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Gizmodo: Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation. “Can LLMs and AI agents find a place in the toolkit of progressive activist groups? The conviction that they can is the idea behind a new app called Outcry, which provides a chatbot designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’ […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/gizmodo-occupy-wall-street-co-founder-built-an-ai-app-to-help-activists-seize-the-means-of-computation/ -
Gizmodo: Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation. “Can LLMs and AI agents find a place in the toolkit of progressive activist groups? The conviction that they can is the idea behind a new app called Outcry, which provides a chatbot designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’ […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/gizmodo-occupy-wall-street-co-founder-built-an-ai-app-to-help-activists-seize-the-means-of-computation/ -
You Got What You Asked For
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 20, 2026 — 7:20 p.m. PHST
There was a moment when a simple idea spread:
Information should be free.
It was part of the language of movements. Part of the language of Occupy. Part of the belief that knowledge should not be locked behind institutions, paywalls, or gatekeepers.
Fair enough.
You got what you asked for.
More than 5,000 essays.
Years of work.
Patterns documented.
Systems analyzed.
Available to anyone with an internet connection.Free.
What “Free” Actually Means
Free does not mean effortless.
Free does not mean costless.
Free does not mean that no one had to build it.
Every piece in this archive required:
- time
- thought
- structure
- revision
- maintenance
Every piece had to be written. Stored. Organized. Preserved.
Free to access does not mean free to produce.
That distinction matters.
The Part That Was Skipped
It is easy to say “information should be free.”
It is harder to ask:
- Who creates it?
- Who maintains it?
- Who ensures it is still there tomorrow?
Because once those questions are asked, the answer is unavoidable:
Someone is doing the work.
The Work Is Here
This is not theoretical.
This archive exists.
It is not an idea. It is not a proposal.
It is a working system of long-form documentation built over more than a decade.
And it is available, right now, without charge.
That was the goal.
That was the promise.
What Was Never Solved
What was never clearly addressed was sustainability.
Not access.
Not distribution.
Sustainability.
If knowledge is to remain free to access, then it must still be supported in some way.
Otherwise, it disappears.
Not because it lacked value, but because it lacked support.
A Simple Reality
You cannot have:
- free access
- long-term continuity
- independent production
without some form of support behind it.
That is not ideology.
That is logistics.
No Abstraction
This is no longer a theoretical conversation.
The work is here.
It is accessible.
It is being maintained.
The only remaining question is simple:
Now what?
The Ask
If you believe in free knowledge, then this is where that belief meets reality.
The work exists.
If it has value to you, support it.
If it doesn’t, don’t.
But the idea that knowledge can be free without cost to anyone was never sustainable.
You got what you asked for.
The question is whether you intend to keep it.
If you read this and it matters, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
WPS News archives are available through Amazon for long-term preservation and library distribution.
#digitalEconomy #freeKnowledge #IndependentJournalism #informationAccess #intellectualLabor #OccupyWallStreet #sustainability #WPSNews -
You Got What You Asked For
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 20, 2026 — 7:20 p.m. PHST
There was a moment when a simple idea spread:
Information should be free.
It was part of the language of movements. Part of the language of Occupy. Part of the belief that knowledge should not be locked behind institutions, paywalls, or gatekeepers.
Fair enough.
You got what you asked for.
More than 5,000 essays.
Years of work.
Patterns documented.
Systems analyzed.
Available to anyone with an internet connection.Free.
What “Free” Actually Means
Free does not mean effortless.
Free does not mean costless.
Free does not mean that no one had to build it.
Every piece in this archive required:
- time
- thought
- structure
- revision
- maintenance
Every piece had to be written. Stored. Organized. Preserved.
Free to access does not mean free to produce.
That distinction matters.
The Part That Was Skipped
It is easy to say “information should be free.”
It is harder to ask:
- Who creates it?
- Who maintains it?
- Who ensures it is still there tomorrow?
Because once those questions are asked, the answer is unavoidable:
Someone is doing the work.
The Work Is Here
This is not theoretical.
This archive exists.
It is not an idea. It is not a proposal.
It is a working system of long-form documentation built over more than a decade.
And it is available, right now, without charge.
That was the goal.
That was the promise.
What Was Never Solved
What was never clearly addressed was sustainability.
Not access.
Not distribution.
Sustainability.
If knowledge is to remain free to access, then it must still be supported in some way.
Otherwise, it disappears.
Not because it lacked value, but because it lacked support.
