#GrowOccupy – Why Occupy Will Never Be Co-opted
There has been a great deal of talk in the Occupy movement around the fear of co-optation. The latest round of debate has been around the 99% Spring movement. Adbusters has sounded the alarm with the cry “#DefendOccupy.” The basic premise of the current debate is whether MoveOn.org is a bogeyman that is stealing the [...]
Debt and the Tar Sands
by Charles Eisenstein The Occupy Movement has been characterized by, and criticized for, its lack of focused objectives. Originally gathering around issues of economic inequality and debt, it soon ballooned to include every progressive issue under the sun, and then some. Yet amid the cacophony of proposals and messages, we could always detect a hint [...]
How To Respond With Love
THE MISTAKE WE MAKE is thinking the corporations are separate from us. The mistake we make is thinking that corruption is only a political issue. The mistake we make is thinking that by eliminating the system we eliminate the problem. It’s true we live in a world dominated and exploited by the few, and it’s [...]
All You Need (to Protest) Is Love
Occupy V-Day wants you to challenge corporate conceptions of romance. BY SADY DOYLE Occupy V-Day encourages the public to use Valentine’s Day to challenge our cultural (and pop-cultural) conceptions of love and romance and to provide their own definitions. Love–according to one line of thinking, anyway–is our first and most important education in social justice. To [...]
We Are Not Protestors, We Are Participants
I AM CURRENTLY Time magazine’s Person of the Year. I am a Protestor (aka an Occupier) I helped organize the NY event and spent the previous years prior to September 17th involved in many activities with similar sensibilities. Only a few people know this and most that do could care less. Not many of my [...]
We Come From The Future
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God’s will, but now usually refers to belief [...]
Occupy The Dream – MLK and the Power of Love
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Today the Occupy Movement will be engaging in global actions centered [...]
2012: Love’s Evolution Is My Resolution
There are no manuals to read, no rules to follow, other than the open book, of the heart. Love’s evolution is my resolution, my revolution, my solution. The time is now. 2012 is upon us. The beginning is here! I’d like to offer you an invitation, an invocation, a wake up call. Wake up! (Zen [...]
All I want for Christmas is a Global Evolution
Occupy Christmas! With what? How about by giving that which never costs, that which can never have a price tag: Love. The more we give love, the more we receive love. Love is the economic growth we need, not the planet destroying growth of Gross Domestic Product. Love grows best when given freely. Love is [...]
Why Occupy Love?
Occupy Love. There are so many ways to look at these words, a command, an invitation, a declaration, a new-age proclamation, a powerless platitude, a volition or a guiding mission statement….on and on… In one obvious interpretation, and one I’ve heard mentioned more than once, it’s dualistic. If one occupies love then one must have [...]
If We Get Occupy Right, We Get Everything Right
WHEN I FIRST heard the call to Occupy Wall St for a few months, I knew this was big. I knew it would be more than just a “protest.” This felt different than the usual march to voice specific grievances. It was a call for something more profound, and much deeper, than even the original [...]
