and where I want to go with these ideas.  Ultimately, I'd like to continue the work that I'm doing at my internship -- collaborating with other community planning staff on unique ways that we can do this as social scientists, ways that including use of the many tools available to us on the Internet, and ways that make partnering with community representatives and stakeholders as painless, inexpensive, and rewarding as possible.

I don't know if anyone will read this, but I'm looking for people to partner with to work on this project.  I have an idea to start us off with that I believe would be effective. 

If you think you might be interested, please let me know.  Eventually, I want to publish a paper about the development of the model and the data collected about its effectiveness during testing.  At the least, I want to publish it in the "grey literature" (websites and other self-publishing media).

Quit Smoking NOW Resources: Identify Your Triggers

Smoking Triggers

What are your "triggers"?

Certain things trigger, or turn on, your need for a cigarette. They can be moods, feelings, places, or things you do. Knowing your triggers helps you stay in control. Put a check next to things that tempt you to smoke:
Feeling stressed
Feeling down
Talking on the phone
Drinking liquor, like wine or beer
Watching TV
Driving
Finishing a meal
Playing cards
Taking a work break
Being with other smokers
Drinking coffee
Seeing someone else smoke
Cooling off after a fight
Feeling lonely
After having sex
My other triggers are:
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via: SmokeFree.gov

Quit Smoking NOW Resources: Identify Reasons for Quitting

Reasons for Quitting

Here are some examples of reasons to quit:
I will feel healthier right away. I will have more energy and better focus. My senses of smell and taste will be better. I will have whiter teeth and fresher breath. I will cough less and breathe better.
I will be healthier the rest of my life. I will lower my risk for cancer, heart attacks, strokes, early death, cataracts, and skin wrinkling.
I will make my partner, friends, family, kids, grandchildren, and co-workers proud of me.
I will be proud of myself. I will feel more in control of my life. I will be a better role model for others.
I will no longer expose others to my second-hand smoke.
I will have a healthier baby. (If you or your partner is pregnant)
I will have more money to spend.
I won't have to worry: "When will I get to smoke next?" or "What do I do when I'm in a smokefree place?"
My other reasons are:
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via SmokeFree.gov_

RESOURCES: Research Links and Resources - Planned Parenthood - Heartland

Research Links and Resources - Planned Parenthood

Research Links and Resources

We've compiled a list of links to useful websites for educational information, statistics and research materials below.

Abortion

• The Alan Guttmacher Institute
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• National Abortion Federation
• National Abortion Rights Action League

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Abstinence

• Advocates For Youth
• National Coalition to Prevention Teen Pregnancy
• Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US (SIECUS)

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Contraception

• SIECUS
• Alan Guttmacher Institute
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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Disability & Sexuality

• Spinal Cord Injury Information Network
• Enable Link

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT)

• Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
• A Guide to LGBT Health Resources
• The National Coalition for LGBT Health
• Youth Resource
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health
• Susan's Place Transgender Resources
• Hudson's FTM Resource Guide
• American Civil Liberties Union

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Parenting Information

• Talking with Kids about Tough Issues
• Advocates for Youth
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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Planned Parenthood Information & History

• Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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Reproductive Issues

• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Women’s National Law Center

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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s)

• The Center for Disease Control & Prevention
• American Social Health Association
• SIECUS

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Sexuality Information for Teens

• Sex Etc.
• Scarleteen
• Teenwire
• I Wanna Know
• My Sistahs

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Teen Pregnancy Information

• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute
• National Center for Health Statistics
• SIECUS
• Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

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PBS news: Changes Coming in terms of Federal Aid's Link to a College's Affordability

Should Financial Aid Be Linked to a College's Affordability? - YouTube:

The PBS NewsHour reports that Obama is threatening to reduce Federal funding for Higher Ed institutions that cannot contain their tuition prices and hikes.

This situation really pisses me off. Especially in terms of how students are being exploited. And, even more especially because it is the poorest and least powerful student groups that are target. Why else would someone attend a state school, if they had unlimited funds to attend any school they would like.

From what I understand of the report is that schools have raised costs, mainly to increase overhead in the form of administrative staffing and other non-mission oriented costs.

