By Immanuel Wallerstein During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world – the so-called Arab Spring, the Occupy movements beginning in the United States and then spreading to a large number of countries, Oxi in Greece and the … Read entire article »

By Hannah Chadeayne Appel I didn’t realize how claustrophobic Wall Street’s Liberty Park was until I arrived at my home Occupy in Oakland. Rather than the jumble of tarp-covered shelters that grew and morphed rhizome-like through Liberty Park, Occupy Oakland’s colorful tents felt positively suburban, arranged over hay-covered ground, navigable by palate paths. The tent village occupied open public space surrounding city hall, overlooking the sunken architecture of a nouveau Greek Amphitheater  directly in front of the mayor’s … Read entire article »

By Heidi Morrison Many liberal friends and colleagues have been surprisingly lukewarm in their support of the Occupy Movement that has sprung up in cities and on campuses across America. Often they complain that though the Occupy Movement is well intentioned, it lacks focus. For example, in response to a recent Facebook posting lauding the movement’s rejection of neoliberalism, a university professor remarked: “While the Occupy Movement gives me some hope, I think it lacks an ideological … Read entire article »

By UC Davis General Assembly The following proposal was passed by a massive general assembly today at UC Davis: The UC Board of Regents, who not only represent but actually are this state’s richest one percent, has repeatedly shown itself to be utterly unfit to manage and represent the interests of the students, faculty, and workers who constitute the University of California. Following two successive years of sharp tuition increases, accompanied by millions in department and resource cuts, layoffs, and … Read entire article »

By Luis Moreno-Caballud and Marina Sitrin We write this letter as participants in the movements, and as an invitation to a conversation. We hope to raise questions about how we continue to deepen and transform the new social relationships and processes we have begun … to open the discussion towards a common horizon. The evictions and threats to the physical Occupations in the United States have again raised the question of the future of the movement. That the … Read entire article »

By Occupy Wall Street November 17 Day of Action: Over 30,000 People Rally in New York City (NYPD estimated 32,500), including organized contingents of workers, students, and other members of “the 99%” Actions in at least 30 cities across the country and around the world Commemoration of 2-Months Since Birth of the 99% Movement, Festival of Lights on Brooklyn Bridge Blockade of all Entry-Points to NYSE; hundreds participate in nonviolence civil disobedience Sense that a powerful and diverse civic movement for … Read entire article »