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  1. Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
  2. American Autumn: An Occudoc
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
  3. American Autumn Part 2
    Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  4. Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Prefigurationists argue that they can create self-contained, self-governing societies as pockets of autonomy within the capitalist system. While the goal of creating a democratic decision-making process and remaining independent of the mainstream political system is necessary to create a movement that challenges the entrenched power of Wall Street and the corporate elite, the goal of constituting an autonomous authority within capitalism is impossible and can lead to some dangerous illusions.
  5. The Awakening in America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The dynamic of social movements is far more important than their ostensible ideological positions. Revolutions arise out of complex processes of social debate and interaction that happen to reach a critical mass and trigger a chain reaction — processes very much like what we are seeing at this moment. The “99%” slogan may not be a very precise “class analysis,” but it’s a close enough approximation for starters, an excellent meme to cut through a lot of traditional sociological jargon and make the point that the vast majority of people are subordinate to a system run by and for a tiny ruling elite.
  6. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
    A Toolbox for Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Ideas for organizers.
  7. Beyond Banksters
    Resisting the New Feudalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
  8. The Cancer in Occupy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
  9. A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
    The Tangled Purse Strings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
  10. A Convergence of Realities
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
  11. Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The question now is whether the Occupy movement can survive as an effective force for political and social action. The decision made some time ago to set up permanent encampments is turning out to be a disaster and is taking attention away from other more productive activist events.
  12. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
  13. Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
  14. An Education in Occupy
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
  15. The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution 
    A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
  16. FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
    US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
  17. Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
  18. 451 at Zuccotti Park
    "Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The books at Zuccotti Park were hauled away in dumpsters belonging to the sanitation department. The pretext of the destruction was "cleaning" the park which, the Mayor said, was filled with "filth". This is the rhetoric of Mein Kampf.
  19. From "Occupy" to ...
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
  20. Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Ultimately, the Occupy Wall Street protests have already succeeded. The movement has successfully re-focused the nation's debate on who ruined the economy and who should be targeted, shifting blame away from immigrants, unions, and other groups of working people, like public employees. The protests have also re-fueled working people's energy after the post-Wisconsin letdown, activating the energies of many who want to collectively organize for progressive change in the interests of working people.
  21. Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Something has escaped the control of the Democrats, the NGOs, the SEIU and the left sects — of official society and those attempting its mere facelift — which will not be easily brought to heel. Hundreds of thousands of people who had never before been in mass mobilizations (or mobilizations of any kind) found themselves confronting the police, facing tear gas and pepper spray, going to jail and learning in the streets what can never be learned any other way.
  22. Homeless in America
    Throw Them Out With the Trash
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets — not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
  23. How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Occupy movement occupied two parallel, rarely intersecting universes in the corporate media. In one, described frequently in the Toronto Star, occasionally in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail and only once in the National Post, Occupy is a worldwide movement created in response to the growing gap between the one percent at the top of the income-and-asset pyramid and the 99 percent below.
  24. I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  25. The importance of dealing with Occupy's misogyny problem
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An account of some misogynist dynamics within the Occupy movement and the need to challenge them.
  26. Infiltration To Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct Are Widespread In Occupy - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    This article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue.
  27. It Started in Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
  28. Letter from Baltimore
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment .
  29. A Letter To Other Occupiers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed.
  30. Looking Back on Occupy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A look at the Occupy movement and its relevance today.
  31. Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
  32. Making the Future
    Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
  33. Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
    An Interview With Catherine Komp
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
  34. A Movement Without Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
  35. The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach.
  36. Notes on the Fly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2012
    A report from Occupy Wall Street
  37. The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  38. NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
  39. The Oakland Port Shutdown
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
  40. Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  41. Occupy and the Urgency of Inclusiveness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Occupy is a social movement that purports to give expression to working class concerns in the absence of working class participation. Occupy has evolved into a form of organization that effectively excludes many who might otherwise participate, and, even worse, may ultimately result in a predominately middle class orientation over time.
