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This holiday let’s #Occupy our heart and soul

It is Christmas Eve Day. The Occupy encampment in my hometown of Eugene has just been evicted from its park, shortly after the City Council had extended its permission to remain. After the shock, the process of reorganizing, of re-creating itself,…

Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 2 – What happens now with OWS?

Those who think the Occupy movement will die away just because several encampments in major cities have been evicted are likely to be surprised. They remind me of people who think that climate change is not going to be such a big deal because the …

Four Types of Power

Stimulated by Occupy and an expanding inquiry into new forms of economics, combined with my ongoing interest in bringing wisdom to politics and governance, I’ve stumbled on a productive approach to pulling it all together: Start from an exploratio…

Sources of the Occupy Movement – Part Two

Let’s take a look at the influence of activist arts and video game culture – and the novel idea that fun and social change are a marriage made in heaven. One of the trademark characteristics of Occupy is an out-of-the-box, creatively courageous ex…

Sources of the Occupy Movement – Part One

This is the first of a series of postings I’ll do about the sources of the Occupy movement, from a number of angles. Each mailing will cover one or two of them. They are, of course, not definitive or complete, but I find them all intriguing. Some …