Wendy Brown in a special issue of Theory & Event: For three decades, American populist politics have been largely reactionary, instigatedMore…
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The First Occupation of Wall Street
The Occupied Wall Street Journal situates today’s occupations within a history of struggle:
Women in Occupy Denver
Occupy Denver (OD) has been a tenacious occupation—and some say the angriest—fighting on despite external pressures and internal strains alongMore…
Who is Responsible for Police Violence at UC Davis?
The Occupy movement at UC Davis was initially about the connections between the privatization of the university and income inequalityMore…
The Birth of Occupy UC Davis
To say that a social movement grew “spontaneously” would beg the question: how does spontaneity happen? Occupy Wall Street (OWS)More…
The Global Street Comes to Wall Street
There is an epochal quality to the current wave of street protests, no matter their enormous differences, from the extraordinary courage and determination of protesters in Syria, to the flash crowds convoked via social media to invade commercial blocks in Chile, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to the unarmed Occupiers being tear-gassed, beaten, and arrested by militarized police forces across America.
Occupy UC Davis?
The protests at UC are not simply protests of support for the Occupy movement. This is not a case of young impressionable students looking for a cause and finding it in the Occupy movement.
