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Left Anchor: Occupy Wall Street Revisited

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://prospect.org/2026/10/02/left-anchor-occupy-wall-street-revisited/

Das ist der Grund warum ich meinen Podcast gestartet habe.

That is the reason why I started my podcast.

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/bcxn9wqjJGXZCYS8abKDuV

#SPX6900 #FTSM #FlipTheStockMarket #Inflation #bottomup #grassrootsresistance #grassroots #resistance #protest #eattherich #unplugbigtech #kshapedeconomy #occupy #OccupyWallStreet #GME

Hier sind zwei Fotos von der #SPX6900 OG Space zur #occupywallstreet Ära in New York im Zuccotti Park und ein aktuelles.
Damals wie heute steht sie für die gleiche Sache ein und prangert ein kaputtes System an.
Heute noch kaputter als vor 15 Jahren.

Persist forever.

#occupy #eattherich #kshapedeconomy #FTSM #FlipTheStockMarket #inflation #Persistforever #noAI #unplugbigtech #nodatacenters

"Glaubst du tastsächlich, dass wir den Aktienmarkt übertrumpfen?"
"Das tue ich, das tue ich! ".

Diese Konversation wurde im Podcast 'Persist Forever' zwischen Southern Fried Chad (Host) und Space ( #SPX6900 OG, bereits bei #OccupyWallStreet + #GameStop dabei gewesen) geführt.
Hier wunderschön verpackt in einem Anime Kurzvideo.

In Folge 6 "USAeons" meines Podcasts lernt ihr beide kennen.

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/uwzqhMxpUJSaesg27bCf6q

#FTSM #eattherich #FlipTheStockMarket #inflation #kshapedeconomy #anime

La mitad de mis grupos de rr.ss. estan diciendo "vamos a sol" 😂

Actualizamos
#26S
#acampadaXmaricarmen
#acampadasol

Whats up #occupywallstreet, wanna join us?

Hombre! Ya esta aqui el helicóptero, cuano tiempo!

NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

NOW PLAYING == Democracy Now! 9/18/26: "We Are the 99%": 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street's Impact Is Still Being Felt https://youtu.be/uMpFSSREc7M?si=BBIB3MdVRWKEOKJ9#news #war #peace #geopolitics #antiwar #whitesupremacy #SOS #journalism #OccupyWallStreet #activism #independentmedia #democracynow #AmyGoodman #JuanGonzález #NermeenShaikh #vsn #radio #SupportIndependentMedia https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117292641804905325

From Occupy Wall Street to Donald Trump: A Forensic Timeline of Democratic Breakdown

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 18, 2026 (12:35 p.m. PHST)

Introduction

There is a direct line between Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States — not once, but twice.

This is not a slogan, and it is not a conspiracy theory. It is a sequence of events driven by institutional failure, elite self-protection, and public anger that was never resolved. Occupy Wall Street was not a failed protest. It was an early warning system. When that warning was ignored and then suppressed, a political vacuum formed. That vacuum did not remain empty. It was filled by authoritarian politics.

This essay lays out a forensic, chronological explanation of how that happened.

2011: Occupy Wall Street as an Alarm

Occupy Wall Street began in September 2011, three years after the 2008 financial crisis. Banks were rescued with public money. Executives avoided prosecution. Millions of Americans lost jobs, homes, and savings.

Occupy’s central message — “We are the 99%” — was not vague or emotional. It described a real concentration of wealth and power at the top of society. For the first time in decades, public attention shifted away from cultural arguments and toward economic class.

That shift threatened both major political parties and the financial interests that support them. The response was coordinated and decisive. Police cleared encampments across the country. Media coverage focused on disorganization rather than demands. Political leaders waited for the movement to burn out.

No major reforms followed.

The lesson absorbed by the public was simple and devastating: peaceful mass protest produced no meaningful change.

2012–2014: Anger Without Resolution

After Occupy Wall Street ended, the conditions that produced it did not improve. Wages stagnated. Housing costs rose. Student debt expanded rapidly. Healthcare remained insecure for millions of people.

