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نمایش پست‌ها از 2011

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November 5, 2011 In order to find out what the occupation movement is seeking we need to objectively pay attention to its background, its characteristics, its form of protest, its content, and finally the way it runs its occupied squares. This is a brief outline of the above, which comes to a logical conclusion as to what the 99% want. Characteristics of the Occupy Movement The very first characteristic of this movement is its negation. It says no to the capitalist system, as illustrated by its various slogans, such as “End Capitalism”, “Death to Capitalism”, “This society doesn’t work, let’s build a different society”, “Abolish capitalism”, “Another world is possible”, “A better world is possible”, … The form and the content of occupation movement The second characteristic is the occupation form. By mere occupation, the Occupy Movement made a political statement. The occupation has both a form and an anti-establishment, anti-capitalism content in it. Once workers, for example, occup