Category:OccupyWallStreet
Defining Occupy Wall Street
URL = http://occupywallst.org/ Wikipedia
- Audio interview: Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution Podcast via [1]
- Text: Occupy as a Peer Production of a Political Commons
See also:
- FAQ by the Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/163719/occupy-wall-street-faq
- Eleven ways to support the movement
- More information in the individual entry on Occupy Wall Street
- Timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Occupy_Wall_Street
Important Events
- The Making Worlds OWS Forum on the Commons: to be organized February 16-18, 2012. organized by members of the Empowerment & Education Committee of OWS
Methodologies
Intro: The Occupy Wall Street API ; How To Occupy
- Affinity Group
- Assembly ; General Assembly & General Assembly Guide ; People's Assembly & Popular Assembly ; General Assembly Process Guide
- Blocking - Consensus Governance
- Collective Thinking
- Consensus ; Consensus Decision-Making ; Video: Consensus Methodology at Occupy Wall Street
- Consensus_Hand_Signals
- Human Microphone System ; Mic Check Protest
- Occupations
- Occupy Facilitation Groups
- Occupy Working Groups
- Protest Camp, How-To by Willie Osterweil
- Spokes Council; see: Occupy Wall Street Spokes Council
- Strategic Nonviolent Direct Action, as proposed by Starhawk.
- Working Groups: Occupy Wall Street Operations Groups ; Occupy Wall Street Movement Groups
See also:
Organizational Resources
Internet Presence
- Occupation Directory: a public listing of all known Occupation sites [3]
- The daily Occupations Report ; Greg Mitchell's daily OccupyUSA blog at The Nation
- InterOccupy.org provides channels of communications between GAs, Work Groups and Occupiers across the Occupy movement.
- The NYC General Assembly leads the direct democratic process in Liberty Square. Website ;
- LibertySqGA: Livetweeting Occupy Wall Street's General Assembly & SpokesCouncil in Liberty Square, NYC.
- OccupyWallSt.org is a primary source of information from Liberty Square.
- OccupyWeb is a 'river of news' (RSS) on the various Occupy movements ; Occupy Together Meetups
- Adbusters Diary: day by day ..
- Media: Occupy the Airwaves
- Wiki: Occupy Wiki
- Occupy Wall Street Protest Locations
Ongoing coverage also at:
- http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%23OccupyWallStreet
- http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens/%23Occupywallstreet
Working Groups
The GA consists of a number of working groups that act autonomously to organize events, engage in project and present proposals to the GA, where they can be acted upon.
- Introduction to Occupy Working Groups
- FLO Solutions Working Group
- Internet Working Group
- Digital Strategy
- OWS Education and Empowerment Working Group
- Occupy Healthcare
Tools and Technologies
To read: Peer to Peer User Owned Communications Infrastructure. Gordon Cook. Cook Report, March-April 2012. [4]: a very detailed treatment of the alternative, user-owned p2p infrastructures that are emerging, and detailing in particular the case study of Isaac Wilder’s FreedomTower meshwork.
- GitHub and Occupy
- Facebook: Facebook Occupy Sites Directory
- Federated General Assembly: dialogue and decision infrastructure for the Occupy Movement
- Large-Scale Conference Calls (via InterOccupy's Maestro Conference Call system with Google Voice.)
- Live video: Ad-free Live Video Broadcasting ; Occupy Live Streams
- Reddit social bookmarking: Occupy Related Subreddits
- Text messaging:Text Occupy: a text messaging platform designed for the Occupy movement
- Tumblr microblogging: Tumblr
- Twitter: Occupy Twitter Accounts
- Voice chat: Voice Chat Services
- We Pay, "the de facto official way to send money to the “Occupy” protesters while simultaneously bypassing the largest financial institutions" [5]
- Websites: Occupy Websites Directory
- Wikis: Occupy Wiki
- OccuCopy, Brooklyn
- OWS Screenprint Coop, Brooklyn
Strategic and Tactical Discussions and Controversies
See also:
- Diversity of Tactics and the Black Block Debate in the Occupy Movement
- NYC Drum Cricle
- Place of the Homeless in the Occupy Movement
- Who Has Authority in the Occupy Movement?
