Comments on: Still Occupying: One year later OWS hits the streets again https://pavementpieces.com/still-occupying-one-year-later-ows-hits-the-streets-again/ From New York to the Nation Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Still Occupying: One year later OWS hits the streets again | Daniella L Silva https://pavementpieces.com/still-occupying-one-year-later-ows-hits-the-streets-again/comment-page-1/#comment-24910 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:05:55 +0000 https://pavementpieces.com/?p=9894#comment-24910 […] https://pavementpieces.com/still-occupying-one-year-later-ows-hits-the-streets-again/ […]

]]> By: Gabriel https://pavementpieces.com/still-occupying-one-year-later-ows-hits-the-streets-again/comment-page-1/#comment-24828 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:57:00 +0000 https://pavementpieces.com/?p=9894#comment-24828 It’s important to recognize how Occupy changed the conversation to money in politics, to banking policies and financial firms that gamble with pensions and the economy at large. Even if the numbers on the streets are not the same. . . A lot of people have remained organized with other groups working on specific problems, and Occupy gave a lot of working groups and grassroots organizations a hell of a lot of traction. You hear stories of workers buying out their own means of production, fighting to change the constitution on Citizens United, things like that, and meeting a lot of support and a lot of success.

The truth is, the feet on the streets, tents on the ground encampment strategy of Occupy was not successful as a long term goal. If your expectation is that Occupy will maintain a constant encampment where people can go to voice their concerns (and also to be fed, be sheltered, receive medical and psychological care, etc) then you will see Occupy as a failure. But if you see it is a broader social project whose aims range from revolutionary changes in the economy to more rights for minorities and oppressed peoples to bridging the wealth gap… then you can start to see Occupy as a revolutionary force which will continue in people’s minds and which will be a hell of a lot harder to evict

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