The president of the University of California system admitted that he predicts that if the threat is realized, tuition prices will indeed drop.

In other words, that means there is wiggle room in tuition prices. If there wasn't room for changes, colleges would respond with, "Cut our funding Pres Obama but that means students will just be left to pay the part removed from our budgets. We cant cut our prices anymore. We are at rock-bottom." But, colleges know that this threat of punishment will work to achieve the aims the president is initiating for our good.

So in the age of record deficits and economic hard-times, schools have been embellishing their campuses, increasing salaries and staff, and reserviing more of the money coming in, rather than simply providing a good educational system, which is their mission. And, we have been paying for it -- students AND tax-payers.

Thank you, once again, Pres. Obama for taking the initiative to solve this problem plaguing our society. We are the 99%.

Occupy Boston Reading List (Crowdsourced!) - Google Docs

Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List - Google Docs:

Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List
Anyone Can Edit!

Please add articles, blog posts, videos, any linkable media that offer evidence for our discontent, articulate our “demands” and frustrations in useful ways, and help us form our personal talking points.

The goal is a growing list of links that people can easily read through, get informed, and share with others (including other Occupy movements). So please keep your annotations brief, and take your longer comments to the source websites/blogs.

The short link for this page is http://tinyurl.com/occupyboston. It’s also posted here: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://occupywiki.info

Document Sections (so far)

• Websites and Social Networking
• Backgrounders and News on Economy, Politics, Corruption, Corporations, Housing, (Un)Employment
• Books
• Economic Possibility, Here and Now
• The Occupy Movement: Formation and Ideologies
• Occupy: News, Criticism, Commentary
• Legal + Media + Organizing Resources

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WEBSITES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Not meant to be an exhaustive list; find more at the official site: http://occupyboston.com/

Occupies everywhere
http://occupationalist.org

Occupy Boston on Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/OccupyBoston/

Occupy Boston on Foursquare
Check-in, leave tips and upload photos.
https://foursquare.com/v/occupyboston/4e864b86469035fb8bfcc92f

Ask Metafilter Questions
Basic information and links to detailed articles, documentaries, etc from users
http://ask.metafilter.com/197543/Help-me-help-occupywallstreet

Notable Twitter Accounts
- @Occupy_Boston
- @OccupyBOS_Media
- @StudentsOccupy
- @OccupyBosReddit
- #OccupyBoston (hashtag, not account)

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBoston
http://www.facebook.com/classwarfareexists?sk=wall (good reading list)

Occupy Boston in a few other places
http://occupyboston.tumblr.com/
http://www.occupybostonvoices.com/
http://occupygeorge.com/ Dollar hacking for the 99%

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BACKGROUNDERS AND NEWS ON ECONOMY, POLITICS, CORRUPTION, CORPORATIONS, HOUSING, (UN)EMPLOYMENT

The Koch Brothers
People & Power asks if the tycoon duo's fortune could put the radical right into the White House.
Al Jazeera, 11/1/11
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/10/2011102683719370179.html

It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style
by William Greidner, Nov. 2011 ed. of The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/164216/its-time-debt-forgiveness-american-style#comment-895061
A serious treatment of a big idea

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Earth
by Chip Ward, 10/27/2011
http://www.grist.org/pollution/2011-10-27-from-occupy-wall-street-to-occupy-earth
Lucidly highlights the connection btwn corporate power, ecological degradation, and social injustice.

What does the Bonus Army tell us About Occupy Wall Street?
The Awl, 10/25/2011
http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/what-does-the-bonus-army-tell-us-about-occupy-wall-street
Really interesting comparisons about the occupation of DC in 1932.

Now, Let Me Tell You What They’re Talking About
fmr. Rep. Alan Grayson takes on PJ O’Rourke
http://openmobile.tumblr.com/post/11316915307/this-is-off-topic-from-mobile-politics-but-holy

Prosecuting Financial Titans
On Point, 10/18/2011
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/10/18/prosecuting-wall-street
Excellent, clear discussion that starts on the premise, ‘Ok, they’re guilty, why aren’t they in prison yet?’

