The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

Fiky oster wile: "We were mostly people who had been educated by the cooptation of the civil rights movement" He says that in direct action, you have to be very ideologically committed to get hit with a baton three times and still think the police are on your side. Oster Wile: By the end of occupy, the seeds had really been sown,. A lot of generational understanding of the police didn't necessarily immediately sow fruit," he said.