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  1. Feb 2025
    1. One of the biggest lessons of the Occupy movement was that you can't only have a demonstration. Demonstrations are great. Demonstrations are important to bring attention to certain critical issues. But if you lack mobilization and organization and a political strategy, then you're just basically engaging in a performative act. You're indulging in a performance. You aren't really changing the course of history.

      for - key insight - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - key insight - Robert Reich - 10 year anniversary

  2. Jan 2024
  3. Jun 2022
    1. According to Piketty (2020, p. 20), the “most worrisome structural changes facing us today [include] the revival of inequality nearly everywhere since the 1980s.”

      An effective Occupy Wallstreet is needed to finish the job it first started. Without a plan, there is no success. What is the plan? Part of that, according to community economist Michael Shuman is a return from Wall Street back to Main Street: https://michaelhshuman.com/store/