Chart of the Day: These are the 47 Percent
by Brian Beutler 10/14/11
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent.php

Could This Time Have Been Different?
Ezra Klein, Washington Post, 10/8/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/could-this-time-have-been-different/2011/08/25/gIQAiJo0VL_blog.html

SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America; Refusing Customer Withdrawals
10/4/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Db_P0wHsSz0#

Group Pushes for Corporate Tax Holiday
NPR, 10/4/11
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/141054578/group-pushes-for-corporate-tax-holiday

5 Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans
by ThinkProgress / Zaid Jilani, 10/4/11
http://www.alternet.org/economy/152601/5_facts_you_should_know_about_the_wealthiest_one_percent_of_americans

The Reign of the One Percenters
Orion Magazine 9-10/2011
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470
Author’s postscript/response to Occupy Wall Street: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/newsfrom187/entry/6518

Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever
Will Hutton, The Guardian Observer, 10/1/2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/02/will-hutton-ed-miliband-new-capitalism

The Truth About “Class War” in America
Richard D. Wolff, September 28, 2011
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-truth-about-class-war-in-america-by-richard-d-wolff

The Curse of Tina
Adam Curtis, September 13th, 2011
Blog post on the creation and proliferation of neoliberal think tanks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html

Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 8/24/11
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/obama-goes-all-out-for-dirty-banker-deal-20110824

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans
Bloomberg, 8/21/11
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html

Dylan Ratigan’s Mad As Hell Moment
MSNBC, 8/2011
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigans-mad-as-hell-moment.html

This is the face of the 99%:
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11123158326/im-fortunate-to-be-working-this-year-but-in

Fareed's Take: How to fix America's jobs crisis
Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 6/5/2011
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/fareeds-take-how-to-fix-americas-jobs-crisis
Zakaria is trying to support the 99% but he can do more - reference the Global Public Square Blog. I would like to see the OccupyBoston movement influence the media and stop the blackout -- compel CNN to talk about what the bloggers are actually saying. People, the 99% are blogging about these issues and not being heard. CNN must expose all corporations laying off massive numbers of Americans while CEOs still get their bonuses.
CALL TO ACTION - click CNN blog (link above) to express your support

Debt Crisis Hangs Over Washington Politics
NPR’s Mara Liasson reports on a gathering of just 40 “Tea Party patriots”, 4/29/11
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135829375/debt-crisis-hangs-over-washington-politics

Biggest Fish Face Little Risk of Being Caught
New York Times, 2/25/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/business/economy/26nocera.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Inside Job
http://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/
Academy Award winning documentary about the financial crisis.

Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street
Columbia Journalism Review 3/15/2010
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/michael_lewis_drops_some_wisdo.php

The Quiet Coup
The Atlantic 5/2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/
“A whole generation of policy makers has been mesmerized by Wall Street, always and utterly convinced that whatever the banks said was true.”

How Washington's Bailout Will Boost Wall Street Bonuses
Time, 10/27/08
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853846,00.html#ixzz1ZgCSAOVZ

The Giant Pool of Money, and Return to the Giant Pool of Money
This American Life and NPR’s Planet Money, 5/9/2008 and 9/25/2009
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/390/return-to-the-giant-pool-of-money
Additionally, Planet Money’s blog - this podcast, begun in September of 2008, offers a comprehensive explanation of how our economic system works.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

A global assessment of wealth and wellbeing
http://www.prosperity.com/country.aspx?id=US
As if we didn’t already know that our financial institutions don’t exude confidence and are making us the 99% unhappy...now there is quantitative research to prove it - see this article and the next few below. “US Economy Ranked 14th: The US economy is strong with high living standards, but confidence in American financial institutions remains low.”

The World's Happiest Countries
http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/19/norway-denmark-finland-business-washington-world-happiest-countries.html
Christopher Helman, 01.19.11
“Most of the nations atop our list are democratic, business-friendly and boast strong social safety nets.”

Do Americans Work Hard? Yes, they do...
http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/19/norway-denmark-finland-business-washington-world-happiest-countries_4.html
“Lacking: the U.S. scored just 62nd in feeling "well rested." Compare that with China, which ranked 12th in being well rested.”

