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Announcing a Global Teach-In

Building a new economy and new wealth through democracy networks, green jobs, and an alternative financial system
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Interesting commentaries on OWS

 a number of commentaries on OWS and beyond that I found especially good

» read more | michaeljohnson's blog | login or register to post comments | 198 reads
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Grace Lee Boggs Message to the Occupy Movement

Move on from protest to re-inventing the institutions and practices we need
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Worker-Owners of America, Unite!

Is the NY Times getting it?
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The power of Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center Plaza

OWS "Truth-Force" Obliterates New York Police Department Barricade with Gandhi power
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Arundhati Roy doesn’t get it

The need to move beyond protest is urgent and long-term

 

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A more than interesting proposal

"I know that this uniform doesn't have a heart, but I do."
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Civil Society at Ground Zero:

Civil Society at Ground Zero: You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can't Stop the Spring
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Giving Thanks for OCCUPY

Five indicators that the OCCUPY Movement could be a major turn in history
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More Low-Wage Workers Become Their Own Bosses

From California to Maine, over the last 15 years low-wage workers have steadily organized employee-owned small businesses
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Rolling Stone begins to really get it

A movement built on the idea that everyone can speak for themselves is so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation that it has flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left
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November 2011: Agoraphobic moments of revelation

States cannot, by their nature, ever truly be democratic. They are, after all, basically ways of organizing violence.
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Oakland Mayor Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement

speaking in an interview with the BBC Quan casually mentioned
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OWS, 11/15/11: A police raid full of symbolism

A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street...
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Ten Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything

1. It names the source of the crisis. 2. It provides a clear vision of the world we want. 3. It sets...

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The 99 Percent Organize Themselves

OWS and its progeny are creating a "rough and ready democracy" around the country
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The not-understood dead weight of cultures

What sustains exploitation as a dominant social dynamic?
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Oakland and After: Lessons from the General Strike

What I found especially striking about the OccupyOakland strike: extreme message discipline in which people spoke about the same issue, not out of a pre-designed plan but because their shared experiences were remarkably similar.
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...and still more OWS links

Navy Veteran Confronts Police about Violence against Vets at Occupy Santa Barbara
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Media Reports on Oakland General Strike

Oakland general strike brings labor, students, teachers into streets
http://fsrn.org/audio/oakland-general-strike-brings-labor-students-teachers-streets/9372

 

Scenes From Oakland's General Strike: Activists Shut Down Local Citibank Chapter
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/02/359714/scenes-from-oaklands-general-strike-activists-shut-down-local-citibank-chapter/

 

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