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New Yorkers Celebrate Occupy Wall Street On Its Fifth Anniversary

September 18, 2016 Corinne Segal and Arlene Lormestoire, www.pbs.org Resist! Occupy, OWS

By Corinne Segal and Arlene Lormestoire for PBS Newshour. Becky Wartell was living in Portland, Maine and applying for jobs when she heard the first rumblings of Occupy Wall Street. Her story mirrors many others who gathered in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on Saturday, exactly five years after the protests began, reuniting with old friends and describing how a small encampment spread to cities across the country. In 2011, after staying in Zuccotti Park for several days, Wartell expanded her trip to a week — and for the next five months, continued to commute back and forth from Maine, even when she took a job in Portland. “In the moment, I was like, ‘I have to be there. This is big. This is important,'” she said. Zuccotti Park became a space where activists from a range of different causes could converge to share ideas, as most of them claimed the common cause of protesting corruption on Wall Street. Critics asked why Occupy could not settle on a list of explicit demands and actionable goals for the movement — protesters answered that the purpose of the movement was not to make demands, but empower a range of communities. The encampment ended in November 2011, when police cleared the camp and arrested more than 200 people. But by that time, offshoots had appeared in dozens of other cities.

Protest Movements Are Changing Public Opinion

August 16, 2015 Peter Dreier, www.salon.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Occupy, OWS, Protest

By Peter Dreier for Salon - By introducing the phrase “black lives matters” into our culture – primarily through the use of social media but also by engaging in protest and civil disobedience – BLM has shifted public opinion. A new Pew Research Center poll discovered that the number of Americans who believe that changes are needed to give African-Americans equal rights has swelled from 46 percent to 59 percent just in the past year. Among white Americans, the number has increased from 39 percent to 53 percent. Among Republicans, it spiked from 27 percent to 42 percent. This growing awareness has triggered calls for reform of police practices by politicians from President Barack Obama to local mayors. That BLM met with initial skepticism and criticism should come as no surprise. This happens to all protest movements when they first appear.

Lee Camp’s New TV Show + a New Populist Political Party Emerges from Occupy {aTV 003}

June 4, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Acronym TV, After Party, ATV, Carl Gibson, Comedian Lee Camp, Dennis Trainor Jr, Lee Camp, Lee Camp interview, Lee Camp on RT, Occupy, Occupy elections, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Populist political party, Radio Raheem, Redacted Tonight, RT, RT.com, Russia Today, US UNCUT

Several activists who were early initiators behind the Occupy movement have formed a new political party, The After Party. Carl Gibson and Radio Raheem are among them and they join Dennis to discuss the launch and future plans. In the second half of the show, comedian Lee Camp, who performed at several Occupy encampments, talks about his new weekly comedy show, Redacted Tonight, now airing on RT every Friday night at 8:30 and 11PM EST.

Occupy Founders Launch The After Party in Detroit

May 1, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Acronym TV, After party launch, AfterPartyUSA, ATV 003, Carl Gibson, Dennis Trainor Jr, Detroit, Do the Right Thing, Justin Wedes, Micah White, Mutual Aid, Occupy, Occupy Solidarity Network, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, populist party, Priscilla Grim, Radio Rahim, Spike Lee, The After Party

Some of the founding members of the occupy movement are launching a new political party – THE AFTER Party. Carl Gibson is among them. He says, “What sets The After Party apart is that 365 days out of the year it is a humanitarian organization. The way we organize politically, what sets us apart is that we are finding needs within the community, and then working to meet them using the community's assets.” And, so is Radio Rahim, another After Party founding member and, yes the real life persona behind the character in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing says the following:

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