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We’ve just completed a documentary film about Occupy Oakland as part of our ongoing series about global responses to the economic crisis. It was completed with interviews that we shot at Oscar Grant Plaza along with archival footage from David Martinez, Caitlin Manning, John Hamilton, and other historical material that tells how the Oakland Commune came into existence.

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The following text comprises a presentation and analysis of the Occupy movement in the United States, by the Lost Children’s School of Cartography. The text was used as a basis for an event on the Occupy movement, that took place at the Skaramanga occupation in Athens, on November 25th, 2011.

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Shift magazine interview John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and Change the World Without Taking Power on the UK riots, anti-austerity stuggles, the Arab spring and more.

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Occupy Wall Street is rapidly spreading in the US, London and elsewhere, as protestors vent their anger at corporate greed. But is the movement against capitalism as such?

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From Zuccotti Park to the streets of Oakland, the Occupiers have been careful to define their ideology as broadly and vaguely as possible.

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“Who is ready to defend our park?” the speaker shouted. It was 6 a.m. and thousands of us filled the Occupy Wall Street camp under a pre-dawn sky.

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Gayge Operaista's account of the 2011 Oakland general strike, the fallout within the occupy movement and what direction things may go from here.

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As the London Occupy sites get some breathing space to concentrate on the issues at hand; fighting the current cuts and questioning the role of capitalism and their backers the bankers, in other cities the occupations continue

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A debate over 'anti-capitalist vision' between the Project for a Participatory Society, proponents of Parecon, and the libcom.org group.

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Participatory Economics (parecon for short) is a type of economy proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalism. The underlying values parecon seeks to implement are equity, solidarity, diversity, and participatory self management.

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"Zapatismo--the political imagination and practice of the Zapatista movement--has had powerful and unanticipated effects far beyond the Indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico from which it has emerged. In this paper I explore the novel political landscape fashioned through the encounter between Zapatismo as a hybridized but fundamentally Indigenous political phenomenon and diverse communities of radical activists in the north of the Americas, many of whose commitments could be characterized as “anarchistic” in nature."

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The threat of an impending climate crisis has rightly dominated the headlines over recent years – unabated carbon emissions, alongside peak oil, are leading us to a bleak, even apocalyptic scenario. In addition to this we are experiencing a crisis of neoliberalism, where the restructuring of capital is finding ways to exploit (and hence worsen) the ecological collapse it has fomented.

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"The NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), an anti-capitalist party in France, has included in its slate of candidates for the regional elections in the Vaucluse region a young Muslim activist, Ilham Moussaid, who wears the hijab. "

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"Feminists and politicians protest after anti-capitalist Olivier Besancenot fields Muslim woman who covers her hair"

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"Mutualism, as a variety of anarchism, goes back to P.J. Proudhon in France and Josiah Warren in the U.S. It favors, to the extent possible, an evolutionary approach to creating a new society."

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