Tag: #occupyWINNING
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The Tactic of Occupation & the Movement of the 99%
Download this post as a printable PDF If we are to launch from a moment to a movement, we will have to broaden the “us”. We must win in the arena of values, and not allow ourselves to be narrowly defined by our tactics. A month and a half ago a few hundred New Yorkers…
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How to pitch news outlets to cover your action
Download this post as a printable PDF To pitch a reporter or assignment editor about an action or event you’re planning is to call them up—typically after sending them a news release—and attempt to persuade them that they should come out (or send a reporter) and cover what you’re doing. A good pitch call is…
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Radicals & the 99%: Righteous Few or Moral Majority?
The Occupy Wall Street movement claims to be a movement of “the 99%”, challenging the extreme consolidation of wealth and political power by the top one percent. Our opponents, however, claim that the 99% movement is just a bunch of fringe radicals who are out of touch with mainstream America. They’re not 100% wrong about…
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#OWS: We are ALL leaders!
Download this post as a printable PDF What is the difference between saying none of us is a leader and saying all of us are leaders? At first glance these two phrases may seem like two ways of saying essentially the same thing. We believe in organizing in a way that is more horizontal than…
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#OccupyWallStreet & the Political Identity Paradox
Download this post as a printable PDF Strong group identity is essential for social movements. There can be no serious social movement—the kind that challenges the powerful and privileged—without a correspondingly serious group identity that encourages a core of members to contribute an exceptional level of commitment, sacrifice and heroics over the course of prolonged…
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#occupyWINNING: what I’m up to at Occupy Wall Street
The past ten days have been amazing. I took the train down to NYC last Wednesday, to see if I might lend a hand to the Wall Street occupation for a few days. There is so much going on. I don’t even know how many working groups there are, but today I heard that there…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 