November 2011
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Open Letter from Starhawk and ACT to Occupy
Open Letter to the Occupy Movement from Starhawk and the Alliance of Community Trainers
The Occupy movement has had enormous successes in the short time since September when activists took over a square near Wall Street. It has attracted hundreds of thousands of active participants, spawned occupations in cities and towns all over North America, changed the national dialogue and garnered...
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Occupy Samsara ~ Support From Spiritual Teachers
An Open Letter from Buddhist and Yoga Teachers and Leaders in Support of the Occupy Movement
Posted on November 6, 2011
As teachers and leaders of communities that promote the development of compassion and mindfulness, we are writing to express our solidarity with the Occupy movement now active in over 1,900 cities worldwide.
We are particularly inspired by the nonviolent tactics of this...
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October 2011
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Standing Side by Side for the Occupation
They were chanting ”Brokers and Police : standing side by side for the occupation.” I took this photo at Occupy Wall Street on October 24th, and it has gone viral. The dialogue in the multitude of comments on my facebook posting of this photo , besides focussing on the question of whether the pic is real or not, (Yes, man, it’s real) also opens up a much bigger question: does...
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“A call to “Occupy America” obscures the histories of colonization and resistance...”
– This is why it’s important to Occupy Love. We need to be inclusive, we need to be whole, we are all in this together! Read the full article here John Hayakawa Torok is a critical race theorist and card-carrying member of the U.S.A. Green Party.
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Occupy Hope
A beautiful piece by Rebecca Solnit. She has long been an inspiration to me, since the days when I was shooting Scared Sacred my journey to the ground zero’s of the world, searching for hope in the darkness. Rebecca shares my view that there is hope to be found in every crisis, and in this article she traces a year of revolution, from the beginning of 2011 until now. I have a personal...
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To the Awakening Ones
Here’s a moving submission from Patrica Arias… thanks Patricia!
From a third world mother heart weary of witnessing the cold machine of cruel materialism crush our families, our hopes and our kids future…I thank you.
Once I wrote ‘mothers of the world lets awaken those we love , these ones that pseudo-live in a sleepy mood narcotized by the system…lets rekindle the...
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Occupy the Present Moment!
Here’s a lovely submission from Maia Duerr. Thank you!
I spent this morning at Occupy Santa Fe.
Among the hundreds of people who were there to march to the Round House (our capital building) and then peacefully assembled on the lawn there, about 15 of us offered a meditative presence. This was the first “official” Liberated Life Project event, cooked up with a number of people from my...
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We are the 100%
Integrity, to Buckminster Fuller, represented the degree to which any design or system actively enhances the regenerative processes that support life on Earth. Thirty years ago, he wrote the cautionary tale Grunch of Giants to warn of the immediate dangers posed by the lack of integrity within the “invisible, abstract, and completely ruthless” empire of corporations that control the world’s...
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Non-Violent Tactics for Occupy Protests
The following piece was submitted to Occupy Love by Shannon Harris. Thanks Shannon! I’ve edited it to fit the ethos of this page. One thing I would like to note - we are actually the 100%. There is no us and them, so it’s important to recognize that the 1% is also us. We are 100% love. One way to look at this that might be helpful, is this: consider that there are parts of...
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Occupy Love Photo's →
Here’s my album of pics from Occupy Wall Street, from Day One till the amazing October 15th Occupy Times Square Flash Mob. I can feel the love all over the world, as this movement goes global!
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“It’s time to
rock the nation,
rock this occupation.
It’s time for...”
– http://drewdellinger.org/pages/blog/519/drews-new-poem_occupy-wall-street
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“‘When the 1 percent live at the expense of the 99 percent, a rebalancing...”
– http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/remaining-human-a-buddhist-perspective-on-occupy-wall-st/
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The Power of Love
As soon as I saw Michael Angelo Bosch, I knew I had to interview him. He was clearly a big tough dude with an equally big heart.
“I believe this Occupation is not only to bring to light the injustice about corporate greed here in America, and the lack of understanding or regard about people’s needs by our politicians, but also solidarity to what is happening around the world: the...
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“Let this movement breathe….
“we need to go beyond having a...”
– http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/?p=2059
“They are telling you we are not Americans here. But the conservative...”
– http://occupywallst.org/article/today-liberty-plaza-had-visit-slavoj-zizek/
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“In the ecological age, we are beginning to understand that we are connected...”
– http://www.realitysandwich.com/occupy_wall_street_no_demand_big_enough
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““I love you.
And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would...”
– http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now
“It is difficult to comprehend a 21st century movement from the perspective of...”
– http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html
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Occupy Love Flikr Set →
Here’s my flikr set of pics from Occupy Wall Street, including yesterdays massive rally. (Sorry for the previous incorrect link!)
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Spiritual Break Dancing
Professor Cornel West, one of my heroes, recently addressed the General Assembly at Occupy Wall Street. His words were amplified using the “people’s mic” - in which each line is chanted by the group so everyone can hear. Cornel is aligned with the tradition of that great activist of love, Martin Luther King Jr.
CORNEL WEST: There is a sweet spirit in this place.
GENERAL...
