The document proposes a strategy called "Stories from Occupy" to revitalize the Occupy movement by highlighting specific cases of individuals harmed by corporations and encouraging supporters to share their stories online. It involves creating a website where people can write about their problems, such as issues with loans or healthcare, and target the corporations responsible. Occupiers will spread the stories on social media to bring attention to the issues and put pressure on the corporations to address them. The goal is to refocus Occupy's energy on grassroots support for people while drawing attention back to the human impacts of corporate actions.
2. The Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement is one of the largest
grassroots movements the world has ever seen.
3. The Occupy Movement
Protesting against financial and social inequality,
and perceived political control by Corporations,
the movement has gained sympathisers from all
over the world.
4. The Occupy Movement
But as Occupy grows larger, it is increasingly
seen as a faceless, leaderless entity which has no
direction and goals.
5. The Occupy Movement
With no clear direction, it becomes harder to convince
people who are not involved in the movement to join in.
6. The Occupy Movement
For Occupy to further grow in strength and not
stagnate, it needs to direct its energies better and
make its aims understandable to the masses.
7. The Occupy Movement
To do this, we go back to what Occupy was about at
the beginning: The people who are affected and the
Corporations causing the harm.
12. Stories from Occupy
There are thousands of people affected by the issues
behind Occupy, each with their story to tell.
13. Stories from Occupy
it may be about how a bank was not flexible enough
to let them modify their loan agreement, about how
their employers do not grant them basic working
rights or how they are not allowed basic health care
due to their circumstances.
15. Stories from Occupy
So far social media has primarily been used as an
organising tool for the Occupy Movement.
16. Stories from Occupy
utilising the power of social media further, Stories
from Occupy creates a platform, where people
affected around the world can write their stories,
share their problems and seek help.
17. Stories from Occupy
WEBSITE | HOMEPAGE
The front page
shows the most
urgent story that
seeks immediate
support from
Occupiers.
18. Stories from Occupy
WEBSITE | PAGE OVERLAY ON STORIES SORTED BY TIME
To highlight
the urgency of
each situation,
every story has a
countdown timer.
Counting down till
when their houses
get repossessed,
when they have
to pay back an
impossible bank
loan or when their
money runs out.
19. Stories from Occupy
WEBSITE | INDIVIDUAL STORY PAGE
This is not just
rhetoric. But
real people,
with problems
they canât
cope with due
the social
inequality they And people
face. can help,
either but
offering actual
assistance or
with the click
of a button.
Occupiers will
be encouraged
to share the
stories on
their social
networks.
20. Stories from Occupy
|
WEBSITE INDIVIDUAL STORY PAGE
With each story,
there will be a
targeted number
of shares aimed
for, for effective
spreading of the
story online.
21. Stories from Occupy
in todayâs day and age, these Corporations would have
their own social accounts online. With thousands each
day directing bad Pr at their social accounts, this
âpeer pressureâ will force these companies to act on
these cases, or face the backlash.
22. Stories fromATOccupy
|
WEBSITE SHARE A STORY FACEBOOK
A Non-Occupier
friend reads the
post. And chances
are, he or she
might sympathise
with the personâs
plight and shares
the story further. At
the same time, it
also leads to better
understanding of
what Occupy is Now imagine
really about. each story being
propagated through
it also refocuses the internet, as
Occupyâs energies people read more
on those specific about the mess
offending and injustice these
organistaions. Corporations are
behind.
23. Stories from Occupy
WEBSITE | SUPPORT WORLD STORIES
By further
segmenting
the stories
into different it also goes
countries back to the
around grassroots
the world, beginnings
Occupiers can of Occupy:
share the story Helping people
or lend actual who need help
physical aid the most.
to the people
in their Showing that
community. Occupy is not
just about
protesting, but
giving help
where it is
needed.
24. CONCLuSiON
eventually, as more and more voices emerge, both on
the internet and at actual rallies, the Corporations will
have to blink, or risk facing the ire of millions.
25. You might silence the voice of one,
but you canât silence the voice of
millions â especially on the internet.