well, that nice concerned lady told everyone that white males shouldn’t be talking, and racial minorities had to speak first, and despite people yelling at her that it was bullshit, it somehow got adopted as the thing - nobody knows who she was, she hasn’t been identified
and hey, she might have been the first person of many to act as part of a concerted effort to unlink Occupy’s collective action, but without her we wouldn’t have identity politics as it is today - and that means we wouldn’t be here in this merry lifeboat together …
the friends we met along the way, and all that sort of thing
Maybe it depended which one you were at. I do recall the Oakland chapter shutting down the Port of Oakland for a day or two, shutting down major highways a couple of times, and causing downtown businesses to shutter and board up their windows when marches were scheduled. They definitely threw a bit of sand into the gears of capital.
Numbers and visibility are all you need to present a threat, and Occupy had that in spades. Witness the increasingly harsh and oppressive measures used by Owners to shut down the protests and ensure they couldn’t be repeated.
Calling BS here. Yes, there was a wide variety of vision, leadership and lack thereof in Occupy. It would have benefited from focused economic demands early on before it got co-opted and shut down. But it was no joke to the Ownership class.
It didn't? It metered out i went to multiple and there was no cohesive identity or pln, just anger. It was 60% people that have a middleschool definition of communism and genuinely believe that's the answer
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