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gopiscrap

(23,756 posts) Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:25 AM Sep 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCCUPY!!!!

Two years ago today the Occupy Movement was started in New York City. I truly believe that is some ways it changed the conversation in this nation and helped re elect Obama as President instead of electing Romney. Check in if you wish to thank the Occupy Movement!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCCUPY!!!! (Original Post) gopiscrap Sep 2013 OP

Why Occupy Matters malaise Sep 2013 #1

thank you for the reminder niyad Sep 2013 #2

You're welcome! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #3

And it's still alive and strong. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #4

malaise

(268,916 posts)

1. Why Occupy Matters

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Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:32 AM

Sep 2013

niyad

(113,257 posts)

2. thank you for the reminder

Reply to gopiscrap (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:42 AM

Sep 2013

gopiscrap

(23,756 posts)

3. You're welcome!

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:48 AM

Sep 2013

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

4. And it's still alive and strong.

Reply to gopiscrap (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:54 AM

Sep 2013

http://www.thenation.com/blog/176145/occupy-wall-streets-legacy-fight-regulation-affordable-housing-and-social-justice#axzz2fA5Tq6QN

But the lack of organizing may also stem from some of the best and brightest organizers having moved on to instead channel the spirit of Occupy elsewhere: in the battle to keep schools from closing, to lend solidarity to striking fast food workers, to fight to keep people in their homes and to hold officials accountable.

The “Occupy is dead” trope is ridiculous precisely because all of the elements that led to the movement’s birth are still in place—if not worse now. The rich are richer, the corrupt live without fear of going to jail, and everyone knows institutions aren’t coming to save us.

Occupy’s spirit of resistance may be scattered, but it can never die. Not as long as a sense of injustice lives.

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