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Resilience when Working for Change

Resilience when Working for Change

I have often wondered why it is that there is so much strife and conflict in so many of the communities and movements I know of. This has been especially challenging to grasp when the groups I am talking about are generally committed to a vision of a peaceful world …

Why Victory Wouldn’t Be Enough – Notes about the Occupy Movement, Nov 11th

Ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring, and especially since the early days of the Occupy movement in the US, I have been following the wave of unrest that’s been sweeping the globe with great interest. I have visited the Oakland Occupation and participated in the general strike on…

An Alternative to Demands: Notes from OccupyOakland, October 18th

An Alternative to Demands: Notes from OccupyOakland, October 18th

The Occupy Oakland I visited on October 15th was not a protest. You could say that I knew it, because I have read about it before I was there. I still couldn’t understand it fully until I saw what it meant. I suspect the same is true elsewhere, though I …