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Value Verbing: Theme 2012 with your Aloha Spirit

January 2, 2012 by Rosa Say

In my Makahiki letter, I’d said that I love this time of year because it is Ka lā hiki ola (the dawning of a new day) at its most pervasive moment: We human beings collaborate in self-care, and in our Ho‘ohana intentions. The whole world seems to be in sync, as we collectively look back to assess what we’ve come to know. We corral our confidences and our strengths, and then we look forward, expectantly, and with hopeful optimism knowing those confidences and strengths are packable and adjustable: They’ll remain with us, and they’ll remain useful.

What’s not to love? Aloha January!

Well, in a word, the overwhelm, especially in January’s looking-forward progression. There is a lot to sort through and make decisions about, especially if you try to mix new learning into the batch — it’ll be new learning, and so you’re essentially mixing in batches of unknowns. You’re taking some chances, and turning your resolve into another experiment.

There are two trends I’m seeing, where people are trying to self-manage, get better organized, and habit-create more effectively: Word themes and inputs.

Inputs over Outputs

I’m liking the focus on inputs (your activities: what you actually do) over outputs (the end-result outcomes, like goals and objectives).

We have more control with inputs — as the value of ‘Imi ola reminds us, we create our own destiny with each action we personally take. There are several more variables which will contribute to the success or failure of outputs, and they often have to do with other people, whose decisions (and thus actions) are ultimately out of our control. If the only inputs we can effectively direct and control well are our own, we are wise to concentrate our efforts wherever ‘me, myself, and I’ comes into play.

We may want to include others, so corroboration is a good thing. Thus wouldn’t we be wiser to focus on it as an input? How do we collaborate with others? What are the confidences and strengths of our own behavior, and how will we remain humble and open-minded (Ha‘aha‘a, the value of humility) so we become even better, and continue to grow?

Word themes

There’s no doubt about it, words are powerful. To state your choices deliberately, and then commit to them can be highly effective — as long as you actually follow through.

The potential problem I am seeing people run into, is in the choice of words they begin with. Many are outputs: health, happiness, wealth. Others are quite broad and need more description: creativity, freedom, organization. Even a word like ‘focus’ is probably too general: What are you going to focus on, and why?

You may say, “It’s a theme, and I know what I mean.” As a coach I’d challenge you on that: Wring out the details and take a good look at them. Are you giving yourself too much wishy-washy wiggle room? Will it be easy for you to abort, and shift your focus day by day? There’s a lot of noise in our world to get distracted by”

You can probably guess where I’m going with this! We all need help with our follow-through, so get your values to help you. That’s actually what they do best.

Choose Values and Verbs as your Inputs and your Words

Roll credits: As we’ve learned from Managing with Aloha, the big deal about values is that they drive our behavior by taking good direction from our self-aware sources.

Your values are the pilot lights of your human goodness, and they start the best fire (energy!) in the actions you choose to take. They are the easiest actions to follow-through with, because they are about you. Your values will reveal you, they fit you, and they celebrate you.

Knowing your personal value-drivers is self-affirming in the most extraordinary way: You learn about yourself, and what’s important to you, and why. You expose your vitality.

Why do you want this learning about you? The more you know about the wonder you are, the closer you get to knowing what you’re meant to do or create: Your Ho‘ohana (intentional work and purpose-driving) will get naturally connected to the work of your legacy.

Reading tip: If MWA has sat on your shelf for a while, open it up to chapter 17 on Nānā i ke kumu for a good review — “Look to your source” for it’s a wonderful place to be.

So do Choose your Words. Speak them often.

Be decisive so you can begin well. Seize January with both hands and with your soul.

Do choose the inputs which are the actions and activities you’ll commit to practicing daily, and allow them to gain traction, and strengthen you with more confidence.

Just be sure your words (or clarifying phrases) are active verbs, and know which of your personal values they are connected to. Beware the wiggle room, and go for that best fit your values will give you.

Fortify your own life, and begin the day-by-day work on the legacy you are meant to give to our world.

We ho‘ohana kākou, and with aloha,
Rosa

Learn more about value-alignment and value-mapping here: Value Your Month to Value Your Life

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What do you know to be sure? Hō‘imi ola.

January 1, 2012 by Rosa Say

Aloha dear friends, Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou — Happy New Year.

