#1446 Occupy Wall Street is Part of a Very Long Continuum
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 10/6/2021
Today we take a look at what precipitated Occupy Wall Street and the legacy it left behind as we can see it now from 10 years after the encampment at Zuccotti Park in the heart of the financial district in NYC.
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SHOW NOTES
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as legacy for the US left, and his personal experience.
Ch. 2: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Part 1 - The Dig - Air date 9-25-21
It’s Occupy Wall Street’s tenth anniversary. Dan interviews Astra Taylor.
We discuss Occupy's ramifications for organizing and class consciousness with Ruth Milkman, labor scholar at City University of New York's School of Labor and Urban Studies and Nastaran Mohit, Organizing Director of NewsGuild of New York.
Ch. 5: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Part 2 - The Dig - Air date 9-25-21
Ch. 7: Keith Olbermann reads first collective statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Glenn Greenwald in 2011 gives analysis of the political dynamics that led to Occupy
Ch. 9: Prophetic article calling for the occupation - Majority Report - Air Date 10-25-11
Speaking with Christopher Ketcham about his article calling for destain for bankers and discussing the progressive movement of the 1880s
Ch. 10: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Part 3 - The Dig - Air date 9-25-21
The legacy of Occupy live on, even in Joe Biden
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: A response for Alyson from Boulder - Scott from Canada
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the ideological splits on the left dating back to Occupy Wall Street
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Occupy Wall St. protesters in New York march down the street holding a large white sign that says "OCCUPY" in black letters. Other protesters behind them hold smaller protest signs of cardboard and poster board and wave flags.
Credit: "Occupy_12_17_DSC_0334" by Michael Fleshman, Flickr | License | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.5 | take a look at what precipitated Occupy Wall Street and the legacy it left behind as |
| 0:12.8 | we can see it now from ten years after the encampment at Zucati Park in the heart of |
| 0:17.4 | the financial district New York City. |
| 0:20.3 | Clips today are from Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, The Dig, Be Labored, |
| 0:25.7 | Countdown, The David Pakman Show, and The Mitchell Order Report. |
| 0:30.1 | About a hundred years ago, almost, capitalism crashed. |
| 0:40.7 | In fact, it was the worst crash of capitalism in the United States or indeed in the world. |
| 0:47.4 | It came to be known as the Great Depression because people understood how horrible it |
| 0:53.6 | was. |
| 0:55.0 | It lasted eleven years, 1929 to 1940. |
| 1:01.0 | At its worst moments in 1933, the official unemployment rate was 25 percent, five times |
| 1:11.3 | what it is today. |
| 1:15.4 | Staggering cutbacks in production, staggering decline of our economic reality, vast suffering. |
| 1:24.9 | To this day, I still think that the greatest rendition of what it meant was John Steinbach's |
| 1:33.2 | novel The Grapes of Wrath. |
| 1:36.0 | If you've never read it, take some time out. |
| 1:39.4 | It will teach you about American history. |
| 1:43.5 | But there was a heroic side to the suffering. |
| 1:46.5 | The American people moved sharply and politically to the left. |
| 1:53.0 | It's very important in a country that has trouble recognizing its own left-wing tendencies |
| 2:00.9 | that run deep. |
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