Pushing demands at OWS

Stephanie Luce — 2012-01-17T11:16:59Z

A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands â€” there is nothing I've seen that I don't agree with, and I've worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.

- IV444 - January 2012 / United States (USA), Global Justice

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Stephanie Luce — 2011-10-10T09:30:45Z

It was a strange feeling to be in Zuccotti Park (once called Liberty Plaza Park), right next to Ground Zero. I was with thousands of people listening to speeches through the “people's microphone.” The crowd looked so similar to those of the late 1990s/early 2000s “anti-globalization” movement - and we used that method for communicating then too. Things had gone poorly in April 2000, when most of the big unions decided to lobby at the Capitol against Permanent Normal Trade Relation (PNTR) status for China, while on the other end of the mall thousands of young people were blocking streets attempting to stop the IMF and World Bank meeting. Despite some common ground built in Seattle, we were a ways off from a real alliance between the labor movement and the other burgeoning environmental, student, anti-imperialist movements

- IV441 - October 2011 / Economy, Global Justice

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Pushing demands at OWS

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