Good endings help us create good beginnings

I sincerely hope that 2011 ended with ma‘alahi joy for you (contentment), as it did for me. I am flush with the lush generosity of Mahalo (an elemental gratitude) as I sit and write this for you.

We were able to get our entire family together for a week-long Christmas celebration — quite the feat as we now live in three different cities with an ocean and quintet of job scheduling between us. The best gift I received wasn’t wrapped in bright paper and tied up with ribbon (though those were quite fabulous too); it was that strong surge of confident optimism one gets from spending giving time in the arms of ‘Ohana — family, and those you care most about in your world. We didn’t talk about it with each other explicitly, but I know we all ended the week feeling that the coming year will be good to us, and good for us, and that we’ll be good for it too. It will be our Ho‘ohana intention no matter the path of our lives.

This weekend has been blissful in another way, with a welcome abundance of quiet spells filled well, mostly with reading. Having both Christmas and New Year’s Day and their eves on consecutive weekends is the very best blessing of a calendar’s turning, don’t you think?

One of my husband’s gifts this year was an iPad2, and guess who has been using it most? It wasn’t something I had coveted, for I’ve been quite happy with my digital arsenal as is (MacBook, iPhone and Kindle if you’re wondering), but once I had the iPad in my hands I just had to play with it, and experiment!

Sidebar” it used to be that we’d “take a digital holiday” and mean that we were taking a break from our email, our blogs, and the nascent dabbling we did in social media. Now however, our app-crazed advancements have given us ‘digital degrees’ in a whole rainbow of possibilities (and quirks). Observing how a single choice can so dramatically affect our lifestyle habits is quite the fascination for me. What will morph from toy to new learning, and maybe to obsession? What value is at play, and thus, can be better revealed?

Did you ever think of apps that way, that they can awaken those assorted, still untested bits of your sleeping spirit?

One personal example for me is the app Fooducate: I now scan every barcode on a new purchase before I decide to buy packaged foods. The value at play for me is surely Mālama, and taking care of my own health with each food choice, something vitally important to me. No one wants to die of course, and neither do I, but I am someone who wants the direct route when my time arrives: I’ll eagerly bypass any physical care-getting in my waning years which just prolongs the inevitable.

A New Year brings so many new choices! Does it bring you focus? Intention?

So far, the apps rule with my iPhone, and I’m finding that the iPad is fantastic for reading web-based publishing (I’m sticking with book reading on my Kindle), and I yearn for some of the bloggers who have called it quits and have moved on. However there are so many new writers to be discovered, and where I use the iPad most is within my Google Reader.

Thus my ‘blissful weekend.’ Despite the never-ceasing yay-nay debates on setting resolutions, I absolutely love reading those blog entries where writers of all persuasion reflect on their old year, and then pen their Ho‘ohana (best work) and ‘Imi ola (best life) intentions for the coming year. They inspire the Aloha yearnings in me too: I can’t help but do the same thing — think about what I valued most in the past year, and what I intend to value most in the year to come.

Are you doing something similar, and reflecting too? I hope so.

Rally your gratitude and let Mahalo fortify you too.

Nānā i ke kumu, and look to your source. Grab your quiet time, then refresh and rejuvenate.

Be deliberate, and make your choices as you know are best for you and your life.

Ho‘omau: Persist and persevere — be downright stubborn about making your life the best it can possibly be.

That possibility is your birthright as a human being. Quite wonderful.

My value for 2012 will be ‘Imi ola

I am still reading, still journaling as I do, and still sorting out my listing of intentions, editing them for best focus. This is a process I relish as the yearly gift it is, and I am taking my dear sweet time, savoring it.

What I have already decided, and can share with you on this early day in a shiny new year that is Ka lā hiki ola (the dawning of a new day, and the value of hope and promise) is this, an eagerness for me: My value-driver that will crown any and all lists I may make will be ‘Imi ola, “best possible life” in Managing with Aloha, the value that drives proactive mission, clear vision, and creative change.

What I know to be sure, is that 2012 is a year I want change — big change, and best-life change — and I’ll engineer it so it does happen.

I don’t want to imply any dissatisfaction with 2011, for I had a magnificent year, one that pleased me immensely. It served as a tasty bite of the bigger change that is possible for me, and so in 2012 I’m stepping it up and going for more with gusto!

