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Has America Found Its Occupation?
Written by Max Webster
I could hear the bongos playing from down the block. As I walked closer to Zuccotti Park, the pseudo headquarters of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, every one of my senses lit up. I saw colorful costumes and hand-painted signs, I felt the massive throng of people sliding along as […]
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It´s all about real social cohesion!
Written by Kapell
Everything started in August 2008 when all kinds of Mexicans flooded the Zócalo -the main square in the historic center of Mexico City – with thousands of lit candles in a mass demonstration of their unease. The assassination of the son of Alejandro Marti – a renowned Mexican businessman – […]
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The Greater We: Who is the ‘We’?
Written by Ajinkya
While 20th century promised us wonderlands, 21st century is bringing in a new clarity through revolutions where the greater we knows that a ‘final solution’ is never feasible and there are many ‘we’s in a ‘greater we’.
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OWS is here to stay
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Micah Sifry is editor and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF), based in New York. He is watching the OWS movement carefully – since it really hits the core of what he is doing at PdF. PdF’s assumption is that technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. […]
