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Do you have a current party affiliation? Do you currently serve a particular constituency? Mother Jones has an interactive map of the growing movement here. ThinkProgress took a closer look at a few of them:.
Chicago: Nearing their second week of action, the crowd of over continues to grow. Louisville: About gathered for the inaugural action. Wichita: Between and people showed up to the first action on Sunday. Anchorage: More than 65 people gathered in Anchorage on Wednesday. The unemployment rate, one in 10 in America without a job. Those more immersed in Occupy tended to see it as a major force, while others on the periphery or whose involvement in the left is more rooted in current events downplayed it.
A number of people pointed out that multiple other social movements, especially the Movement for Black Lives, have been essential. Charles Lenchner, who was on the Occupy tech committee and helped create an email list for it, and Winnie Wong, who helped start the sustainability working group at Occupy, created Ready for Warren to push Sen.
Elizabeth Warren D-MA to run for president in , and that eventually turned into People for Bernie in support of the Vermont senator. He is still one of the administrators of the Occupy Wall Street Facebook page. Bianca Cunningham, who is co-chair of the steering committee of Democratic Socialists of America in New York, told me a story about how her path to the labor and socialist space was indirectly influenced by Occupy.
When she was considering unionizing at a Verizon Wireless store where she worked in Brooklyn, a union rep who came to speak with her told her that he had been at Occupy, which in her eyes gave him more credibility. In some ways, the projects of socialism today and Occupy Wall Street are by definition at odds. Many on the left currently are engaged heavily in elections — celebrating the rise of figures such as Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders.
Occupy resisted the electoral process. He hosts a weekly happy hour for progressives in New York. Jumaane Williams was the first elected official to back Occupy as a member of the City Council at the time. He was arrested during an Occupy protest and pushed by a police officer during an Occupy anniversary event. Now, Williams was just elected New York City public advocate and identifies as a democratic socialist. Economist Richard Wolff, the author of Understanding Marxism , seems thrilled at the interest in leftist politics and, personally, in the level of attention his own work has gotten in recent years.
But, he acknowledges, a lot of the young people he interacts with are more anti-capitalist than they are socialist. While there were people of color involved, Occupy Wall Street was a majority white space.
Carty has also been active in the Movement for Black Lives. Sanders tends to say that the socialist policies he put forth — Medicare-for-all, free college, an expanded welfare state — will benefit communities of color the most and, therefore, address racial inequality. Sanders has shifted his stump speech on inequality and included more traditional Democratic themes in the way he talks about specific demographics and racial inequities.
The lack of diversity manifests itself in a lot of ways, including the policies and positions the left pursues. Michael Premo, who took part in both Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Homes and now is a documentary filmmaker, echoed the sentiment. But speaking with former Occupiers, there was a sense that they thought of the journey of as much of a personal one as they did political. Despite its failures, Occupy Wall Street wound up being sticky, maybe even thanks — just a little bit — to that Radiohead rumor in September Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.
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