Citations
Occupy as a Peer Production of a Political Commons
"If you observe an occupation, you see a community that is producing its politics autonomously, not following hierarchical or authoritarian political movements with a pre-ordained program; you see for-benefit institutions in charge of the provisioning of the occupiers (food, healthcare), and the creation of an ethical economy around it (such as Occupy’s Street Vendor Project). This is prefigurative of a new form of society in which the commons is at the core of value creation; these commons’ are maintained by non-profit institutions, and the livelihoods are guaranteed through an ethical economy. Of course there are historical precedents, but what is new is the extraordinary organisational, mobilization and co-learning potential of their networks. Occupy works as an open API with modules, such as ‘protest camping’, ‘general assemblies’, which can be used as templates and modified by all, without the need for central leadership. We can now have global coordination and mutual alignment of a multitude of small-group dynamics, and this requires a new type of leadership. The realization of historical moment of Peak Hierarchy, the moment in which distributed networks asymmetrically challenge vertical institutions in a way they could not do before, forces social movements to look for new ways of governance… but these are not given, and have to be discovered experimentally, and of course, there will be valuable lessons to learn from predecessor movements!"
- Michel Bauwens [6]
Key Resources
Ongoing coverage also at:
- http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%23OccupyWallStreet
- http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens/%23Occupywallstreet
Key Texts and Articles
Declarations
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
- Occupy London Initial Statement
- Message from Chinese Activists and Academics in Support of Occupy Wall Street
- Recommendations for Electoral Reform – Final Consensus Document
- Global May Manifesto of the Occupy Movement
Analysis
- Special issue of the journal Cultural Anthropology: The Cultural Anthropology of the Occupy Movement
- Michel Bauwens: P2P and #OccupyWallStreet: It’s not just technology, it’s the people
- Jake Stanning: From Ideology-Led Organizing via Action-Led Organizing to Behavioural-Led Organizing. A reflection on the logic behind the organizing of the Occupy Wall Street Movement [7]
- McKenzie Wark: #OccupyWallStreet as an Occupation, not a Movement
- Michael Gurstein: How the OccupyWallStreet Movement is Evolving from Networked Individualism to Empowered Communities
- McKenzie Wark on how #OccupyWallStreet re-introduces “The Political” where none existed before
- Naomi Wolf: #OccupyWallStreet as the first mass movement of global consciousness
- Jodi Dean: Critique of OccupyWallStreet's Tactics as a Brand ; OccupyWallStreet as a Necessary Call for Collectivity
- Micah Sifry reflects on a analysis by Andrew Boyd: Why does #OccupyWallStreet succeed and endure where previous movements failed?
- Chris Hedges on the significance of #OccupyWallStreet: tinkering with the corporate state is no longer sufficient
- The anthropology of horizontalism at #OccupyWallStreet
- Michael Gurstein: rethinking the linkage between online and offline through the #OccupyWallStreet mobilizations
- Tim Rayner on the characteristics of #OccupyWallStreet as a swarm movement
- Gideon Rosenblatt and Lawrence Lessig: What to think of the framing of the #OccupyWallStreet movement as a ‘Tea Party of the Left’?
- Scott Timberg: Behind the #OccupyWallStreet mobilizations: the fading of the creative class
- Slavoj Zizek: Occupy as a Movement of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
- Naomi Klein; Jimmy Higgins: Three conclusions on the global importance of #OccupyWallStreet
- William Gamson: Occupy Wall Street as a Culture Change Movement
- How the Occupy movement is already changing everything. by: Sarah van Gelder, David Korten and Steve Piersanti
- Occupy Wall Street and the Decline of the Professional Managerial Class. by BARBARA EHRENREICH AND JOHN EHRENREICH.
- Jodi Dean on the Meaning of Occupy Wall Street for the Left
- Carne Rosse: Why the Occupy Movement Represents a New Politics
- Mark Jagdev: Can Occupy think strategically?
See also:
- Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the Reasons for the 99 Percent Movement
- Naomi Klein on the Context for OccupyWallStreet
- Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Wall Street
Commons
- How the privatization of the public sphere criminalizes/encloses the #OccupyWallStreet protest commons
- David Harvey: #OccupyWallStreet as a political commons
Governance
- Is the Decision-Making of the Occupy Movement Bureaucratic. Marianne Maeckelbergh.