I’ll share my progress with you as time goes by and things shift and take better shape, but for now, let’s focus on you.

What do you know to be sure? Hō‘imi ola.

Is there anything you know to be sure for you at the moment you read this? Seize that thought, and ask yourself what value is driving you being so sure. (Remember that the Managing with Aloha values are listed on the blog sidebar if you want to skim over them as reminders or triggers.)

Some gentle coaching: Only do this with your positive thoughts. Replace any negativity with ‘on the bright side’ thinking, and steer every shred of your being toward optimism: Hō‘imi ola. (Use the 3 Secrets of Being Positive.)

Please know I do wish you blessings this year, and that they’ll magically rain down upon you with a delightful wonder. However the person who manages their life with Aloha knows those wishes are an added bonus, don’t you. You know that you can make life happen in the way you want it to, and that your values will always help you, guiding you toward your own Aloha vitality.

I am so happy to know we have found each other to share that slice of sureness. Thank you for reading, and giving me part of this, your own day for Ka lā hiki ola.

We ho‘ohana kākou. Much aloha to you,
Rosa

From last year: Ignore the Resolution Bashers
Also in the archives: Be Proactive; Values by Choice as Your Habit

As shared on Work is not a job:


“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

From In The Trenches, to #Occupy The World

October 16, 2011 by Rosa Say

The headline of our local paper’s Sunday edition was, “#Occupy The World: Wall Street Protests Go Global in Asia, Africa, Europe” and so the bold printing, coupled with the fact that he got a Sabbath’s leisurely day off, triggered the first time my working-in-the-trenches husband brought it up and into our conversation in any great detail. He was aware of the Occupy Wall Street protesting, but very off-handedly up to now, for he is more luddite in his habits, and prefers to keep it that way (he thought the # hashtag mark was a typo :).

However current affairs are hard to ignore when tipping points happen — the “hundreds of thousands” participating in the grassroots Occupy Wall Street protest is quite a movement. We both hope it can remain peaceful as passions continue to flare.

“In the trenches” has long meant “hands on”

Our conversation got me thinking about those I think of as “my peeps” too — in the trenches managers who do try to be aware of everything going on with “the big picture” and in “a global world” today, but who are much closer to having my husband’s habits than having mine. They are managers who I wish I could talk to on blogs, on Twitter, or on LinkedIn, but they aren’t there. They are managers who I wish I could reblog and tag on Tumblr as a better collection of our voices, but they aren’t there either. They are in their trenches, working by their Ho‘ohana, and managing with Aloha too, but in a more hands-on way than I do as a manager/ writer/ coach/ having the luxury of more knowledge work than physical work, and choosing virtual teams and tribes in addition to my geographic ones.

In reality though, ‘luxury’ is the wrong word. Each kind of work has its own pros and cons, its own pressure-cooker times, its own slow-down times. Each kind of work can be in the trenches. We are all Working in today’s ‘Knowledge Economy.’

Work happens wherever you are, and whenever you decide you’ll do it.

Work happens why you want it to, and why you need it to.

Work also happens in whatever you feel is your logical progression for it to happen. More often than not, it’s according to a personal hierarchy of needs (like Maslow articulated for us), but that’s my convenient point of reference, and my habitual one, and others may not think about it at all. They stay in their trenches, and they ho‘omau; they persist.

They concentrate on the work at hand. It’s the work of their own hand, and they concentrate on making it good. On making it both worthy (to the world) and worthwhile (to them).

You are the leader of your work

This is one of the up sides to Occupy Wall Street being a leaderless movement: Every single participant has a much greater freedom with defining what the best-case scenario of good followership is for them. Every single participant can be unencumbered, and can make a difference of some kind, so this very pervasive movement tips from frustration to worthy action.

When we consider work in larger context, it becomes easier to see how even protesting — the best single word I can think of for the Occupy Wall Street movement — can be a person’s chosen work too. I’d bet that every person who has chosen to letter a sign, march in one of the protests, or otherwise participate in one of the Occupy encampments, would say without hesitation, “I’m working in the trenches too.”

