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Born Out Of Occupy: Project 222

April 21, 2019 Alex Fan Moniz, Popular Resistance Organize! Food and Agriculture, Housing, Occupy, Water

To think that Project 222 was born with a bang. Real bang. Human dignity over spineless puppeteering. Winston was living in a tent at the time. It was the Fall of 2011, an eventful time around Pennsylvania Avenue. Thousands had massed and camped outside the White House gates. The Occupy Wall Street movement had spread like wildfire. DC would have to put an end to the cancerigenous economic injustices of America. The whole stratum had to be shaken off and rebuilt. Built anew. Winston had to do something meaningful. That was it, Project222.org: Every human being in America and the world had the right to live with a minimum of dignity: 2 gallons of clean water, 2000 calories a day, 200 ft3 of secure shelter.

Has Occupy Wall Street Changed America?

September 26, 2018 Chantal Da Silva, Newsweek.com Resist! History, Occupy, Wall Street

With many Americans still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters had issued a call to action for a "revolution," a "people's revolt in the West." The February 2011 editorial, written by staff writer Kono Matsu, said it was time for everyday American citizens to "rise up" and take a stand against the social and economic inequality that had become so rife in the country. "Over 25 million folks are now unemployed, 2.8 million homes are in foreclosure while the investment bankers who brought this economy misery cynically reap obscene bonuses and rewards," the call to action read. "Blatant corruption rules at the heart of American democracy. And with corporations now treated as people, big business money dictates who is elected to Congress and what laws they shall pass. America has devolved into a corporate state ruled by and for the megacorps," it warned.

The Crisis Of Global Capitalism Never Really Ended

September 16, 2018 Jerome Roos, Roar Magazine. Educate! Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, New Economy, Occupy

This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the once-mighty US investment bank whose dramatic bankruptcy on September 15, 2008 unleashed the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. At this point, it is still far too early to tell whether this emerging anti-capitalist politics of the twenty-first century will be able to succeed in the face of a powerful nationalist backlash. But if the dramatic events since 2016 are anything to go by, the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.

The Anarchists Who Ignited Occupy Wall Street Seven Years Ago Are Now Calling For #OCCUPYSILICONVALLEY

September 15, 2018 Staff, Abillionpeople.org Resist! Occupy, Wall Street

Seven years after igniting the global phenomenon of Occupy Wall Street, Adbusters Media Foundation is launching #OCCUPYSILICONVALLEY, an ambitious, global blowback campaign against Big Tech's four most powerful corporations—Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Facebook—that dominate so much of our social, political, and emotional lives. On Monday, September 17th, millions of people around the world, in millions of different ways, will unleash a one-day flood of memes, posts, pranks, tweets, and statuses—each of them overflowing with everything Silicon Valley wants to keep offline. "Our aim is to shut down Big Tech for a day," says Adbusters' Editor-in-Chief Kalle Lasn. "We want to teach Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and the rest of Silicon Valley a lesson they will never forget: We the people—not you—rule the internet."

How Woke Is The Left?

September 9, 2018 Jonathan Feldman, Counterpunch. Create! Municipalism, New Economy, Occupy, Solidarity Network

Is the left today “woke,” i.e. is it self-consciously learning from the limits of the path it has been on to design a new systemic architecture based on alternative, networked institutions to challenge the status quo? New institutions are needed because in the past farms, labor unions, progressive churches as well as universities provided the institutional base for powerful social movements. Today, each of these institutional spaces is severely challenged or has reduced in size. As Gar Alperovitz explains...

#OccupyICE Spreads Across The Nation

June 28, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Immigrants, Occupy

Occupy ICE is taking off throughout the nation. We have reported on protests outside of ICE in Portland and in New York City, now these protests are becoming known as #OccupyICE and are spreading across the nation. In Portland where the Occupy ICE protests began, law enforcement moved in to dismantle the Occupy encampment. Occupy ICE PDX put out a statement in response to the police action. They emphasized they were nonviolent and police in riot gear coming to remove and arrest them was an over-the-top response. They pointed out that Portland is a sanctuary city that protects immigrants threatened by ICE, Homeland Security and Customs with arrest and deportation. On social media, they called for people to come to join them. The police blocked roads making that difficult. They also warned, "Arrest us today, we'll grow stronger tomorrow!"

The Bigger Disasters After Natural Disasters

September 8, 2017 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Educate! Hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, Natural Disasters, Occupy

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy - The storm Hurricane Harvey may be over but the aftermath is just beginning. Letting history be our guide, we take a look at the capitalist machine that not only pulls protection against the worst storms but through shock doctrine moves orchestrates an aftermath that far overshadows the natural disaster that came before. With 12 years distance from Hurricane Katrina, we can see the trajectory that our government’s continued failings might take in Houston and the surrounding areas. On the flip side, we take a look at those filling the gaping chasms left by the system - the people on the ground, spearheading community aid and relief efforts. And guess what: very often, they’re the same people demonized in the media for punching fascists.

