Occupy Wall Street is facing winter, and the weather in the northeast has been as extreme in its way as ours has been in Texas. It's a good bet winter will be deep at Zuccotti Park--it's already been early. Will the protesters persevere? Do they need to? Have they already changed the conversation? Because of them, are we talking about meeting the needs of the undercapitalized in a capitalist country?
Twenty years from now, will historians write about OWS in the same vein as the great civil uprisings of the 20th century--Vietnam war protests, civil rights marches, women's- and gays'-rights demonstrations? Remind yourself how powerful the OWS method has been:
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience
Confronting the War Machine
Civil Disobedience in Focus
The Power of Nonviolence
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience
Confronting the War Machine
Civil Disobedience in Focus
The Power of Nonviolence
Walden and Civil Disobedience
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