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What Has Occupy Been Up To? 6 Great Actions You Can't Miss This Spring
Last edited Thu Mar 15, 2012, 08:18 PM - Edit history (3)
Hey it got you in the thread...
Occupy changed over the winter from outdoor camps to internal work and debates. But that laid the groundwork for a very big spring. Here's what to expect.
AlterNet / By Manissa McCleave Maharawal
March 13, 2012 |
This past weekend the air in New York started feeling warm again; that first hint of spring in the way the air smells and feels. While it has been one of the warmest winters on record in New York City it was still winter. It was still bitterly cold often, it was still gray often and if you were used to spending time outside as part of Occupy, it became hard to have meetings and protests and marches outside. This has made it seem as if Occupy has gone away; in fact, for the past few months I have often been asked questions such as: “Are you still involved with Occupy?”
I answer these questions with a long list of actions and meetings and protests and ways we are planning for the spring. But I also answer it by saying simply: “Occupy, of course, has not gone away because the issues and problems it brought up and the questions it has asked of society have also not gone away.”
While most of the occupations around the country, and around the world, have been dismantled (most recently Occupy London last week) and Occupy has less of a physical presence in that there are not as many occupied public spaces, this does not mean that Occupy, as a movement, is any less real.
More: http://www.alternet.org/story/154411/what_has_occupy_been_up_to_6_great_actions_you_can%27t_miss_this_spring/?page=entire
AlterNet / By Manissa McCleave Maharawal
March 13, 2012 |
This past weekend the air in New York started feeling warm again; that first hint of spring in the way the air smells and feels. While it has been one of the warmest winters on record in New York City it was still winter. It was still bitterly cold often, it was still gray often and if you were used to spending time outside as part of Occupy, it became hard to have meetings and protests and marches outside. This has made it seem as if Occupy has gone away; in fact, for the past few months I have often been asked questions such as: “Are you still involved with Occupy?”
I answer these questions with a long list of actions and meetings and protests and ways we are planning for the spring. But I also answer it by saying simply: “Occupy, of course, has not gone away because the issues and problems it brought up and the questions it has asked of society have also not gone away.”
While most of the occupations around the country, and around the world, have been dismantled (most recently Occupy London last week) and Occupy has less of a physical presence in that there are not as many occupied public spaces, this does not mean that Occupy, as a movement, is any less real.
More: http://www.alternet.org/story/154411/what_has_occupy_been_up_to_6_great_actions_you_can%27t_miss_this_spring/?page=entire
X-Posted from Occupy Underground Group: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12521266 -
If you really wanted the Marie Osmond urination story: here you go
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I think this post needed a more attention grabbing headline. Something to raise tempers! 
but that's half the fun.
..."Marie Osmond pees herself on stage." - it seems be more of an attention getter. 
Let's see if it gets more comments.
So THAT's why this had so many recs!
I loves my Occupy news with Mockupy
(altho it's not funny really)I really don't know 
ellisonz is laughing so hard he...oops! Cleanup on aisle 3! Bring a mop...
