In a strikingly different configuration, this new Occupy Movement imagines itself from the beginning as the broadest possible community of resistance – the 99%, as against the 1%.
[Reuters] And this week, a new Occupy Wall Street governing entity, the Spokes Council, goes into action after it passed a General Assembly vote Friday night, leading to a more streamlined decision-making process.
The answer might be a new Occupy Wall Street.
Thousands of people met at Canal and 6th Avenue in an attempt to set up a new Occupy encampment in the locked up, fenced in, and vacant Duarte Square.
Every new "Occupied Wall Street" site, now sprouting everywhere in the world, will echo the name of the humble young fruit vendor.
Tidal, a journal of Occupy theory, is one of a host of new Occupy-related print-based initiatives that is channeling the energy, ideas, art and aspirations that is making waves.
As powerful a visual as an autonomous encampment successfully shuttering an ICE office may be, if this burgeoning new Occupy movement is to make any real headway, they'll need the help of lawmakers to affect real change.
While the ban was intended to prevent a new Occupy L.A. tent city, it could result in the criminalization of people who are sleeping in parks because they are homeless.
My favourites are, "World-class education: social standing, indentured servant", and, "We are the new barbarians, occupying our Rome".
It is, he says, "hardly a truly sustainable option" given that it is a new city occupying what is mostly agricultural land near a large ecologically significant wetland.
