On any night in New York City, which remains a hub of the movement, a dozen working groups on issues like "food justice" and "arts and culture" meet in a Wall Street atrium, and "general assemblies" have formed in 14 neighborhoods.
The swatting incident, the second this week linked with Gamergate, was co-ordinated on the "baphomet" subforum of the 8chan image board, a 4chan-style community which has become a hub of the movement, along with a subforum on the social news site Reddit.
Originally "passed by Congress to protect music labels and the movie industry from piracy, Section 1201 is now being used to prevent Americans from making fair use of the things we buy," writes the new grassroots hub of the movement, with tools to get friends involved and contact legislators.
But the hub of the movement is in California, where a state law requires local electric companies to work with counties and cities that want to offer a greener energy mix.
Asked whether the protesters could survive the coming winter, Thorston said Zuccotti Park need not remain the central hub of the Occupy movement if conditions become unlivable, emphasizing the "decentralized" nature of a movement that he says can shift from city to city.
Which made me realize that BALLE (the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), the organization I run that serves as the hub of the Localist Movement, is in a fairly unique position with a front row seat to what is actually working.
From 1945 to about 1955 it was the hub of the Existentialist movement and an associated revival of bohemianism.
But he is believed to have been radicalized by the cause of the Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet Army, and he eventually went to the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, the hub of the resistance movement.
Students from the Columbia hub of the Sunrise Movement wore t-shirts and light jackets as they gathered on the steps of Low Library to show their solidarity with the Youth Climate Strike.
