Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Camp is the World: Connecting the Occupy Movements and The Spanish May 15th Movement

Click here to access article by Luis Moreno-Caballud and Marina Sitrin from The New Significance.

The authors identify the key elements of the Occupy movement which as a model can be used to expand the movement by inserting it into all spaces in society. 
...what this could continue to look like in the US is that there are assemblies on street corners, in neighborhoods, in workplaces and universities, working concretely together with neighbors and workmates, as well as then relating together in assemblies of assemblies or spokes councils in parks, plazas and squares, sharing the experiences from the more local spaces. All the while continuing to occupy space and territory, but seeing the territory as what happens together, with one another, in multiple places, and then coming together to share in another geographic place. This could take places on the level of neighborhood to neighborhood – to the level of city to city, all networked in horizontal assemblies.