The Occupy Wall Street protesters have become somewhat famous for embracing retro methods of communication, such as the "people's mic" that substitutes for an actual microphone. Moreover, a movement dominated by young people and the Internet has also printed its own newspaper. The cheeky title? The Occupied Wall Street Journal. The other Journal has been published since Saturday and has garnered substantial press attention. The organizers of the paper initially printed 50, copies, and soon upped the run to 70, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!
Topics occupy , wall , street , journal , pdf , issue 01 , Collection opensource. The Occupy Wall Street protest group recently published the first edition of its newspaper, a four-page broadsheet called The Occupied Wall Street Journal. No problem. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Anger over inequality - coupled with a deep disillusionment about the political influence of large corporations and the very wealthy - galvanized the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Occupy Wall Street drew inspiration from preceding mass protests that took place across the country and around the world including the Arab Spring. Accordingly, the Journal covered occupations and marches unfolding across the globe. OWS drew heavily from among highly-educated and under-employed young adults, including many who were disappointed with President Barack Obama, after his historic election had raised their hopes for change.
Members of labor unions, educators, other professionals, and seasoned activists from earlier social movements also joined the movement. Critics pointed out the relative absence of people of color, the working class, and the poor in the ranks of OWS. Indeed, the Occupied Wall Street Journal contained none.
The Journal also offered space for lesser-known OWS participants to share their personal stories, to indict the status quo , and to demand recognition and change. By providing space for well-known and unknown Occupiers alike, the Occupied Wall Street Journal signaled its commitment to direct democracy and its rejection of hierarchical organization.
The publication run of the print version of The Occupied Wall Street Journal coincided with the high-point of Occupy as a mass movement of direct action. Less than one week later, demonstrators were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. Efforts to re-erect the encampment failed. Occupy Wall Street also marked the return of collective direct action and a turning point in the use of social media in political protest.
Occupy Wall Street interjected the issue of economic inequality back into American politics, where it had been largely absent since the Great Depression. In the years since, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and other politicians who took up the issue of inequality achieved a degree of support few would have predicted before Occupy Wall Street.
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