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    Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
    Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
    Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
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    Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?

    By Kimberly Wilder

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    Wilderside Ltd presents its second eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, essays, photographs, cartoons, poetry, and reviews. Includes an essay analyzing the “One Demand” concept. The collection records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKimberly Wilder
    Release dateNov 2, 2013
    ISBN9781310375521
    Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
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    Kimberly Wilder

    Kimberly Wilder is a poet. She plays flute and piano "just a little", but with great pleasure. Kimberly has read every Jane Austen novel at least once. She has also seen almost every movie version of "Jane Eyre" ever made. Kimberly lives in Riverhead, Long Island, New York, with her husband, Ian Wilder, who is also a poet and music lover.

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      Occupy Wall Street - Kimberly Wilder

      Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?

      Kimberly Wilder & Ian Wilder

      Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? © Copyright 2013 by Kimberly Wilder & Ian Wilder. Smashwords Edition. All rights reserved. Another Police Killing: What If There Were No Police was previously published in Dissident Voice.

      Table of Contents

      Is Occupy Wall Street Dead?

      People are gathering on Wall Street to protest broken financial system

      Update on Occupy Wall Street Protest: Day #4 – Tuesday, September 20, 2011

      Day #5: Wednesday morning update: Occupy Wall Street protest

      (Day #6 of Occupy) Yesterday was some day…

      Occupy Wall Street finally release their One Demand

      FAQ & Summary

      Occupy Wall Street release their Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

      Comparison of the two sets of demands/grievances published by Occupy Wall Street

      Occupy Wall Street: Some Fakers and Confusion

      Our visit to Occupy Wall Street [with Photos]

      Oct 20th: Occupy Wall Street with your bank account [PLUS Bank Transfer Day on Nov 5th]

      Pete Seeger & Arlo to March With Wall Street Protesters & Do Midnight Concert

      All I Want For Christmas Is An Occupation

      An Occupy Wall Street Idea: Poems For Police

      Occupy Congress in 2012

      Occupy the White House in 2012

      Worried Occupation Blues: Peace Song for 11/27/2011

      Occupy Broadway [with Photos]

      Occupy This Album

      12 Reasons It’s A Wonderful Life is like Occupy Wall Street

      Comic Strip: The Peace Couple and Occupy

      What’s in your Occupy Handbook?

      Book Review: Why You’ve Never Met A Man Named Shirley

      Occupy San Diego, CA General Assembly 7/18/12

      Another police killing: What if there were no police?

      Jen Chapin on Occupy, Parenting, Food, and Creativity

      Biography

      Is Occupy Wall Street Dead?

      October 2013

      Is Occupy Wall Street dead?

      The short answer is No. Occupy is very much alive.

      At least that is Ian’s short answer. Kimberly and I have recently been debating the meaning of Occupy, now that there is some distance from its inception. Kimberly became an early supporter of Occupy – using our website onthewilderside.com to herald its start as a true movement back to shared values. She quickly recognized the need to use our site to help counter the corporate spin.

      The first reason we know that Occupy lives on is that it has changed how people are talking about the world around us. Occupy Wall Street has permanently affected the vocabulary. The word occupy, and the phrases 1% and 99% now have universally understood meanings. Even more importantly, Occupy has carved out a space in the vocabulary of ideas where economic and political inequality can be discussed. For decades, the discussion of inequality had been forbidden from taking place in the public realm.

      Photo of Occupy Wall Street on October 9, 201

      Second, Occupy re-imagined the concept of direct action: the occupation of public space.   Direct action had been ignored and denigrated in the corporate media. Marches and demonstrations were under-reported or dismissed. The media had created a mythology that direct action was outdated and powerless. Occupation of public space exposed this lie. It showed direct action -- giving one’s whole self and presence in the form of occupation -- as an empowering experience for young adults.

      Even more so, Occupy exposed the larger lie that the people are powerless in the face of corporate control over the culture. The media droned on for decades that Americans should focus on shopping, and leave the thinking to the corporate oligarchy’s business plans. The US corporate propaganda is the flipside of a totalitarian state where the five-year plan mattered, and the people didn’t. Occupy brought us back to Dr. King’s revelation in his April 4, 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence:

      I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

      Kimberly pointed out a third way that Occupy lives on: the evolution of the People's Mic. The People’s Mic works as a community-based tool, where the crowd shouts out a speaker’s message line by line so that it can be amplified for a whole community to hear. It was originally utilized as a brilliant response to a ban on sound systems. The People’s Mic ended up breaking down the fourth wall between speaker and audience. It reminded both speaker and audience that they are all one community.

      The People’s Mic evolved as it revolved outward. It also expressed its DNA as a tool of external direct action to make the corporate power-mongers hear what citizens have to say. Too often citizens are told to sit quietly and listen while their betters talk at them. The People’s Mic levels this playing field. It can help citizens to regain control of an event, and express what the concerns and solutions of the grassroots are. The most poignant use of the People’s Mic to return control to the citizens was at a New York City Department of Education meeting which can be seen on this video: http://youtu.be/YbmjMickJMA

      Fourth, the most enduring part of Occupy was the creation of a grassroots, democratic society based on progressive values. So many previous movements did not model the values in their internal workings that they were demanding from society. There was an ongoing contradiction between values expressed in the external demands of a movement versus the actual values lived in the internal workings. (Abbie Hoffman articulated an example of this hypocrisy that occurred during the anti-Vietnam War protests. Hoffman described the sexism inherent in the movement was obvious in that the only use they had for women was to get sandwiches.) Even the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington reminded us of the hollow center of movement politics. During the 1963 March, women leaders were not allowed to give speeches.

      Occupy worked to be beautiful inside and out. Occupy is the next iteration of the affinity group model that was used so successfully in the Battle of Seattle. In Seattle, activists self-organized into affinity groups based on mutually shared values. Those affinity groups elected spokespeople who were empowered to vote within a central decision-making group. This was a step toward the Occupy General Assembly which allowed each person to have direct input into decision-making. Occupy breathed life into the US we want to live in.

      As Langston Hughes' wrote in Let America Be America Again:

      America never was America to me,

      And yet I swear this oath—

      America will be!

      Occupy modeled a pacifist, community-based society. One reincarnation of Occupy Wall Street was its re-emergence in 2012 as the spontaneous, highly-successful, self-organizing network called Occupy Sandy that out-performed the very corporate, and corrupt, Red Cross.

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