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Events 2000 to present AlterLinks Topic Index American Autumn Part 2 Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly. Letter from Baltimore Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment . The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach. Notes on the Fly Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A report from Occupy Wall Street The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning. Oaxaca protests 2006 Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis. Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles. Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond - All Eyes on Longview! Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality. OWS and the working class Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most. The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A report on Occupy Seattle 2011. Reflections on the New School Occupation Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Revenge of History The Battle for the 21st Century Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Second Intifada Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000. 2011 Spanish protests Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain. 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Walkerton Tragedy Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Brief overview of the Walkerton water contamination incident. Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000. World Naked Bike Ride Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article International clothing-optional bike ride. World Social Forum Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An annual meeting that defines itself as "an opened space - plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan - that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world....a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism". Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions Resource Type: Article Published: 2011

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