Welcome to The Occupied Weekly, the Prospect‘s roundup of #OccupyWallStreet news and analysis. Each week, we’ll review the news from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and other Occupy movements across the country. For the inaugural edition, we’ve put together the five key pieces that have helped shape our understanding of what OWS is, where it comes from, and where it could be headed. Think of it as an #OWS for Dummies guide:
- How #OWS got started http://ampro.me/tgXENL
- Political scientists Dorian Warren and Joe Lowndes argue that the movement bears little resemblence to 1960s resistance demonstrations. http://ampro.me/sZcTLc
- Barbara Ehrenreich argues that laws against tent cities weren’t set up to criminalize protest but to punish homelessness. http://ampro.me/usHTKp
- The movement’s fight for diversity http://ampro.me/upoZlP
- How is the movement dealing with internal divisions? http://ampro.me/vGy3Tj
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