Tax Justice Network Blog
Why tax havens cause poverty.
http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/
“With 25 million Americans looking for fulltime work, and nearly one in six Americans relying on federal food assistance, some of America's most flush corporations are demanding a "one-time" corporate tax holiday on their more than $1.4 trillion in profits now sitting offshore.”

Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works
Palan, Ronen; Murphy, Richard; Chavagneaux, Christian
Widely acclaimed report on tax havens, banking secrecy jurisdictions, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Tax-Havens-Globalization-Cornell-Studies/dp/0801476127/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317858538&sr=1-5

1) Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1996-2000
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGNlOWMxMzItMjIzNy00MDA1LWJjZTYtMTExNDMxMTBhYjhj&hl=en_US
2) Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGJjMTU3NDAtOTI1OS00YjlmLTg0OTYtOTZiYTIwMjRhN2Mw&hl=en_US
A pair of GAO reports detailing a survey of the effective rates of corporate taxation and found that 60% of corporations reported NO taxable income. These are not S-corporations (pass through entities), but C corporations, like those listed on the Wall Street exchanges. Think GE and Exxon/Mobil.

The L-Curve: Tour of the US Income Distribution Graphs and numbers describing income and wealth distribution across America’s population. A lot of the data is now out of date (from the late 90’s early 2000’s), but that’s because the wealth gap is even more extreme than it was only 10 years ago.

The Crisis of Credit, Visualized, an 11 minutes video describing the mechanism of the crash.

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics "Documentary featuring Tom Ferguson, Noam Chomsky and other prominent thinkers, on how money rules politics."

Legal Personhood and the Nonhuman Rights Project (pdf) Steven M. Wise, 2010. Provides a decent overview of what exactly legal personhood is and why it matters.

Citizens United v. FEC Full text of the 2010 SCOTUS opinion

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BOOKS

Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges (2005), by Dean Williams

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999), by Jared Diamond

The Ecology of Commerce (revised 2010), and Blessed Unrest (2008), by Paul Hawken

Ishmael (1995), by Daniel Quinn

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), by Barbara Ehrenreich
New afterword by Ehrenreich, 10 years later: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175428/

Methland by Nick Reding. Review.

Do It Anyway by Courtney Martin. Review.

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Review.

On Dialogue and Thought as a System by David Bohm

Winner Take All Politics (2010) by Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson

The Divine Right of Capital (2003) by Marjorie Kelly

The Shock Doctrine (2007) by Naomi Klein

Economic Justice for All (1986, 10th anniversary ed. 1997) by US Catholic Council of Bishops

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, The full text of Adam Smith’s work

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Another Adam Smith full text

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ECONOMIC POSSIBILITY HERE AND NOW

"I decided I didn't want to wake up in the morning fighting capitalism anymore. I wanted to wake up thinking about how to create something new."
-Julie Graham

Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006. A Post-Capitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Miller, Ethan. Oct. 2011. Occupy. Connect. Create: Imagining Life Beyond “The Economy.” Pamphlet

www.communityeconomies.org

“The Take.” 2004. A documentary film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. Argentine workers take over factories and make them into co-operatives after an economic crisis.

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative -in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Valley Alliance for Worker Co-ops -in Western Massachusetts

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THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: FORMATION, IDEOLOGIES
Direct press coverage of Occupy Boston is already tracked here: http://occupyboston.com/press

Occupy Bucharest Manifesto
http://occupybucharest.com/
Don’t be put off by the anti-capitalist tone in the beginning. Keep reading, it’s wonderful, even if you don’t agree with all of it.
“The full framework of understanding required for inter-disciplinary action is never given – the mere existence of people completely segregated into disciplines suggests that even the framework for wanting to solve problems rarely exists.”
“There are no clean-cut demands to be made, because there isn’t a system currently capable of enacting them.”
“While broadscale economic reform needs to happen, it’s much more important to simply stop the massive destruction of value, immediately – with no more bailouts followed by seizing of property, both on a personal scale, with home foreclosures and massive job loss, and on a national scale, with sale of historical and social assets, as is happening in Greece.”

