Tweet: The First Year Anniversary of Occupy-- and the beginning of the Toppling of Top-Down Power: click here
Before Monday's first Anniversary, when people asked me about what Occupy had accomplished, my first response was that it's changed the conversation. It's brought the ideas of income inequality, of the 99% and the one percent, corporate personhood, excessive corporate influence on government, Citizens United, money in politics, Student Debt... to name a few.
But it's bigger than that. Occupy put protest on the table for several new generations. It put getting in the streets on the table. That's a big deal for a nation that has been suffering from an extreme case of boiling frog syndrome, slowly allowing the two party system to become hyperpolarized while at the same time merging into a single corporatist duopoly.
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