H/T Think Progress
Occupy Providence: A Rallying Call
Yesterday I attended the Occupy Providence meeting in Burnside Park. And I was really impressed. Somewhere between seventy and eighty people turned out, just for a planning meeting. But what makes that really striking is that nobody did any sort of turnout work, other than the last-minute creation of a Facebook event. For fellow progressive organizers out there, can you remember the last time you saw that kind of mobilization without a large number of hours working the phones and email lists? Continue reading “Occupy Providence: A Rallying Call”
Occupy: The Action is the Demand
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On Sunday across the US in various publications opinion-setting writers lamented (1) /attacked (2) the lack of a coherent set of demands from the Occupy Wall Street protesters. It seems like a reasonable thing, you know – protesters having their demands.
Only, nothing couldn’t be further from the point. Making demands would be silly, as if they could possibly be met. The action is the demand: Continue reading “Occupy: The Action is the Demand”