Occupy Wall Street E129: The Frost/Graeber Debates

The Shuffle Bois turn to one of the largest and certainly most memorable reactions to the global financial crisis of the late 2000s , Occupy Wall Street. In part seven of their ongoing series, they take a look at the socialists, anarchists, daily show liberals, and obvious federal plants who descended on Zuccotti Park in Fall 2011. After tracing the history of the movement, they then describe the types of people who attended as well as some of the themes and big ideas of this story - globalization, horizontality vs verticality, idealism vs pragmatism, as well as the roles of both the police and the media.

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Bibliography:

David Graeber, The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement

Amber A'lee Frost, Dirtbag

Anton Jaeger, Hyperpolitics