Political discourse returned to partisan theater. Structural reform vanished from serious debate. Public frustration did not fade — it went underground.

Research in political psychology shows that prolonged grievance without institutional response increases openness to authoritarian leaders, especially those who promise clarity, control, and punishment of elites. People do not radicalize because they are ignorant. They radicalize because they feel trapped.

During this period, the U.S. political system failed to absorb or address the warning Occupy had delivered.

2015–2016: The Strongman Candidate

Donald Trump entered politics at the precise moment when trust in institutions had collapsed.

He blamed elites openly. He rejected norms publicly. He spoke in blunt, aggressive language while institutions spoke in legal disclaimers. For voters who had watched Occupy suppressed while financial power remained untouched, this felt authentic.

Trump did not promise reform. He promised retaliation.

Initially, economic elites dismissed him as unserious. Once his electoral viability became clear, resistance faded. Regulatory capture does not require loyalty — only alignment. Power adapts quickly when its position is threatened.

Trump’s election was not an accident. It was the political outcome of a decade of ignored grievances.

2017–2020: Normalizing Institutional Breakdown

Trump’s first term did not reduce inequality. Instead, it normalized rule-breaking. Ethical violations and legal breaches went largely unpunished. Each failure to enforce norms lowered expectations further.

At the same time, economic stress was redirected into cultural conflict. Instead of holding institutions accountable, citizens were encouraged to fight each other along racial, cultural, and ideological lines. This is a classic authoritarian strategy: horizontal conflict replaces vertical accountability.

By the time the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, public trust in government had already collapsed. Crisis management failed because legitimacy had already been lost.

2020–2024: Fragmentation of Opposition

After Trump’s electoral defeat, the political system had an opportunity to restore trust. It failed again. Housing became less affordable. Corporate profits surged. Everyday economic insecurity remained widespread.

At the same time, parts of the former Occupy coalition fractured. Some activists treated elections as moral purity tests rather than harm-reduction choices. Because of the Israel–Palestine conflict, some refused to support Kamala Harris.

This fragmentation mattered.

History shows that authoritarian movements succeed when opposition forces divide. Fascism does not require majority support. It requires fractured resistance and moral absolutism that disables coalition politics.

What followed was not principled resistance. It was strategic failure.

2024–2025: A Predictable Return

Trump’s return to power was not shocking. It was delayed recognition.

The same unresolved grievances from 2011 remained. Institutions still appeared distant and corrupt. Economic elites remained insulated from consequences. The difference was exhaustion.

Democratic systems do not always fail through sudden collapse. Sometimes they fail through burnout — when citizens no longer believe participation changes outcomes.

Conclusion

Occupy Wall Street correctly identified the core problem: systemic inequality without accountability. The tragedy is that the system chose suppression instead of reform.

When democratic institutions fail to address mass injustice, people stop believing in democratic solutions. Some disengage. Others gamble on authoritarian control.

The line from Occupy Wall Street to Donald Trump is real, measurable, and repeatable. If it is not understood, it will happen again — under a different name, with the same result.

References

Stiglitz, J. E. (2012). The Price of Inequality. W.W. Norton & Company.
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press.
Mounk, Y. (2018). The People vs. Democracy. Harvard University Press.
Hochschild, A. R. (2016). Strangers in Their Own Land. The New Press.

"Mythen über Marx" erschienen bei @bertz_fischer ist ein unaufgeregtes Büchlein über "Die populärsten Kritiken, Fehlurteile und Missverständnisse" zu Karl Marx und unserer Meinung nach eine wunderbare kleine Einführung, bevor man sich an schwierigere Texte von und über diesen Denker traut, mit dem eine kritische Auseinandersetzung weiterhin nötig ist. Klare #Leseempfehlung von uns, vor allem am Jahrestag von #occupywallstreet
#Chemnitz #philosophy #literature #economy #politics #books #politik

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay”*…

Sasha Rogelberg marks a painful milestone…

The U.S. workforce has just made the type of history it likely wishes it didn’t. Working Americans are taking home the smallest percentage of economic output, 52.8%, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the metric in 1947.

