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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleTools 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...
View ArticleStrategic Directions for Occupy Wall Street
Famed sociologist Frances Fox Piven and labor organizer Stephen Lerner discuss how Occupy Wall Street could grow into a major political movement that draws millions into the streets. “I’m absolutely...
View ArticleGeneration Threat: Why the Youth of America Are Occupying the Nation
The context which underpins the largely youth-driven “Occupy” phenomena evidences dramatic and defining differences which can be discovered in the measurable and widespread deterioration in American...
View ArticleIf Not Now, When?: How student protest can help save US higher education
Students therefore wield a particular form of power in the current era. First, the surge of new young voters into the electoral arena has party strategists re-calculating numbers and re-thinking policy...
View ArticleThe Future of Occupy General Assemblies
The Future of Occupy newsletter – 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....
View ArticleThe Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope
Central to the Occupy movement is the premise that hope as a subversive, defiant practice should provide a link, however transient, provisional and contextual, between vision and critique, on the one...
View ArticleDispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change
Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change – why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations. These are among the most ancient...
View ArticleThe Crisis and a Way Forward: What We Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street
The financial crisis of 2007 has generated ubiquitous commentary; it also spurred a global grassroots uprising that began with Occupy Wall Street. This movement provided a unique analysis of the crisis...
View ArticleOccupy Network – a place to discover Occupy
It is with great pride and humility that we announce the most major development our team has undergone since its founding: We have become the Occupy Network. Over the past year and a half we have sent...
View ArticleOccupy the long view
What many in the Occupy movement are now searching for is a way to think collectively about strategy. I don’t know anyone who expects that a lone intellectual will emerge with The Way Forward. What are...
View ArticleSwarm Wall Street: why an anti-political movement is the most important...
Why are people occupying Wall Street? The US political elite and mainstream media don’t know what to make of it. ‘Anti-capitalist and unAmerican’, says Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain,...
View ArticleStrategic Directions for Occupy Wall Street
Famed sociologist Frances Fox Piven and labor organizer Stephen Lerner discuss how Occupy Wall Street could grow into a major political movement that draws millions into the streets. “I’m absolutely...
View ArticleGeneration Threat: Why the Youth of America Are Occupying the Nation
The context which underpins the largely youth-driven “Occupy” phenomena evidences dramatic and defining differences which can be discovered in the measurable and widespread deterioration in American...
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