Future of Occupy Collective
= an open and expanding group of individuals from different parts of the world, inspired to bring their talents to serve the global Occupy movement by curating an online platform that mirrors its best thinking and most innovative practices.
URL = http://hefutureofoccupy.org/
Description
Mark Jagdev:
'he Future of Occupy Collective is an open and expanding group of individuals from different parts of the world, inspired to bring their talents to serve the global Occupy movement by curating an online platform that mirrors its best thinking and most innovative practices. It brings into focus the news and views related to the movement’s identity, future, and strategy, scattered in various print and electronic media, including bloggers and websites sympathizing with Occupy.
The FoO Collective recognized the movement’s need to learn fast from its experience in order to remain a vibrant, living laboratory for overcoming the democracy deficiency of present social systems. There’s a section of the website focused on Movement Sense-Making, which says “Collaborative sensing and thinking is a crucial part of the movement and essential for boosting capabilities to the scale of transformation it seeks... Our aim is not to produce a uniform perspective on the future of the movement, but to present the diversity of existing views.”
The originator of the FoO site is the School of Commoning, an international group of commons educators, partnering with the University of Notre Dame in the US, and other organizations. The FoO Collective is now an autonomous project and has members with no connection to the School of Commoning."
Publications
On January 3rd, 2012, The Future of Occupy Collective announced the publication of the first issue of its newsletter, dedicated to the Future of Assemblies. As we enter the new year and the movement enters a new phase of its development, many sites are evicted or facing eviction. Continuing to hold General Assemblies, in one way or another, seems more important than ever, since they are one of the movement’s potent life-giving forces. That’s why we focus the first issue of the newsletter on them. You can find it here: http://hefutureofoccupy.org/
More Information
CONTACT in the US: Mary Beth Steisslinger, Contributing Editor
1-412-916-8716 marybeth.steisslinger(at)gmail.com
skype: marybeth.steisslinger
CONTACT in the UK: George Pór, Founding Editor +44 7780 181 865 team(at)thefutureofoccupy.org skype: georgepor