The History of OWS

What does our past tell us about our future?

25 comments Adbusters, 22 March 2012

The Occupy movement “has created a space in the American political consciousness about a different type of power: one controlled by people, not corporations,” explains this Al Jazeera documentary about the first phase of Occupy Wall Street.

As we head towards the May Day General Strike, May 12-15 global days of action, #OCCUPYCHICAGO, and the #LAUGHRIOT, what lessons can we learn from phase one of the movement?

URL: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2012/03/20123191525164973...

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Anonymous

22 March 2012 at 06:54 am

In the dark, we are all Invisible.

Anonymous

22 March 2012 at 10:58 am

that's exactly right. What our past tells us about our future is precisely:

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Freedividual

22 March 2012 at 01:19 pm

In this weeks TV Program of OWS Week, some occupiers explain why they occupy -
OWS Week - Occupy Voices - http://freedividual.com/2012/03/22/occupy-voices-ows-week-03-21-2012/

Anonymous

22 March 2012 at 03:00 pm

"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices."

-Bill Watterson

Anonymous

22 March 2012 at 04:59 pm

I like the idea not so much of a protest with the word "Peace" attached to it as much as a "Non-Violence" March addressing that there is too much violence.

Then those who have have family members or others who have been subject to violence and are willing to speak should be able to call for an end to the violence.

People if they wanted to could each choose numbers for different tragedies.
Check out Jake Joubert's work as an example...