Saturday, November 12, 2011

Voices From the Occupations

Click here to access article from In These Times by Jeremy Gantz who interviews activists from Oakland, Chicago, and Washington DC. 
The Occupy protesters have been ridiculed by the press, celebrated by the left, and reviled by the right—but rarely allowed to speak for themselves. After the initial New York protest morphed into a national movement in October, reporters struggled to understand the spectacle and pundits stepped in to pontificate and prognosticate. They were right about one thing: United in anger, the mostly young protesters have lost faith in America’s political and economic system—but they don’t always agree on how to repair it.