An afternoon occupying Wall Street

Here are a few impressions for those who have not had the chance or may not be able to go down to Zuccoti Park. Despite the swirling mass of people and the myriad activities political speeches, a meditation circle, a Peoples' Bookstore store set up on tables, people handing out pamphlets and carrying anti-Wall Street signs, a couple of singers doing African rhythms, a woman barber cutting hair, donated clothes in piles and on racks, despite all that and more) there was a sense of energy and purpose rather than chaos. No one knows where this is going, but we can all hope that it is the sstart of a mass movement for progressive change and we can do our part to make that happen.

Occupy Wall Street Teach-Ins

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John Howard

Occupy Wall Street Teach-Ins
Teach-ins were a powerful instrument mobilizing students against the Vietnam War. The first probably took place at the University of Michigan in 1965, followed by one in at UC-Berkeley, and then at schools across the nation. Teach-ins instructed and mobilized. They turned inchoate rage against the war into a movement to bring it to an end. Would a set of Occupy Wall... Street teach-ins at universities and colleges across the country do the same thing to relative to corporate greed and political corruption that poses a greater threat to this country than communist insurgents in Vietnam ever did? We will never know unless we try. As a great fighter for justice once said, “Don’t mourn, organize.”

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