The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Exploring OWS’s collective thinking process – and Michael Moore’s Below are four documents that provide interesting insight into the kinds of energies and proposals that get born through Occupy Wall Street’s collective thinking process of working groups and General Assembly deliberations. The first document is a “Statement of Autonomy” passed by consensus at the OWS …
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Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 4 – Model Community Bill of Rights and the Simultaneous Policy Here is another example of the potential of the Occupy movement. A major focus of Occupy is the need to radically reduce the toxic impact of corporations in our society and on our shared environment. Although corporations have a …
Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 3 – Initiatives within and inspired by OWS There is SO much going on in and around the Occupy movement – even in the midst of and aftermath of the many recent evictions – and even as the holiday season gets seriously underway. The diversity of local dynamics and …
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What happens now with OWS? Those who think the Occupy movement will die away just because several encampments in major cities have been evicted are likely to be surprised. They remind me of people who think that climate change is not going to be such a big deal because the weather in their area has …
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Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 1 – Brilliant #OWS foreclosure activism Dear friends, During the next week I’ll be reporting on a wide variety of initiatives and inquiries arising among Occupy activists in this transition phase of their movement. But first I want to share one of the main thrusts of their emerging effort, which …
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Sources of the Occupy Movement – Part 4 – Socioeconomic conditions This post looks at the social and economic conditions that fostered the emergence of the Occupy movement, as well as a timeline of events, books, and commentary that, in retrospect, offer significant precedents or stimulants to the form and energy of Occupy. Coheartedly, Tom …
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Dear friends, Stimulated by Occupy and an expanding inquiry into new forms of economics, combined with my ongoing interest in bringing wisdom to politics and governance, I’ve stumbled on a productive approach to pulling it all together: Start from an exploration of Power – particularly, but not only, social power. This brings both politics and …
