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Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U. In , the Enterprise became the first space shuttle to At the White House in Washington, D. The accords were But the demand Lasn and White suggested was surprisingly possible, if unlikely.
The email was taken up by the hacker group Anonymous and spread through radical circles. It worked. In fact, there were around 1, who actually made their way, after a couple of false starts, to Zuccotti Park, between Broadway and Church Street. Yet he sees it as a failure both in achieving what it set out to do at the time and in its long-term impact. But owing to its private status, it afforded a certain protection from immediate eviction. Among that first group who did go there were Marisa Holmes, then a year-old anarchist film-maker who had already visited Tahir Square, and Graeber, who would go on to write the influential Bullshit Jobs , which contended that most jobs were needless and meaningless, before his premature death last year.
That first night Holmes organised a general assembly. At the time I was not prepared. But even though the gathering was nowhere near that size, it was still bigger than any earlier efforts at protest in the area. General assemblies, food committees: this is the language of organised protest. But OWS prided itself on its leaderless principle — a stance that would bring much criticism — and on reaching decisions by public debate and group consent.
A speaker would shout out a few words, which would then be chanted by those close by, and then rechanted by everyone else. Almost immediately a strategic schism emerged. White drafted a resolution outlining the demand, which he emailed to Holmes, but it was gently rejected. The failure to create the demand was a strategic error that was unavoidable based on the prevailing prefigurative anarchism in New York City at that time. In that idealised society, debate would replace demands.
White wanted to gain momentum by organising around a single overwhelming demand that would engage universal popular support. Holmes wanted to set up a makeshift society that would be a model for the future. It was Holmes who slept out in the square. People came with different priorities.
Some were concerned with health care, some were concerned with student debt. Some were concerned with just this feeling of angst. Ryssdal: Do you suppose that the impact the progressive wing of the modern Democratic Party is having here in , do you suppose that happens without Occupy? Meyer: Hard to see it. So, [Sen. Bernie Sanders] had been making the same speech for 35 years before that. And Bernie fills in and steps into the breach. And because he did so well in the primaries — he demonstrated the appeal of the sets of policies that he was pushing — other people, candidates for office, stepped in, and you know, picked up the sheet music and started singing it their own way.
Ryssdal: All right. This is a weird question: Do you think the memory of Occupy can help carry the day for them? What Occupy did is it gave them a sense that other people cared about the same thing. The protests joined thousands of people under a common cause, as they joined together in protest of the oppressive actions of the wealthiest elites.
While New York City is an economic center of the United States, it also represents the worst of economic inequality in the country. The diversity of the movement brought a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives together, as they fought for the bettering of economic conditions. The unity of such a diverse group made this protest representative of the city itself. Every background is represented throughout the city, as it is one of the most culturally diverse places in the world.
Occupy Wall Street brought the people of the city together through the creation of a common enemy. One significant protest during Occupy Wall Street took place on the Brooklyn Bridge, resulting in the arrest of many protesters.
The protesters intentionally set up camp close to this building, and targeted the values the stock exchange stood for, including corporate greed and income inequality. New York itself played Zuccotti Park was home to the majority of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, as they camped out with tents and tarps during the duration of the movement.
This park was cleared out by the NYPD, signaling the end of the protest.
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