Unemployed young people are the reason the Occupy movement just might create more significant gains than those of the 1960s. That is saying a lot, but just think about it. […]
Top 5 Occupy Wall Street Accounts to Follow on Twitter
Written & contributed by Jane Smith If you are interested in the Occupy Wall Street movement, you know that it can change at a moment’s notice. Sometimes there are demonstrations […]
Creating Community | Lessons from Occupy
Written & contributed by Shepherd Bliss Occupy Wall Street (OWS) began using public space in New York’s Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, which stimulated hundreds of similar encampments around and […]
Occupy Media Grows
Written & contributed by Shepherd Bliss “Occupy.com, which means to occupy the commons, will go online later this month,” reported Michael Levitin, a 35-year-old founding editor of the Occupied Wall […]
april 2012
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Stacy Kono | Leading Heart First
Stacy Kono is the Director of Programmatic Partnerships at the Rockwood Leadership Institute. She oversees Rockwood’s trainings and fellowship programs which equip over 300 leaders a year with tools in […]
Occupying the Nation’s Attention, If Not Its Cities
Occupy woke us up to the blatant truth about the relationship between the haves and the have nots. And although the tents are gone, as Scott Neuman writes in this […]
revolution in review | a year of change
transform. evolved from a simple newsletter (to) reflecting upon and lifting up the emerging field and movement that has become known as Transformative Social Change…these ten essays from the last year tell the tale of the movement that was (and is) to come.
Inside an Occupy Affinity Group
Written & contributed by Shepherd Bliss Our new Occupy Affinity Group (AG) recently met at “Mr. Mom’s” comfortable home. His four-month-old daughter mostly sleeps in a nearby swinging crib. Sometimes […]
Occupy’s 2nd Anniversary in Sebastopol
Written & Contributed by Shepherd Bliss We celebrated Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS) second monthly anniversary in small town Sebastopol, with its less than 8000 residents, in Northern California on November […]
Race & Occupy Wall Street
The diversity of OWS is in question, and at the same time, in many cities throughout the country, there are Occupy movements that have been more inclusive. Let’s consider how […]
Remaining Human | A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street
If we awaken from the American Dream, what do we wake up to? How do we get ourselves to sit up, place our feet on the floor, and go […]