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From the People’s House to Zuccotti Park
The Wisconsin anti-austerity movement drew on popular occupations around the world, and set the stage for Occupy Wall Street.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers (Oxford University Press, 2015) and a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at New York University.
The Wisconsin anti-austerity movement drew on popular occupations around the world, and set the stage for Occupy Wall Street.
“Riots” aren’t random occurrences. They’re a reaction to structural oppression.