They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we are seeds.

In honor of the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a group of folks from New York’s OWS are launching an oral history project centered around self-reflection and learning. This is a collaborative space, aiming to reflect our shared experience by telling our individual stories.

This image was made in October 2011, just as Occupy Wall Street was flowering in NYC. It is based on the movement’s Declaration, written by consensus and agreed upon by the NYC General Assembly of OWS in the first weeks of the occupation.

In the summer of 2011 a group of young activists set out to #Occupy Wall Street. Using social media and self-organization, an action became a movement.

However, the best moment was right at the beginning, when people just wanted hope, so someone held up a microphone and I started playing “Imagine,” by John Lennon.

In another Occupy History with Hard Times Review, Alex Carvalho, a doctor now living with his wife and children in Chicago, reflects on some of his favorite direct actions of Occupy Wall Street, solidarity with protesters in jail after arrests, and the origins of Occupy’s takeover of Magic Mountain, a headquarter for the planning and infrastructure of Occupy.

In Part Two of our discussion on the Occupy Movement, “Truth Now” reflects on the Movement’s non-hierarchical structure and its hesitancy to make specific demands of specific powerful people or institutions, or to emphasize certain demands over others as part of the movement’s identity.

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Week by week, gathering by gathering, community by community, things are building toward this date. S17 is not an endpoint. It is a launching pad for a season of resistance as the contradictions of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and liberal imperialism continue to heighten, and the authority of governing institutions including the university, the museum, political parties, and the police continue to erode.

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For those unfamiliar, Web3 is a radical vision for restructuring the internet away from predatory ad models, data mining, and state surveillance. Web3 seeks to rebuild the internet on principles of user ownership of data, interactions, and transactions.