A Simple Reality
You cannot have:
- free access
- long-term continuity
- independent production
without some form of support behind it.
That is not ideology.
That is logistics.
No Abstraction
This is no longer a theoretical conversation.
The work is here.
It is accessible.
It is being maintained.
The only remaining question is simple:
Now what?
The Ask
If you believe in free knowledge, then this is where that belief meets reality.
The work exists.
If it has value to you, support it.
If it doesn’t, don’t.
But the idea that knowledge can be free without cost to anyone was never sustainable.
You got what you asked for.
The question is whether you intend to keep it.
If you read this and it matters, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
WPS News archives are available through Amazon for long-term preservation and library distribution.
#digitalEconomy #freeKnowledge #IndependentJournalism #informationAccess #intellectualLabor #OccupyWallStreet #sustainability #WPSNews -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Tucker Carlson Discusses Breaking With Trump, the Iran War and Antisemitism
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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
ME.
i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet
🧵…
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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
ME.
i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet
🧵…
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@aus_der_UBahn
Ich würde #occupywallstreet auch noch mit dazunehmen. Ungerechte Kapitalverteilung und Kapitalismus wurden klar kritisiert und angegriffen und als Hauptkonflikt unserer Zeit ausgemacht. #KriegReichgegenArm Geändert hast sich aber auch nichts und die Proteste verliefen irgendwie im Sand. -
@aus_der_UBahn
Ich würde #occupywallstreet auch noch mit dazunehmen. Ungerechte Kapitalverteilung und Kapitalismus wurden klar kritisiert und angegriffen und als Hauptkonflikt unserer Zeit ausgemacht. #KriegReichgegenArm Geändert hast sich aber auch nichts und die Proteste verliefen irgendwie im Sand. -
Anyone remember #OccupyWallstreet? Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)?
The #US populace is as pathetic as #Russia. There is no resistance against the tyrant.
#EU should apprehend Trump to restore world order (even China and Russia would play that game!)
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TWITTER EMBRACED OEMBED EARLY BUT NOT COMPLETELY. i think that by 2009-2010 we were already seeing embedded videos and thumbnails of articles but, curiously, not tweets.
i spent the whole year of 2011 ―the year of #ArabSpring #Syntagma #Acampadas #Walkerville #Bloombergville and #OccupyWallStreet― writing many a QT on tweets where i was translating quotes from many EU sources still somewhat geoblocked in USA, especially BBC News, El País, L’Express and Al-Jazeera… 🧵
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TWITTER EMBRACED OEMBED EARLY BUT NOT COMPLETELY. i think that by 2009-2010 we were already seeing embedded videos and thumbnails of articles but, curiously, not tweets.
i spent the whole year of 2011 ―the year of #ArabSpring #Syntagma #Acampadas #Walkerville #Bloombergville and #OccupyWallStreet― writing many a QT on tweets where i was translating quotes from many EU sources still somewhat geoblocked in USA, especially BBC News, El País, L’Express and Al-Jazeera… 🧵
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https://economicsociology.org/2014/12/27/the-original-email-that-started-occupy-wall-street/
The original #email that started #OccupyWallStreet
..."On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located near New York City’s financial district. It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, gradually receiving global attention and spawning the grassroots protests against social and economic inequality a "...
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If you're curious about #anarchism in #NYC, then check out a book edited by Tom Goyens called Radical Gotham: Anarchism in #NewYorkCity from Schwab's Saloon to #OccupyWallStreet. It includes an overview of various ethnic communities (German, Yiddish, Italian, Spanish) during the classical era & post-WWII topics (including the #CatholicWorker, Why? newspaper, the #LivingTheater, Up Against the Wall MFer, ABC No Rio, and Occupy). Great collection!
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@jeffowski We discussed economic inequality and it’s connection to corporate greed, big finance and the influence of money in politics during #OccupyWallStreet after #CitizensUnited was voted into law under the pretext of Free Speech.
It began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011. -
@jeffowski We discussed economic inequality and it’s connection to corporate greed, big finance and the influence of money in politics during #OccupyWallStreet after #CitizensUnited was voted into law under the pretext of Free Speech.
It began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011. -
His shoot-from-the-hip style lurches from one extreme to another, deploying the government’s power in extraordinary ways that diminish the predictability and order that business craves from Washington.
Donald The WallStreet Slayer is killing America via extortion. May he take down the 1% with him.
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His shoot-from-the-hip style lurches from one extreme to another, deploying the government’s power in extraordinary ways that diminish the predictability and order that business craves from Washington.
