Tag: Sandy Polishuk

Extreme Distress

By K. Kendall, in conversation with Mary Nichols and Sandy Polishuk According to standard US Flag etiquette, “Always display the flag with the blue union field up — never display the flag upside down, except as a signal of extreme distress.” And yet since 9/11, the US Flag upside down has been used as a…

Civil Rights Strategies for Occupy

By Sandy Polishuk I would like to bring an important article to the attention of all Occupiers. It suggests applying the successful strategies of the civil rights movement to a national “We are the 99%” movement. Those strategies were civil disobedience, grass-roots organizing, and mass boycotts. The article is by Andrew Levison, who was for…