The "one percent," "occupy," "income inequality," all are ideas and phrases that have become part of our national political conversation and all born of the movement that started in Zuccotti Park, in lower Manhattan, two years ago. The degree to which politics, from President Obama to New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio are talking about these issues, should be a sign of success. But is it? Does this two year old movement feel like it has succeeded and if not, what’s left to accomplish?
Recently Bill Ayers talked to me about how movements should eschew ordinary political success in favor of organizing in communities, in neighborhoods, in school and in the workplace. So what’s the legacy of Occupy Wall Street? Nathan Schneider was present at the creation of Occupy and he takes us back in Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
.My conversation with Nathan Schneider:
