Compilation: Occupy Together

This is a compilation inspired by the peaceful, courageous and building people’s initiative / assembly / direct democracy occupation group, OccupyWallSt.org, and the solidarity assemblies that have emerged across North America / around the world. (See: OccupyTogether.org) And check out our Occupy Canada compilation here.

Given that:

• RIGHT NOW, our shared atmosphere is on an accelerating course to reach a state of potentially unsurvivable, runaway climate extremes during the lives of today’s children;

• Only EMERGENCY international action at EMERGENCY speed *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of what is already the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life EVER;

If the umbrella crisis of climate breakdown / disruption / destabilization is not tackled fast, its impacts — severe threats to global agriculture, fresh water scarcity and multi-regional insecurity and instability — will make it impossible to address ALL other global issues and causes.

ecoSanity (now climateye) got behind the recent Washington D.C. and Ottawa tar sands protests out of appreciation for the escalation to peaceful civil disobedience on larger scales.

Now, the building people’s initiative / assembly / horizontal direct democracy occupation group Occupy Wall Street has inspired Occupy Together, a hub for info about solidarity assemblies that have emerged across North America, with plans to launch in Canadian cities on Saturday, Oct. 15.

Imperfect, with multi-pronged motivations, Occupy Wall Street must grapple with a variety of concerns about its fundamental identity and intent. Examples: Use of the problematic term ‘occupy’; suggestions of a colonialist mentality; issues of representation / exclusion, privilege, racism, relations of power / oppression; challenges of process; supposed idealism / naivety.

Here’s a great piece full of insights about why this is hard:
So real it hurts – Notes on Occupy Wall St, M. M. Maharawal, LeftTurn.org

But faced with the systemic corruption of global politics and economics; the ecocidal / suicidal mentalities of growth / consumerism; deadly fossil fuel-based, greenhouse gas-intensive energy addiction; and the resource wars and global inequity that all of this perpetuates…

Mass, peaceful, public assemblies / protests rooted in the critical efforts necessary to learn about, nurture, strengthen and maximize solidarity, and the courage to engage in peaceful civil disobedience / direct action on a grand scale — together — are imperative.

Main, general

• FAQ – Occupy Wall Street FAQ, Nathan Schneider, The Nation
• Declaration – Declaration of the Occupation of NYC, NYC Gen Assembly
• All Livestreams (Global) – OccupyStreams.org
• Website – OccupyWallSt.org
• Facebook – Occupy Wall St.
• Twitter – @OccupyWallSt
• Website – OccupyTogether.org
• Facebook – Occupy Together
• Twitter – @OccupyTogether
• Website – New York City General Assembly
• Website – Adbusters
• Website – AnonOpsCommunications (Anonymous) – anonops.blogspot.com
• List – 10 ways to support the Occupy movement, Sarah van Gelder, YES Mag!
• Website – OccupytheBoardroom.org (E-mail the Wall St. elites)
• Guide – Guide on group dynamics in people’s assemblies, TaketheSquare.net
• Video – Consensus process: Direct democracy at Occupy Wall St, MeercatMedia
• Video – General Assembly facilitation process/training, Vid by Julia Creinhart
• Tips/Wiki – OccupyTogether Field Manual
• Guide – NYC General Assembly Guide

Selected articles, blogs, statements

• November 2011
• Article – Occupy Wall Street’s anarchist roots, David Graeber, Al Jazeera
• Article – The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy, The Guardian
• Article – Occupy moves us from terrorism era to income-inequality era, TStar
• Article/videos – OWS and the importance of creative protest, The Nation
• Article/videos – A tale of two videos, Joe Wiener, The Nation
• Speech – We are all occupiers: People the world over salute Ocuppy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at heart of empire, Guardian
• Post – Nov. 17: Historic day of action for the 99% (32,000 rally), OccupyWallSt.org
• Article – The villain Occupy Wall St. has been waiting for, TruthDig
• Article – This is what revolution looks like, Chris Hedges, TruthDig
• Open letter – You can’t evict an idea whose time has come, Rabble.ca
• Article – 10 ways the Occupy movement has changed things, Truthout
• Article – The 1% are the best destroyers of wealth ever, The Guardian
• October 2011
• Article – Where are the women at Occupy Wall Street? The Nation
• Article – Occupy Earth: Nature is part of the 99%, too, Common Dreams
• Post – Occupy Oakland: Too big to fail, too big to jail, Huffington Post
• Article – 50 global firms control wealth, researchers find, Toronto Star
• Article – 147 ‘super-entities’ run the world, New Scientist
• Article – The shocking, graphic data that motivates Occupy movement, Alternet
• Article – What can the Occupy movement teach the left? Rabble.ca
• Facts – 13 staggering facts about the global super rich, Business Insider
• Article – From jail, Tim DeChristopher on Occupy movement, Rolling Stone
• Post – Demands lessen the movement, issues strengthen it, Smirking Chimp
• Article/pics – Everything media has told you about OWS is wrong, HP
• Article – Dig in and don’t let yourselves be defined, The Guardian
• Article – Why the food movement should Occupy Wall St., Grist
• Article – A movement too big to fail, Chris Hedges, Truthout.org
• Article – Rediscovering civil disobedience, George Goehl, The Nation
• Article – Occupy protesters camp out in Canadian cities, CBC
• Photos – Occupy movement goes global – In pictures, The Guardian
• List – 10 ways to support the Occupy movement, Sarah van Gelder, YES! Mag
• Letter – Letter to Occupy Together movement, Harsha Walia, Rabble.ca
• Speech – Bill McKibben at Occupy Wall Street, TarSandsAction.org
• Article – The inside story of Occupy Wall St., S. Captain, FastCompany.com
• Article – Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it, D. Rushkoff
• Speech – Occupy Wall St: Most important thing in the world now, The Nation
• Post – Why I’m occupying Wall St. w the Green movement today, Treehugger
• Post – The police state and Occupy Wall Street, TheBloodyCrossroads.com
• Article – Unions swell ranks of Occupy Wall Street protesters, TStar
• Article – So real it hurts, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, LeftTurn.org
• Article – Can the #Occupy movement be a turning point? Yes Magazine
• Blog – DisOccupy.Wordpress.com – “…seeks to destabilize the rampant white supremecy and other systems of domination that have manifested themselves in the Occupy movement.”
• September 2011
• Post – The best among us, Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com
• Article – Occupy Wall St. rediscovers the radical imagination, The Guardian
• Article – NYC Transit Union joins Occupy Wall Street, Huffpost
• Statement – Noam Chomsky on the Wall Street protests, Naom chomsky, DangerousMinds.net
• Videos – Occupy Wall Street is ‘where the hope of America lies’, RawStory
• Article – Anti-Wall St. protests take off thanks to a Cdn idea, Globe and Mail

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