“They stayed the night and changed the world,” says filmmaker, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about the Occupy Wall Street movement, which started on Sept. 17, 2011. Taylor and PowerLabs director Nicole Carty discuss the revolutionary movement that launched a multitude of other movements. The Occupy movement, they say, ushered in a different way of protest and a new way of speaking about the inequalities we face today.
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I don’t know if I can listen to this guy say Ock A Pie for 30 minutes
How's Occupy 2023 looking 👍
I am occupy fashion
You guys need to protest again.
I think this is a bit over the top in terms of occupy's achievements, it didn't really look at the failures and problems with occupy. Left Reckoning had a really good discussion about occupy which was a bit more nuanced
Something broke open…. And "gubmints" have doubled-down on Tyranny.
Alter, reform and abolish; All granted rights and privileges that We The People have at our accord.
While historically important, there has been a fetishisation of this movement that, one has to admit, did not lead to anything constructive except to bring many of the new generations radicals back into the centrist Democratic party through its more "radical" (quotes here are sarcastic) elements (i.e. Sanders, AOC, etc.), while making sure the underlying conditions of the capitalist order based on militarism and imperialism does not change. At the end, the anarchist underlying trend present in many western leftist movements prevailed to undermine the creation of a vanguard party (such as the Black Power Movement, but they were not the only ones) that would have effectively challenged the political makeup of the US empire. It is a shame that progressives have not interiorized these lessons and therefore will repeat the same mistakes again after the next uprising.
What happened to Mark Steiner???? Not been around for awhile now, I thought he would do this vid* Did he get fired or sick?? Just wondering**
Unpopular opinion, but…
You will never again have another movement such as Occupy Wall Street. The minute a similar movement starts to rise, All it'll take is a few people to undermine it from within. Send in a few paid agitators with multi colored hair screaming "Pronouns!" Claiming every "ism" in the book. Putting it on Twitter and getting the social media mob after them. Effectively killing the movement before it gets off the ground. Or at least reducing it to a joke.
All of the U.S. homeless should march to and encamp Wall St. and the Stock Exchange
Could you imagine it?
7:30 Man in black leather jacket holding a coffee cup was David Graeber, RIP
Decentralize the system, localize production
Nothing broke Open. Sitting inside his house this guy is imagining some sort of Revolution 😭😭😂😂👎🏽🕳️ however the future has been cancelled and we all live inside a horrendous false reality of capitalism and production …
✊🌻☮️👍
Thanks for the coverage, and #OccupyWallStreet!
Occupy Wall Street was spreading like wild fire across the globe. I remember finding an obscure website that acted as a hub for livestreams of every single occupy in every major city around the world. It was marvelous. It was the beginning of something HUGE. The Guy Fawkes masks were fantastic!!!
I remember being so hopeful, watching activists all over the world, and everyone come together for one single idea. I blame Obama for ramping up the U.S. police state, which also spread globally, and ended up killing the movement…..too easily.
Hi Eddie. "Occupy" social movement … ohh. Sure, I don't live in the United States, but this social movement represented a few things to me:
– "Gringitos" dissidents emerge and they had anti-capitalist proclamations … ohh.
– Their dissenting expressions and narratives helped understand financial capitalism and the socio-economic consequences.
– Informal organizational structure ¡¡yes¡¡ … jaja. At that time I was a temporary professor and the Marxist professors did not say anything or their words were derogatory because they were "anarchist practices" … uhm .. jaja. "Colombian Marxist intellectuals" with their authoritarian, timeless and centralizing habits. They don't change … jaja
– Democracy, capitalism are not synonymous. This was the first time I heard it.
– Social networks to convene and position political decisions. This point has to do with my local adventures.
"Occupy" thanks to you
5:28. "Instead of hearing the message you mock the messenger" exactly. Well said
Yay OWS! Yay Eddie! Thank you very much for covering this. I commemorate the anniversary of OCCUPY, the shutdown of which turned me solidly against that president: it was literally brutal – very cruelly violent in places like LA.
And for what? Some Artsy hippies feeding and Sheltering the poorest of the poor. We cannot have that – we must retaliate and send a clear message against their dangerous kindness
The strategic pressure to divide and turn some of the movement on itself is important. We should study how occupy was undermined.