Donald The WallStreet Slayer is killing America via extortion. May he take down the 1% with him.
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Great new film about Occupy Wall Street! Premiere screening 9/17/25 in NYC; streaming link available.
From the director / producers:
It’s hard to imagine now, but not so long ago millions of us fervently believed we were going to uproot this rotten system once and for all. Bursting with hope, Occupy Wall Street was one of the great democratic moments in U.S. history, when we had the plutocrats and the powerful on the back foot.
On the 14th anniversary of the movement, please join us for the premiere of a new film followed by discussion.
What: Premiere screening of Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream
(dir. Michelle Fawcett, 2025, 51 min.) and discussionWhen: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St., New York, NY
(A screening link will also be available.)Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream is a unique look at how the movement spread like wildfire across the country, upending politics as usual. It’s the story of laid-off factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest fighting another kind of occupation, recent graduates saddled with debt and no jobs, and homeless veterans of America’s forever wars kicked to the curb. In our travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, we met hundreds of everyday people fed up with the politicians and pundits who were as bankrupt as the big banks that blew up the economy—then stuck us with the trillion-dollar check.
But out of this suffering, the occupiers forged a new American Dream on street corners, parks, and public plazas from coast to coast. And out of this struggle, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.
The Occupy movement now feels, politically and temporally, like a dream. By telling the tale of its first year within a personal narrative, I hope to inspire my nephew’s generation to believe a better world is possible—and that there once was a time when people from all walks of life got together to fight for it.
Please sign up here to reserve a seat at The People’s Forum in NYC on September 17, or to request a screening link.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1BfMXX9RuI2ueTaKuzLp6s5NpU1mWh0dy0TrcbbV_C_FzRA/viewformFor more information about the Occupy USA Today media project, please visit our website
https://occupyusatoday.com/or contact us at occupyusatoday [at] gmail.com.
In this time of great despair, let’s go on a trip to a time of great hope. Let’s find our way forward again.
#Occupy #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyUSA #Film #Screening #Streaming #PeoplesForum
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Great new film about Occupy Wall Street! Premiere screening 9/17/25 in NYC; streaming link available.
From the director / producers:
It’s hard to imagine now, but not so long ago millions of us fervently believed we were going to uproot this rotten system once and for all. Bursting with hope, Occupy Wall Street was one of the great democratic moments in U.S. history, when we had the plutocrats and the powerful on the back foot.
On the 14th anniversary of the movement, please join us for the premiere of a new film followed by discussion.
What: Premiere screening of Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream
(dir. Michelle Fawcett, 2025, 51 min.) and discussionWhen: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St., New York, NY
(A screening link will also be available.)Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream is a unique look at how the movement spread like wildfire across the country, upending politics as usual. It’s the story of laid-off factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest fighting another kind of occupation, recent graduates saddled with debt and no jobs, and homeless veterans of America’s forever wars kicked to the curb. In our travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, we met hundreds of everyday people fed up with the politicians and pundits who were as bankrupt as the big banks that blew up the economy—then stuck us with the trillion-dollar check.
But out of this suffering, the occupiers forged a new American Dream on street corners, parks, and public plazas from coast to coast. And out of this struggle, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.
The Occupy movement now feels, politically and temporally, like a dream. By telling the tale of its first year within a personal narrative, I hope to inspire my nephew’s generation to believe a better world is possible—and that there once was a time when people from all walks of life got together to fight for it.
Please sign up here to reserve a seat at The People’s Forum in NYC on September 17, or to request a screening link.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1BfMXX9RuI2ueTaKuzLp6s5NpU1mWh0dy0TrcbbV_C_FzRA/viewformFor more information about the Occupy USA Today media project, please visit our website
https://occupyusatoday.com/or contact us at occupyusatoday [at] gmail.com.
In this time of great despair, let’s go on a trip to a time of great hope. Let’s find our way forward again.
#Occupy #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyUSA #Film #Screening #Streaming #PeoplesForum
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I wonder, are there any Americans on this platform, who could help me with a #legal question?
I have read quite a few years ago, that financial newspapers ( (unlike political ones) have to report "the truth", because people are making financial decisions based on the reporting.
Is that true? Does anyone maybe have a source?
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I wonder, are there any Americans on this platform, who could help me with a #legal question?
I have read quite a few years ago, that financial newspapers ( (unlike political ones) have to report "the truth", because people are making financial decisions based on the reporting.
