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George Pór wrote a new post, Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement
Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement
The Commission for Group Dynamics in Assemblies of the Puerta del Sol Protest Camp (Madrid) defined collective thinking as follows:Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement. To our understanding, […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, All People are Organic Intellectuals: the role of socially conceived theory in transformation All People are Organic Intellectuals: the role of socially conceived theory in transformation
All People are Organic Intellectuals: the role of socially conceived theory in transformation“Antonio Gramsci, writing in early 20th century Italy, argued that all people are intellectuals and philosophers. ‘Organic intellectuals’ is how he terms people who take their local knowledge from life […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, When we occupy our hearts with love, fear flees When we occupy our hearts with love, fear flees
When we occupy our hearts with love, fear flees
by Banzaibozo
A short story on how I learned to understand the power of OWS and why it will succeed.
I teach Sunday school to junior high kids. Today the students were trying to come up with a […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, On love, logic, and Occupying integrally 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Roger from New Zealand wrote in his comment on “Compassion Is Our New Currency” :
If you do your research adequately instead of relying on propaganda, you will know that “responding adequately to this crisis will […] -
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George Pór wrote a new post, 12 Reasons You’ll Be Hearing More About the Commons in 2012 12 Reasons You’ll Be Hearing More About the Commons in 2012
12 Reasons You’ll Be Hearing More About the Commons in 2012
“We” power stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends
This is a blog by Jay Walljasper, published in On The Commons, on January 4, 2012.1. The Commons is Essential to Our Health, Security […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, A merry, r’evolutionary Christmas for Occupy supporters everywhere! 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the Peoples’ Weekly World,
Dec. 22, 1999 (USA).Nearly smothered beneath piles of gift catalogs and sale circulars, nearly drowned in a sea of synthesized […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Manuel Castells on overcoming fear 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Originally posted by European Revolution on 10/08/2011Translation of the conclusions of the speech in Spanish of the sociologist Manuel Castells, professor at Berkeley University (California) and […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, General Assemblies: the primordial soup of social life in the 3rd millennium General Assemblies: the primordial soup of social life in the 3rd millennium
General Assemblies: the primordial soup of social life in the 3rd millennium— an essay about evolutionary dynamics and the Occupy movement —
Part One
1. How life assembled itself
The origins of life
Where were you and I, and what did we do, 3.5 billion years ago? Most […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Building alliances for the long haul Building alliances for the long haul
The original of this note was posted in the Outreach Strategy conversation of Occupy London’s online bulletin board.
Thinking of Occupy as a force of prefigurative politics would open the possibility of scaling […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Occupy 2.0! – Take Back The Commons! 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The origin of this post appeared on the Democractic Underground message board, under the title “Saturday December 17th Occupy 2.0! Take Back The Commons!“Taking back the commons is exactly what […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Mic Check poem from Occupy Eugene Mic Check poem from Occupy Eugene
MIC CHECK POEMby Samuel J. RutledgeMic check
MIC CHECK!
Mic Check!
MIC CHECK!
I would like
I WOULD LIKE
to echo
TO ECHO
your thoughts.
YOUR THOUGHTS.
I want your voice
I WANT YOUR VOICE
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George Pór wrote a new post, How could we ask for anything less than the future? How could we ask for anything less than the future?
“It’s time to rock the nation, rock this occupation! Our communities need us. We are all leaders. How could we ask for anything less than the future?”
This powerful video of the Occupy poem by acclaimed […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, On identity and strategy at Occupy London On identity and strategy at Occupy London
On identity and strategy at Occupy London
The article below by Flaminia Giambalvo was published under the title “On Identity and Strategy at St. Pauls” in The Occupied Times, on November 9th 2011. She wrote:
“What the London occupations have […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WG A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WG
A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WGThis message was posted to the internal mailing list of Occupy London. We republish it with the permission of the author.
The Press [Working Group of Occupy London], by its nature, has to be at the centre of […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, The community art of working with “blocking” The community art of working with “blocking”
The community art of working with “blocking”
Working groups, just as General Assemblies and other organs of Occupy’s direct democracy know their faire share of blocking, the making consensus fall short by one person stopping it. The moment of blocking is […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy
How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of OccupyR’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 becomes obvious to the […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Achievements of Occupy London’s Working Groups Achievements of Occupy London’s Working Groups
Achievements of Occupy London’s Working GroupsThis 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 […]
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George Pór wrote a new post, Real democracy is rising on the horizon at Occupy London Real democracy is rising on the horizon at Occupy London
Real democracy is rising on the horizon at Occupy London
The temperature was cold yet the air was hot last Friday, at the General Assembly of Occupy London at St.Paul’s. It was hot of our enthusiasm, as we were listening, with frequently “sparkling fingers,” to […]
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