So when I think about all those “hundreds of thousands” participating in an ‘Occupy’ protest of some kind, my wish for them is the value alignment of Ho‘ohana — I hope the work they have presently chosen gets streamlined and focused in a very personal way for them, where it becomes a very clear intention for worthwhile work. This is one of those crucible times, where people can more clearly discern their purpose or calling.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

The Occupy Wall Street movement represents an amazing amount of human energy. It deserves the significance of Ho‘ohana.

Related Reading in the archives: Following is NOT a Passive Activity.

‘Occupy the Tundra’: One woman’s lonely vigil in bush Alaska. Click on the photo for the story at the LA Times.

A Job of any Merit: Your 3 Options in Worthwhile Work

October 3, 2011 by Rosa Say

This blog post turned into a longer essay, but I hope you’ll still read it, and that you’ll share it, for it’s important: If you haven’t yet done so, it’s time to ask, “What can I do?” about securing worthwhile jobs and stemming rampant unemployment.

Everyone can do something. Everyone.

I ended my last post with this:

I am increasingly of the opinion that the void we have to fill is about having the right jobs in place, and not just jobs as a number. As a business person, you have to decide what the jobs of your future are, and then put those jobs into production: You cannot fill vacancies for jobs you haven’t designed yet. You design them because you are confident about the work those jobs produce — that’s the unfilled capacity economist Paul Krugman refers to.

— Whose Confidence Should We Be Talking About?
[In The Phony Fear Factor, Krugman had asked, “After all, why should businesses expand when they’re not using the capacity they already have?”]

As I read it again, I want to strike that ‘as a business person’ caveat, for deciding on the jobs of our future is something we ALL must be involved in now as good citizens — and as good people. Standing by, watching events unfold, and waiting for someone else to change the world isn’t an option, for the hurt has become chronic. If you have any doubt about that at all, quickly scroll through a few of the stories on this new Tumblr, then come back: We are the 99 Percent. Our economic woes affect all of us in some way, even the ‘lucky ones’ silently suffering with the pain of survivor guilt.

In figuring out what we can do, let’s explore this notion of having the ‘right’ job a bit more.

What are the brass tacks these days — the basics of having a job of any merit?

People protesting the economic system walk on a financial district sidewalk as office workers head to work on September 19, 2011 in New York City. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

Option 1, their vacancy. Option 2, your vacancy.

As far as jobs go, those who seek work have the same two options they’ve always had: Either they apply for posted job vacancies, or they create a job of their own and fill that one.

The first option has been the easier one in times of prosperity, but we all know it’s gotten much tougher in recent years, and no one sees it getting better anytime soon: There is a Great Reset happening in the ways we choose to both work and live, as economist Richard Florida explains so well (I highly recommend you read his book). Meanwhile, many of our long-term unemployed have simply given up on option 1 altogether — that’s how tough our reset has become.

Part of the present unemployment problem (recapped here), is that people are looking for jobs which no longer exist: They have to change with the times, and they haven’t done so yet. Their old job isn’t coming back, and much as it might hurt to hear it, that might be a good thing — it’s called progress. We know we’ve been shifting from agricultural work, to industrial work, to knowledge work for over a century now. New skills (associated with new jobs) must replace our old skills (that were associated with eliminated jobs), and we’ve got to let go of the old or get left behind.

Related Reading: Thomas Friedman did a good job summing up the changes which have occurred in the last 7 years alone in the Op-ed he wrote for The New York Times this past Saturday: How Did the Robot End Up With My Job? He focuses on the effects of technology, but he also points out how our vocabulary is changing.

Option 2 isn’t limited to entrepreneurship

Used to be that the second option — creating a job of your own — largely meant entrepreneurship, and going into business for yourself. We tend to jump toward that entrepreneurial assumption when we think of creating jobs ourselves, and many will all-too-quickly eliminate it, stating, “That’s just not me” without thinking it through more carefully.

The most enterprising and confident among us are going that route, to be sure. They are becoming entrepreneurs because they see the new possibilities market shifts will reveal — they find consumer confidence where it does in fact, exist. They’re better than the average person in corralling whatever resources they need to get started on an idea, and they continue to build on their dreams, reinventing wherever necessary. They have a talent for seeing possibility in downtimes; they see voids as opportunities they can fill, and thus, serve the rest of us. Most important of all, they are willing to do what it takes to succeed, fully knowing there’s no side-stepping hard work, however good an idea may be.

