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Written by Jerome Roos on June 19th, 2013, re-posted from SnuProject.wordpress.com. The protesters are starting to counter-pose their own direct democracy to the sham of a democracy proposed by Erdogan’s authoritarian neoliberal state. Something quite amazing is happening in Istanbul. In addition to the silent “standing man” actions around the country, people’s assemblies are slowly starting […]

Update:  We at The Future of Occupy are collaborating with Making Worlds on this forum and our home page and key resources for the event can be found here. Friends.. In follow up to the original OWS conference on the commons (see the 1st workshop listed here: http://thefutureofoccupy.org/workshops/online-workshops/) March 29th to March 30th 2013 sees Making World’s the […]

Jaye Gaskia 12:06pm Jan 3 REMEMBER? LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN! One year ago today the January Uprising of 2012 began to take its first tentative steps. Jan 2012 was the day the civil society wing of the Labour civil society coailition began the mass resistance to the inhuman and unprecedented hike in fuel price. From […]

A beautiful and poignant new years poem posted by Dean Omori and shared by the Future of Occupy Collective, with special thanks to the talents of Dean Omori. Happy New Year and to the future ahead of us. Together lets make it as bright, just and sustainable as We Can! Music & Film By Dean […]

The New Putney Debates – a series of debates at the edge of the Occupy movement, hosted by Occupy London. Welcoming cross sector engagement on matters of social justice, civil rights and equal access to the land in recognition of, and holding true to the spirit of the Levellers’ and Diggers’ in their debates 365 […]

Our NEW Website & Magazine are online!! Come and explore the Future of Occupy with us! The Future of Occupy, which began as a simple website in October 2011 and launched the FoO newsletter in January of this year as a newsletter, has undergone a considerable transformation over the spring to re-emerge as a fully-fledged […]

I admire my friends from the Major Group of Children and Youth, one of the 9 United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development Major Groups (ie. global civil society stakeholders). These groups went to Rio+20 in the hopes of salvaging something, ANYTHING useful out of those deliberations.   Rio+20 was supposed to set an international agreement […]

Reposted from InterOccupy.org by InterOccupy Admin, on May 5, 2012. Please reflect and share your thoughts about how to improve it. Does it go far enough? Does it go to far? What would you like to see included? We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world´s […]

As documented in our most recent Magazine ‘Occupying the Commons‘, the Commons, although not named as such, has been a central issue for Occupy almost since the movement began last year. As can be read in the magazine in certain places, it has also been spoken about and seen as a prototype from a very early […]

Re-posted from http://www.Bollier.org, authored by David Bollier, originally published on: 20 February 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 […]