Check out this short essay by noted author Rebecca Solnit (e.g.: Paradise Made in Hell, about how natural disasters tend to be nothing at all like what the press and officials anticipate and report). She thinks Occupy Wall Street and its spinoffs are far more successful than we've yet acknowledged, and far more promising for future systemic change than most people expect. Of course, we will want to talk later about OWS's ideas and tactics, and whether they are all 'civil' and 'nonviolent' in the relevant sense (there are some reasonable concerns about the "black bloc" anarchists), but this is pretty important and interesting stuff.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11584-occupy-your-victories-occupy-wall-streets-first-anniversary
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I feel like Occupy is definitely one way to achieve a direct democracy.
A very interesting article. I read that over 100 people were arrested in NYC on the one year anniversary.
The 'Occupy' movement feels similar to the 'Battle in Seattle' (against the WTO) in the late
1990s. Change is going to come!
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