Toward a Renewal of Critical Practice: Reflections on the Occupy Movement and Filipino Self Determination

• Main Author: Cabusao, Jeffrey Arellano
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Filipino Americans; Filipino Diaspora; US-Philippines relations; social justice movements and the academy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss18/16; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1316/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n18_2012_5D_204.1_KolumKritika_Cubusao.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay examines the significance of the developing Occupy movement within the United States, which emerged from a year of global protests (2011). It suggests that one way to broaden its vision of solidarity is to renew our critical practice (“conscientization and action” – borrowing from Brazili...