- An account of conflict (resolution) at the #OccupyWallStreet New York camp
- Consensus Hand Signals and the Human Microphone at the #OccupyWallStreet Protest Camps
- John Robb on Real Open Source Leadership at #OccupyWallStreet
- A critique of the #OccupyWallStreet tactics: Leaderlessness does not mean a lack of direction
- Chris Corrigan; John Robb ; Naomi Klein: The governance and leadership mechanisms of the open source #OccupyWallStreet protest
- The New York City “General Assembly” at #OccupyWallStreet: what’s the process
See also:
- Leadership at Open Source Protests
- Self-Governance and Mutual Aid at Occupy Wall Street
- Provisioning and Direct Democracy Infrastructures at Occupy Wall Street
History
- The intellectual heritage and foundation to OccupyWallStreet: the Madagascar connection
- Mattathias Schwartz in The New Yorker: Pre-Occupied: The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street
See also:
- Hashtag History of Occupy Wall Street; The 2: the Canadian connection
- Argentine Assembly Movement ; Disappearance of the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in Buenos Aires
Policy
- The “one demand”: Robert Steele’s powerful proposal to the #OccupyWallStreet Electoral Reform Committee
- Carol Schachet: 5 Values to Profess Beyond the #OccupyWallStreet Protest
- The Declaration of Economic Democracy: 6 proposed demands for the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- Michael Hudson on #OccupyWallStreet: “Wall Street has become a Criminal Organization.”
See also:
- Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America
- David DeGraw's Proposals for Common Ground for the 99 Percent Movement
- David E. McClean: 50 Proposals for Reform and Reclamation [8]
Provisioning
See the video: Provisioning and Direct Democracy Infrastructures at Occupy Wall Street
Food
Healthcare
Media (and art)
- Art for Occupy
- FreedomTower
- Music For Occupy; Occupy This Album
- Occupy Design
- Occupy Filmmakers
- Occupy Poetry
- Occupy Theatre
- Occupy Wall Street Library
- Occupy Writers
- OWS Art Gallery
- Support OWS
Money
- Matthew Slater: Does #OccupyWallStreet need an alternative ‘protest’ currency?
See also:
Urbanism
Repression / Policing
Tactics
- Lessons for #OccupyWallStreet: Why Did the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in Argentina Disappear?
- Tim Gee on Building Counterpower: are there lessons for #OccupyWallStreet?
- Tactical and Strategic reflections on #OccupyWallStreet: is it wise to only use peaceful protest tactics?
- Randy Shaw:The tactical and strategic innovation of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- Peter Marcuse: Are Non-Reformist Reforms the way forward for #Occupywallstreet ?
- A critique of the #OccupyWallStreet tactics: Leaderlessness does not mean a lack of direction
- Matthew Slater: Does #OccupyWallStreet need an alternative ‘protest’ currency?
See also:
- Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies
- Ralph Nader at Occupy Washington
- Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Kucinich and Chomsky on Left-Right Convergence Against Corporatism
Teach-Ins
- Video: Charles Eisenstein talks Re-Envisioning Money to #OccupyWallStreet
- Video: Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun on the Metacurrency Project
- Video: Juliet Schor Talks on the Plenitude of the Commons Economy at Occupy Wall Street
- Video: William Black Occupy LA Teach In on the Meltdown, Financial Crime, and Economics
- Video: Ellen Brown Occupy LA Teach In on Money and Banking
- Video: Michel Bauwens OWS London Tent University Teach In on P2P and the Commons
Also:
Key Books
- Counterpower
- 40 DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere. Greg Mitchell. Sinclair Books, 2011
- Occupying Wall Street. The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America. WRITERS FOR THE 99%, 2012. [10]
- Judy Rebick's "Occupy This!"
