Ep 160 - Occupy Turns Ten w/ Natasha Lennard

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Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Jamie and Andy are joined by Natasha Lennard (@NatashaLennard), contributing writer at The Intercept and author of "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life," to commemorate Occupy Wall Street's ten-year anniversary. What are people erasing when they remember Occupy solely as something that "changed the conversation" around wealth inequality? How did the occupiers demonstrate anarchist politics in action? And what lessons can we carry into the future as we fight not merely to shore up the system, but to overthrow it?

Natasha on OWS:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-five-years/

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

Audio: Slavoj Zizek speaks at OWS: https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript

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Closing song: Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was a Time

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0:00.0	They tell you we are dreamers.
0:02.0	They tell you we are dreamers.
0:05.0	The true dreamers are those who think.
0:08.0	The true dreamers are those today.
0:11.0	Things can go on indefinitely the way they are.
0:14.0	Things can go on indefinitely the way they are.
0:18.0	We are not dreamers.
0:20.0	We are not dreamers.
0:21.0	We are not dreamers.
0:22.0	We are working. Hello and we are here welcome to the anti-fata where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck.
0:29.4	Andy here and we're here with friend of the show Natasha Leonard. She is a columnist at The
0:36.2	Intercept as well as an author including of the book Being Numerous Essays on
0:42.2	Non-Fascist Life.
0:44.4	Welcome to the show, Tash.
0:45.7	Thanks for joining us again.
0:47.5	Hey, so nice to be here.
0:49.8	Hell yeah.
0:50.7	So as you know, we have gathered here today to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of a
0:58.0	little moment in time called Occupy Wall Street which was a little local occupation, a little direct action, if you
1:06.1	will, that quickly spread around the country and even the world to revive a kind of
1:11.8	class struggle discourse that had long been dead at least in this country.
1:16.0	Now it would be easy to freak out about how old this makes us feel,
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