The significant characteristic of the
Occupy movement is that it is both a resistance of the status quo and a creation of a new politics and economics in one process. The occupations disrupt the accepted narrative that there is no alternative to the plight we find ourselves in by introducing new voices, and through the General Assemblies there is the formation of new collective action that practices direct democracy as a new model. This is in line with the process described by Gilles Deleuze as deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The direct democracy of the General Assemblies insures that this new disruption is not coopted into the old narrative and made harmless to those in power. The result, the new political and economic models, is immanent to the people who first began their resistance by occupying public spaces.