In the Arena - Occupy Update!

[Hahaha] ...the Occupy movement IS ABOUT IDEAS; was never meant to be a fixed thing or fixed physical presence. Here's a New York Times article today about the potency of the ideas of the Occupy Movement. The piece is interesting because it looks at Occupy as a sort of social experiment and even the author isn't quite sure what the answers are.

For a righteous analysis applied to the Occupy phenom, pick up a copy of the February issue of Brooklyn Rail at the local coffee house - or online here. It's Chris Moylan's analysis ("A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense"), previously published in a BETA form at OwA (look in the CO-OP section of Active Projects & Proposals), which cuts to the chase and reframes the meaning of Occupy Wall Street and its material artifacts.

The most controversial occupational text of the past week no doubt is Chris Hedge's essay on Black Bloc and the so-called "Diversity of Tactics" euphemism, which concludes: "There is a word for this—'criminal.'” Milo asked in the mdst of the dust-up, "Why be distracted by this sideshow? Why not ask what it will actually require of the 99% to overthrow the 1%? It's been done before, just not thoroughly enough. If America could beat down the Nazis, Communism and colonialism, etc., why not unhinge the 3000 year-old top-down yoke of oppression that is strangling our commonwealth. Who and What's at the rotten roots of this exploitative, democracy-corrupting 1% inhumanity complex? How do we get rid of them - permanently, so we can be free?"

 

Mr. Fish