From adbusters: Our movement is living through a painful rebirth… “There has
been a unfortunate consolidation of power in #OWS,” writes one founding
Zuccotti. “This translates into ideological dominance and recurring lines of thought.
We are facing a nauseating poverty of ideas.” Burned out, out of money, out of
ideas… seduced by salaries, comfy offices, book deals, old lefty cash and minor
celebrity status, some of the most prominent early heroes of our leaderless
uprising are losing the edge that catalyzed last year’s one thousand
encampments. Bit by bit, Occupy’s first generation is succumbing to an
insidious institutionalization and ossification that could be fatal to our
young spiritual insurrection unless we leap over it right now. Putting our
movement back on track will take nothing short of a revolution within Occupy.
The new tone was set on Earth Day, April 22, in a suburb
bordering Berkeley, California when a dozen occupiers quietly marched a small
crowd to a tract of endangered urban agricultural land, cut through the locked
fence and set up tents, kitchens and a people’s assembly. Acting autonomously
under the banner of Occupy, without waiting for approval from any preexisting
General Assembly, Occupy The Farm was notable for its sophisticated preplanning
and careful execution — they even brought chickens — that offered a positive
vision for the future and engendered broad community support. While encampments
across the world were unable to re-establish themselves on May Day, this small
cadre of farm occupiers boldly maintained their inspiring occupation for nearly
four weeks…..
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