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Occupy

Occupy, in particular the original Occupy camp in the belly of the beast that is New Yorkโ€™s financial district, [[Occupy Wall Street]], has become synonymous with this manifestation of radical participatory democratic decision making.

โ€“ [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

[[[participatory democracy]]]

You may have heard folks say that Occupy Wall Street was a failure โ€” and if youโ€™re talking about how the movement failed to, say, overthrow capitalism and usher in a new era of eco-socialism devoid of subprime loans and hedge fund managers, then yes, sure, Occupy definitely didnโ€™t accomplish that. But to say the movement was a failure is to overlook so, so much.

โ€“ [[Occupy Wall Street: A Decade Later]]

the things that Occupy gave us. The networks that were built, the ideas that were shaped around democracy โ€” not just the electoral form of democracy thatโ€™s confined to the ballot box, but real, direct democracy โ€” the space that was created to exercise the muscles of solidarity and cooperativism, mutual aid and political organizing, as well as the shifts in public discourseโ€ฆin the next hour, weโ€™ll look at how the chaotic, fervent explosion that was Occupy Wall Street manifested from the moments after the encampments were cleared to today โ€” ten years later.

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