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The Occupy Movement recently celebrated its second anniversary with very little fanfare leaving many to wonder where all the activists went. It seems they, and many anti-establishment activists, are vacating the system rather than occupying it. 
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As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest.
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The Occupy movement was the beginning of something new; not the end of the old. The decades ahead will prove its historical contribution to US society.
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Reuters remarked on its new focus on the theme of the "Robin Hood Tax," as did Forbesmagazine which felt it "might have some merit. The Ed Show on MSNBC had nice things to say about its messages which have "survived."
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The Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
WELCOME TO OCCUPY WALL STREET’S OCCU-EVOLVE A COORDINATION, STRUCTURE, OUTREACH GROUP ORGANIZING TO EXPAND OWS INTO A MOVEMENT FIGHTING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE 99%!
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Historians often speak of the period from 1932 through 1980 as the New Deal Political Order—a period characterized by a Democratic political majority made possible by a coalition of Southern whites, northern liberals, African Americans, and unions. Although the Democrats won some battles and lost others, the political debates of the era were defined by the Democrats to such an extent that even when they lost, they often won, as when Richard Nixon supported policies that were pro-environment, pro-Social Security, and pro-national health care.
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The Occupy movement has been the defining social movement of my generation, bringing the recent wave of globally networked uprisings for democracy and equality to the heart of capitalism and corporate control in the US. Through its audacious successes and frustrating shortcomings, Occupy fired a warning shot across the bows of Wall Street, signaling the beginning of a period of transformation of the United States that will rebuild democracy to turn us away from the path of economic and ecological destruction and build the new world that is not just an ideal but a necessity for our collective survival.
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There were a handful of tattooed and body-pierced young people and a few old hippies, like me. Everybody seemed to have always been there, although it was 17 days into the global, leaderless movement known as Occupy Wall Street. There were hand written signs which said "Kitchen", "First Aid" and "Library" and people scrawling on cardboard boxes, "We Are the 99%" and "Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out." It reminded me a bit of The Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park.
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Think the Occupy Movement has come and gone? Not so, claims renowned theologian Matthew Fox, the co-author, along with activist Adam Bucko, of a new book called Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation. Occupy may have been diverted temporarily, Fox says, but the movement is still very much alive — morphing, changing, and deepening — in a new generation of imaginative and passionate young people.
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A collaborative project seeks to redefine the place where activism and academia meet by promoting militant research in, about and with the movements.
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“In Occupy: The Movie, Corey Ogilvie chose to narrow his focus to ground zero for the Occupy movement — New York City. Industry accountability, systemic corruption, government oversight, and consolidated media all are glimpsed through the lens of activists, journalists, and scholars, including iconic progressive thinkers Noam Chomsky and Cornel West. And Ogilvie doesn’t shy away from the fault lines and weaknesses within the movement itself.”
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The existing literature on the recent global wave of social protest ranges from theories that regard new media as ‘game-changers’, to those that stress the centrality of global communication networks or of online/offline articulations in the occupied squares, to those that seek explanations not in new media but in the protracted crisis of financial capitalism. This article proposes an alternative theory of the new protest movements centred on the growing convergence of the global movement for digital freedom with local forms of social unrest.
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American culture, dominated by the influence of wealthy advertising, teaches its young people to look to Wall Street for help — even if the series of recent fiscal catastrophes paints major banking corporations in a wholly corrupt light. Is there a way to reach fiscal security without going down Wall Street.
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by David Graeber
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“GLOBALISATION” has become the buzzword of the last two decades. The sudden increase in the exchange of knowledge, trade and capital around the world, driven by technological innovation, from the internet to shipping containers, thrust the term into the limelight.
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September 17th this week marked Occupy Wall Street’s second anniversary, and as we depicted in the Occupy Network S17 newsletter, it could not be a better time to take stock of where we are at and consider where we might go from here.
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Today, September 17, marks the second anniversary of the Occupy movement. When that movement is mentioned at all in Washington, which is rarely, the tone is dismissive. It didn’t have coherent goals, someone may say. The movement needed an electoral strategy, someone else will add. No wonder it didn’t last.
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September 17 marks the second anniversary of the day a handful of people walked into a small plaza in lower Manhattan and refused to leave, inaugurating the national political upheaval known as Occupy Wall Street.
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As we approach the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, it seems crucial – even urgent – to reflect on how we understand the impact of the movement and what it means for us today.
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Now available on iTunes, American Autumn compiled experiences from New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC, in an effort to answer two questions: What does the Occupy movement stand for? And what are the movement’s demands? Among the luminaries included are Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, and Cornel West
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“Narrated by Lou Reed, this doc looks at the wide swath of the population burned by the economic crisis, from a 22-year-old college graduate to a 92-year-old grandmother, from a Marine veteran to a police captain. They discuss issues like health care, education, the environment, income inequality, and unemployment. Economist Jeffrey Sachs ties it all together and shows what steps could be taken to creative a sustainable future for all. Footage was sourced from numerous documentarians and includes never-before-seen clips from the police crackdown in Zuccotti Park.”
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“After the occupations of Cinema Palazzo and the Teatro Valle, the occupy culture movement increased and became contagious, il Teatro Marinoni, the Coppola Theatre of Catania, the Garibaldi Theatre, the collective of the Balena of Naples with the Asilo della creatività e della conoscenza. Macao in Milan and the already existing S.A.L.E. Docks in Venice, are all experimenting innovative models of daily bottom up productions.”
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