Monday, September 20, 2021

Occupy Movement 10th anniversary (video)

Arun Gupta, Mitch Jeserich, Letters & Politics, KPFA; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Occupy must have been dangerous to be infiltrated and taken down by the government so fast.

Occupy Wall Street’s 10th Anniversary
Guest: Arun Gupta is a founding editor of the Indypendent magazine and was a founding editor of the Occupy Wall Street Journal. He wrote the piece “[How] Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War.”

He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and author of the upcoming Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry Into Taste by The New Press. (Photo credit: Occupy.com).

Occupy trained a generation
(Arun Gupta/In These Times) When Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was evicted from its home base in Zuccotti Park (NY), on Nov. 15, 2011, by the NYPD in a paramilitary-style operation under cover of the night with a press blackout, the obituaries were being written.

The day before, Occupy Oakland (California), which vied with New York as the leader of the leaderless movement, was evicted for the second and final time. A convergence to shut down the New York Stock Exchange... More

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