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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Strategic 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...

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Generation 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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If 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...

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The 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....

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The 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...

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Dispatches 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...

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The 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...

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Occupy 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...

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Occupy 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...

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Swarm 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,...

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Strategic 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...

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Generation 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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