That’s why going into business for oneself isn’t for everyone, even though we might accept that work of our own design will be thoroughly worthwhile no matter the difficulty. Other variables may be in play, such as family members who end up assuming entrepreneurial risk with you. (By the way, teaming up with others and getting good partners is the smartest route to take — you pool more ideas as you share the risk, and needn’t take the leap into business creation all alone.) Still, entrepreneurship is only part of that second option, and this is a time to explore what else it can mean: You can’t just give up on working because you’ve given up on finding a job.

If you limit Option 2 to the entrepreneurial label, well, that’s a limit you impose on yourself.

If ‘entrepreneurship’ scares you, call it something else.

Don’t let the word scare you off: If you don’t want to be an entrepreneur, call yourself a free agent, or a ‘work creator’ instead. Talk about your efforts as gainful employment, and focus on what that should do for you. As long-time readers know, I like that better anyway, for the Ho‘ohana associations with good work. Shift to your own language of intention.

For instance, creating a job of your own can also mean freelancing: You are able and willing to be the person that other businesses will outsource their work to. Many are making this choice, and turning bundles of ‘odd jobs’ into the mainstay of the work they do. It may not be that lucrative to start, but it’s definitely a place to grow from. Freelancing can pay the bills, keep people active and involved, and more optimistic and energetic. They’re in the game enough to play it instead of warming the bench, or worse, just watching from outside the chain link fence.

Freelancing is simply independent work, done for several people instead of just for one. Said another way, the other part of the ‘create a job of your own’ option has been to give up on the thought of being a full-time employee with benefits. They’re steadily decreasing benefits anyway, with things like pensions going the way of the dinosaur, and this shift in thinking may not be that hard to do anymore. Shore up your financial education in constructing a personal, ‘business of my life’ kind of business plan, so the economics become clearer to you. Ignore the rules (and business managers) other people will blindly and obediently follow, and then forge your own way. You step back to the simpler, basic economic rule of working, living, and playing within your means — as our grandparents may have said, you earn your own keep.

I like to think of this ‘I’ve got no employer’ status as the choice to eventually cut out the middleman (and it’s also the premise of Business Thinking with Aloha). You don’t sign up for the work that someone else has designed, accepting whatever the baggage that comes with it. You opt for the work which best fits into the design of your life instead, whatever job-shape that work might turn out to be. It’s good work, because it’s your work. Work fits into your life, not the other way around.

You know you’re too big for most jobs anyway — your capacity for greatness is way bigger than any single job.

Turn struggle into new learning. You’ll make the effort exciting again.

Many people feel forced into this now, but when you really think about it, it’s much easier to follow the purpose and clarity in your own rules — as long as you do it the smart way, and do learn the ‘dollars and sense’ of personal economics as a societal creature.

We think of this as willpower and discipline, but it’s more about open-minded learning: There are concrete strategies here, such as the practice many are newly learning to follow of eliminating the debt in their life. They are eliminating their use of credit, taking specific actions from cutting up credit cards and using public transit, to getting rid of mortgages in favor of renting. We have experienced how too much credit = longer term debt = stuck in life rather than living it fully. We are newly learning how debt has represented liability on our personal balance sheets.

You needn’t go as far as adopting frugality or austerity in learning more about today’s economics. For instance, there’s great innovation within downsizing movements, and others regarding urbanity, greening, permaculture and eco-living, and you can learn your own best way forward. ‘Ike loa, and the value of learning is the golden ticket to exploring your most desirable options.

But back to jobs” there’s one more option to cover in our brass tacks of the basics.

Option 3, work with the middleman, then help him change his game.

Option 3 is the one I personally find I’m thinking about most these days, in my own work’s passion with value-alignment, and in other industries, like banking and housing, fully cognizant of how we can effect change as consumers, and not just as employees (those who follow my Tumblr have witnessed my explorations).

Like the other two job options I have covered, Option 3 has always been an employment option too, but it differs in that it applies to the people who already have a job. It can also apply to those who presently do volunteer work, but hope to be paid for it one day – they help shift the existing business model, to make future compensation possible.

