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Tools for a Movement of Leaders: OWS Facilitator Workshop
Lisa Fithian has been working for nonviolent social change since the mid 1970’s. Over the years she has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues. From environmental justice to student and worker rights, from … Continue reading
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#OWS and the Formation of Rhizomatic Associations
A lot of ink has been spilled over whether our digital connections pull us together into a global community or push us apart into our own highly specialized tribes. I do not find either to be very convincing- as they … Continue reading
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The Future of Occupy Assemblies
This issue is the labor of love of The Future of Occupy collaborative, a group of individuals tending the gardens of the movement’s collective intelligence and wisdom. We seed, feed and weed its gardens of collective self-knowledge. That wisdom is … Continue reading
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Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses
In both the United States and many other countries, students are protesting against rising tuition fees, the increasing financial burdens they are forced to assume, and the primacy of market models in shaping higher education while emphasizing private benefits to … Continue reading
Occupy is Not Just About Occupying
What to do next? The Occupy Movement needs to bring participatory democracy to communities. Occupiers should develop an aggressive organizing plan for their city. Divide the city and appoint people to be responsible for different areas of the city. Depending … Continue reading
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Ten ways to #OccupyWinter
Though police and municipal actions have busted up some Occupy encampments, and others have folded temporarily due to weather, the movement is alive and thriving in both the popular imagination and on the Internet. Occupy-related communiques are more than holding … Continue reading
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In New York City, the Occupy movement takes on local causes
As questions grow about where the Occupy movement is headed, in New York City, where it all began, attention is turning to local issues. But the protesters are also drawing on an earlier mass movement which, like the stop-and-frisk protests, … Continue reading
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A Plea to College Presidents: Exercise Your Moral Leadership
Is this really what university leaders want for our campuses? Where are today’s leaders who will take the moral high ground and side sympathetically with the rising tide of students who are Occupying Higher Ed and protesting what all of … Continue reading
Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals
There is the challenge of connecting the university with visions that have some hold on the present, defending education as more than an investment opportunity or job credential, students as more than customers, and faculty as more than technicians or … Continue reading
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Much more than a movement against big banks, they’re a rejection of what our society has become. I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. My initial impression was that it would not be taken … Continue reading
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