Part of the problem that the financial meltdown brought to the forefront is the extreme elevation of the individual over the community that has taken place in our society. Big corporations have forgotten about the little guy who they depend on to feed their coffers. Our representatives and senators have forgotten the voters whose interests they are supposed to represent. It seems like even President Obama has forgotten us.

Occupy Wall Street, along with everything else it is doing, highlights a big part of the solution: a return to community. This doesn’t mean elevating the community over the individual. And we’re not talking about socialism here either, as the character assassinators will say that we are.

This is not about the individual versus the community or socialism versus capitalism.  That’s the wrong conversation, and we won’t go there.

This is about the individual and community, for wherever individuals gather, there is the potential for community to grow.

We’re talking about good old American community and communal values. …

We are people who live in community with each other, so we’ve set up this section of our website to share resources with each other. This is one way we can help each other through these tough times until we can get our government and our economy working for us–the 99%–again.

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