theweekmagazine:

What happened to Occupy Wall Street? After police in cities across the country cracked down on Occupy encampments, the movement lost the “target-rich visual environment” that attracted media organizations, says David Carr in The New York Times.
But don’t count the movement out yet: Occupy groups of all stripes are organizing mass protests, calling for a nation-wide “general strike,” and going toe-to-toe with financial lobbyists. Here, four ways Occupy Wall Street is still trying to change the world

Winter is a bad time for democracy.

theweekmagazine:

What happened to Occupy Wall Street? After police in cities across the country cracked down on Occupy encampments, the movement lost the “target-rich visual environment” that attracted media organizations, says David Carr in The New York Times.

But don’t count the movement out yet: Occupy groups of all stripes are organizing mass protests, calling for a nation-wide “general strike,” and going toe-to-toe with financial lobbyists. Here, four ways Occupy Wall Street is still trying to change the world

Winter is a bad time for democracy.