- RUPTURE
- ASSEMBLIES
- AUTONOMY
- POPULAR POWER
- HORIZONTALISM
Zuccotti Park
Granny Peace Brigade
ASSEMBLIES
Face to face gatherings of people, formed with the desire to share, discuss and sometimes come to common agreement in a directly democratic manner.
Athens
Marina Sitrin in Zuccotti Park
March in Madrid
POPULAR POWER
Popular power is the capacity of the marginalized and oppressed to change power relations though processes of organization, training, and coordination in order to govern their own lives.
Student Protests
M15 in Spain
Greek Assembly
Madrid
Signs in Zuccotti Park
RUPTURE
A break, actual or in the imaginary, with previous ways of being, seeing and relating change, in this case opening the way for more emancipatory relationships with greater solidarity. Ruptures can range from economic crisis and “natural” disasters to strikes, mass civil disobedience, rebellions and uprisings.
Zuccotti Park Assembly
M15 Protest March in Spain
AUTONOMY
To have the capacity to make decisions about one’s own life without having to subordinate these decisions to forces external to the process of self-determination, including the state, political parties and other groups and institutions.
Occupation Garden in Spain
Documenting Protests
Assembly in Athens
HORIZONTALISM
A form of social relations established and sustained through non- heirarchical forms of communication. Implies the use of direct democracy and striving for consensus—inclusive processes in which attempts are made to ensure that everyone is heard and new relationships are created, contrary to the logic of capital.Zuccotti Park
Student Protests
M15 in Spain
ASSEMBLIES
Face to face gatherings of people, formed with the desire to share, discuss and sometimes come to common agreement in a directly democratic manner.Greek Assembly
Debt Crisis Protest
Signs in Zuccotti Park
“In a time of crisis, community is often the best foundation for our response. And so the Occupy movement springs up in hundreds of town squares and city streets, a place and a method to find each other, to hear each other, and to voice our visions for economic justice, an end to our wars, and caring for those injured by our nation’s dysfunctional systems.”Zuccotti Park Assembly
OWS Media Center
Teach-In
Jeff Magnum performs for OWS
Poetry Reading