Sharing a new series from Future Hindsight, Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising.

Occupy Wall Street is the story of the improbable becoming possible. In 2008, millions of people were devastated by an economic crash caused by Wall Street greed, but it wasn’t until 2011 that there was a mass response from the Left. A call to protest went out, and thousands of people responded. They raged against a system that was rigged against them and tried to create their own anti-capitalist village in a small Manhattan park. The movement quickly spread across the country, inspiring hundreds of occupations and a new generation of activists.

The series is told through the voices of activists who camped out in Zuccotti Park for almost two months, getting inside the drama of a movement that grew rapidly, felt both transcendent and chaotic, and then violently flamed out. In this episode, we hear about life inside the encampment, and why the movement had a “dude” problem. In the height of the movement, questions of safety and accountability were becoming increasingly urgent, but occupiers had wildly different ways of responding to the problems. It turns out that the movement's greatest strength—its openness—may also have been its greatest vulnerability.

Binge the entire series at http://swap.fm/l/Occupy!

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