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Lately I’ve noticed some concern over the intermittent tendency to portray Occupy Wall Street, and other insurgent movements, as somehow “neither left nor right”; recently, we can see Matt Taibbi engaging in this rhetoric, and Richard Seymour found it cropping up at Occupy London. This is, I agree, an annoying rhetorical tic; [...]
The original version of this piece was peppered with references to Michael Mann movies and featured a politicized vow that I’d begin urinating in Manhattan snowbanks this winter. Somehow these didn’t make it through the editing process. (Speaking of the editing process, our video from Friday night’s event is finally ready [...]
Report submitted by Benjamin Fogel. Photo by Timothy Gabb.
October 15th marked the official “Occupy Everywhere” day in in 952 cities located in 82 countries. The message even reached my sleepy university town of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. I joined a group of my fellow students and marched [...]
Chris Maisano’s whole interview with Frances Fox Piven is worth your time, but I think this is the money quote that everyone should be carrying around in their heads right now:
It’s also true that when I say I think we may be on the cusp, at the beginning of a another period of social protest [...]
Observations from Chris Westcott.
To a passing observer, the recently launched Occupy Baltimore action looks like what any grad student parrot of Zizek might call an occupation without the occupation. It has the feel of an occupation specially ripened for the consumer, with all its pleasures but none of its messy consequences. No factories, [...]
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