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Myles Horton and Occupy Decision Making Structure
Toronto It is interesting to be reading Myles Horton’s autobiography, Long Haul, with its firmly held views on popular education, starting with where people are, supporting social movements,...
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Resistance, Solidarity and ACORN at Occupy
New Orleans Perhaps the easiest organizing I can make right now as an organizer is that the Occupy movement needs to prepare to meet the resistance. Well, maybe it would be even easier to mention my...
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Winter Warriors: Tents and Sleeping Bags for Occupy
New Orleans Every once in a while there’s something close to serendipity in this work. Yesterday, I was pulling my hair out trying to think through the Occupy problem with winter coming on. I had...
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Occupy: A Movement or A Moment?
New Orleans Predictably as the weeks wear on and the weather hardens the city by city campers of the Occupy movement are now enduring the questions from near and far, high and low about how long they...
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TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy
December 9, 2011 New Orleans A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing. Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot...
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Right-to-Work Equals Less Unions
New Orleans Rarely do we see the evidence of plain and simple attacks on unions any clearer than in the reports quoted by Steve Greenhouse in today’s New York Times. In an article...
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Occupy Crossroads
New Orleans I had offered the Occupy NOLA folks a place to meet at various times during their occupation of the desolate park space in front of New Orleans City Hall, but it was only by showing up on...
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Rethinking Occupy Meeting Process in the Neighborhood
New Orleans There’s nothing like watching a neighborhood civic association meeting to make one blush at having ever critiqued the sometimes maddening consensus process of the Occupy movement. Having...
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If Occupy Miami is the Present, Is there an Occupy Future?
Occupy Miami Raid in Overton New Orleans It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA. It’s not easy. It’s an eyesore and a headache. From city to city where...
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Clean Rivers, Working Families, and Big Ideas
Some of our group in Pittsburgh, oldest leader still in the fight at 102 Pittsburgh Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen...
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Is the Occupy Movement Dead, Alive, or Being Reborn?
Little Rock The Occupy Little Rock (OLR) encampment is close to celebrating its 6-month anniversary and still ensconced firmly in their space near the Interstate and not far from the Clinton...
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Little Rock Reminders of the Shoulders Where We All Stand
Little Rock One of the interesting things about a city the size of Little Rock, and perhaps one of the little understood secrets of ACORN’s growth and success there after its founding in 1970, is...
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Looking at Occupy and the Arab Spring
AADERT Conference Springfield Looking at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement was an irresistible topic for...
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Wade Rathke looks at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement at the 20th conference of AADERT (African and...
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Learning from the Protests in Brazil
Toronto The work of the Free Fare Movement in Brazil has triggered mass movements and mobilizations for change in Brazil. The simplest of their demands, reducing what is reportedly a somewhat modest...
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Occupy What? Occupy Where?
Rock Creek The weekly entertainment and alternative paper in western Montana is the Missoula Independent. The cover story entitled, “Occupy Missoula: Where are They Now?” caught my eye. Coming on...
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Workplace Occupations
Rock Creek The Kindle needed some juice and it was too early in the morning to get the converter humming, so I grabbed a book for a couple of hours that had been gathering dust at home, Revolt on...
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The Search for Community and the Hope for Organization in Southern Italy
the class today Taranto My second day as a “professor” at La Scuola di Bollenti Spirit, the School of Hot Spirits, we were set to dive into how to look at campaigns. Roberto Covolo, the school’s...
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Discovering Precarious Work and “Hotel Mama”
Charlotte Is it just me or is the mainstream starting to discover precarious employment? Maybe it’s the “fight for $15” push that’s opening eyes? Maybe it’s a residue of the Occupy 1% theme?...
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