Option 3 is about being willing to change the game of job definition when you’re already somewhere in the system. You have a job, but you know it can be better, and you actively work to help make that happen. You see where other jobs could, and should be in place, and you help your employer see the light, whether they be the business person, entrepreneur, or boss in charge as ‘middleman.’ You lend whatever support you can, so they will feel more comfortable with taking their leap of faith in new job creation.

This might be something you do for yourself because the job isn’t totally right for you yet either, however know this: Improving the way the game is played in business helps everyone. Those who are happy with their situation, have to call upon their sense of decency and share the wealth — and I don’t just mean monetarily, but by sharing their well-being: Wealth is a Value. People are hurting now, and those who have a job — any job at all — can’t sit back and not empathize with that hurt elsewhere in their communities.

“One of life’s greatest laws is that you cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own as well.”
From: The Core 21 Beliefs of Managing with Aloha

Jobs of any merit, deliver personal dignity.

We call it Ho‘ohanohano in Managing with Aloha, the value wherein people feel they can conduct themselves with distinction — that’s what employment does for people; it gives them a means of putting a professional signature on the work they produce.

That’s an incredible gift to give someone.

If you have a job right now, how can you influence your employer? How can you help him or her design and create more work? How can you reshape old jobs that were eliminated into newly relevant ones, and increase the size of your team? Are you speaking up instead of sitting back?

Honestly folks? Option 3 is about being better than you are, and getting involved like you’ve never done so before. Don’t just call yourself lucky to have a job: Start working to get others to enjoy what you might be enjoying, and do whatever you can to help the unemployed from your present circle of influence — share the dignity of work with your fellow human beings.

Dig deep. Ask yourself how you personally can turn the tide of mass unemployment from wherever you now sit. If nothing else, know that we are still in a time of great change and readjustment, and you can’t make any assumptions about your own job either — your anchor.

“In the [prosperity of the] nineties, we saw that a rising tide lifts all boats. Now we see that a changing tide tests the strength of your anchor. What you stand for is as important as what you sell.”
— Roy Spence, CEO of GSD&M Idea City

There are far too many businesses going through the motions now, and resting on their laurels simply because they have held on, not because they have gotten better. That’s just not acceptable any more, nor should it ever be.

Here’s another quote from Roy Spence:

“The thrill of life, at least in my experience, is to create something that was not there before. An article that has never been written, a painting that’s never been painted, a business that’s never been done… I think the thing that always got me through was the belief that, in some moment, I never had a job. I always had work to do. I know that sounds a little bit trite, but not to me. I think you go get a job to make money, I think you go to work to make a difference.”

Let’s go for that thrill, that work we have to do to make a difference. Often, as we constantly talk about here with our Managing with Aloha sensibility for work, creating something that was not there before means putting values in place where they belong.

“The logic of competition has evolved from the imitative world of products versus products, to the revolutionary fervor of business models versus business models, to now, the promising realm of value systems versus value systems.”
— William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre in Mavericks at Work, explain “strategy as advocacy.”

Finally! You can’t just have a company anymore and automatically be successful. You have to have a cause, and one where your values are at work along with your ideas.

So to sum up: Brass tack options in jobs of any merit:

  1. Apply for posted job vacancies. Even if this works for you, know that skills are changing and still in flux. Continue to work on relevant skills-mastery. If you get your foot in the door somewhere, jump down to option 3.
    [This strategy might help: Job-hunting? Don’t apply and fill, create and pitch]
  2. Create your own work. Be more creative and open-minded to your possibilities. Learn more and choose good partners, but no more middleman of any kind: You be the designer of your personal economic rules.
  3. Change the game from within the system. Stop warming the bench. Be an inventor and re-inventor and get actively involved in helping your community as a whole. Use your insider’s position and access to in-play resources to full advantage. Leverage whatever you have, wherever you are, and be a maverick.

Where are you, and what will you choose? Choose so you can take action.

Please talk about this with each other. As I said in the beginning, everyone can do something. Everyone. And that includes you.

In New York City’s Financial District, hundreds of activists have been converging on Lower Manhattan over the past two weeks, protesting as part of an “Occupy Wall Street” movement. The protests are largely rallies against the influence of corporate money in politics, but participants’ grievances also include frustrations with corporate greed, anger at financial and social inequality, and several other issues. (Image via Flickr CC by David Shankbone)

Credit for both images: In Focus with Alan Taylor for The Atlantic.

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