1. Laurie Penny: Occupying Wall Street…

Part of the point of this occupation, like the occupations in Greece, Spain and London, has been to create a different kind of political space, a temporary reality outside the lassitudes of mainstream politics where human beings are equal and respected.

[…] the occupation itself is its own demand. It’s a symbolic and practical reappropriation of space at the heart of the world’s most financially powerful square mile, an alternative community opening up like a magic window on a fairer future.

2. Aaron Gupta: The Revolution Begins at Home…

To be fair, the scene in Liberty Plaza seems messy and chaotic. But it’s also a laboratory of possibility, and that’s the beauty of democracy. As opposed to our monoculture world, where political life is flipping a lever every four years, social life is being a consumer and economic life is being a timid cog, the Wall Street occupation is creating a polyculture of ideas, expression and art.

3. Douglas Rushkoff: Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it…

[U]nlike a political campaign designed to get some person in office and then close up shop (as in the election of Obama), this is not a movement with a traditional narrative arc. As the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, it is less about victory than sustainability. It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion and groping toward consensus. It is not like a book; it is like the Internet.

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