Re: The Occupy Spring?

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Occupy Spring?
>
> To casual observers, it would appear as if the Occupy movement faded
> away this winter almost as suddenly as it burst onto the scene in
> September. With most of its encampments swept aside with the last of
> autumn's dead leaves, Occupy has little steady physical presence.
> There are no mass marches disrupting traffic, few rousing speeches
> from the human microphone, no late-night drum circle to annoy the
> neighbors. At Occupy Wall Street, the movement's first spark,
> activists report that they'll likely be out of money by the end of
> March. And the mainstream media, both less charmed and less horrified
> by Occupy's existence, have devoted less airtime to it, focusing
> instead on the latest inane comment to emerge from the GOP primary.
>
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> all winter landscapes, this surface stillness conceals something more
> complicated. In people's living rooms, in donated office spaces and in
> indoor parks, Occupy's working groups are as busy as they were in the
> fall. Occupy Our Homes has resisted foreclosures and evictions in
> dozens of cities across the country. Occupy the SEC filed a public
> comment on the Volcker Rule urging regulators to strengthen this
> aspect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Other groups have
> been hard at work on issues ranging from student debt to alternative
> banking to worker-owned cooperatives. Meanwhile, protests—against
> police brutality; against corporations like Bank of America, Pfizer
> and Walmart; against budget cuts; and against institutions like the
> Whitney Museum—have continued at an almost frenetic pace. Organizers
> have also been using the winter to incubate grander plans, among them
> a May 1 Day of Action that may turn into a call for a nationwide
> general strike and proposals to occupy corporate shareholder meetings,
> the NATO summit in Chicago, and the Democratic and Republican
> conventions at the end of the summer.
>
> There's no question that Occupy will be back this spring—it never
> really went away. But what will this second stage look like? Will it
> continue to function largely as a set of loosely connected,
> issue-based campaigns? Or will it retake public space and re-establish
> physical encampments and general assemblies as the heart of the
> movement? How much attention will it pay to the upcoming elections? Is
> Occupy's chief value as a branding device to focus the attention of
> the 99 percent on the issue of inequality? Or is it the leading edge
> of what will become a more radically anti-capitalist revolution?
>
> Nobody knows the answers to these questions, and all paths forward
> come with pitfalls. Obsessing about public space and protests risks
> turning the movement into one long street battle with cops. But
> continuing to organize primarily within working groups may lead the
> movement to degrade into its component parts, reduplicating the left
> we already know. And of course, Occupy picked a fight with the biggest
> bully in the world—corporate America—and you can bet the bully hasn't
> spent the winter in hibernation.
>
> But rather than dwell on the danger, we asked eleven Occupy observers
> to focus on the possible, to speculate about what comes next for
> Occupy with the same vista-opening spirit that animated the fall.
> Their responses follow.
>
> IN THIS FORUM
>
> Michael Moore: "The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street"
> Ilyse Hogue: "Occupy is Dead! Long Live Occupy!"
> Bill Fletcher Jr.: "Occupy the Imagination"
> Marina Sitrin: "Occupy: This Is What Democracy Looks Like"
> Todd Gitlin: "More Than a Protest Movement"
> Frances Fox Piven: "Occupy! and Make Them Do It"
> Stephen Lerner: "Horizontal Meets Vertical; Occupy Meets Establishment"
> Jeremy Brecher: "Occupy Climate Change"
> Jonathan Schell: "If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy's Human Mic..."
> Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett: "Occupying the Unexpected"
>
> Links and more here:
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