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Uniting the 99%, Interview with Carmen Cuadrado

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“Movements begin with the telling of untold stories” says the slogan of Philadelphia-based Media Mobilizing Project. Their work over the past six years has united union members, students and community organizations with the goal of building a movement to end poverty. To hear how their work relates to Occupy Wall Street’s “We are the 99%” message, Pennsylvania from Below interviewed Carmen Cuadrado, a member of MMP.
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Firmly Disorganized, Driven by Dreams, Laird Harrison and Michelle Nichols

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It’s been a long, cold winter already for Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement that burst onto the scene in September to focus national attention on income inequality and the perceived greed of the rich and powerful. Police have cleared the signature “Occupy” encampments in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and other major cities. Cold weather, and perhaps protest fatigue, have weakened the handful of camps that remain around the country. The lack of a coherent set of demands has made it difficult for the young movement to affect policy or otherwise score victories that might keep recruits coming.
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Occupy, Resist, and Grow, Yvonne Yen Liu

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Marshall Ganz calls Occupy a moment, but we have a history and a future.  My generation, in North America, was birthed over 12 years ago, in the streets of Seattle, when trade unionists joined with anarchists to disrupt the workings of global capital, well, in this case, the meeting of a major player, the World Trade Organization.  We refused to accept capitalism as a natural way of ordering our social world; “Another World is Possible” was a popular slogan.  We manifested alternatives in organizing our collective refusal.  Instead of relying on institutions created under capitalism, we created our own clinics, schools, decision-making bodies, and media outlets.  Some of which have formalized into counter-institutions that exist today.  The global network of independent media centers and community health centers, like the Common Ground clinic in New Orleans, started after Hurricane Katrina, are our legacy.