Occupy at 10: A Love Story.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We’re nearly 10 years on from Occupy Wall Street. We wanted to get a jump on the retrospective before every mainstream news outlet hops on and gives it perfunctory treatment and dismisses it as a failed movement. It wasn’t a failure. If anything, it was the scariest movement the establishment has seen since the anti-Vietnam War protests. It was fast but it was furious. And aspects of it continue to resonate through our society. It was the grand awakening from our post-9/11 haze and the people took to the streets to revolt against a system of inequality and systemic oppression. Occupy might have been brutally cleared from Zuccotti Park, but the spirit of the movement lives on through Progressives today and the lessons from it will carry us into the future. This is Occupy at 10: A Love Story.

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0:00.0	You know how we've been talking about how our system will burp, spit, vomit, and puk out the vast
0:06.4	majority of the population every few years or so? How capitalism is built on the concept of boom
0:12.1	and bust cycles? How we literally built in a healthy level of unemployment into the system to
0:17.8	maintain balance and order. Every ten years or so, catastrophe.
0:23.6	The masses lose wealth.
0:25.6	The top picks it all up.
0:26.6	We elect leaders who prey on our weakness during these struggles
0:29.6	by promising the world as they double down on the structural mechanisms of inequality
0:33.6	that ensure nothing changes the next time around.
0:38.8	Economy taking a shit?
0:43.9	Give the rich a tax break, you know, for the job creators that never seem to get around to adding those jobs.
0:45.4	Investment banks gamble consumer depository funds on risky investments that they don't understand?
0:50.4	Not a problem.
0:51.5	Here's a trillion dollar bailout.
0:53.7	Very scientific evidence that your industry is contributing to increasing noxious emissions
0:57.6	that are warming the planet and killing species off daily?
1:00.9	Here's a subsidy. Do it again, over and over. Pandemic close your country and prevent everyone
1:07.1	from working, here's some money to stay at home and Netflix and chill or glue your eyeballs to a Zoom call.
1:13.6	Unless of course you're an indentured servant of the system, stock groceries deliver packages, haul the garbage.
1:18.6	You, my friend, are an essential worker.
1:22.6	No, you're a hero.
1:24.6	Just know that when this is all over, for all that we've given you, we're going to need it back.
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