- Occupy Consciousness: Essays on the Global Insurrection. Evolver, 2012. [11]
Key Documentaries
Key Media
- Facebook Occupy Sites Directory ; Occupy Twitter Accounts ; Occupy Websites Directory ; Occupy Wiki ; Occupy Related Subreddits
- Global Revolution TV ; Occupy Live Streams ; Occupy the Airwaves
- Occupations Report
- Occupy Archive Project
- Occupy Arrests
- Occupy Design
- Occupy Hub's Twitter directory counts Collective Followers: 9,175,404 [12]
- Occupy Ideas
- Occupy Research
- Occupy The Music
- Occupy Together Map ; Occupy Wall Street Protest Locations
- Occupy Wall Street Media ; Occupied Wall Street Journal
- Occupy Wall Street Screen Printing Guild ; Occuprint ; Occupied Wall Street Posters
See also:
Key Movements
- AmpedStatus Network
- Feed the Movement
- Occupy Homes ; Video: Monique White and Nick Espinosa on the Occupy Homes Movement
- Occupy Wall Street Occupy Alternative Banking Group; Occupy the SEC ; Occupy the Banks
- Occupy Together
- Occupy Wall Street
- US Day of Rage
- Yes We Camp
Key Videos
- Provisioning and Direct Democracy Infrastructures at Occupy Wall Street
- We The People Have Found Our Voice at Occupy Wall Street: Atmospheric reportage via [13]
- Consensus Methodology at Occupy Wall Street; Consensus at the [[General A#Feed the Movementssembly]] explained
- Introduction to the Facilitation Methods at the Occupy Atlanta General Assembly
- Speaking in Stack at the Occupy Movement
More:
- A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (3)
- A potpourri of videos on #OccupyWallStreet (2)
- A potpourri of #occupywallstreet videos
Citations
"To put the problem a little differently, partly through these broken solidarities, partly through demonizing the 1%, and partly through explicitly forging this new populist ethos, OWS has managed in spirit, analysis and conduct to substitute justice talk for interest talk. And it has done so when the language of justice seemed nearly extinguished by a neoliberal rationality that refracts all conduct through the metric of human capital self-appreciation. "We are the 99%," far from participating in a discourse organized by interest or difference, overtly rejects the seizing of the nation by a plutocracy, by private rather than public interests. If the slogan is sometimes mobilized to cast this seizing as an effect of corruption and greed rather than neoliberal rationality in late capitalism (including the complete imbrication of Euro-Atlantic states with the fates and imperatives of finance capital), this is consequent not only to the wealth extremes the epoch has generated but to the necessary personification and theatricalization of all potent political discourse. (Even the Bolsheviks needed to feature the czars as the enemy!) Yet how difficult it has been for the mainstream media to grasp this new formation as promulgating a vision of justice, as issuing from educated political conviction and not only personal circumstance or individual rancor! It is a sign of our profoundly depoliticized vernacular of citizenship today that the stock interview question of OWS participants, "what brings you here?" is always intended to solicit a story of personal hardship or calamity. From CNN to NPR to the New York Times, the interviewers never know what to do with OWS answers that reference a decent, equitable and sustainable way of collective life, a sense of right and wrong, and an account of what we political theorists quaintly call The Good for the polity.
As splendidly surprising as the OWS movement has been, equally astonishing is the level of national endorsement for it: recent polls indicate that 62% of the country supports the movement and that more than a third of the super-rich (the 1%) are sympathetic. Regardless of the strategic challenges ahead for OWS as a movement, these facts alone brighten future prospects for a critical national discourse about democracy and capitalism. Occupy Wall Street has already generated something extraordinary in its successful challenge to the neoliberal image of the nation on the model of the firm, where profit is the only metric, competition the only game, private property the only rule, winners and losers the only outcome, and hierarchy and inequality the only form of organization. In place of that image, OWS has revived the classical image of the nation as res-publica, the nation as a public thing. The struggle ahead? To make the image real."
