- Occupy Baby OCCUPY BABY by Athena M. Henderson When I meet people and talk to them about Occupy, many of them have not heard of Occupy. I am shocked by this after all the media coverage Occupy received last fall when Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park in New York City and other Occupies camped out […]
- This Is Not Sparta THIS IS NOT SPARTA by Scott Thompson nyone who has ever experienced the looming menace of a line of armored riot police advancing silently toward a street full of protesters knows that physical courage in the most ancient sense of the term is sometimes a necessity for activists. Power doesn’t much care for being defied, […]
- Occupy Spirituality OCCUPY SPIRITUALITY by Scott Thompson first heard about Occupy Wall Street on October 1, the day of the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. When MSNBC picked up the story, I turned to my wife, Cicely, and said, “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life. I wish we were in New York right now.” […]
- Occupy Is a Consciousness OCCUPY IS A CONSCIOUSNESS by James C. Henderson t the beginning of the Occupy movement, people often asked, what is Occupy? The answer was not forthcoming then, and it is still not clear to most. This is because Occupy is something new in politics, at least American politics. As a species that learns through analogous […]
- The Definition of Insanity THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY by Davis L. Gonzalez [intense_dropcap]A[/intense_dropcap]lbert Einstein is widely credited with this definition of insanity: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If this is an acceptable term for insanity, then I have concluded that we live in a country of lunatics. I’m not just referring […]
- Autonomy and Solidarity AUTONOMY AND SOLIDARITY by Scott Thompson ccording to social scientist Geert Hofstede, culture is the “collective programming” that leads members of a group to see the world in certain ways. Cultural programming determines how people think about issues such as authority, group membership and decision-making processes. Hofstede describes culture in terms of four dimensions or […]
- Direct Action and the Future of Collective Bargaining DIRECT ACTION AND THE FUTURE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING by Scott Thompson ]he failure of the Walker recall in Wisconsin is being interpreted as a huge blow to the survival of traditional labor unions. As disappointing as the election results may be to both Occupiers and union organizers, we can learn something vitally important from what […]
- Alienation and Solidarity ALIENATION AND SOLIDARITY by Scott Thompson Previously published on the Occupy Saint Paul and Women Against Military Madness websites lienation is the defining feature of our whole civilization, and it operates on multiple levels—the mind is alienated from the body, both are alienated from the spirit, people are alienated from the natural world, races and […]