It’s Time To Reawaken The Spirit Of Occupy For The Starving Millions

May 17, 2017 Adam Parsons, www.intrepidreport.com Organize! Occupy

By Adam Parsons for Intrepid Report - The world is now facing an unprecedented emergency of hunger and famine, with a record number of people requiring life-saving food and medical assistance in 2017. Since the start of this year, the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war has continued to unfold, while the international community has failed to take urgent commensurate action. The extent of human suffering is overwhelming: more than 20 million people are on the brink of starvation, including 1.4 million children—a conservative estimate that is rising by the day. Famine has already been declared in parts of South Sudan, and could soon follow in Somalia, north-east Nigeria and Yemen. In February, the UN launched its biggest ever appeal for humanitarian funding, calling for $4.4 billion by July to avert looming famines in these four conflict-ridden regions. Yet not even $1 billion has been raised so far, leaving little hope that these vital minimum funds will be raised on time. Last week the UN also sought to raise $2.1 billion for the funding shortfall in Yemen alone—described as the single largest hunger crisis in the world, where two thirds of the population are food insecure.

Rise Up America, Rise Up!

January 9, 2017 Mohammed Mesbahi, www.sharing.org Strategize! Capitalism, Communisim, Occupy, Socialism, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US

By Mohammed Mesbahi for Sharing.org. There is no doubt that the people of goodwill throughout the United States must rise up in unison together, and peacefully stand in opposition to the government’s policies as it profits from wars and defends corporate interests, instead of helping ordinary people in their time of greatest need. Who is going to help Detroit now that it is bankrupt, for example – will it be the Pentagon or the CIA, who usurp so much of the nation’s income and resources? America has become like a dysfunctional family in which, by analogy, the children are being abused and neglected until they are eventually forced to leave home and look after themselves. In a similar way, the government in Washington is like the parent who is failing to look after all her children – namely the fifty states, many of whom like Detroit may soon fall into crisis as the economy melts. Is it not inevitable that many of these states will ultimately abandon Washington completely?

Newsletter: The Movement Matters Most

December 31, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Bigotry, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Donald Trump, Economic inequality, Occupy, People's Agenda, Racism, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. While some people are calling 2016 the worst year ever, we are optimistic that we are on track for transformational change. Of course there are significant challenges ahead, but there are also important opportunities. We knew all along that no matter who won the elections this year, they would be plutocrats, and we, the people, would have to organize and resist. If we look at the big picture, 2016 was a time of progress in political education, movement building and reaching national consensus. These are all elements that are necessary in successful social movements. If we continue to make progress in the years ahead, then our work collectively will have a greater long-term impact than the incoming administration and Congress.

New Yorkers Celebrate Occupy Wall Street On Its Fifth Anniversary

September 18, 2016 Corinne Segal and Arlene Lormestoire, www.pbs.org Resist! Occupy, OWS

By Corinne Segal and Arlene Lormestoire for PBS Newshour. Becky Wartell was living in Portland, Maine and applying for jobs when she heard the first rumblings of Occupy Wall Street. Her story mirrors many others who gathered in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on Saturday, exactly five years after the protests began, reuniting with old friends and describing how a small encampment spread to cities across the country. In 2011, after staying in Zuccotti Park for several days, Wartell expanded her trip to a week — and for the next five months, continued to commute back and forth from Maine, even when she took a job in Portland. “In the moment, I was like, ‘I have to be there. This is big. This is important,'” she said. Zuccotti Park became a space where activists from a range of different causes could converge to share ideas, as most of them claimed the common cause of protesting corruption on Wall Street. Critics asked why Occupy could not settle on a list of explicit demands and actionable goals for the movement — protesters answered that the purpose of the movement was not to make demands, but empower a range of communities. The encampment ended in November 2011, when police cleared the camp and arrested more than 200 people. But by that time, offshoots had appeared in dozens of other cities.

Thousands Of Spaniards March On Indignado Anniversary

September 18, 2016 Harold Heckle, www.AP.org Resist! Indignados, Occupy, Spain

By Harold Heckle for the Associated Press. Thousands of Spaniards marched in downtown Madrid to mark the fifth anniversary of a protest movement that led to the creation of Podemos, now Spain's third most-popular political party. The Democracy Now platform had urged people to "occupy squares in all the world's cities on Sunday" to protest austerity, corruption, high unemployment and a lack of transparency in government. Madrid's Puerta del Sol square became the scene of a protest that lasted 28 days in 2011, sparking a movement that spread across Spain and similar "Occupy" sit-ins in cities across the world. The protests by those calling themselves "Indignados," or people angered by Spain's existing political parties, led to the emergence of Podemos, which will vie for power in a June 26 election.

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