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unusual facts about Occupy movement


Occupy Rose Parade

Occupy The Rose Parade (OTRP) is a four phase Occupy demonstration and protest that was held on January 1 and January 2 as part of the Occupy movement at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California held on January 2, 2012.


Gayle McLaughlin

McLaughlin was criticized for attending an Occupy rally on Veterans Day of 2011 instead of a symbolic ship-launching portrayal at the former Richmond Shipyards.

Ken Knabb

Knabb's own writings include leaflets, comics, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Georges Brassens, Gary Snyder, the 1960s hip counterculture, the 1970 Polish revolt, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1991 Gulf war, the 2006 anti-CPE revolt in France, and the 2011 Occupy movement.

Mike Daisey

American Utopias (2012) is Daisey's monologue about the way that physical spaces influence people's shared goals, using modern American utopian models including Disney World, the Burning Man Festival, and Zuccotti Park and the birth of the Occupy movement.


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Anarchism and the Occupy movement

Thai Jones, writing for the Jewish-American weekly newspaper, The Forward, asserted that the Occupy movement has demonstrated that the invigorating potential of anarchist political theory can be a feasible model of governance.

Chris Faraone

In February 2012, Faraone debated conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart on WRKO, a talk radio station in Boston, over the legitimacy and motives of the Occupy movement.

Occupy Philadelphia

October 21 - Occupy Philadelphia gathered at the University of Pennsylvania to confront Eric Cantor, the Republican House Majority Leader who has been highly critical of the Occupy movement protests.