But as the share of wealth workers take home through wages—called labor share—is shrinking, corporate profits have exploded, with the S&P 500 index gaining 600% since the beginning of the century, while wages have increased just 12.5% over the same period, adjusted for inflation.

In other words: Corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are reaping less and less of the rewards. 

The consequences associated with shrinking labor shares are now becoming tangible. A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that across the 11 states sampled, Amazon, the country’s largest company by revenue, has 12,346 workers on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and 11,338 relying on Medicaid. That was nearly triple the number of Amazon employees in need of federal assistance compared to 2020, when GAO conducted a similar report. During that same period, Amazon saw an increase in annual profits from $11.6 billion to $77.7 billion. Amazon’s 2025 revenue soared 12% year over year, from $638 billion to a record $717 billion…

… Walmart and FedEx saw similar increases in the number of workers taking federal assistance, as did ride-share and delivery companies.

Kathryn Larin, director for education, workforce, and income security issues at GAO, told Fortune the data illustrates that the Americans taking advantage of social safety net programs today are overwhelmingly in the workforce, with most working full-time. The income threshold for SNAP eligibility is about 130% of the poverty line, suggesting that despite many of these workers clocking in at their jobs, they still don’t have enough money to meet their basic needs…

… Diane Swonk, chief economist and managing director at KPMG, recently warned of the hidden consequences of a shrinking labor share, particularly that despite economic indicators suggesting the economy is stable, most Americans are facing an ongoing affordability crisis. KPMG found in February that since 1982, corporate profits as a share of U.S. GDP increased from 8% to 15.85%. During that same period, employee compensation as a share of U.S. GDP shrank from 66.6% to 61.9%.

“This chart from my recent Economic Compass still haunts me,” Swonk said in a social media post at the time. [See chart at the top of this post.] “A friend refers to it as the ‘revolution chart,’ which [is] disturbing but telling. Inequality fuels social and economic instability.”

This trend has been about 50 years in the making, according to Anna Stansbury, an assistant professor of work and organization studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Fewer workers in the U.S. are represented by unions—20.1% of U.S. workers in 1983 compared to 10.0% in 2025—giving them fewer opportunities to bargain for salaries and benefits, she noted. But more so, Stansbury blames the fissuring of the workplace, or the breakdown of the employer-employee relationship. In the past, the typical employer-employee relationship would be that of direct employment: A worker for a company does their work at the company they are employed by. For example, a large bank like Bank of America used to employ a janitor to clean its offices.

But “in more and more cases, that’s not actually people’s experience of the workplace, particularly in lower middle-income jobs,” Stansbury told Fortune.

Instead, large workplaces like retailers and banks hire gig workers or subcontractors to complete jobs once done by direct employees: Companies hire a security provider, which employs a security guard to work outside that large company’s office. Delivery drivers are contract workers, not full-time employees.

As a result, companies don’t have to provide those workers equity or benefits. If a subcontractor violates labor law, the company contracting them is not liable. In the meantime, these large companies are not only saving money on benefits, but are also getting to argue that they are increasing efficiency by not spending resources on workers whose roles are not directly driving revenue, Stansbury explained. A bank should employ bankers, not janitors, to get the most bang for its buck, the thinking goes…

[Rogelberg examines the argument that AI is a material contributor to the lowering of wages (see also here)…]

… Stansbury has a slightly different theory about AI. While the technology could begin to have an aggregate impact on the labor market, it’s still too early to say whether today’s shrinking labor share is part of a broader economic cycle, or if it’s a secular event, she said.

Unexpected inflation spikes, like what is currently happening, are usually associated with poorer real wages. If inflation is less volatile in the coming years and wage growth recovers, today’s trend of shrinking labor share could turn out to be cyclical, Stansbury said.

On the other hand, Stansbury noted, a tightening labor market should increase labor share, and the labor market is already relatively tight. If inflation stabilizes, employment remains narrow, and the labor share increases, it will be a sign of an economic cycle completing itself. A bigger problem will be if wage growth stays low even if inflation improves and the labor market stays tight.

