Showing posts with label OWS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OWS. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

Class divisions in "classless" Zuccotti Park

My brother replied to my "Global Revolution"/Occupy Wall Street post from yesterday by sending me a link to a hilarious and thought-provoking video of Samantha Bee of John Stewart's Daily Show as she visits Zuccotti Park to report on class division within the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

The United States next?

I'm editing the Landmark History of the American People by Daniel Boorstin for an elementary school age audience. I am in the midst of the section dealing with the U.S.' Declaration of Independence. I needed to check a particular phrase . . . and wound up at http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution. I have not been following Occupy Wall Street. And we don't have television, so I have never seen any of this kind of coverage before.

In the context of my American history studies and the Arab Spring revolutions, it struck me, watching the live feed: This is how governments fall. Is the U.S. next?