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A promise from Occupy London: this is only the beginning

 

Mar 15 2012in Big Picture, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: ,
A promise from Occupy London: this is only the beginning

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, [...]

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A promise from Occupy London: this is only the beginning

Encounter with a new kind of "bag lady"

 

Jan 23 2012in Social Innovation by George PórTags: , , sustainability
Encounter with a new kind of "bag lady"

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Encounter with a new kind of "bag lady"

A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WG

 

Jan 23 2012in Activism, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Working Groups by George PórTags: ,
A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WG

This 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 all the things going on so that they can get it out there. I am blown away [...]

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A homeless and a businessman meet in the Corporations WG

When we occupy our hearts with love, fear flees

 

Dec 24 2011in FoO Media, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: , ,
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 slogan for a blanket drive to provide comfortable bedding for the local family homeless shelter.  It’s winter [...]

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When we occupy our hearts with love, fear flees

A merry, r’evolutionary Christmas for Occupy supporters everywhere!

 

Dec 24 2011in Big Picture, FoO Media by George PórTags: , history, hope
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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 elevator-music Christmas carols, in a locked theological vault guarded down through the centuries by legions of preachers, priests and pontiffs, there burns [...]

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