Wednesday, October 19, 2011

New Orleans Liberation Academy: Reflections on Organizing towards Collective Liberation at Occupy NOLA

New Orleans Liberation Academy: Reflections on Organizing towards Collective Liberation at Occupy NOLA:

Reflections on Organizing towards Collective Liberation at Occupy NOLA

Over the last few weeks our students and advisors have been partipating in various aspects of Occupy New Orleans actions and working groups. Most centrally though, we have all been deeply engaged in the Anti-Racism Working Group meeting 3 times a week a diverse collective of anti-racism organizers and activists from participating in the Occupy movement and other longtime organizers from the community. Fellow member of the working group, provided great analysis and a look at the anti-racist organizing that is coming out of the Occupy Movement in New Orleans in her post published today on the Monthly Review Zine, and we are happy to share it here:


Reflections on Organizing towards Collective Liberation at Occupy NOLA
by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Over the past few weeks, I have been invigorated and moved by the energy surrounding Occupy Wall Street and