You are browsing the archive for people power.
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
Apr 8 2012in Commons, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: commons, democracy, designed deliberative, evolution, market state, people power, thinking together, third sector
Occupy and allied movements have uncovered the glaring truth, we the citizens of most nations have little or no power to reform the current Market State system that is wreaking such havoc on our economies, our communities and our ecosystems. Can we stop the blatant enclosure of the ways and means of production (Market) and governance [...]
Tags: commons, democracy, designed deliberative, evolution, market state, people power, thinking together, third sector
Dec 19 2011in Big Picture, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: camps, corporatization, direct action, eviction, new institutions, people power, prefigurative politics
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, direct action, eviction, new institutions, people power, prefigurative politics
Dec 11 2011in Direct Democracy, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: Bill of Rights Template, By and For the People, commons law, cooperation across boundaries, economic oppression, local communities, local sovereignty, municipal collaboration, people power, Pittsburgh, self governance, shale gas regions
Jeff Reifman, Envision Seattle and Thomas Linzey, Esq of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) recently posted a major message to the Occupy movement, both a warning and a challenge… “Mainstream progressive groups have failed by constraining their activities within legal and regulatory systems purposefully structured to subordinate communities to corporate power. Real movements don’t operate that way. Abolitionists never sought to regulate [...]
Tags: Bill of Rights Template, By and For the People, commons law, cooperation across boundaries, economic oppression, local communities, local sovereignty, municipal collaboration, people power, Pittsburgh, self governance, shale gas regions
Nov 26 2011in Academics & Research, Economics, Social Innovation, Video by Anna BetzTags: banking, ecomomy, economics, finance, human rights, people power, public good, solidarity
On November 13th 2011, economists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst drafted an open statement to the Occupy Wall Street movement pledging their support. Since then, more than 200 economists from around the world have added their names. Read more at econ4.org They consider the occupiers as advocates of the public good and state: “The [...]
Tags: banking, ecomomy, economics, finance, human rights, people power, public good, solidarity
Recent Comments