Could easily spread like wildfire.
Occupying, Organizing and the Movements That Demand Both
By Rinku Sen| Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | www.colorlines.com
It’s unlikely that anyone knows how to predict when “movement moments” will strike. But the question is how we make the most of them when they come, because you never know how close you are to freedom.
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OWS and Race
Editorial on race, whiteness, and Occupy Wall Street in its formative stages.
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What does healing look like?: To all the white people talking about unity in the Occupy movement
What does healing look like?: To all the white people talking about unity in the Occupy movement| Caroline Picker
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Sometimes we need to spend time apart in order to come together. Sometimes we need to be angry in order to heal. It’s like this: I’m facilitating a workshop at Occupy Phoenix about colorbl…
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Occupy Wall Street Struggles to Make ‘the 99%’ Look Like Everyone
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At the beginning, there was a visible scarcity of blacks and other minorities among the protesters at Zuccotti Park, which was jarring to people of color who considered joining. Getting the movement to be more diverse has become a priority in recent days.
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Occupy Wall Street’s Race Problem
Occupy Wall Street’s Race Problem|Kenyon Farrow
The economic crisis has disproportionately affected people of color, in particular African Americans. Given the stark economic realities in communities of color, many people have wondered why the Occu
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Whiteness and the 99%
This piece was written by Joel Olson, a member of BtR-Arizona, as a contribution to ongoing debates about the occupations taking place in the U.S.
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Occupy to Self Manage by Michael Albert
I have yet to see my nearest large occupation, Boston, or the precursor of all U.S. occupations, Wall Street. Instead, I have been on the road for the past six weeks in Thesselonika and Athens Greece; Istanbul and Diyarbikar Turkey; Lexington, Kentucky; London, England; Dublin, Ireland; and in Barce…
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Three Reasons Why I Love Occupy Wall Street
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Since September 17th, an enormous amount of public momentum and critique has been generated by the emergence of Occupy Wall Street and its replication in hundreds of cities across the country. Si…
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the 99 percent
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We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We…
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