Despite its association with totalitarian societies of the left and right, indoctrination is also a common feature of societies that describe themselves as free: those where the coercive powers of the…
Mass social movements, like the one in East Germany in 1989-91, don't usually start out with clear goals.
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Those who call for the Occupy movement to have a coherent set of demands at its birth ignore the history of social and protest movements.
Often, the coherence to the programs of protest movements is only…
The Occupy movement: different agendas, but united by the right to civil disobedience.
The “Occupy” movement has swept the world in the last five weeks, as seems appropriate in this year of demonstrations by people tired of a clapped-out status quo.
Of course, the Occupy movement is quite…
Day 15 of OccupyMN protest that has occupied Minneapolis. Meanwhile corporate greed continues unabated.
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At a time when the “Occupy Wall Street” protests against corporate greed are proliferating in the United States and around the world, it’s ironic to read the floating of yet another corporate “get-even…
Police dragged protestors away from the Occupy Melbourne protests one by one.
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I received a text message on Friday morning from a friend at the Occupy Melbourne protest at City Square, saying that the protesters were about to be forcibly evicted.
From my time in City Square the…
15-M started in Spain, but it has sparked protests around the globe.
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This weekend Spain will see the return of its “revolution”. Those involved in the 15-M movement will once again take to the streets en masse to demand urgent reforms. Under the motto “united for a global…
Have the #occupy protestors been gagged?
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In the age of social media, if we’re able to get online, engage with a few tools and connect our ideas to others who sympathise, we’re able to initiate social change. Or that’s the theory.
The world begins…
Protestors from the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.
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The occupation of Wall Street began in the deserts of Western Sahara and on October 15th it will spread to our Australian cities.
In El-Ayoun, Moroccan controlled Western Sahara, in the Gdeim Izik refugee…
The numbers in Manhattan streets are far outnumbered by those on social media.
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On Saturday, hundreds of protestors congregated in the Wall Street area of New York at the start of a protest dubbed #OccupyWallStreet.
The aim? To “flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens…
