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The struggle is still very much underway
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spontaneous working groups that emerge to deal with any issue that comes up
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remarkable de-centralization
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in solidarity with labor struggles
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public education taking place at the occupation
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display of direct democracy practiced in the camp.
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we speak a new language, one we have to translate it for them
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not enough grassroots organizers fromNew York
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was pushed away by some of the cultural norms being adopted
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lack of demands
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over-emphasis on process
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I didn’t see how this would aid in the overarching aim of building a movement, beyond a single uprising
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But I was wrong about some of those assumptions
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things have steadily improved
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the occupation has lasted more than two weeks and it’s growing every day
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slept out
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marched
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pizzas ordered for us
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thousands of dollars sent our way
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livestream
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emailing
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calling
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tweeting
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occupations being planned in something like 70 cities in theUSalone
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Next, we have taken steps to define ourselves, to write documents to that affect, and to move toward a collective consciousness that is bold and uncompromising.
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we have been able to continue to grow and bring new communities in despite a lack of demands
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our demands really aren’t as mysterious as some people are letting on
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our critics are playing dumb.
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have an implicitly unifying message: We hold the banks, the millionaires, and the political elite they control, responsible for the exploitation and oppression we face
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we have planted ourselves in the financial capital of the world because we see it as one of the most deeply entrenched roots of the various systems of oppression we face every day.  Come on. The clue is in the title: Occupy Wall Street.
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Every day, the occupiers see themselves more and more connected to a movement – a movement around the country and the world, but also a movement through time, stretching from the giants who came before us to the future giants we will be. Every day more people from different communities join,
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This deepening of consciousness and realization of the connection between the different struggles we wage will be among the most important things to come out of this.
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new forms of democratic participation
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self-management
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a new narrative – one that refuses to accept the myth that Americans don’t struggle, that we can be bought off with TVs and iphones, that things really aren’t so bad and we’re willing to let injustice happen because we get a bigger piece of the bounty our military and capitalists extract from others.
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the story will be an important force
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Occupations are an incredibly important mode of resistance, an expression of a dual power strategy.
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they give us the space and time with which to create an alternative, to practice, to learn, to create new relations, to become better revolutionaries, and to experience community
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they serve as a base camp from which to wage a struggle against the institutions that oppress us
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Both are important. And yes, we face challenges in each realm.
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We have to make sure that the de-centralization we are fostering actually empowers those who aren’t already conditioned by this society to speak a lot and lead and give directions. We have to find and create a new and diverse ways for people to participate
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work to formulate a message together
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continue to educate ourselves and each other
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And perhaps even more important than learning about the ways we are kept down, is learning and exploring the world we might want instead, one without capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and authoritarianism – an economic, political, and social model that is solidaristic, equitable, self-managing, ecologically sustainable, liberating, intimate, warm, and creative.
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developing the values
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imagine the institutions we will need
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We have to draw clear lines from the oppression heaped on this society to the agents responsible for it.
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LibertyPlazais not the struggle; it is the home for the creation of the alternative, and the staging ground for the fight that takes us out into the streets, to make business as usual truly untenable.
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