What’s next, and how do we make it happen? This special section explores all sorts of topics that spring from the Occupy Movement.
2012
Online Exclusives on the Occupy Movement
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Four web-only articles associated with the Spring 2012 print issue on the Occupy Movement and the global economy.
27.2 Spring
A Conversation with Jeremy Rifkin on His New Book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
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The sun shines everywhere on the world, every day. The wind blows around the planet every day. Everywhere we check there is a geothermal core of energy, heat energy underneath the ground. And in the rural areas, we have agricultural foraging waste that can be converted to energy. On the coastal areas, the ocean tides and waves come in every day for energy. Wherever we have garbage, it can be bioconverted back to energy. So these are energies that are found literally in every square inch of the world in some frequency or proportion, enough to provide us till kingdom come.
27.2 Spring
Occupy the Climate Emergency: Reflections on Climate, Empathy, and Intergenerational Justice
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We cannot sacrifice civil society or future generations to satisfy the greed of those intent on altering the chemical composition of our atmosphere. The urgency of our situation requires us to act. Shall we “occupy” this climate emergency instead of denying it—until the urgent truth of our situation is acted upon?
27.2 Spring
Moving Beyond Occupation into Presence: Decolonizing Our Minds, Hearts, and Spirits
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We aren’t merely calling for a paradigm shift—we’re calling for an unsettling of the constant haze of distraction, dissatisfaction, and depression in our hearts and minds that denigrates our relationships with one another, the earth, and our most authentic selves.
27.2 Spring
Nonviolence vs. “Diversity of Tactics” in the Occupy Movement
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The question of whether Occupy should adopt a code of nonviolence has stirred contentious debates among activists since the movement began.
2012
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
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by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
27.2 Spring
Readers Respond: Letters from Spring 2012
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Letters on addiction, twelve-step programs, and the challenges of peace from the Spring 2012 issue.
2012
Night Stop
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“He has only his open hand and his sweetly accusatory Bless you. We have only to turn our heads and he’s gone….”
2012
Occupy’s Message to the Food Movement: Bridge the Class Divides
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The food landscape and its correlation to class is complicated and rife with contradiction. This is partly because our modern-day American food system is brand new—it’s only been in existence for about sixty years.