Occupying Attention

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Continuing from this post , Occupy Vancouver needs to make it explicit who exactly is authorized to speak in the name of Occupy Vancouver.  ...

This is the first in a series of posts about what went wrong with Occupy Vancouver and what went right. One thing that went wrong: it was ...

I've had to back away from Occupy Vancouver altogether.  Two reasons: - OV has not succeeded in defining who they are such that they c...

It continues to amaze me that it's possible to run a meeting of over 100 people by consensus, without an agenda or formal leadership.  O...

An organization committed to nonviolence should never need to deal with headlines like this:  Occupy Vancouver protesters bite cops Belo...

Occupy camps were intended to protest inequality, but they very quickly turned into tent cities for the homeless.  In that respect there wa...

I burned out.  Too much writing, too much standing out in the cold.  The occupation was ruining my health.  Taking a few days off was a choi...

We are on this patch of dirt for a reason, But the point is not to hold on to this patch of dirt. The point is to hold on . We shal...

Too busy to blog.  I have a wife, a job, a domestic mess to keep clean and an occupation to participate in.  I am a lucky man. I've ...