Occupy History
Robert Brashear, a pastor and father of three, was 61 years old and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when Occupy Wall Street took Liberty Square. His participation in Occupy began that first day and continued in the years following the eviction of the protesters from the park.
Read More#Occupy@10: An Oral History is a short documentary (30 minutes) produced by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) that tells the story of Occupy through the eyes of seven interfaith leaders and activists who participated in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland.
Read MoreOf course, our movement ended, but that doesn’t mean that its consequences are not reverberating still.
Read MoreA round-up of news about the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
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.
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 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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