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OCCUPY CONSCIOUSNESS: Essays on the Global Insurrection: A New E-Book Anthology from the Evolver Social Movement

“Is this movement’s implicit goal to re-engage our humanity? To reach beyond the political, the national and other illusory, temporary concepts and into our true, spiritual nature?” – Russell Brand

The Evolver Social Movement is proud to present "OCCUPY CONSCIOUSNESS: Essays on the Global Insurrection." This E Book anthology, edited by Evolver Director Daniel Pinchbeck and Reality Sandwich Associate Editor Mitch Mignano, offers a variety of viewpoints on the nascent rebellion from writers such as Doug Rushkoff, David Graeber, Starhawk, and Russell Brand. Together these pieces offer an essential perspective on the true significance of Occupy – not a protest movement essentially, but a harbinger of a new way of being.

“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.” - David Graeber.

Despite being subject to ridicule from the mainstream and intense suppression from police and government forces in the US and abroad, Occupy has shifted the discourse around critical social, political, and economic issues, breaking the silence around the collusion between government, corporate, and financial interests. The movement points a way forward to a new form of activism designed to build a truly cooperative culture, integrating the lessons of past movements for human liberation, such as nonviolent direct action and the tools for consensus decision-making.

"The transition we are called to make goes far beyond incremental policy changes within the current system, positive though such changes might be. We are called to re- imagine and re-create our world around fundamentally new organizing principles. The old world is essentially on life support in any case. Our choice really is to participate consciously in the birth of the new era, or to have it forcibly and painfully delivered to us." - David Nicol
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