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Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is the director of the documentary films Zizek! and Examined Life. She has written for Monthly Review, Adbusters, Salon, The Baffler, Bomb Magazine, n+1 and other outlets. She is the co-editor of the book Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America (Verso). 

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Occupy the Media—and the Message (Occupy Wall Street, Media)

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

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Occupy Wall Street on Your Street (Occupy Wall Street)

Banks trying to foreclose on homes are surprisingly vulnerable to direct action—a fact that Occupy Our Homes intends to exploit.

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The Other Prison Population (Movements, Disability Rights Movement)

Disabled people march on Washington to protest policies that keep them out of sight, out of mind.

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