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Four years ago this week, a group of journalists, artists, activists, and media mavericks working out of a small office in New York launched Occupy.com.
Several were editors who, six months earlier, had founded the
Occupied Wall Street Journal, the flagship newspaper of the Occupy
movement.
Playbook (occupywallst.org) |
Others were Web developers, music producers, art curators,
photographers, social media experts, and production designers. The goal:
to create a robust media channel providing a new, unique lens from the
perspective of the 99%.
The means: reporting and helping drive the economic,
environmental, political, and social changes ushered in by Occupy Wall Street.
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It didn’t matter that people left the parks [or were driven out by right wing police state troopers]. What matters is that
Occupy has created a new vocabulary, changed the national conversation,
and initiated a new era of global protest.
As a media organization
birthed from the movement, the mission is to maintain that
lens, to help expand that vocabulary, that conversation, that protest. The establishment loves to claim that Occupy... More
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If Occupy had a candidate...Bernie Sanders |
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