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Occupying Power

Three months ago, a small band of patriots triggered the turning of a historical page. They did it by stepping out of their expected roles within the socioeconomic hierarchy, and stepping into Zuccotti Park, which they then occupied continuously for two months, until they were evicted by a heavily militarized police force on November 15 th .

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A Horizontal World? Occupy Can't Win with Utopian Impossibilities

Listen to conversations within the Occupy movement and you will hear an emerging vision of the world’s future. It is a world where power is “horizontal” and local. Where populations have organized into true communities that provide increasingly for their own needs and trade with each other for that which they cannot produce. It is a world much better suited, physically and socially, to the creatures that we are built to be, than is the cruel and self-destabilizing world we currently inhabit. It is a world that, were it possible, I would embrace.

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