Occupy Wall Street Is Starting To Alter The Media Narrative
Huffington Post, 10/19/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/occupy-wall-street-media-coverage_n_1019836.html

Ambiguous UpSparkles From the Heart of the Park (Mic Check/Occupy Wall Street) Eve Ensler, Huffington Post, 10/10/2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/ambiguous-upsparkles-from_b_1003908.html
“In a culture obsessed with product, the process of creation is almost unbearable. Nothing is more threatening than the moment, the living breathing ambiguity of now. We have been trained to name things, own things, brand things and in doing so control and consume them. Well, the genius of Occupy Wall Street is that so far it is not brandable and that's what makes its potential so daunting, so far reaching, so inclusive, and so dangerous. It cannot be defined and so it cannot be sold, as a sound bite or a political party or even a thing. It can't be summed up and dismissed.”

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement
By ANTHEA BUTLER, ELIZABETH DRESCHER, PETER LAARMAN, SARAH POSNERAND NATHAN SCHNEIDER 10/16/11
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5268/god_dissolves_into_the_occupy_movement

America’s Primal Scream
Nicholas Kristof, 10/15/2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-americas-primal-scream.html
“Inequality is also a cancer on our national well-being.”

Interviews with people at Occupy Boston
http://www.occupybostonvoices.com/

‘Occupy Wall Street,’ a primer
Ezra Klein 10/03/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/occupy-wall-street-a-primer/2011/08/25/gIQAbX7oHL_blog.html

Meet Four Middle-Class Americans Who've Been Politicized by #OccupyWallStreet
Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones 10/9/11
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-middle-class

What #OccupyMiami learned from #OccupyBoston learned from #OccupyWallStreet
by Chris Faraone, Boston Phoenix, 10/2/11
http://thephoenix.com/Blogs/phlog/archive/2011/10/02/what-occupymiami-learned-from-occupyboston-learned-from-occupywallstreet.aspx#ixzz1ZgOe47O3

#OccupyBoston is Coming. Expect Us.
Jason Pramas for Open Media Boston
http://openmediaboston.org/node/2004

We are the 99 Percent
Lots of people, telling their own stories of financial struggle
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

The Metamovement
Umair Haque, 10/1/2011
http://www.umairhaque.com/2011/10/metamovement.html
“it's not just about inequality--but the deeper failure of institutions.” Follow @umairh on Twitter - he’s got great thinking about what a good capitalism and good society could be.

#OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/matt-stoller-occupywallstreet-is-a-church-of-dissent-not-a-protest.html

#OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones
Micah Sifry, TechPresident
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/occupywallstreet-theres-something-happening-here-mr-jones

#OccupyWallSt, Then #OccupyKSt, Then #OccupyMainSt
Larry Lessig
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/occupywallst-then-occupyk_b_995547.html

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#OCCUPY: NEWS, CRITICISM, COMMENTARY

Occupy Writers
Impressive list of writers who support the Occupy movements
http://occupywriters.com
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/25/neil_gaiman_gloria_steinem_and_other_writers_on_occupy_wall_stre.html

Wealth, Income, and Power

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

by Sociology Professor G. William Domhoff, University of Santa Cruz

This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, with tables and charts containing wealth statistics on the 1%, 9%, 80% of wealth owners. It also explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators and provides links that study power, describe Theories of Power, power at the local level, social cohesion and social change.

Brilliant: US marine takes on NYPD #OWS
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/10/18/amazing-video-of-us-marine-taking-on-nypd/
Here are our talking points vs. amped up cops. Except you probably should be huge, and a Marine, to try it.

In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated
New York Times, 10/14/2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/business/in-private-conversation-wall-street-is-more-critical-of-protesters.html

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Hit bankers where it hurts
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 10/12/11
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/my-advice-to-the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-20111012
“The time is rapidly approaching when the movement is going to have to offer concrete solutions to the problems posed by Wall Street. To do that, it will need a short but powerful list of demands. There are thousands one could make, but I'd suggest focusing on five:” (Read on)

Bill McKibben Links Climate Change to Corruption in Stirring Occupy Wall Street Speech (Video)
Treehugger, 10/9/11
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/bill-mckibben-climate-coruption-corporation-occupy-wall-street-washington-square-park-speech.php

Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question
Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/who-really-owns-nypd-turns-out-its-no

