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...

25 comments on the article “The History of OWS”

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Anonymous

26 March 2012 at 03:13 pm

Wasn't it more about being for fairness and equality, being against big bossy government and big arrogant business, standing up for the "1% that gets pushed around by the 99%"? Do you not see the irony in demonstrating against big business and being for that portion of the population that gets left further and further behind by the corporate profiteers; and then going to those very same profiteers during your demonstration and lining their pockets because of your NEED for latte's or coffee or donuts??? Must be Pavlov's Dog syndrome. Right next door to that Timmies is a local coffee shop, owned and operated by local people, keeping all profits within the community. That's what repeated patronage of this big business has to do with it. Ross, North Bay.

Anonymous

27 March 2012 at 06:11 am

Sorry, brain fart... the 99% that gets pushed around by the 1%...my apologies.
Ross in North Bay.

Anonymous

26 March 2012 at 09:42 pm

Gee thanks for the notice. As if you actually add up to something you stupid slimeball freak of an ant.

Anonymous

27 March 2012 at 05:12 am

Wow, that is your response to dissenting dialogue and opinions different from your own? That kind of attitude, while not indicative of Adbusters by any means i'm sure, or of the foundations of the Occupy Movement for that matter, does nothing to strengthen the cause or increase it's credibility. You damage what you love and support...do you even care? Ross in North Bay.

Anonymous

26 March 2012 at 11:00 am

To NOT engage with your local Occupy movement is to entirely miss the shifts of history. The mega-confluence of events -- globalism, eco-meltdown, militarism, rapidly diminishing resources -- have never before occurred. Their cumulative effect, without acknowledgement and direct intervention, is complete and utter catastrophe. Invariably, the cornerstone to all of this is corporate capitalism, a system with a built in death wish. Now, do you really want to align with this nefarious beast, and to be marked (monetized) by it?

But the question is, and remains with all the folks I marched with to Union Sq. on Saturday, is to how to wake up those who have drunk the free-market kool aid, and whose existence is terminally dependent on it. Does it take a total collapse before everyone sees that this system is intractably evil and fundamentally immoral? I hope for the best but anticipate the worst. But I'll be occupying as long as is necessary, because I perceive it as a moral imperative.