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Mike Davis : Ten Immodest Commandments

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A friend in Canada recently asked me if the Sixties’ protests had any important lessons to pass on to the Occupy movement. I told her that one of the few clear memories that I retain from 45 years ago was a fervent vow never to age into an old fart with lessons to pass on. But she persisted and the question ultimately aroused my own curiosity. What, indeed, have I learned from my fumbling-and-bungling lifetime of activism?
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MAX RAMEAU: Occupy to Liberate

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The last few years have been hard for us: record foreclosures, high unemployment, drastic cuts in social services, and government actively doing the bidding of big business at the expense of regular people. With a combination of bewilderment and frustration, concerned global citizens had asked one question over and again: when and where are people in the US going to rise up and take to the streets? Turns out, the answer was September 17, 2011 on Wall Street.