Laura Flanders: What Is the Legacy of Occupy?

Laura Flanders: What Is the Legacy of Occupy?

Laura Flanders: What Is the Legacy of Occupy?

Organizers are thinking critically about how to increase impact in Occupy’s second year. 

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On September 17, the mainstream media was quick to claim Occupy was over. But as journalist Arun Gupta of the Indypendent points out, “this is the media of the 1 percent” that also misreported a war and a financial crisis. He joins Nation blogger Laura Flanders and journalist Marina Sitrin on Moyers & Company to push past the headlines and look at the true influence of Occupy one year later.

—Christie Thompson

Check out more of The Nation’s coverage of Occupy’s first anniversary.

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