Posts Tagged ‘Occupy Wall Street’

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Violence in America: Comparing Black Friday to the Occupy Movement

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Last week marked one of the most hectic days of the year. Forget Thanksgiving; Black Friday was upon us. The busiest shopping day of the whole year, Black Friday 2011 [...]

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Dec 4, 2011 | 1 Response

We are the 99% | Photo Courtesy of user Protest Photos1 Via Flickr Commons

BU Occupies Boston Teach-In: Professors Contextualize a Modern Movement

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Yesterday, 99% was nothing more than an answer scribbled on a homework sheet or a statistic on a survey. Today, the percentage represents the increasingly self-aware fraction of Americans subject [...]

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Dec 2, 2011 | Leave a response

Wall St. Protests | Photo Courtesy of David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons

Op-Ed: What the Occupy Movement Could Learn from the Tea Party

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I have never been one to argue about the power of grassroots movements. They tend to be unfocused, unorganized and without a meaningful set of goals. Occupy Wall Street and its [...]

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Oct 14, 2011 | Leave a response