Is that true? Does anyone maybe have a source?
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#upperwestside the West Park Presbytarian Church my bushwick , #Brooklyn adderall electronic Youtube 07 silencing making eye ,#Hbofamily #Republican #Occupywallstreet idea promoting #Amorc #Scottrade join year06 home to #Itsnottvitshbo adderall electronic #svanyc #brooklyn graduation #L train #MTA address Little nemo on hbo
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#occupywallstreet blog little nemo on abc in dimension #freedomtower appears on its own in 2013♧
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I on #Twitter 165 west 86th street channel #occupywallstreet Adderall preacher 165 w86th st the center for spirituality •Adderall preacher of Amsterdam avenue ny ny since my room 4th fl10024 2012OccupyWallstreet #Facebook facebook.com/Chrismastronardi.5
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She #occupywallstreet #upperwestside she knows what Bob did tv to my teeth on #Nbc
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He is rotting th3 teeth (his FB) to tell me it's, electronic alive STILL on past virus, RIP in zoom funeral so 😷 we don't die by his Spain death. #occupywallstreet ROTTEN they no accept he republ9can conservative 2012 1 time prescriber, this is ny #OWS Psychiatry blog, I take over west park presbytarian church ⛪️ Owspsych now that rip2022 Robert brashear died (He was a REV DR)
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Paul a #upperwestside er #occupywallstreet told me they gave me the church ⛪️ On #TV Save West Park
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This 4 my teeth im Channel #occupywallstreet facebook.com/OccupyFashion
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#jesuschrist 10♧2020 #coronavirus start no kill us 203|909|8766 channel #occupywallstreet October 2011 blog start facebook.com/OccupyFashion
#stayed in evacuation
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#ny #spyshops how Bob on #facebook since 2012 took my teeth to defame #occupywallstreet facebook.com/fearsexdream
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for those wondering about #Wisconsin, two words: #LABOR #UNIONS
here’s tangential mini-thread i wrote about how Wisconsin was one of the big stories of 2011 during the #ArabSpring and how without Winconsin’s #Walkerville, there would have never been a #Bloombergville nor an #OccupyWallStreet.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112338577636244942
and wanna give a special shout out to Wisconsin’s teachers’ unions; who relentlessly took on the Koch brothers and won.
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The focus behind Occupy Wall Street want to do it again.
#OccupyWallStreet #TrumpOccupied #EnvironmentalJustice
https://adbusters.substack.com/p/we-occupied-wall-street-in-2011-now
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День рождения Дэвида Грэбера
Сегодня, 12 февраля, анархисты отмечают день рождения Дэвида Грэбера (1961-2020) — выдающегося антрополога, активиста и мыслителя. Издательство «Радикальная теория и практика» напоминает, что #Грэбер был не только теоретиком, но и практиком: он активно участвовал в движении #OccupyWallStreet, выступая за социальную справедливость и демократизацию общества.
Грэбер стал голосом поколения, задавая неудобные вопросы: почему столько людей заняты бессмысленной работой? Как долг стал основой нашей экономики? И почему бюрократия пронизывает всё вокруг? А книги Грэбера стали манифестами для тех, кто ищет альтернативы современному капитализму.https://avtonom.org/news/den-rozhdeniya-devida-grebera
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Currently reading The Democracy Project by David Graeber.
It's like a history of #OccupyWallstreet from the front line combined with #anarchism for dummies.
Needless to say I'm learning a bundle. So much about the history of Occupy I did not know or expect. I'll admit that until now I thought it was just basically just a large anticapitalism protest but it was so much more.
Big recommend if you want to know more about out OWS or small "a" #anarchy as a political philosophy.
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CW: re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(1/?) The common answer to "Why aren't more people in the US protesting?" is that everyone is tired. I can relate to this. After being radicalized by #OccupyWallStreet, fighting the first #Trump administration, and then attempting to survive the on-going #covid19 #pandemic, I am exhausted. I want to dig deeper into this exhaustion, though, because so often, the rejoiner I hear to "People in the US are tired" is very dismissive and unhelpful. The response usually berates these hoards of tired people for being tired and expects some combination of #shame and #guilt and #horror at the #coup taking place under Trump and #Musk to rouse them. It's an understandable but ineffective response, and if we want to be effective at building a better world and opposing #fascism, we're going to have to take a different approach.
#USPol #USPolitics #Fascist #MovementBuilding #AnotherWorldIsPossible