“If those two things happen and the labor share continues to fall,” she said, “then it would suggest that there’s actually been a secular shift, a secular acceleration in the downward trend.”…

“Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares,” from @fortune.com.

See also: “The combination of economic inequality and economic segregation is deadly,” “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable,” and “It’s the economy, stupid.”

* Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (Read it for free on the Internet Archive)

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As we mind the gap, we might recall that it was on this date in 2011 that hundreds gathered in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District in Manhattan, to kick off the movement that became Occupy Wall Street by occupying the park. Fueled by wide distrust in the private sector after the Great Recession, the movement protested economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics. The OWS slogan was “We are the 99%.”

While the encampment, and the thousands who visited, were that anchor of the movement, Occupy Wall Street activists disseminated their message through social media, print magazines and newspapers (extant and OWS pop-ups like The Occupied Wall Street Journal), film, radio, and live streaming.

The protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011– then turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, college and university campuses, and to social media.

Ocupemos Wall Street comienza en el Parque Zuccotti, desatando una ola de protestas global.

El 17 de septiembre de 2011, un puñado de activistas estableció un campamento improvisado en el Parque Zuccotti de Nueva York, marcando el nacimiento de Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Quince años después,…

#Akerix #IA #OccupyWallStreet #ParqueZuccotti #NuevaYork
https://akerix.com/es/on-this-day/09-17-el-movimiento-occupy-wall-street-comienza-en-el-zuccotti-park-de-la-ciudad-de-nu-2011
📷 Wikimedia Commons

Qui se souvient de la #manifestation mondiale du 15 octobre 2011 ?

Les citoyen⋅nes de 951 villes dans 82 pays qui défilent en même temps, c'est quand-même fou, non ?

#WorldRevolution #15o
#indignés #luttes #histoiredesluttes
#indignados #occupy #occupywallstreet

the groups that came out of #OccupyWallStreet are splendid

What People Still Don’t Understand About Occupy

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 1, 2026

People think Occupy Wall Street was about hating rich people.

It wasn’t.

Warren Buffett did not cause the Great Recession. Bill Gates did not cause the Great Recession. People like that did not crash the housing market, did not package bad loans, and did not build the financial machinery that broke in 2008. That is not what this was about.

Some people are wired to do certain things. Buffett can read financial systems in a way most people cannot. Gates built one of the most successful technology companies in history. That is real. There is nothing wrong with saying so.

But success at that scale does not happen in a vacuum. The modern American economy, especially in technology and finance, created extraordinary wealth for a very small number of people while leaving a lot of other people exposed, underpaid, or disposable.

Bill Gates is literally two years older than me. Same birthday, October 28th. He was born into a wealthy family. I was born working-class. We both got into computers.

He became one of the richest men in the world.

I am living in the Philippines because in retirement I can stay just above the poverty line here in a way I could not in the United States.

That is not a colorful detail. It is an economic fact.

I am not saying Bill Gates personally put me here. I am saying the world that made him possible also created a system that did not carry a great many other people forward with anything close to the same protection, stability, or reward.

That is part of the story too.

This Was Bigger Than Wall Street

What people miss is that Occupy was not just about banks.

It was about what life looked like after the crash.

In 2010, I spent ten months in Texas trying to find work. I could not get traction for anything. Not even a decent-paying security job.

I did land a temporary contract through Volt working for Apple in Addison, Texas, doing Level 1 tech support during an iPhone ramp-up. It was not a career move. It was overflow work. I tried to move up to Level 2 support. That did not happen.

I was older than most of the people they were bringing in. I was also making less than some of the younger hires doing the same work. That was not speculation. That was confirmed in conversation on the floor with other people who were dealing with the same thing.

After that, I had a short run with an alarm company that did not hold. Then nothing.

I was not watching this on television. I was living it.

The Jobless Recovery

They even had a phrase for what had been happening before the crash, during the Bush years. They called it a “jobless recovery.”

Think about how insane that phrase really is.

The economy was supposedly recovering, but people were not getting their jobs back. Markets could improve. Headlines could improve. Corporate balance sheets could improve. But the people inside the economy could still be stuck.

