Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, November 15, 2011, New York City begins to clear out the Occupy Wall Street

encampment at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan.

At about 1 a.m. police handed out notices from the

park's owner, Brookfield Office properties, with the city backing up the move

basically stating that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.

Protesters had occupied the park for almost two months at this point with up to 200 people

living there semi-perminently and at times up to a thousand or so gathered in the small park.

Protesters were told that they could return but they couldn't bring back

sleeping bags, tarps or tents so this was really the end of the permanent

encampment at Succotti Park.

So this is our chance to talk about both that encampment itself as a physical space,

but also the larger movement as a political force in our time and here to do that as always is

Nicole Hemmer of Columbia. Hello Nicky and happy Sunday. Happy Sunday

Jody. Yeah and I say that because I will point out that we are doing a Sunday show here and we've mentioned this a few times, but we're going to keep going with these Sunday shows at least for the foreseeable future. We just like doing three a week. We find that there's plenty to talk about and yeah we're having fun but if anyone has any any

thoughts about the number of shows per week or the Sunday shows or other things just feel

free to email us some you know but we're we're kind of figuring it out as we go not unlike the beginning of the Occupy

movement. I was about to say a little bit of crowd sourcing a little bit of

coming to consensus about what we're doing here exactly a little human

microphone.

So, yeah, we'll talk a lot about like some of those

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