Summer Disobedience School (#OWSDS)

OWS Summer Disobedience School: Curriculum "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty" -Henry David Thoreau




What is capitalism? Where is capitalism? Who and what sustains it? How can we starve its roots, which feed off our relations to one another to the detriment of humanity? What alternatives can we create together? These are a few of the questions we will explore in OWS Summer Disobedience School (OWSDS), a twelve-week training program that will empower us to map, target, and disrupt sites of capitalist injustice across the city with a wide range of creative tactics accessible to people will all levels of experience.

OWSDS is informed by the following pedagogical principles:

-We learn by questioning, sharing, and doing
-We learn from and with each other
-We learn with our hearts, minds, and bodies
-Our education will create space for action, empowerment, and imagination
-Our growth will allow us to shed layer after layer of fear and complacency
-Our experience together will enable us to occupy Wall Street and reclaim our power as people.

OWSDS will be divided into four three-week quarters, each of which will take a city park as a staging-ground for actions against nearby corporate targets: Bryant Park, Central Park, Washington Square Park, and Liberty Plaza. Each week, we will develop the group affinities, technical skill-sets and operatational roles necessary for successful actions, such as target-scouting, march-pacing, research & messaging, mic-checking, banner-deployment, communications coordination, media documentation, and police liaison. We will also hone and expand the tactical vocabulary used during #SpringTraining. Empahasis will be placed on infiltrations, interruptions, slowdowns, and blockades undertaken by small action-teams rather than unified mass demonstrations.

A key priority in the OWSDS curriculum is the empowerment of new people to step up in planning and executing actions; to this end, OWSDS will involve a mentoring system in which those with more experience can "buddy up" with less experienced individuals to lend moral support and technical guidance. This "training of trainers" process can in turn be replicated and innovated by increasing numbers of people across time and space. Students will be encouraged to develop personal escalation calendars to track their own progress over the course of Summer School in advance of Graduation Day: September 17th, the one-year anniversary of OWS.

As the reign of the 1% collapses, it desperately deploys the police, the law, and the media to silence us and keep us in our places. In solidarity with students from Chile to Greece to Montreal to the Bronx, the school motto of OWSDS proclaims:

Educate to liberate! The crisis is our classroom! Now is the teachable moment!

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[ToxicRockShitt]

Love and solidarity to the whole world and universe in which we inhabit.. <3

IT is TIME. OCCUPY EVERYWHERE ALL DAY EVERYDAY. <3

[ToxicRockShitt]

The only reason we have boarders between nations is because it separates us much easier...

Divide and rule.

In reality, there are no such things as states, boarders,countries and money. just trees, animals, people and mother earth.

The sooner people wake up to this fact. The more evolution will be on track!

[james Lavecchia]

Thank you young republicans and the KOCH Brothers for this BS video.

[Peter Malleau]

This is a great video well done 1% all the sheeple will obey now. So sad :( Well the good news is we who are willing to stand up for our fellow humans and the earth are not going to just go away.

[WeOccupyTheBronx]

This movement hasn't been taken over, the truth is that many of the same organizers that were there from the very beginning are still there running the show today. There is defiantly a larger number of 'druggies' there, but most of them are lost homeless proletarians that are the true victims of the economic crisis and this failed system. And then there are those who just incite trouble, which are most likely the agent provocateurs.

[TheDanMan01]

I woke up a long time, ago. I used to work right across the street from Liberty Park, and I would talk to some of the people (and donate food when I could), when this whole movement started. I used to support them. But once the druggies, vagrants, racist, and the rest of the bottom feeders that calls themselves human started to take over, OWS has lost credibility. I personally seen the damage that they cause in the area, and bullied the local restaurants if they didn't give them free food.

[HITWatx]

Yeah... these guys are really stupid, I mean OWS doesn't stand for anything worthwhile right? Let's just let the 1% continue to take advantage of us. @TheDanMan01 you are most likely the moron, asshole. Wake up.

[JW Money]

They are excited about what they doing.

[TheDanMan01]

Gosh, what a bunch of morons.

They should go back into their mother's womb and stay there until their brains fully matures.

[PatriotWatchUSA]

not with these idiots