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Dec 29 2012in A Top Story, Big Picture, Commons, FoO Media, Poetry, Video by FoO-StewardTags: art, poetry, protest, sharing
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 [...]
Tags: art, poetry, protest, sharing
International Peace and Justice Magazine Declares “Occupy Alive and Well”
Nov 2 2012in Big Picture, Reports by mbsteisslingerTags: 99%, banking crisis, climate crisis, divinity of humanity, international cooperation, Keystone XL, many languages, May 15, Occupy, Occupy at one year, people power, spiritual perspective, unity
Share International Magazine dedicated five pages to the occupy story and personal interviews exploring where the Occupy Movement is headed one year down the road. This international spiritual publication with a universalist emphasis on the divinity of humanity and earth as a whole, focusses on issues of peace and justice, and as the name implies, declares [...]
Tags: 99%, banking crisis, climate crisis, divinity of humanity, international cooperation, Keystone XL, many languages, May 15, Occupy, Occupy at one year, people power, spiritual perspective, unity
Occupy @ 1 Year: #S17 and moving forward…
Sep 11 2012in Big Picture, FoO Media by mbsteisslingerTags: #S17, OWS 1 year old, OWS birthday, ows overview, ows summary
With the OWS 1 yr anniversary upon us, i’ve been reflecting on how the world has changed because of these world-wide demonstrations of people power. People are fed up, and i love it. It’s so hopeful to finally see those getting reemed, fracked, ripped-off and dismissed … standing up together. The world is taking notice. [...]
Tags: #S17, OWS 1 year old, OWS birthday, ows overview, ows summary
A promise from Occupy London: this is only the beginning
Mar 15 2012in Big Picture, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: daily life, General Assemblies
Reposted from Occupy London, authored by Press, originally published on: 10 March 2012 Video by Inka Stafrace of Polly Tikkle Productions, an occupier who resided at the Occupy London Stock Exchange occupation for 3 of the 4.5 month occupation. Featured song is “Why we build the wall” by Anais Mitchell, one of the artists featured on Occupation Records’ upcoming album, Folk the Banks, [...]
Tags: daily life, General Assemblies
Feb 19 2012in Big Picture, Commons, FoO Media by Stephen CollisTags: common space, non-ownership, public space, urban commons
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 [...]
Tags: common space, non-ownership, public space, urban commons
News of the OWS Forum on the Commons, New York
Feb 13 2012in Big Picture, Commons, FoO Media by George PórTags: commons
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 [...]
Tags: commons
Commons and Occupy
Feb 13 2012in Big Picture, Commons, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Workshops by George PórTags: commons, identity, strategy, workshops
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 [...]
Tags: commons, identity, strategy, workshops
Two generations of Occupiers
Feb 2 2012in Big Picture, Identity & Strategy by George PórTags: Adbusters, Guy Debord, situationism, Situationist International
Known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Ken Knabb is a translator, writer and radical theorist. Mr. Knabb has kindly donated texts from the Bureau of Public Secrets to the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street. His current writings regarding the Occupation can be found here: The Awakening in America (general overview of [...]
Tags: Adbusters, Guy Debord, situationism, Situationist International
Civic Distress Calls for Deep Deliberations and the Commons
Jan 19 2012in Big Picture, Commons, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: black humor, civic distress, commons, deliberative democracy, elections, local governance, local sovereignty, Occupy New Haven, Occupy Portland, Occupy Wall Street, sovereignty, thinking together, upside down flag, working groups
Here in the U.S., many are already sick to death of the Presidential campaign. Sadly, our national politics boil down to not much more than lining-up favors and cash for the next election. The only thing good about the whole spiel is the comedy routines… but one cannot survive on comedy alone. The United States [...]
Tags: black humor, civic distress, commons, deliberative democracy, elections, local governance, local sovereignty, Occupy New Haven, Occupy Portland, Occupy Wall Street, sovereignty, thinking together, upside down flag, working groups
Workshops in Attention Training for Social Change
Jan 9 2012in Big Picture, Workshops by andypaiceTags: attention, attention training, inner work, mindfulness, shared attention, social change
This is a training adapted for the needs of social change in the 21st century. It looks at how we hold this space we call “we” and how we can function more effectively in it. by Anna Betz & Andy Paice Up until quite recently little attention has been given to awareness itself in the [...]
Tags: attention, attention training, inner work, mindfulness, shared attention, social change
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