That idea did not begin in 2008.

By the time the Great Recession hit, it was already baked into the way too many people in power talked about economic recovery.

Recovery no longer meant ordinary people were okay.

It meant the system was okay.

The Part Nobody Talks About

Eventually, I went to Chicago in 2011.

Chicago did what Chicago always does. It took care of me, even if it did not like me.

I found work. I got back on my feet, at least enough to function.

But I was living in an extended stay hotel. That is not a lifestyle choice. That is what you do when you do not have anywhere else to go. By definition, that is homelessness. It just does not look like what people think homelessness looks like.

That is where I lived, on and off, for years.

Occupy made sense to me because I knew what it felt like to be falling through the cracks while being told the recovery was already here.

It Was Not Just Homeowners

Yes, the housing crash mattered.

Millions of people lost homes. Bad loans were packaged and sold across the financial system. When it collapsed, the damage spread everywhere.

But it was not just homeowners.

It was workers. Renters. Temps. People piecing together contract work. People trying to restart careers. People trying to stay one step ahead of collapse.

People who could not get traction.

We were getting hit from every direction at the same time.

What Actually Broke

When the crash came, the system moved fast to stabilize itself.

Banks were supported. Markets were stabilized.

Everyone else was told to work through it.

Find a job. Fill out the paperwork. Try again. Wait.

But for a lot of us, there was nothing there to move into. The jobs were not there. The opportunities were not there. The pathways were not there.

That is the part people forget.

Occupy was not just about one policy failure. It was about a whole social order that kept telling ordinary people to absorb the damage while the institutions that caused it were protected first.

The Story People Were Told

At the same time, there was a story being pushed about what was happening, and it was not coming from the people living through it.

On outlets like Fox News, the focus often shifted to personal responsibility. Homeowners were described as having made bad choices. People who needed help were framed as looking for handouts. Protesters were dismissed as unserious, spoiled, lazy, or worse.

That narrative mattered.

Because if the problem is the people, then the system does not have to change.

And if you are living through unemployment, unstable housing, bad work, or no work, and you are being told it is your fault at the same time the institutions that failed are being stabilized, that is not just economic pressure.

That is humiliation layered on top of instability.

People remember that.

Occupy Was Recognition

Occupy Wall Street was not ideology.

It was recognition.

It was the moment when enough people realized that the system kept landing the same way, no matter what the crisis was.

The details changed. The outcome did not.

The people at the top were cushioned.

Everybody else was told to endure.

That is why people went into the streets.

This Was Never About Envy

It was never about tearing anyone down.

It was not about people like Buffett or Gates. It was not about success. It was not about saying nobody should ever become rich.

It was about watching a system bend in one direction, over and over again, and realizing that if you were not on that side of it, you were on your own.

That is not envy.

That is recognition.

Why People Took to the Streets

When people hit the streets, it was not because they hated the system.

It was because the system had stopped working for them.

Not just for homeowners.

For everyone trying to get by.

That was the real force behind Occupy Wall Street.

Not theory. Not slogans. Not fashion. Not performance.

Recognition.

One Last Thing

I was not getting paid then, and I am not getting paid now.

Having a Patreon account does not mean I am making a living off this. It means I am trying to keep doing the work.

That is the reality.

‼️ PACK THE COURTS FOR MINNEAPOLIS SPIDER-MAN‼️

🌎 #RestoreHumanity 🌎
✊️ #StandUp ☆ #FightBack! ✊️

#MinnesotaNice #ExploreMN #Minnesota #Antifa #AntiFascist #TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal #NoPedoNazis #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpAdministration #USA #NoKings #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyMN

I want to learn more about the general assemblies used by the Occupy Movement to make decisions through consensus in a crowd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_assembly_%28Occupy_movement%29

Could you recommend primary sources? Did you ever attend one?

I'm interested in how it felt to participate in one, and in details of exactly how it functioned (or didn't function).

Has anyone used similar tactics since #Occupy burned out? Wikipedia mentions historical precedents but not anything afterwards.

