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The Old Is New again: Occupy and the Catholic Worker

by Ellen Euclide

The goals and values of OWS have not been hammered out yet and I don’t want to put words in their mouths.  I see the potential, though, for values and action plans to evolve in two directions. One will continue to parallel the Catholic Worker and other social movements of the 1930s, the other will increase our reliance on government and placate Occupiers into believing the system reformed........read this excellent and important essay by Ellen Euclide on the following: 

http://catholicworkercommentary.blogspot.com/2011/11/old-is-new-again-occupy-and-catholic.html


Sharon McLennan

This is a post borrowed from:

@kiwicatracha New Zealand

Sharon is a "PhD student in development studies - writing, reading, thinking about Development, Politics & Culture in NZ, Latin America and the world." She and I both have Honduran family and friends and a long background with issues affecting the poor and exploited there. I wonder if Hondurans are including themselves in the Global Spring of Occupation? If any group of people has been held to the ground by Global interests, it is Hondurans. During the short lived Honduran resistencia. which was stolen from the Honduran people by world powers ruled by world markets, Sharon spoke for me, and probably others, as well as herself:

"I might not be Honduran, or even in Honduras at this time, but I know with whom I stand this June 28. Not next to the powerful, but with the poor, the indigenous, the disabled, the women and children who have been left behind by Honduran economic ‘development’ time and time again. I do not know what the future will bring, but I do hope that the historical cycle will not continue to repeat and that one day, soon, real change will come to Honduras. Theresistencia might not be perfect, but I see more hope there than with any amount of international development aid."