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Re-posted from P2P Foundation, curated by Michel Bauwens, 14th January 2013. The next big idea might very well not be called “Occupy”, which may be a good thing — but the chances are high that, even so, it will be the result of networks that were forged during the Occupy movement. Excerpted from an interview [...]

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 [...]

As most of the country is distracted by the hoop-la of the big two conventions, some are actively working to find alternatives to the sorry state of democracy in the U.S. The challenges: New laws in many States to purge select voters from rolls, redrawing voting districts to minimize African American votes, turning formerly able [...]

As a biologist and commons activist, and an avid meditator with a universalist bent, i always look forward to the Spring Festivals, Holidays, and Holy Days of celebration and renewal.  I tend to think of April (Passover – Earth Day – Easter), May (Beltane – International Workers Day – The Buddhist Festival of Wesak) and June (The Great Journey [...]

In a recent US Social Forum update two key organizers of the USSF are interviewed regarding their thoughts on the Occupy Movement.  Here are the some of the insights shared with us by Maureen Taylor, the State Chairperson of Michigan Welfare Rights Union and co-chair of the Detroit Local Organizing Committee for the 2010 USSF and George [...]

Commons Institution for the Sky?  As we move thru the Occupy Spring, Earth Day comes to mind… Many climate activists will be asking if one of the largest commons on the planet, our global atmosphere, can serve as the fulcrum to turn this unsustainable and unjust ecological, economic and political situation in a better direction [...]

Are our social, economic and political crises unsurmountable?  Bill Moyers talks with young but very experienced organizers George Goehl, Ai-jen Poo, and Sarita Gupta and finds out what we can do and how we can bring about change and get involved. I was impressed by the well designed interview style and by the insights  the movement organisers so passionately shared  about [...]

This post is about an event that will happen tomorrow, a continent away, the other side of the Atlantic. Few of you reading it will have a chance to read it in time to decide to go there and be part of it. Yet, I’m writing about it because its portent goes way beyond the [...]

This piece is from Jackie Smith and Bob Glidden (Occupy Pittsburgh Outreach Working Group) The closing of Occupy camps around the country has generated some important soul-searching and strategizing by activists, and in Pittsburgh feelings are divided. On the one hand, many of the camp residents are deeply saddened by the loss of their home [...]

Reposted from Occupy Vancouver Media, authored by Stephen Collis,  originally published on: 26 February 2012 Most of us know the story by now: Brookfield Asset Management – a vast global corporation which owns property all over the world, including OWS’s Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) – also owns Island Timberlands, a BC company about to log [...]