Tag: 99%
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Radicals and the 99%: Core and Mass Movement
This essay is a chapter in the new book from AK Press We Are Many: Critical Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation. The book is 450 pages with contributions from 50 authors — most of whom have been active in Occupy Wall Street. Order it here! — Occupy Wall Street audaciously claimed to…
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A Practical Guide to Co-option
Also published in Occupy! #4. Occupy! is an OWS-inspired gazette, published by n+1. Almost immediately after a small band of activists first occupied Zuccotti Park in September of last year, many in the movement started expressing concern about potential co-option by more established and moderate forces. These concerns have become more central in 2012, an…
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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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Stephen Colbert is physically altering your brain
originally published on October 28, 2010 Stephen Colbert’s much-publicized March to Keep Fear Alive tomorrow-and his whole schtick really-may be making a far greater political impact than you consciously realize. I’m no neuroscientist, but I might even argue that the faux right-wing pundit is physically altering the very structure of your brain. Such an outlandish…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 