- Wendy Brown [14]
Pages in category "OccupyWallStreet"
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- Ad-free Live Video Broadcasting
- Affinity Group
- Alternative Banking Working Group - OWS
- AmpedStatus Network
- Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America
- Anthony Barnett on Occupy and the Left
- Argentine Assembly Movement
- Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun on the Metacurrency Project
- Arundhati Roy on Occupy Wall Street and its Role in the Heart of Empire
- Augmented Revolution
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- Catholic Occupy
- Collective Thinking
- Consensus
- Consensus Decision-Making
- Consensus Hand Signals
- Consensus Methodology at Occupy Wall Street
- Constituent Nature of Social Turmoil
- Counterpower
- Cris Rodrigues
- Critical Thinking
- Critique of OccupyWallStreet's Tactics as a Brand
- Cultural Anthropology of the Occupy Movement
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- David DeGraw's Proposals for Common Ground for the 99 Percent Movement
- David Graeber and Alexa O'Brien on Assessing Occupy
- David Graeber on Police Repression Against Occupy and Other Social Movements
- David Graeber on the Occupy Movement
- Debating Policy Repression and Activist Violence
- Debt Strike
- Declaration of Economic Democracy
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
- Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the Reasons for the 99 Percent Movement
- Deterritorial Support Group
- Disappearance of the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in Buenos Aires
- Discussing the Politics of the Occupy Movement
- Diversity of Tactics and the Black Block Debate in the Occupy Movement
- Documenting OWS Meetings and Events
- Don Tapscott on the Occupy Movement
E
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- Facebook Occupy Sites Directory
- Farmers Occupy Zuccotti Park
- Federated General Assembly
- Feed the Movement
- FLO Solutions Meeting
- FLO Solutions Meeting 1 - 10/6/11
- FLO Solutions Meeting 2 - 10/10/11
- FLO Solutions Working Group
- Frances Fox Piven and Stephen Lerner Discuss Occupy Wall Street Strategies
- From Ideology-Led Organizing via Action-Led Organizing to Behavioural-Led Organizing
- From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere
- Future of Occupy Collective
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M
- Making Worlds OWS Forum on the Commons
- Marina Sitrin
- Meaning of Occupy Wall Street for the Left
- Meerkat Media Collective
- Message from Chinese Activists and Academics in Support of Occupy Wall Street
- Mic Check Protest
- Michael Ellick on Occupy the Church
- Michel Bauwens OWS London Tent University Teach In on P2P and the Commons
- Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies
- Model Community Bill of Rights Template for Occupy Communities
- Monique White and Nick Espinosa on the Occupy Homes Movement
- Music For Occupy
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- Occucopters
- OccuCopy
- Occudoc on the American Autumn
- Occupation Directory
- Occupation Party
- Occupations
- Occupations Report
- Occupied Wall Street Journal
- Occupied Wall Street Posters
- Occuprint
- Occupy 2.0
- Occupy Alternative Banking Group
- Occupy and Demand
- Occupy and the Commons
- Occupy Archive Project
- Occupy Arrests
- Occupy as a Movement of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
- Occupy as a Peer Production of a Political Commons
- Occupy Asia
- Occupy Audio
- Occupy Bahrain
- Occupy Cafe
- Occupy Concepts
- Occupy Consciousness
- Occupy Coops
- Occupy Data
- Occupy Design
- Occupy Economics
- Occupy Education
- Occupy Everywhere Panel on the Future of the Movement
- Occupy Exchange Fellowship Program
- Occupy Facilitation Groups
- Occupy Filmmakers
- Occupy Finance
- Occupy For Change
- Occupy France
- Occupy Handbook
- Occupy Harvard
- Occupy Has Generated a Multitude of Activist Networks
- Occupy Healthcare
- Occupy History
- Occupy Homes
- Occupy Hub
- Occupy Ideas
- Occupy Language
- Occupy Law Enforcement
- Occupy Live Streams
- Occupy London Initial Statement
- Occupy London Working Groups
- Occupy Love
- Occupy Marines
- Occupy MBA
- Occupy Medical
- Occupy Money
- Occupy Money Cooperative
- Occupy Movement
- Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism
- Occupy Movie
- Occupy Net
- Occupy New Economy
- Occupy Nigeria
- Occupy Our Food Supply
- Occupy Our Homes
- Occupy Poetry
- Occupy Portland
- Occupy PR
- Occupy Production
- Occupy Radio
- Occupy Related Subreddits
- Occupy Research
- Occupy Rooftops
- Occupy Science
- Occupy Slovenia, Direct Democracy and the Politics of Becoming
- Occupy the Airspace
- Occupy the Airwaves
- Occupy the Banks
- Occupy the Church
- Occupy the Commons
- Occupy the Farm
- Occupy The Farm
- Occupy The Movie
- Occupy The Music
- Occupy The SEC
- Occupy the SEC
- Occupy the Tax Code
- Occupy Theatre
- Occupy This
- Occupy This Album
- Occupy Together
- Occupy Together Map
- Occupy Twitter Accounts
- Occupy University
- Occupy Vancouver Decision Making Processes
- Occupy Wall Street