Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase
Far from dissipating, groups around the country say they are preparing for a new phase of larger marches and strikes this spring that they hope will rebuild momentum and cast an even brighter glare on inequality and corporate greed. But this transition is filled with potential pitfalls and uncertainties: without the visible camps or clear goals, can Occupy become a lasting force for change? Will disruptive protests do more to galvanize or alienate the public?
Though still loosely organized, the movement is putting down roots in many cities. Activists in Chicago and Des Moines have rented offices, a significant change for groups accustomed to holding open-air assemblies or huddling in tents in bad weather.
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. Around the country, small demonstrations often focused on banks and ending foreclosure evictions take place almost daily.
If the movement has not produced public leaders, some visible faces have emerged.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/occupy-movement-regroups-laying-plans-for-the-next-phase.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp
Deep13
(39,154 posts)...with a human community. We are not challenging power or overthrowing it or reforming it. We are replacing it because we are the nation and when the existing power elites no longer serve the people, they have to be dissolved. And that dissolution is not confined to what we artificially classify as public or governmental. Obviously, the wealthy interests behind the throne are at least as much our targets as their governmental puppets.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)The article, though, states that the unions are declining to participate in a general strike, but I believe that is because it is illegal for unions to join a general strike.
wiggs
(7,817 posts)is a "spin-off" or way of "regrouping" that is not disruptive but is illuminating and powerful and is a way the Oakland protests have put down roots through photography/art. It's an echo of earlier protests...but a more palatable one that I bet a lot of people can find appropriate.
reposted from photography
Visit http://insideoutoccupyoakland.wordpress.com/ and read the statements under the portraits
or visit the kickstarter version:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insideoutoccupy/inside-out-occupy-oakland
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Which I will have caught Sunday.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....bless them all....
....one thing should be clear to everyone, we will never be able to de-corrupt or reform this country through the existing two parties....
....the Republican party should have been declared an illegal terrorist group years ago and the Democrats have demonstrated they're incapable of systemic reform....
....if things are to change, something completely new is needed....
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)Can't wait til spring.
Long Live Occupy!