http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/15/368809/occupy-cleveland-saves-womans-home-from-imminent-foreclosure/
I’ll say it again. This is a key part of the way forward. While for the time being we need encampments, especially for the homeless for whom there is safety in numbers and who need material support like a kitchen and a first-aid tent, we need to stop fetishizing the encampment as the only form of occupation. The goal now, surely, is to mobilize the rest of the working class, not just to keep playing to an increasingly irrelevant MSM. The way to do this is to defend people against foreclosures (like ACCE is doing, but by nonviolent civil disobedience) and to take over some of the thousands of abandoned, blight-causing homes and buildings all over the East Bay and fix them up. What matters now is spreading the direct democracy and direct action of #Occupy beyond the camps and building a class-based movement via neighborhood assemblies and (clandestine) workplace organizing.
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