The occupy movement springs out of an entire ecosystem of interconnected networks. What if we started a project that facilitated the conscious interconnecting of those networks with the intention of accelerating the transformation of our ecological, social, political, economic and industrial systems toward a dynamic synthesis of multiple movements?
One theme the occupy movement shares in common with many other progressive movements is a movement away from valuing and rewarding the centralization on power in favor of a more distributed valuation of worth and power. More below the squiggle.
The occupy movement highlights the role of the economic system in creating a dynamic that is concerned primarily with the welfare of the power accumulators at the expense of the portion of the whole that provides the bulk of what is accumulated and concentrated at the top of the economic pyramid. This is the same dynamic in play underneath the environmental activist community (inward and outward focused), the civil rights movement, progressive electoral advocacy movement, the peace movement and many more.
I propose that we develop a process whereby these groups can learn from each other, coordinate with each other and fertilize the emergence of new processes that move us all forward into a way of living together that better meets the needs of people socially and the biosphere organically.
If we initially identify movements that have the core value I described above and then provided a website, I have one to donate, where we could invite people to share, exchange ideas and coordinate activities we could potentially accelerate change. Forming decentralized alliances between as many of movements as we could, instead of trying to create a monolithic single movement, matches the values and objectives expressed in all of these groups. The 99 percent by definition are not centralized accumulators but a collection of people who value what exists in the vastness that seems to be a periphery to centralizers but is in truth the heart of our living social and environmental reality.
An example of what I am talking about from the perspective of my particular interests is that the occupy and the transition town movement are very similar in that the local and intimate reality is where everything happens and what serves that circumstance is valued. From that vantage point centralizing processes and systems that take away or harm the reality of local living together are engaged to limit their negative effect and where possible turn them to serve the objectives and values of the smaller scale reality of local living. This is the obverse of the point of view help by the centralizers that dominate our current socioeconomic system.
I have a lot of ideas about how to do what I am suggesting above but I don't want to blather on ineffectively as an individual about it. If this idea is interesting to you let's start communicating and then figure out how to collaborate on doing whatever we come up with.