With So Many Voices, Will Occupy Still Be Heard? Hide caption Occupy Wall Street protesters march through in an impoverished community in Brooklyn to protest home foreclosures.
Many see the movement's dynamic strategies and aims as key to its success. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Occupy Wall Street protesters march through in an impoverished community in Brooklyn to protest home foreclosures. Voices From the Occupy Movement. Across the country, the Occupy Movement is developing new forms of exposing the 1% - Transcript OSCAR LEON: My name is Oscar Leon.
LE MOMENT EST VENU ! Message du Mouvement "Occupy Wall Street" à l'Humanité. Occupy and the hostile media. OPINION Every progressive movement in U.S. history was portrayed negatively by mainstream media at the time it was happening.
It's no surprise that the media portray the Occupy Wall Street movement in the same light. During the Montgomery bus boycott, mainstream media outlets interviewed black folks who were against it and talked about how the boycott was misguided and hurt the local economy. The day after the boycott started, the Montgomery Advertiser ran a story featuring the manager of the bus lines saying that bus drivers were being shot at and rocks were being thrown at them.
During the rest of the civil rights movement, protesters who were fire-hosed and otherwise brutalized were called "violent protesters" in the mainstream media, which again featured interviews with people saying that the protests were wrongheaded.