Occupy Unveils ‘Spring Awakening’
by Allison Kilkenny April 16, 2012 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/16-11 During the long winter months, Occupy protesters kept reassuring those of us in the media still covering their actions that the spring would prove to be…
Occupy 2.0: The Great Turning
Building a movement to build a new reality By Michael Nagler April 5, 2012 http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/occupy-2.0-the-great-turning The spinning wheel, and the spinning wheel alone, will solve the problem of the deepening poverty of India….
Occupy Wall Street Protests ALEC In What Activists Call Largest Coordinated Occupy Event This Year
By Saki Knafo 03/01/2012 Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ In cities around the country today, hundreds of Occupy protestors gathered for what the movement described in a release as its “largest coordinated action this year.”…
Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring
by Rebecca Solnit Feb. 21, 2012 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/21-5 When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you…
Thank You, Moscow. Time to Set the Agenda
By Steve Beckow http://the2012scenario.com/2011/12/thank-you-moscow-time-to-set-the-agenda/ I suppose I write this to the 99% around the globe. What Muscovites are showing us is, I think, the next step for the Occupy Movement. The people of…
Arundhati Roy: “The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution”
Arun Gupta, guardian.co.uk, 11-30-11 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/30/arundhati-roy-interview The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning. Sitting…
Deepak Chopra: Occupy Together is Unstoppable. We Are the 100%
“This movement in Unstoppable!” Deepak shares ideas and inspiration with Occupy LA on the eve of Thanksgiving, Thanking occupiers, and invoking the spirit of 100% – Occupy Yourself, this is LOVE IN ACTION.
Foreclosed Homeowners Re-Occupy Their Homes
by Zaineb Mohammed, Common Dreams, Nov. 25, 2011 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/25-1 SAN FRANCISCO – Carolyn Gage was evicted from her foreclosed home in January. Earlier this month, she moved back in. “I’ve been in here…
Occupy Protestors Embracing the Homeless
4 Occupations Embracing the Homeless (As Cities Increasingly Can’t Take Care of Them) It is impossible to separate homelessness from Occupy Wall Street’s struggle for economic justice. Alternet, November 8, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/7wld4b8 In…
Occupy Oakland Calls for Total West Coast Port Shutdown on 12/12
Nov. 19, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-oakland-calls-total-west-coast-port-shutdow/ Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012: In response to coordinated attacks…
