In honor of the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a group of folks from New York’s OWS are launching an oral history project centered around self-reflection and learning. This is a collaborative space, aiming to reflect our shared experience by telling our individual stories.
Read MoreThis image was made in October 2011, just as Occupy Wall Street was flowering in NYC. It is based on the movement’s Declaration, written by consensus and agreed upon by the NYC General Assembly of OWS in the first weeks of the occupation.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2011 a group of young activists set out to #Occupy Wall Street. Using social media and self-organization, an action became a movement.
Read MoreHowever, the best moment was right at the beginning, when people just wanted hope, so someone held up a microphone and I started playing “Imagine,” by John Lennon.
Read MoreIn another Occupy History with Hard Times Review, Alex Carvalho, a doctor now living with his wife and children in Chicago, reflects on some of his favorite direct actions of Occupy Wall Street, solidarity with protesters in jail after arrests, and the origins of Occupy’s takeover of Magic Mountain, a headquarter for the planning and infrastructure of Occupy.
Read MoreIn Part Two of our discussion on the Occupy Movement, “Truth Now” reflects on the Movement’s non-hierarchical structure and its hesitancy to make specific demands of specific powerful people or institutions, or to emphasize certain demands over others as part of the movement’s identity.
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Read MoreOccupy Wall Street erupted in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, several days after 26-year-old activist and musician Kanaska Carter arrived in New York City from Canada. She threw her life and work into Occupy on day one.
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See you at “Columbus” Circle on Friday.
Read MoreTen years after Occupy Wall Street one thing has become painfully clear: the people in charge of our global system have run it aground.
Read MoreAlex Carvalho is a doctor living in Chicago. He was 28 when Occupy Wall Street started in New York City in September 2011. He participated almost every day until protesters were violently evicted from the park by police two months later.
Read MoreWeek by week, gathering by gathering, community by community, things are building toward this date. S17 is not an endpoint. It is a launching pad for a season of resistance as the contradictions of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and liberal imperialism continue to heighten, and the authority of governing institutions including the university, the museum, political parties, and the police continue to erode.
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Read MoreOn Monday, September 13, 2021, ahead of the 10-year anniversary of Occupy, individuals who were involved in the early years will speak about how they are addressing society’s most pressing challenges now.
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Interview subject is not in photo. Photo is by PeaceCouple
An Occupy protestor and supporter, who asks to be identified as “Truth Now” in this series, had just turned 26 and was living in New York City when the Occupy Movement erupted in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011. He discusses the movement with HTR in July of 2021, months before Occupy’s 10th anniversary.
Read MoreIn Part Two of People’s Librarian Aeliana Boyer’s oral history of Occupy Wall Street and the People’s Library in Liberty Square, Boyer elaborates on life and work in the park as the weeks and months went on, the movement grew, and the standoff with the NYPD intensified. She recalls the strengths of Occupy and discusses infiltration of the movement by undercover provocateurs.
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by Mor
One of the most fondly remembered aspects of the Occupy Movement is the People’s Library in Zuccotti Park, created and protected around the clock by Occupy Wall Street protesters living in the park and outside supporters of the movement who donated books.
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Ten years have passed. In many ways, the world is as it was in 2011, in many ways, we have rays of light and hope, emerging from the heartbreak of neoliberal darkness.
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