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The Future of Occupy: From Occupying People’s Park to Changing the System

 

Mar 25 2012in Activism, Assemblies, Commons, FoO Media, Working Groups by mbsteisslingerTags: camps, decentralized, , system transformation, transition, world social forum, WTO
The Future of Occupy: From Occupying People’s Park to Changing the System

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 [...]

Tags: camps, decentralized, , system transformation, transition, world social forum, WTO
The Future of Occupy: From Occupying People’s Park to Changing the System

Next Move: Occupy Foreclosed Homes?

 

Dec 29 2011in Activism by Anna BetzTags: , , empty homes, New Haven, occupy foreclosures
Next Move: Occupy Foreclosed Homes?

Is that where the movement of “99-percenters” fighting economic inequality and corporate greed decides to go next?                                                                       http://occupyourhomes.org/   In Chicago, Communities [...]

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Next Move: Occupy Foreclosed Homes?

Open Letter To Occupy London from Two Working Class Old Buggers

 

Dec 24 2011in Activism, FoO Media by FoO-StewardTags: carnival, , , politics of the everyday, working class
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This Open Letter was sent to the Outreach Working Group of Occupy London on Dec 19,  making some practical suggestions based on what has been attempted by some so far. We publish it in appreciation of the perspective the authors bring to the movement, whose relevance is not limited to Occupy London. We, at The [...]

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Occupy Strategies: Camps, Direct Action and New Institutions

 

Dec 19 2011in Big Picture, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: camps, corporatization, , eviction, , , prefigurative politics
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The future of Occupy wages system transformation from the perspective of the many camps across the world, including Pittsburgh’s recent counter-eviction of Bank of NY Mellon, and/or from decentralized supporters engaging in direct and on-going action in the struggle against the corporatization of our planet.  We at Future of Occupy (FoO) will attempt to cover the [...]

Tags: camps, corporatization, , eviction, , , prefigurative politics
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