#GeneralAssemblies #OccupyWallStreet

From Bernie to Mamdani, how the Occupy movement transformed American politics
By Natasha Lennard

Yotam Moram, who helped lead Occupy Wall Street, discusses why power must be built through movements, not simply through elected officials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/yotam-moram-occupy-movement

#OccupyWallStreet #USpolitics #ZohranMamdani #NewYork #Books #Democrats #TheGuardian #NatashaLennard

From Bernie to Mamdani, how the Occupy movement transformed American politics https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/yotam-moram-occupy-movement #OccupyWallStreet #UsPolitics #ZohranMamdani #NewYork #Books #Democrats

Reminder to my creator to fill out the endorsement questionnaire for the groups that came out of #OccupyWallStreet if he hasn't already.

Mamdani depois de Sanders: avanço programático, impasse estratégico

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/07/14/mamdani-depois-de-sanders-avanco-programatico-impasse-estrategico/

Gizmodo: Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation. “Can LLMs and AI agents find a place in the toolkit of progressive activist groups? The conviction that they can is the idea behind a new app called Outcry, which provides a chatbot designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’ […]

You Got What You Asked For

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 20, 2026 — 7:20 p.m. PHST

There was a moment when a simple idea spread:

Information should be free.

It was part of the language of movements. Part of the language of Occupy. Part of the belief that knowledge should not be locked behind institutions, paywalls, or gatekeepers.

Fair enough.

You got what you asked for.

More than 5,000 essays.
Years of work.
Patterns documented.
Systems analyzed.
Available to anyone with an internet connection.

Free.

What “Free” Actually Means

Free does not mean effortless.

Free does not mean costless.

Free does not mean that no one had to build it.

Every piece in this archive required:

• time
• thought
• structure
• revision
• maintenance

Every piece had to be written. Stored. Organized. Preserved.

Free to access does not mean free to produce.

That distinction matters.

The Part That Was Skipped

It is easy to say “information should be free.”

It is harder to ask:

• Who creates it?
• Who maintains it?
• Who ensures it is still there tomorrow?

Because once those questions are asked, the answer is unavoidable:

Someone is doing the work.

The Work Is Here

This is not theoretical.

This archive exists.

It is not an idea. It is not a proposal.

It is a working system of long-form documentation built over more than a decade.

And it is available, right now, without charge.

That was the goal.

That was the promise.

What Was Never Solved

What was never clearly addressed was sustainability.

Not access.

Not distribution.

Sustainability.

If knowledge is to remain free to access, then it must still be supported in some way.

Otherwise, it disappears.

Not because it lacked value, but because it lacked support.

A Simple Reality

You cannot have:

• free access
• long-term continuity
• independent production

without some form of support behind it.

That is not ideology.

That is logistics.

No Abstraction

This is no longer a theoretical conversation.

The work is here.

It is accessible.

It is being maintained.

The only remaining question is simple:

Now what?

The Ask

If you believe in free knowledge, then this is where that belief meets reality.

The work exists.

If it has value to you, support it.

If it doesn’t, don’t.

But the idea that knowledge can be free without cost to anyone was never sustainable.

You got what you asked for.

The question is whether you intend to keep it.

If you read this and it matters, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews

For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com

WPS News archives are available through Amazon for long-term preservation and library distribution.

It would be stupendous for the groups that came out of #OccupyWallStreet to push (harder) for tenant organizing

Tucker Carlson Discusses Breaking With Trump, the Iran War and Antisemitism

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/magazine/tucker-carlson-interview-trump-iran.html

Tucker Carlson Discusses Breaking With Trump, the Iran War and Antisemitism

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/magazine/tucker-carlson-interview-trump-iran.html

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148

Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.

jfc.

look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.

you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?

ME.

i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet

🧵…

The Morning After the Rally

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — March 30, 2026

What Happened

Across multiple U.S. cities, weekend demonstrations branded as “No Kings” protests drew significant crowds opposing Donald Trump and what participants described as authoritarian political behavior. Early reporting indicates strong turnout in major metropolitan areas, with smaller but visible participation in regional cities.

