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Why We Can't Depend On Activists To Create Change

Posted on: Aug 1, 2012, Source: Devoke The Apocalypse

Politics is too important to be left to a small activist class. We need to weave it back into every corner of all of our lives.

Occupy The Progressive Movement: Why Occupy Should Embrace "Co-Optation"

Posted on: Apr 26, 2012, Source: Beyond The Choir

An Occupy organizer asks: When established groups show up wanting to help, then who's really co-opting whom?

The Tactic of Occupation and the Movement of the 99%

Posted on: Nov 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The primary reason the tactic of occupation has resonated so far and wide is because it has served as a symbol about standing up to powerful elites on their own doorstep.

Occupy Wall Street's Future: Bridging Political Groups for a Strong, United Core

Posted on: Oct 24, 2011, Source: #OccupyWinning

What Facebook Is Hiding From You

Posted on: May 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet

In their online lives, most people are shielded from viewpoints that do not mesh with their own, making it difficult to build the diverse coalitions that lead to real change.