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Occupy is not a takeover of a park, or a march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Occupy is a recognition that we citizens hold the responsibility to take action and forge a better future for ourselves and our children. We need to fully occupy ourselves. (more)

The occupations have served an important purpose, but the time has come to direct the energy they have awakened toward tangible goals. For too long, the left has mortgaged its soul to a dispirited, defeated version of the practical. Society and the planet are in such a strait that the old practical isn't enough. We need to think big -- and then be practical. (more)

These personal accounts capture life at Zuccotti Park, as experienced by a young Civil Rights attorney and mother who arrived at the Occupy Wall Street protests a skeptic, but who was quickly pulled in by the excitement of witnessing a new movement being birthed. (more)

Capitalism has always been driven by naked self-interest. Under neoliberalism, selfishness just has a lot more freedom to do its damage. Walter Benjamin's observation "perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake" has never been more apt. (more)

On The New York Times front page: Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, had just died, and with his death a worldview is dying with him. Above that, a photo of a crowd, the colors vibrant and varied. The worldview in the photo, depicting Occupy Wall Street, has just been born. (more)

Occupy Wall Street has been criticized for its lack of clear demands, but how do we issue demands, when what we really want is nothing less than the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible?  We don't want to merely fix the growth machine. We want to fundamentally change the course of civilization. (more)