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Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Urchins Halloween Special – Favourite Scary Movies
Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y’alls* neighborhood If you’re not out dancing to Thriller tonight, chances are you’re huddled in front of the tele, giving … Continue reading
High Noon Urchins
Today’s theme: Hallowe’en! Beth Geo Margaret Sarah Next week: Cool Customer You know the dealio. Send us your photos!
That’s What She Said
As always art is the pulse of a nation. —Gertrude Stein
Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo, That's What They Said
Tagged art, art as social revolution, gertrude stein, paris france
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Discovering Pina Bausch and Tanztheater
By Margaret Hedderman Until I saw a trailer for Wim Wender’s recent documentary, I had never heard of Pina Bausch, the groundbreaking modern dance choreographer from Germany. (It’s terrible admitting you don’t know everything.) I don’t normally watch YouTube. And … Continue reading
Occupied.
by Natalie Peart [Natalie Peart is a feminist, activist, and writer (in no particular order) living in Brooklyn. She loves to keep the (political) pot stirring.] It has been over one month since the protesters have taken over Liberty Square … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Urchins, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged america, arab spring, bank of america, banks, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn bridge protests, consumerism, corporate greed, greed, indignados, liberty square, marcel marzouki, move your money project, naomi klein, natalie peart, new york city, new york times, Occupy Wall Street, ows, police, political awareness, political rally, protests, Tunisia, voting, wall street, zuccotti park
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Occupy Auckland, Occupy Everywhere
By Sarah Jost The idea for Occupy Wall Street came from the Canadian anti-consumerist non-profit organisation and magazine AdBusters Media Foundation. The notion was quickly embraced en masse, gaining further attention when promoted by the internet-based activist group Anonymous. On … Continue reading
Preoccupied Wall Street
by Geo Ong I’ve been having a difficult time trying to write about Occupy Wall Street. The movement is a phenomenon, as some pundits have described it, that first stormed Wall Street, and then the city, and then the nation, … Continue reading
The Urchin Travel Wish List
‘Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Don’t mind if I do! As long as you don’t go by Shakespeare’s depiction of Denmark, the Scandinavian country is supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Travel
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, baltic sea, bornholm, copenhagen, denmark, expatriates, fyodor dostoyevsky, Hamlet, Jack Kerouac, mohamed choukri, morocco, naked lunch, notes from underground, paul bowles, russia, st. petersburg, tangier, tennessee williams, white nights, white nights festival, william burroughs, william shakespeare
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High Noon Urchins
This week’s theme: Good intentions. Margaret Geo Sarah Next week’s theme: Halloween! Trick or treat! Smell our feet! Give us something good to eat! And your spooky, scary High Noon Photos. Send them to UrchinMovement@gmail.com before next Sunday. Or you … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, High Noon Urchins
Tagged High Noon Urchins, New Zealand, procrastinating, sheep
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That’s What He Said
My Energizing American Jobs and Security plan will commence or expand energy exploration from the Atlantic coast to the western seas off Alaska. We will end the bureaucratic foot-dragging that has reduced offshore drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico by eighty percent. … Continue reading
