The website has been created to serve the following objectives:
1. To record the history of the Occupy the Buffer Zone movement, combining site specific with online survey
2. To serve as an informational space for present and future members of the movement, and all kind of interested parties, helping with the dissemination of information produced through OBZ’s public debates, decisions and actions
3. To republish the movement’s basic principles as so decided by the majority, and redistribute any material – visual, written, oral – generated through the movement
4. To foster openness and critical thinking within the same movement, composing and presenting views that may at times conflict or stand critical towards the “official” “political” line of the OBZ
5. To record and analyze existing and proposed methodological and ideological tools used by the movement to accomplish its program of occupation
Research development, including most of the written work and all comments on this website are, at the moment, produced by a single person who is involved in the movement as an activist and a researcher. The dual nature of the so-called bufferer is admittedly problematic, and serves as an element which distinguishes this blog from similar on-line websites of occupy movements around the world. However, under the circumstances of an underdeveloped, revolutionary, grassroot culture in Cyprus -itself a relatively recent and incomplete phenomenon- any counter-positions appearing in this context, appear under the premise of a conscious effort (and personal goal) to cultivate maturity in the local activist sensibility.
Any texts produced explicitly by the admin and which, in so far, put forward her personal views are unersigned (bufferer), whereas all collective documents bearing the OBZ signature are differently classified. Finally, any independent opinions coming through email or other comments bear the name of their own author and source. The website seeks to develop a libertarian discussion forum and to collect all other views produced around OBZ coming from local and international media, websites and blogs.
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