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Occupy Wall Street needs an exit strategy
Starting a large enterprise without having a clear idea of how it could end is risky and dangerous. (Ask George W. Bush about the wisdom of plotting an exit strategy.) Now that Occupy Wall Street has...
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The Occupation trap in history
Occupation isn’t a new tactic. Protesters have established permanent encampments to make political claims and support activism many times in the past. (See our Veterans Day discussion of the Bonus...
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Occupy unbound
Zuccotti Park, home for Occupy Wall Street for two months, is completely irrelevant to the future of the Occupy movement. Now that the activists have been cleared out, we’re watching to see what the...
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Is Occupy one?
I mean: is Occupy now one year old? Is it still around? Is it unified? A year ago on September 17, the Occupation of Zuccotti Park began, with a beautiful poster and far less participation and...
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Inspiration across borders: Brazil and Turkey
Will a clever name, like Arab Spring or Occupy, link the protests erupting in disparate parts of the globe? Will 2013 become a sign uniting all of them in memory, just like 1848, 1968, and 1989? The...
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Social movements, governance, democracy, and Egypt
What are we to make of the military coup that the military refuses to call a coup in Egypt? I’m generally ready to cheer the departure of an unpopular putative theocrat, but quite suspicious of the...
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Occupy Maidan
They’re still there. At least some of the protesters who toppled Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich months ago never left the Maidan, Kiev’s public square. According to Steven Zeitchik’s report...
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Economic inequality is bad (Occupy echoes?)
Don’t trust me on this; that’s what Standard and Poor’s says in a report published on August 5. And S&P doesn’t mention human privation, stalled opportunity, justice, or any other kind of moral or...
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Organizing (debt) forgiveness; Occupy continues
Occupy’s campaign against economic and political inequality continues, although you have to look a little bit below the headlines to see its efforts and influence. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan...
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Occupy at 10 (3/3)
https://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com/2011/10/01/occupy-wall-street-reasserting-the-power-of-public-space/ Occupy educated and politicized a generation of activists who spilled out into scores of...
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