The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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ALEC and Koch Industries Aim to Subvert Green Energy
A confidential strategy memo advises using "subversion" to build a national movement of wind farm protesters. "Local anti-wind groups are coordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry."
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The Occupation of U.C. Berkeley
Last Friday, thirty black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to U.C. Berkeley and UCLA began occupying the U.C. Berkeley undergraduate admissions office.
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Letter from Charlotte: Building the Coalition
Occupy Charlotte is aware that the Democratic National Convention is coming in September. So the question is not really about whether to work with other groups, but how.
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Spanish Indignados Return to Their Squares
On Saturday, the one-year anniversary of the M15 movement brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets again in nearly 80 Spanish cities.
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Chicago Readies for NATO
Protesters arriving for ten "Days of Action" in Chicago are focusing on an array of issues - education funding, immigrant detention, foreclosures, the environment, economic inequality - while protesting against NATO.
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Moscow: Occupied
As far as the Twittersphere is concerned, Occupy has come to Moscow. But one thing is for certain - this isn't Occupy as we know it.
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The 99 Percent Wakes Up
Inequality isn’t only plaguing America—the Arab Spring flowered because international capitalism is broken. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the world is finally rising up and demanding a democracy where people, not dollars, matter.
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Un-Friezing Art for the 1%
Calling our action “Un-Frieze Culture,” Occupy Museums staged a Free Art for Fair Exchange to propose a new path, where contemporary culture can be in greater harmony with values of justice and universal respect.
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Facing Student Debt? Occupy Your Graduation
Tens of thousands of students across the nation will be occupying graduation by taping the dollar sign of their incurred debt to caps and gowns.
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Europeans to Rise Up May 12
We are united in our demands: the welfare of the 99% must be respected.