  42. Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
  43. Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
  44. Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
  45. Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
  46. Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
  47. Occupy Movement a valuable partner
    'Idea' to build a united Canadian progressive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The progressive community must learn it has to confront power with power – something we don’t do well in Canada. It seems enough to most Canadians to simply point out that something is wrong, and leave it to someone else to shoulder. This doesn’t cut it any more. We need to stop being nice, and start fighting harder!
  48. Occupy Oakland activists take up the question of decision-making
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Exclusionary strategies and tactics alienate those of us who are interested in a slower, more solid, more inclusive approach of mass movement building.
  49. Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond - All Eyes on Longview!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality.
  50. Occupy Portland Regroups
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
  51. Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
  52. Occupy: The Movie
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    When Zuccotti Park became the epicentre of a global movement, the world took notice. But what comes next? Uncovering the crusade's genesis, Occupy: The Movie captures America's most daring social movement since the civil rights era.
  53. Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
    Where are the Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
  54. Occupy Wall Street - Wikipedia article
    Connexpedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    About the demonstrations in New York City, 2011.
  55. Occupy Wall Street! Observations from a New York Public Sector Worker
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A lot remains to be seen, but if Madison is any indication, upping the ante in this struggle and achieving real results will require more than crowds ... it will require the focused activity of significant layers of the organized working classes, that have the roots and the experience to help leverage the power that is being built against the establishment here and nationally. Even if we don't get concrete wins, this will have been a hugely important protest but there is a potential for it to be concretely effective as well.
  56. Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, and racists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say no to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
  57. On "Occupy Wall-Street" and the Demobilizing Interpretation of Postwar American Protest Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Adams discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  58. OWS and the working class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
  59. Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  60. Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    "We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
  61. The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
  62. Police Violence and Media Coverup
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
  63. The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
  64. Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
  65. Pushing Demands at OWS?
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
  66. The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
  67. Reflections on the New School Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
  68. Remembering Another Occupy
    Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  69. Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  70. Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
  71. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
  72. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements: 1968/2011
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  73. Socialist Register 2013
    Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
    This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
  74. "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
  75. The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Gathering in the city, taking strength from its history, remembering its past and our past, we stand firm.
  76. Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House 
    Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
  77. Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
  78. 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
  79. 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
  80. Two Months in LA's Solidarity Park
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Occupy Los Angeles was the largest of the “Occupy” encampments: In the space of two months, we grew from around 50 to nearly 500 tents. Our camp developed neighborhoods, tribes, collectives, a print shop, a library, a people’s university, a wellness center, a meditation tent, a kid’s village, and all sorts of fascinating community problems to go with them. This is the particular joy and struggle of being an occupation, and not a traditional group of community organizers; the internal conflict of a commune or a family was playing out simultaneously with our movement and message-building.
  81. 2013 Unoccupied
    Sun Tzu's Messages to the Occupy Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The ”Occupy” movement has apparently receded into the long night. The structural challenges remain the same, and opposition is still needed. What has been exposed as fruitless, however, is the idea of occupying parks in chaotic sieges that signify nothing.
  82. We Are Wisconsin
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
  83. We can dream, or we can organize 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created and thus a correspondingly little ability to bring about any of the changes hoped for. Nor is social media a substitute for mass action.
  84. We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born
    Mexico's Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The truth is that Mexican public opinion has never fully swallowed the fiction – believed by many in the United States – that the drug war is somehow about stopping drugs or their abuse. Almost everybody knows that it is primarily a means to enrich the pockets of corrupt politicians and police.
  85. What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
    Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
  86. When Push Comes to Shove 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
  87. Where to Occupy Next?
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    I truly don't want to be another sob story. But when the rare opportunity comes along to tell my story and affect many, like a stone cast into the water, it is necessary to at least attempt to grab the hearts of people who will listen.
  88. Why I Stand with Occupy
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  89. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
    The New Global Revolutions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
  90. Why Occupy Wall Street Must Include Deamdn for Honest, Observably Counted, Unrigged Elections
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Too many critical parts of our electoral process are controlled by private partisan corporations. The counting of our votes is now controlled by these corporations' software inside computerized "black boxes" – entirely in secret.
  91. Wisconsin Uprising
    Labor Fights Back
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
  92. The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
  93. Yes, But What Are You For?
    Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.
  94. Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
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