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Welcome to the Occupy Boston Wiki!

Wiki.OccupyBoston.org is a collaborative, autonomous, and informative space dedicated to Occupy Boston. This wiki is maintained by thoughtful individuals with the belief that unrestricted access to information promotes transparency and participation, strengthening the foundation for a mutually responsible community. As authors, we want to not only create the most compelling content, but also organize it in the most intuitive manner. A wiki generally organizes itself as it expands, but here are a number of guidelines for reference.

Occupy Boston stands in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, which may be seen as a consequence of the same inspirations that birthed the Arab Spring. In the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices, we employ a direct democracy.

Read Occupy Boston's Declaration of Occupation, consented to by the General Assembly on 29 November 2011

View all Working Groups

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What is Solidarity?

Solidarity can be defined as a unifying bond between individuals with a common goal or enemy.[1] Émile Durkheim's definition strongly supports the meaning of the Occupation:

[S]ocial solidarity is maintained in more complex societies through the interdependence of its component parts (e.g., farmers produce the food to feed the factory workers who produce the tractors that allow the farmer to produce the food).[2]

Participate

Help us build a superstructure of knowledge. Our community relies on every individual. Education yourself and others in the unending, compassionate cycle of learning and teaching.

Explore the Working Groups
Please brief the Help and Guidelines before commencing with any major editing
Join the Live Chat (IRC) with other Occupiers
Establish Contact with OB-dedicated groups and individuals
Visit the home website, OccupyBoston.org

Calendar

Please contact the Media working group via their Google Group to Update this Calendar. [This contact may require an update]

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Please be patient as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston.

Thank you!

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 :''Read Occupy Boston's '''[[Declaration of Occupation]]''', consented to by the General Assembly on 29 November 2011''
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 '''New to wiki editing?''' Learning is quick and easy! Get a run-down of nearly everything on the ''[[Help]]'' page.
 ===What is Solidarity?===
-[[wikt:solidarity|Solidarity]] can be defined as ''a unifying bond between individuals with a common goal or enemy''.[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/solidarity] [[wikipedia:Émile Durkheim|Émile Durkheim]]'s definition strongly supports the meaning of the Occupation:
+[[wikt:solidarity|Solidarity]] can be defined as ''a unifying bond between individuals with a common goal or enemy''.[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/solidarity] [[wikipedia:Émile Durkheim|Émile Durkheim]]'s definition strongly supports the meaning of the Occupation: <blockquote>[S]ocial solidarity is maintained in more complex societies through the interdependence of its component parts (e.g., farmers produce the food to feed the factory workers who produce the tractors that allow the farmer to produce the food).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity]</blockquote>
-<blockquote>[S]ocial solidarity is maintained in more complex societies through the interdependence of its component parts (e.g., farmers produce the food to feed the factory workers who produce the tractors that allow the farmer to produce the food).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity]</blockquote>
-Occupiers often sign their correspondences, "''In Solidarity''". By this convention, the Occupation casually establishes strength in a '''foundation of interdependence'''.
-Around Christmastime (25 December annually), many people succumb to the idea of a 'holiday season' to put on an air of inclusiveness. A great number of Christians have adopted the saying 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas'. This ablution is false, however, because it still ignores the fact that '''''almost every day of the year may be considered 'holy' by at least one of the world's religions'''''. [http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/2012.htm InterfaithCalendar.org] lists a good number of those days, but it still ignores a great many smaller tribal traditions.
-If you celebrate Christmas, do your part to overcome the false goodness of a 'holiday season'. Say, 'Merry Christmas,' to the people you know will welcome the phrase. Otherwise, it is perfectly polite to say, 'Good day.'
 ==[[Participate|Participate]]==
 '''''Help us build a superstructure of knowledge. Our community relies on every individual. [[Education]] yourself and others in the unending, compassionate cycle of learning and teaching.'''''
+*Explore the [[Working Groups]]
 *''Please brief the <u>[[Help|Help and Guidelines]]</u> before commencing with any major editing''
 *Join the [http://www.occupyboston.org/irc-chat-live/ Live Chat] (IRC) with other Occupiers
 *Establish [[GA/Contacts|Contact]] with OB-dedicated groups and individuals
 *Visit the home website, [http://occupyboston.org/ OccupyBoston.org]
-*Explore the [[Working Groups]] listed below
-==All OB [[Working Groups]]==
+==Calendar==
-{{:Working Groups}}
+Please contact the [[Media|Media working group]] via their [http://groups.google.com/group/occupy-boston-media Google Group] to Update this Calendar. [This contact may require an update]
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