Quote and Comment - Jay Rosen
http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/
NYU professor Jay Rosen’s insights into media coverage and other happenings in the Occupy movements

Listen to the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO, for Huffington Post, 10/10/2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mohamed-a-elerian/occupy-wall-street-_b_1004222.html

Panic of the Plutocrats
Paul Krugman, NY Times, 10/10/2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html

'Occupy Wall Street': A media blackout?
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post blog, 10/8/2011
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/10/201110875949746728.html

Confronting the Malefactors
Thomas Friedman, NY Times, 10/7/2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html
Three clear points: “In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, with remarkably few strings attached, even as ordinary workers continued to suffer the consequences of the bankers’ sins. And, in the third act, bankers showed their gratitude by turning on the people who had saved them, throwing their support — and the wealth they still possessed thanks to the bailouts — behind politicians who promised to keep their taxes low and dismantle the mild regulations erected in the aftermath of the crisis.
Given this history, how can you not applaud the protesters for finally taking a stand?”

Parks and Demonstration
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, 10/5/2011
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-5-2011/parks-and-demonstration

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it
Douglas Rushkoff, 10/5/2011
http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2011/10/5/think-occupy-wall-st-is-a-phase-you-dont-get-it.html

Thanks to students and unions, #OccupyBoston is growing. It's also dividing.
by Carly Carioli 10/5/11 http://thephoenix.com/Blogs/phlog/archive/2011/10/05/thanks-to-students-and-unions-occupyboston-is-growing-it-s-also-dividing.aspx#ixzz1a0PD7TOb

Erin Burnett is Vapid; Occupy Wall Street matters
by Eric Jackson 10/6/11
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/10/05/erin-burnett-is-vapid-occupy-wall-street-matters/

Can the #Occupy Movement Be a Turning Point?
Doyle Canning - Yes! Magazine (October 3, 2011)
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/can-the-occupy-movement-be-a-turning-point
“As the Wall Street occupation continues, Boston residents are sitting in to save their homes—and providing a lesson in how to sustain the powerful spark of the #Occupy movement.”

The Bankers and The Revolutionaries
Nicholas Kristoff, 10/2/2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-bankers-and-the-revolutionaries.html

#OccupyWallStreet and the Failure of Institutions
BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis, 10/3/2011
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/10/03/occupywallstreet-the-failure-of-institutions/

The Wall Street Take on Occupy Wall St.
WNYC 10/4/11
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/oct/04/wall-street-take-occupy-wall-street/

What Arab Bloggers Make of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest
by PRI’s The World 10/3/11
http://www.theworld.org/2011/10/arab-bloggers-occupy-wall-street/

Moving in on Boston
by Patrick Tracey, 10/1/11
http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/01/occupyboston/singleton/

Global Revolution? The Occupy Movement Spreads around the World
By Jo Harrington, 10/1/11
http://www.suite101.com/news/global-revolution-the-occupy-movement-spreads-around-the-world-a391043

Video: Cornel West at OccupyWallSt GA
http://youtu.be/H31XN8zgXlI

What’s behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests?
Glenn Greenwald, Salon 9/28/11
http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/28/protests_21/singleton/
“Does anyone really not know what the basic message is of this protest: that Wall Street is oozing corruption and criminality and its unrestrained political power — in the form of crony capitalism and ownership of political institutions — is destroying financial security for everyone else?”

Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination
The Guardian, 9/25/2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/25/occupy-wall-street-protest

Why NPR won’t give air time to the Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan.
Jay Rosen, 9/27/2011
http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/10727380765/why-npr-wont-give-air-time-to-the-occupy-wall

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LEGAL + MEDIA + ORGANIZING RESOURCES

Occupy Design
http://occupydesign.org/
http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyDesign
Graphics for signs and other graphic needs that anyone can print and use

Legal Resources for Journalists Covering Protests
notebook by JC Stearns
http://jcstearns.posterous.com/legal-resources-for-journalists-covering-prot

A Citizen's Guide to Reporting on #OccupyWallStreet
Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard
http://bit.ly/r410KC

ACLU Pocket Guide for what to do if you’re stopped by police/arrested
http://t.co/W02zu2s9 (pdf)

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This is for GENERAL READING AND EDUCATION...to both help folks get up to speed on the issues, or to store reference writings/data/documentation for the issues/visioning/policy groups to refer to in their posts. Also refer (and contribute!) to the Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List.

