Occupy Everywhere Movement

The mission of the Occupy Everywhere Movement Collaboratory in the U.S. Resilience System is to understand the nature of the Occupy Everywhere movement.  Once understanding what this movement is at its core, we will endeavor to ensure that it has every opportunity to provide concrete solutions that will improve health and human security, and not be sidelined into unfruitful disruption or violence. Without positive and sustainable solutions, the #Occupy movement, although impassioned and large, is part of the problem and not part of the solution.

However, if it develops viable solution sets for employment, food security, overpopulation, pollution, poverty, reducing violence and war, social inequity, health services, developing communities living within their carrying capacities ... , then this is a movement that deserves the support of the 100%.

One of its tests will be to escape the Victim - Villain - Hero trap, that seems to plague every right-minded revolution at its beginning.  So far so good.  Even though there are plenty of "Eat the Rich" signs in the demonstrations, especially on Wall Street, there have yet to be any acts of cannabilizing workers on Wall Street.  There do not seem to have been any significant counter-reactions to the violence and unfair arrests against the demonstraters by the police.  The fear is that current peaceful demonstrations could change quickly with agent provacateurs from outside the #Occupy movement, if not from misguided individuals from within the movement that catalyze mob behavior that damages property, disrupts critical infrastructure, or hurts people.

Please join in.  Enlighten us with your evidence of what this movement is about.  Although, we are interested in your perspective on Occupy Everywhere, we are even more interested in how you think this movement can actually achieve meaningful solutions.