October 2011
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Democratic process at #OccupyMelbourne →
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Things Anarchists Like →
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The #Occupy protesters seem more adult than... →
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Rise like lions after slumber
in unvanquishable number
Cast to earth your...
– Percy Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy
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This movement has killed despair. People have gotten off up the sofa....
– Michael Moore, speaking at #OccupyOakland
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#OccupyMelbourne calls for treaty with First... →
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The BEST of #OccupyWallStreet Protest Signs →
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One thing that struck me yesterday [at #OccupyOakland] was that even under these...
– Ken Knabb, ‘Yesterday in Oakland’
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The Wall Street Occupation of 1979 →
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Dispatch from #OccupySydney
(This comes courtesy of http://www.jura.org.au/)
Occupy Sydney began on 15 October, with hundreds of people reclaiming Martin Place. Flanked by the imposing towers of the financial and political elites, where a handful of people make decisions which affect the whole society, a new democratic space was established. Occupy Sydney created a non-hierarchical forum for open debate, where people...
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I'm tired of this line in the media about how our...
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Art is everywhere waiting. It just needs a little push to make it happen.
– Shea Hembrey
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Later, capitalism. We're outta here.
Capitalism (including its police wing, the state) actually needs us for its own existence. The system only hangs together because we perform it every day. Whether wittingly or unwittingly, we are all caught up in this system and function to reproduce it everyday. The moment we begin to defect from this system by questioning its underlying tenets, refusing to buy into its ideologies, contracting...
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Thank you #Occupy movement for giving ordinary...
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News last night said the salaries of the top...
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Translocal solidarity in the #Occupy movement
I must admit that I’m not really a fan of national #Occupy sites or Facebook pages like #OccupyUSA, #OccupyAustralia, #OccupyIndonesia, and so on. That’s because the spatial form of this movement is not a patchwork of nation-states, but a network of localities. The local and the face-to-face are back, and for that I’m extremely gladdened. We don’t need to return to the mass...
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To all the white people talking about unity in the... →
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I understand the reasons for wanting to call this “Oscar Grant...
– Kendra Arimoto, a Japanese American activist on a proposal at #OccupyOakland to rename the square they’re occupying
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I finally came up with a title for my PhD thesis
A bit wordy, but I think it captures perfectly what my project is about =)
Pacific Rim revolutionaries: The San Francisco-Manila relationship in Filipin@/American transnational activism from the national liberation era to the globalised present
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#OccupyBeloMonte Indigenous Xingu people occupying... →
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From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Revolutionary Asmaa Mahfouz Speaks at Occupy Wall Street
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So we stand with you not just in your attempts to bring down the old but to...
– Letter from Tahrir Square to #Occupy movement
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Breaking News: Cairo-Oakland Solidarity! →
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We are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call...
– Letter from Tahrir Square to #OccupyOakland
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Jon Stewart on #OccupyOakland
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Tears stream as city council unanimously agrees... →
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#Oakland General Strike, Nov 2! →
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The world is watching us here tonight. The world is watching the #OccupyMovement...
– Boots Riley, speaking at the #OccupyOakland general assembly
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Database of #OccupyWallStreet art →
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Last night, after inspiring nonviolent street protest, and with advocacy by...
– Maria Del Pueblo
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#OccupyOakland is an inspiring rebellion precisely because it is rooted in the...
– Harsha Walia
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Twitter feed from #OccupyOakland is saying that...
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US cops try to bully Google into removing YouTube... →
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For anyone who couldn’t understand the reason behind the Occupy protests...
– Chris Zappone, ‘The occupy movement here is just getting started’
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