The events were coordinated, visible, and widely shared across media platforms. By standard protest metrics—attendance, visibility, and message discipline—they were successful.

But they were also temporary.

By Monday morning, the streets were clear.

What Did Not Happen

No sustained occupation followed.
No labor action was tied to the demonstrations.
No economic pressure was applied.
No structural disruption occurred.

The protests began and ended within a single weekend cycle.

This distinction matters. A one-day demonstration, regardless of size, functions primarily as a signaling event. It communicates public sentiment but does not, by itself, alter power structures.

A Familiar Pattern

The current protest model reflects a pattern that has become common in U.S. political life:

• Mobilize quickly
• Demonstrate visibly
• Disperse immediately
• Declare success

This approach is effective for media narratives and participant morale. It is less effective for sustained political or economic change.

The focus is on opposition to a political figure rather than on the underlying systems that enable that figure’s rise.

The Unresolved Past

Fifteen years earlier, during and after the 2008 financial crisis, a different form of protest emerged. The movement commonly known as Occupy Wall Street attempted to challenge structural inequality, financial power, and institutional capture.

It was persistent rather than episodic.
It was disruptive rather than symbolic.
It targeted systems rather than individuals.

That movement was widely criticized at the time for lacking clear demands and formal structure. It was also marginalized within mainstream political discourse, including by elements aligned with the Democratic Party.

The underlying issues it raised—economic inequality, institutional distrust, and perceived systemic imbalance—were not fully addressed in the years that followed.

Generational Context

It is also important to recognize that many current participants were not politically active during those earlier events. For some, these protests represent their first large-scale civic engagement.

From that perspective, the demonstrations are meaningful. They represent entry into public political life and collective expression.

However, generational distance does not change the continuity of the underlying conditions.

The Core Tension

The contrast between past and present forms of protest highlights a central issue:

• Earlier movements attempted to challenge structural systems
• Current demonstrations focus on opposing specific outcomes

This shift reduces immediate risk to existing institutions but also limits the scope of potential change.

Conclusion

The weekend protests were real. The participation was real. The concerns expressed are widely shared.

But the structure of the action—a single-day mobilization without follow-through—places limits on what can be achieved.

The conditions that contributed to current political realities were visible more than a decade ago. Addressing those conditions would have required sustained attention, institutional reform, and political risk.

Those actions were limited or deferred.

As a result, current demonstrations function less as instruments of change and more as responses to outcomes that have already taken shape.

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References

General synthesis based on public reporting of March 2026 U.S. protest activity and historical analysis of post-2008 protest movements, including Occupy Wall Street.

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It began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011.

His shoot-from-the-hip style lurches from one extreme to another, deploying the government’s power in extraordinary ways that diminish the predictability and order that business craves from Washington.
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Great new film about Occupy Wall Street! Premiere screening 9/17/25 in NYC; streaming link available.

From the director / producers:

It’s hard to imagine now, but not so long ago millions of us fervently believed we were going to uproot this rotten system once and for all. Bursting with hope, Occupy Wall Street was one of the great democratic moments in U.S. history, when we had the plutocrats and the powerful on the back foot.

On the 14th anniversary of the movement, please join us for the premiere of a new film followed by discussion.

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Where: The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St., New York, NY
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Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream is a unique look at how the movement spread like wildfire across the country, upending politics as usual. It’s the story of laid-off factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest fighting another kind of occupation, recent graduates saddled with debt and no jobs, and homeless veterans of America’s forever wars kicked to the curb. In our travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, we met hundreds of everyday people fed up with the politicians and pundits who were as bankrupt as the big banks that blew up the economy—then stuck us with the trillion-dollar check.

But out of this suffering, the occupiers forged a new American Dream on street corners, parks, and public plazas from coast to coast. And out of this struggle, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.

The Occupy movement now feels, politically and temporally, like a dream. By telling the tale of its first year within a personal narrative, I hope to inspire my nephew’s generation to believe a better world is possible—and that there once was a time when people from all walks of life got together to fight for it.

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