Is the Occupy Movement Dead?
I wanted to share this blog post with folks in Columbus just in case you all are not following this blog elsewhere. The author points out that even though the Occupy "Movement" is coming to an end, resistance to capitalism and the state is not ending and has the potential to grow.
"May 1 confirmed the end of the national Occupy Wall Street movement because it was the best opportunity the movement had to reestablish the occupations, and yet it couldn’t. Nowhere was this more clear than in Oakland as the sun set after a day of marches, pickets and clashes. Rumors had been circulating for weeks that tents would start going up and the camp would reemerge in the evening of that long day. The hundreds of riot police backed by armored personnel carriers and SWAT teams carrying assault rifles made no secret of their intention to sweep the plaza clear after all the “good protesters” scurried home, making any reoccupation physically impossible. It was the same on January 28 when plans for a large public building occupation were shattered in a shower of flash bang grenades and 400 arrests, just as it was on March 17 in Zucotti Park when dreams of a new Wall Street camp were clubbed and pepper sprayed to death by the NYPD. Any hopes of a spring offensive leading to a new round of space reclamations and liberated zones has come and gone. And with that, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland are now dead."
Read the full blog post for more.
Comments
Jason, whether we call it
By Tomover on 30 May 2012 at about 11:30.Jason, whether we call it Occupy or something else, I humbly suggest we spend time in streets, on sidewalks and other public and semi-public spaces to engage with the wider community, doing it in ways most suited to our abilities and circumstances.
The 2 main categories of movement building or nonviolent action are : protest and civil resistance; and creating alternative systems for meeting our wants and needs (ie food, housing, currency, water, transportation, security, and so on.)
As for me, thought there were problems with the over-simplification of the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent.