To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Allen spends the hour with journalist and activist Arun Gupta talking about the legacy of the Occupy movement. Arun Gupta is […]
Occupy Wall street — a 10 year lookback
Just over 10 years ago, in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, began on 17 September 2011. Within a month, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 […]
Not all voices heard in the Occupy Wall Street movement
With 2021 as the 10th anniversary of the “Occupy Wall Street Movement”, sociologist Heather Hurwitz has just published her first-person analysis of interactions within that group that supposedly represented the […]
Is ‘Indivisible’ the new Tea Party? Not so Fast
Both political sides have made their voices heard over the years when they thought the government wasn’t serving their interests. The Occupy movement on the left made talk of economic […]
The End of Protest: A New Playbook For Revolution
Like 2017, 2011 started out as a year of rebellion. By February of that year, hundreds of thousands had taken to the streets in such diverse places as Cairo, Egypt, […]
Witness Journalism
Molly Crabapple, known for her “witness journalism” for her illustrations of Occupy Wall Street, Guantanamo Bay, Syria, Rikers Island, and labor camps of Abu Dhabi, discusses her work and her […]
