Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day of direct action and celebration! @ Occupy Wall Street
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Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day of direct action and celebration! @ Occupy Wall Street
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Who’s wrong here? People occupying a public space to talk about the problems in our society and how things could be better or is it the banks that we’re camped out next to that are taking people’s homes, ruining the world economy? They’re at fault. They’re at fault. And yet it’s people from Occupy Boston who are in court today, not people from banks.
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| — | Kari Peterson-Smith “Across The Nation, ‘Wall Street’ Protests Continue” : NPR 10/11/11 |
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Where it all began.
(Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
TOPICS:OCCUPY WALL STREETIn July Adbusters, a Vancouver-based publication known for its incisive critiques of capitalism, included a poster in that month’s magazine that read simply:
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
September 17th. Bring tent.
In response to the call, several loose-knit groups of organizers got involved and hundreds of people showed up on Wall Street on Sept. 17. A few weeks later, Occupy Wall Street is now spreading around the country and attracting intense interest from the media.
I spoke to Adbusters co-founder and editor in chief Kalle Lasn about the practical and ideological origins of the movement and about the continuing debate over its demands. The following transcript of our conversation has been edited for length.
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