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[edit] Info and News about Money, Politics, Corruption, Corporations, Housing, (Un)employment, and the Economy

[edit] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. - by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie New Scientist: http://bit.ly/qWB5sm Updated 13:15 24 October 2011,

"Anonymous" Inspiration
The plan

Charts/Numbers Framing "the Issue"
what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about

This is the face of the 99%
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.comn wearethe99percent

Why Occupy Communities Have Libraries
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/892578-264/why_the_occupy_wall_street.html.csp

Chart of the Day: These are the 47 Percent
Brian Beutler
Talking Points Memo
10/14/11
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent.php

Could This Time Have Been Different?
Ezra Klein
Washington Post
10/8/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/could-this-time-have-been-different/2011/08/25/gIQAiJo0VL_blog.html

SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America; Refusing Customer Withdrawals
10/4/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Db_P0wHsSz0#

Group Pushes for Corporate Tax Holiday
NPR
10/4/11
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/141054578/group-pushes-for-corporate-tax-holiday

5 Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans
Zaid Jilani
ThinkProgress
10/4/11
http://www.alternet.org/economy/152601/5_facts_you_should_know_about_the_wealthiest_one_percent_of_americans

The Reign of the One Percenters
Orion Magazine
9/10/2011
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470
Author’s postscript/response to Occupy Wall Street:http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/newsfrom187/entry/6518

Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever
Will Hutton
The Guardian Observer
10/1/2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/02/will-hutton-ed-miliband-new-capitalism

The Truth About “Class War” in America
Richard D. Wolff
9/28/2011
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-truth-about-class-war-in-america-by-richard-d-wolff

The Curse of Tina
Adam Curtis
BBC's Adam Curtis Blog
9/13/2011
Blog post on the creation and proliferation of neoliberal think tanks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html

Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal
Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
8/24/11
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/obama-goes-all-out-for-dirty-banker-deal-20110824

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans
Bloomberg
8/21/11
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html

Dylan Ratigan’s Mad As Hell Moment
MSNBC
8/2011
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigans-mad-as-hell-moment.html

How to fix America's jobs crisis
Fareed Zakaria
CNN
6/5/2011
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/fareeds-take-how-to-fix-americas-jobs-crisis

Debt Crisis Hangs Over Washington Politics
Mara Liasson
NPR
4/29/11
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135829375/debt-crisis-hangs-over-washington-politics

Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street
Michael Lewis
Columbia Journalism Review
3/15/2010
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/michael_lewis_drops_some_wisdo.php

The Quiet Coup
Simon Johnson
The Atlantic
5/2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/

How Washington's Bailout Will Boost Wall Street Bonuses
Stephen Gandel
Time
10/27/2008
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853846,00.html#ixzz1ZgCSAOVZ

The Giant Pool of Money
This American Life and NPR's Planet Money
5/9/2008
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

Return to the Giant Pool of Money
This American Life and NPR’s Planet Money
9/25/2009
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/390/return-to-the-giant-pool-of-money

Planet Money’s blog
NPR
September 2008 - present
Comprehensive explanation of how our economic system works.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Thinking About Empowered Participatory Democracy
Erik Olin Wright and Archon Fung
2003
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/DD-1.pdf

Envisioning Real Utopias
Erik Olin Wright
2009
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ERU.htm

A global assessment of wealth and wellbeing
http://www.prosperity.com/country.aspx?id=US

Why tax havens cause poverty
http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/

Widely acclaimed report on tax havens, banking secrecy jurisdictions, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Tax-Havens-Globalization-Cornell-Studies/dp/0801476127/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317858538&sr=1-5

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1996-2000
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGNlOWMxMzItMjIzNy00MDA1LWJjZTYtMTExNDMxMTBhYjhj&hl=en_US

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8ZwU8P4sgUSMGJjMTU3NDAtOTI1OS00YjlmLTg0OTYtOTZiYTIwMjRhN2Mw&hl=en_US

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