Occupy Wall Street: The Will to Face the Arithmetic - Stanley W. Rogouski. From September 17 until November 15, when it was destroyed in a 2AM blitzkrieg by the NYPD, Occupy Wall Street in Zucotti Park was three things: 1.)
It was a series of unpermitted demonstrations against the financial industry. 2.) It was an ongoing street carnival that occasionally broke out into a march on the New York Stock Exchange, One Police Plaza, Foley Square, and other political and economic targets. 3.) For the sake of my argument, let me first divide the history of Occupy Wall Street in Zucotti Park into two halves. From September 17 to October 14, Occupy Wall Street racked up an unlikely and almost unbroken string of victories against Michael Bloomberg, the New York City Police Department, and the corporate media. From October 14 to November 15, the tide turned dramatically. Above all, Occupy Wall Street's organizers simply lost touch with the majority of people in Zucotti Park.
By November 15, Occupy Wall Street was only a shadow of what it had been a month before. Why? Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask. The comic-book writer Alan Moore is not usually surprised when his creations find a life for themselves away from the printed page.
Strips he penned in the 1980s and 90s have been fed through the Hollywood patty-maker, never to his great satisfaction, resulting in both critical hits and terrible flops; fads for T-shirts, badges and shouted slogans have emerged from characters and conceits he has dreamed up for titles such as Watchmen and From Hell. "I suppose I've gotten used to the fact," says the 58-year-old, "that some of my fictions percolate out into the material world. " But Moore has been caught off-guard in recent years, and particularly in 2011, by the inescapable presence of a certain mask being worn at protests around the world. A sallow, smirking likeness of Guy Fawkes – created by Moore and the artist David Lloyd for their 1982 series V for Vendetta.
"That smile is so haunting," says Moore. Alan Moore at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2010. Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truth’ About the ‘Occupy Crackdowns’ Offers Anything but the Truth. November 26, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. There has been a flurry of speculation surrounding various reports suggesting that a “coordinated,” nationwide crack-down on the Occupy Movement is underway. The problem with these stories lies in the fact that the word “coordinated” is too vague to offer any analytic value. The difference between local officials talking to each other — or federal law enforcement agencies advising them on what they see as “best practices” for evicting local occupations — and some unseen hand directing, incentivizing or coercing municipalities to do so when they would not otherwise be so inclined is not a minor one. But there has not been a single report offered by any media outlet suggesting that anyone – federal officials or police organizations – is directing or in any way exerting pressure on cities to crack down on their occupations.
Le "rêve d'anarchie" de la place Tahrir.