OCCUPY WALL ST. 10 YR. ANNIVERSARY

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Emerald

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Sep 19, 2021, 10:35:30 AM9/19/21
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Happy 10 Year Anniversary Occupy!
Share your Occupy stories in this thread.
Keep the same subject line so that people can choose if they want to read it.

For a list of week-long actions go to:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1127342311049632?active_tab=about

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Animal News: OCCUPY WALL STREET 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY (video)
https://youtu.be/jml3tADLJv0

Happy Birthday, Occupy Wall Street
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/17/occupy-wall-street-anniversary/

Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible
https://truthout.org/audio/ten-years-after-occupy-wall-street-another-world-is-still-possible/

Life can be different: 10 years ago, Occupy Wall Street changed the world
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/occupy-wall-street-10-year-anniversary-lessons

Where were you when the Occupy Movement began?
There are still active Occupy groups all over the country.
What is our "one demand"?  Democracy!

Occupy Sonoma County (OSC) formed when Occupy Santa Rosa (OSR) disbanded nine years ago.
There were 4,000 people who marched with the first OSR protest 10 years ago. We had the largest march per capita in the country on that day. That protest became a large encampment on the lawn at Santa Rosa City Hall. We successfully negotiated permission to camp on the lawn of City Hall. Our General Assembly meetings typically had over 100 people standing in a large circle, reaching consensus every day. Meetings got smaller over time, but the social justice work continued, with General Assembly meetings, standing outdoors every day for a year. Working Groups moved their meetings indoors where the serious activism continued.
Occupy Petaluma (OP) is even older than OSR. Occupy Sebastopol (OS) received a commemorative bench from Sebastopol City Council that is prominent in the town square to honor the longest Occupy encampment that happened there.

Share your Occupy stories if you have them.

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Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.

Emerald

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Sep 20, 2021, 12:52:32 PM9/20/21
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https://OccupySonomaCounty.org
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Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.

Shelly

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Oct 2, 2021, 4:16:58 PM10/2/21
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Hello Emerald et al,

Our very own Michael Levitin of Forestville just published his book Generation Occupy Reawakening American Democracy and it is now available for purchase. Here is a description of the book and a link to a recent radio interview he did on the book as well as a link to purchase the book:

On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movement’s lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental and racial justice at the forefront of a generation.
 
The movement changed the way Americans see themselves and their role in the economy through the language of the 99 versus the 1 percent. But beyond that, in its demands for fairness and equality, Occupy reinvigorated grassroots activism, inaugurating a decade of youth-led resistance movements that have altered the social fabric, from Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock to March for Our Lives, the Global Climate Strikes and #MeToo. Bookended by the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, Generation Occupy attempts to help us understand how we got to where we are today and how to draw on lessons from Occupy in the future.


Author: Michael Levitin is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the La Paz English-language newspaper Bolivian Times. He later earned his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a foreign correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture, and climate change. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His debut novel, Disposable Man, was published in 2019. He teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco East Bay, where he lives with his partner and daughter.
Michael Levitin, journalist and author of “Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy," reflects with reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns on the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and discusses
MICHAEL LEVITIN is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal.He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the La Paz English-language newspaper Bolivian Times.He later earned his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a foreign correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture, and ...
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Emerald

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Oct 3, 2021, 12:07:15 AM10/3/21
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Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy


https://OccupySonomaCounty.org
 (en español)

Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.
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