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"Occupy will never die; Evict us, we multiply!"</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;">Welcome to The Future of Occupy newsletter!</span>
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Over the last month we’ve been reading, analyzing, and honing in on the most vibrant conversations taking place in the Working Groups. Our February issue, the ‘Focus on Working Groups’ presents you with a number of blogs and essays highlighting exciting strategic ideas, specific proposals, and LOTS MORE bubbling up from the WGs. It is our hope that they will catalyze the cross-fertilization of innovative practices and ideas between the WGs, and evoke your comments and news that can benefit all of us!
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The order we have presented our articles run from the macroscopic perspective of sense-making and strategy to the specific implementations of WG practices such as the art of blocking. If you are more interested in the concrete specifics of the WGs perhaps you could start reading the issue from the bottom, while if you’re more of a big-picture thinker, who has a fine taste for the integrated whole, then reading from the top holds the most fruit for you. In truth whichever way you read this issue of the newsletter, we trust you will find rich pickings in each and every article. Read, comment, share and enjoy!
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica; font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;">How (r)evolution carries itself forward by the Working
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">What can Occupy learn from the evolutionary dynamics of differentiation-integration-transformation? What can that triad bring to the epic question, how can the 99% win? In this essay, George Pór guides us through how we can make use of the understanding of that triad for discovering the answer.<br><br>
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica; font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;">Can Occupy occupy strategy?</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">How can a leaderless movement devise a strategy? Drawing on the work of the Strategy Planning WG Occupy Venice (California), this article explores the uses of strategy in internal coordination, collective self-education, and embracing the Commons, as an economic and social paradigm of a fair society worth championing. <br><br><a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hsuapaewmmalaywanabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica; font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;">Occupy the solutions</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">Here’s an article packed with ideas for moving the Working Groups out of the realm of mere discussion and into concrete solutions that harness the talents of professionalism whilst retaining communal participation. Furthermore it suggests the solutions are already out there, simply needing to be researched and introduced. It’s time for stage two: implementing them. <br><br><a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hseazaewmmaoaywazabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica; font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;">Working Groups: the self organising revolution</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;"><em>"Working Groups reveal the desire for a new manner of building community..."</em> With them we could in fact be witnessing new systems of self-organisation that are creating an alternative to the current disempowering, unrepresentative democracies. This article points to various examples innovative practices introduced by Working Groups.<br><br><a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hsmadaewmmagaywacabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica; font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;">Is Occupy leaderless or leaderful: insights from some Working Groups</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">Can we inspire the leadership qualities in everybody to manifest, without having to have “followers”? This article explores the need for all of us to become leaders in a movement without hierarchy, and some suggestions for achieving this.
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;text-align:left;">A responsible Occupation? the fun and hard work of Pittsburgh's Working Groups</span><br>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">“It’s not that OP doesn’t challenge authority (many people have been arrested at OP actions) but perhaps it’s that they do so in ways that are seen as creative, thought provoking, and most of all, decidedly non-violent” This blog tells about how the Working Groups of Occupy Pittsburgh are creating actions that bring smiles to even the police and local council.
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;text-align:left;">The dangers of Working Groups</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">How do we make sure that working groups are in a state of function rather than dysfunction?
Here you will find some useful suggestions from Occupy London including WG health checks, the value of online forums and how to deal with the misconceptions on what the responsibilities of a Working Group should have.
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;text-align:left;">Working Groups are sowing the seeds for a healthier healthcare infrastructure</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">Working Groups can be seen as social laboratories where new ways of doing things are tried out and improved. In the US, a number of active healthcare WGs have been built on the need for health systems that put people before profits. Collaborative efforts such as Occupy Healthcare and Health Justice for All are pioneering initiatives which stress the importance of
listening to every voice in providing healthcare services.
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;text-align:left;">A homeless and a businessman in the meeting of a Corporations WG</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">Occupy is life affirming! This beautiful account inspires a sense of gratitude with scenes from a Working Group in Occupy London. It bears witness to the participants’ incredible effort, the magic and sheer human fraternity transcending social barriers.
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<span style="color:#db1f26;font-family:helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;text-align:left;">The community art of working with “blocking”</span>
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<span style="color:#000;font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;">"Blocking" in Working Groups and GAs is the power of a single person to veto a consensus. What are the appropriate circumstances in which it should be used? When does this power get abused?
This blog is dedicated to all Occupiers, who want to become wiser about "blocking" and how to relate to it.
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This month's download is a bonus chapter of: <em>The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups</em>, by Starhawk, published in November 2011, by New Society Publishers. <br><a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/humaxaewmmaoaywavabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Download PDF</a></span><br><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Explore snapshots in time with our photographic anthology on working Groups and Occupy Life! <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hujavaewmmaiaywaaabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Here</a>.</span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">List of Upcoming Events</span><br>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"><b>Stop ACTA!</b> - <em>February 11, 2012. 2pm to 5pm</em><br>
Global call to action to defend freedom of the Internet! The ACTA agreement benefits only a fraction of industrial companies such as RIAA and MPAA. ACTA is the result of their lobbying. <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hubaxaewmmakaywakabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">An OWS Forum on the Commons</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>February 16 to 18, 2012.</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Organizational forms developed by Occupy are already functioning, in many ways, as institutions of the commons. This conference will explore other examples of existing commons we can draw inspiration from and how can new commons be created and expanded in our society. Two of the FoO editors will facilitate a workshop on <em>"Reclaiming the Commons as a Social Theory of Collective Action."</em> <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/huhataewmmalaywanabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">Occupy Our Food Supply!</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>February 27, 2012</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">End Corporate Exploitation of Our Food Systems! CREATE local, just, fair food solutions. RESIST corporate control of our food supply. National Day of Action: Feb. 27. Get involved and make something awesome happen, this day of action is DIY. :) Spread the word, and share your photos and stories!
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">European Day of Action Against Capitalism</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>March 31, 2012</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current crisis. On March 31st, there will be a "European Day of Action against Capitalism", with simultaneous demonstrations in those countries, labeled "M31". Groups from other countries are likely to join. <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/huqapaewmmacaywadabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">Earth Day Rally, Occupy the EPA</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>April 22, 10am to April 23, 6pm</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">For those who care about the well being of our environment. For those who think environmental protection should be a top priority. We will no longer stand for corruption, selective regulation and decreasing human health conditions in the environment where we live, learn and work. <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/huyalaewmmapaywavabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">Occupy May Day - General Strike</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>May 1st, noon to 11.30 pm</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Occupy Los Angeles are calling on all people of the world to start planning NOW for this Global Strike. The goal is to shut down commerce worldwide and show the 1% we will not be silenced, we will not move until our grievances are redressed. <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/hesafaewmmanaywakabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px;">12.M World(r)Evolution - Global Day of Action</span> <span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">- <em>May 12th, all day.</em></span><br>
<span style="color: #53525f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Announced on the <b>12.M World(r)Evolution</b> Facebook page. <a href="http://t.ymlp350.net/heuaiaewmmaraywacabm/click.php" target="_blank" style="color: #000; text-decoration: underline;">Read MORE</a></span>
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