“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.” PoliticalDifferencesSawsStreetsMovementWallResponseObjectivesSpontaneousOutburstOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.” IfsWayActionPoliticalDealsStreetsMovementWallUnionsCollaborationPolitical ActionOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.” EndsSocialDemocracyStreetsExampleMovementWallFinancialIdeologyErasGood ExamplesFinancial MarketsOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.” ImportantIdeasHelpingPercentDecidedReceivingPackagesStimulusCainOccupy Movement Author:Gloria Allred
“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” BelievePoliticalI BelieveClearCrazyEvolutionPercentScientistElectionI Believe InGlobal WarmingCall MeOccupy MovementCall Me Crazy Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.” RealGovernmentMovementReturnSolutionsInvestmentUniversitySpendingHolesRegulationBureaucracyPseudoReturn On InvestmentOccupy MovementLethargic Author:Mark Steyn
“The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.” PeopleImportantCommunitySpaceMovementTaughtDemocraticLibraryAidsDiscussionMutualCooperationParticipationSupportiveOpen SpacesHealth SystemOccupy MovementMutual Aid Author:Noam Chomsky
“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.” PeopleMeanTwoImportantDifferentPiecesMediaMovementDirectBasesConfusionTraditionalOrganizedJust OneParticipationDifferent PeoplesAnarchismAnarchistStrandsOne PieceOccupy Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.” MadeImportantActionDifferencesIssuesMovementRaisesElectionEnvironmentalMinimumDiscourseMinimum WageGet MoneyEnvironmental IssuesOccupy Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.” CountryRichPercentClass WarfareSocial ContractOccupy Movement Book:A Fighting Chance Source: A Fighting Chance
“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.” PeopleIfsShouldSidesTermEconomicMovementBehaviorEconomicsPaidPoliceIronicRepresentativesOccupy MovementEconomic Status Author:Oren Moverman
“We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.” SpeakInterestDealsMovementEmbraceDiverseOccupy Movement Author:Jill Stein
“The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.” CountryMatterDoneStrongBlackVoiceProgressExampleMovementEuropeDemocraticVariousElsewhereSpainBlack Lives MatterPositive ChangeBlack LivesOccupy Movement Author:Viggo Mortensen
“The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantFeelingsPoliticalFoundLevelsShareMovementSiteDiscontentGaugesPolitical MovementsOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.” PeopleKnowsWarEnoughWealthMiddleMovementIndiaEastCorporationsMiddle EastExclusionExcludedObsceneOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWellsMayIdeasStatesGovernmentActionUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesMovementElementsIntellectualPoliceRemainsSurpriseViolentPreservesManifestationTerritoryAmbushElement Of SurpriseOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.” FirstsCountryTodayAmericaPoliticalCultureHavensMovementMajorsMassIntellectualEuropeWestWesternChinaDecadesWelcomeProtestEgypt1960sIndonesiaEruptionWestern EuropeBoliviaChurningOccupy MovementEurope And America Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.” EndsPoliticalLeaderStreetsMovementWallGeniusFlutesPolitical MovementsOccupy Wall StreetOccupy MovementGood Political Author:John Lydon
“I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.” ThinkingShouldBigsFailingMovementOccupy Movement Author:Alan Moore
“The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.” NeedsPartyPrinciplesMovementTeaCandidatesAgendasTea PartyMeasure Of SuccessFocal PointOccupy Movement Author:Eliot Spitzer
“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” WantForceClearFireSafePercentBuiltPaidPoliceMovedWorkersGoodsEducateFactoriesSocial ContractPolice ForceOccupy Movement Author:Elizabeth Warren
“When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?” KnowsJobsAsksPresidentPercentElectionAsk MeDo You KnowNow And ThenStupid RepublicanOccupy Movement Author:Herman Cain
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” LongHas BeensImportantEnoughWealthPercentMy FriendsCongressFriendlyBillionaireRaising TaxesOccupy Movement Author:Warren Buffett
“I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” IfsTryingChildrenBodyFacesDiesWinningBloodDrugPercentOur ChildrenAvailableYour ChildrenOver YouYour FaceTigersCharlieBangingFunny DrugOccupy Movement Author:Charlie Sheen
“I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.” Has BeensLeftMovementEnterpriseSuspectsUnsureOccupy Movement Author:Nigel Farage
“I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!” NeedsFightingMovementBallsRollingOccupy Movement Author:Ani DiFranco
“Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.” WellsInspirationEasyStreetsMovementWallAngerAgreeDisagreeTacticsImpatienceOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Eric Alterman
“I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.” Has BeensIdeasClassEconomicStreetsMiddleMovementWallAgreeFrustrationMiddle ClassCalamityOccupy Movement Author:Susan Bysiewicz
“When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?” MenChildrenJobsPoliticsPartyTeachStreetsHe ManWallGeniusRepublicanMen And WomenOur ChildrenYour ChildrenBlastOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Artur Davis
“Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.” RealMatterStatesShowsRealityTurnsSecurityMovementTelevisionDestructionRaisedDebateInequalityBarackCorporateGossipShoreRelevantJerseySurveillanceEcosystemsTurn OffReality ShowsNewtsJersey ShoreOccupy MovementSurveillance StateMalfeasance Author:Chris Hedges
“The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.” PlayAttentionMovementPercentOccupy Movement Author:Robert Greenwald
“I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.” PeopleThinkingNeedsVoiceOpinionHeardStreetsWallGood ThingsOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Simon Baker
“Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.” RealStreetsMovementWallOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Russ Feingold
“The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.” IfsHardPlayDreamJobsAmericaStreetsCryHard WorkWallDignityCrisisGood LifeRetiringAmerican DreamBoilingOccupy Wall StreetOccupy MovementBoiling Point Author:John Garamendi