[OccupyComms] [Occupy London] Excellent article on US Occupy

[Tammy Samede]

Lmao

Tammy x

On 25 May 2012, at 03:38 PM, "Mark Barrett" <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for this Saskia - excellent.
> 
> "Occupy is very odd right now. The people who have stayed are the
> cream of the crap, and the brilliant. The rank-and-file in between are
> at home."
> 
> What a quote!
> 
> 
> "The big question for Occupy is how it can build a dual system of
> power, as Egyptian activists did over years with revitalised labour
> organising, a national anti-police brutality movement and politicised
> youth and women in micro-enterprises that populate urban areas. This
> requires organisation, but it also gets back to the question of space.
> Alienation, fragmentation and suspicion is so pervasive in US society
> that people need secure areas where they can take the time to share
> stories, to listen and debate, create bonds, forge trust and take
> action.
> 
> The places where Americans can and do gather in large numbers, such as
> parks, squares, factories, shopping centres, the workplace, stadiums,
> schools and places of worship are almost all privatised and subject to
> strict legal and physical
> regulation. Nonetheless, Occupy's future
> success is based on finding forms of space where it can reproduce
> itself."
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mark
> 
>> Hiya
>> 
>> highly recommend this read from Arun Gupta, a co-founder of The
>> Indypendent and The Occupied Wall Street Journal. He covers the Occupy
>> movement nationwide for Salon.
>> 
>> http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521151225452634.html
>> 
>> Saskia
>> 
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