Feb Newsletter Announcement

Focus on Working Groups

Over the last month we’ve been reading, analyzing, and honing in on the most vibrant conversations taking place in the Working Groups. Our February issue, the ‘Focus on Working Groups‘ presents ...

R'evolution!

How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy

R’evolution is shorthand for the jump time of evolution, when social relations that have been frozen for a long time start thawing and the obsolescence of the dominant social order ...

Voices from the Movement ~ Latest

What we do

We support the Occupy movement’s self-reflection by: gathering and curating the choicest pieces of news, thought, and information from the movement advancing the collaborative sense-making process through feeding the action-reflection-action cycle providing a repository of emergent collective intelligence in terms of visioning, and best thinking and practices Read more about us here.

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Occupy + Commons: The Beginnings of a Beautiful Relationship

Re-posted from http://www.Bollier.org, authored by David Bollier,  originally published on: 20 January 2012 The Occupy movement is beginning to discover the commons, and the result could be a rich and productive collaboration.  This was the lesson that I took from a three-day conference, “Making Worlds:  A Forum on the Commons,” hosted by Occupy Wall Street in Brooklyn [...]

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Private, Public, or Common: Who Owns Space?

Reposted from Occupy Vancouver Voice, authored by Stephen Collis,  originally published on: 08 December 2011 What happens when we share public space, when we meet randomly in public? If we are lucky—if we are not too busy, too rushed, too turned in on our “own shit”—we regard each other. At some level, we “see” each [...]

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Exploring the future of “The Future of Occupy”

Thank you OWS for showing us what The Future of Occupy can also be. We at FoO started out as a website, where we curate Occupy news. Starting with the February issue of our newsletter, we expanded into a new possibility. The quality of some of its essays, and the underlying, deeper inquiry that they [...]

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News of the OWS Forum on the Commons, New York

Back to workshop Navigator or workshop Homepage Making Worlds The COMMONS are resources that belong to everyone: AIR, WATER, ECOSYSTEMS, LANGUAGE, TRADITIONS, CULTURE. We need to nurture them for future generations. The market system is transforming our commons into profit centers, stealing from us all as well. Join us for three days of sharing resources and ideas on [...]

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Commons and Occupy

Back to workshop Homepage This thread is part of the online component of the Occupy-Commons strategy conversation at the OWS Forum on the Commons in New York, February 16-18, 2012 described here. Thinking of a possible, Commons-inspired strategy as guidance to support wise choices in our daily work in and around the Occupations, prompts such questions as: What new possibilities can [...]

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A Commons-inspired “Occupy theory” of collective action

Back to workshop Homepage This thread is part of the online component of the Occupy-Commons strategy conversation at the OWS Forum on the Commons in New York, February 16-18, 2012 described here. Theory making (in Appreciative Inquiry) “refers to a theory of intentional collective action, designed to evolve the vision and will of a group, organization, or society as a whole. [...]

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Strategy workshop: Welcome – Introductions – Burning Questions

Back to workshop Homepage This thread is part of the online component of the Occupy-Commons strategy conversation at the OWS Forum on the Commons in New York, February 16-18, 2012 described here. Please introduce yourself and share with the other participants what your driving question(s) are on the Commons. In this thread we can also discuss any [...]

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Achievements of Occupy London’s Working Groups

This article is re-posted from Occupied Times, London. So long as the headlines of mainstream and corporate media remain the dominant billboards adorning the motorway of our media landscape, the prospects and achievements of Occupy London will remain stories untold to all than those who were here – venturing off-road. Rarely comprehended – and not [...]

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A photographic anthology of working groups & Occupy life!

Co-creators of this photographic anthology, Mary Beth Steisslinger and Mark Jagdev, invite you to explore a dozen snapshots in time of both the Working Groups and Occupy life. Presented as part of February’s Future of Occupy Newsletter, Focus on Working Groups, we wanted to share with you a collection of photos that gave us a direct sense [...]

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