The Occupy Wall Street movement began in lower Manhattan one year ago today, expanding through the fall to rallies and marches in more than 100cities worldwide climaxing in social relevance around December 2011 when Time Magazine named “The Protester” Time’s 2011 “Person of the Year,” with the cover reading “From the Arab Spring to Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Athens.” The movement faded through the winter and spring, with today’s anniversary protest hoping to reignite the movement only attracting a few hundred activists at events that had previously brought thousands.
TheBlaze’s Mike Opelka and Buck Sexton have written extensively about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and attended some of the protests Monday. Opelka and Sexton joined Andrew Wilkow on TheBlaze TV Monday to discuss what they saw in lower Manhattan earlier today, and reflections they have now on the Occupy Wall Street movement one year later:
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grayhaired vet
Sep. 18, 2012 at 2:49pmAfter a lot of soul searching, I’ve come to the conclusion that OWS wasn’t all bad because they’ve awakened Americans. They’ve been like the overflow float inside the toilet tank. Had they not shown up and shown us who they are, we’d still be unaware they existed. At least, now we know their danger.
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grayhaired vet
Sep. 18, 2012 at 2:37pmOWS is what you get, when you confine cretins in any limited space.
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izukiddin
Sep. 18, 2012 at 7:35amThe OWS was going to eclipse the Tea Party. That’s what all the media elites were saying last year. What happened? These spoiled little darlings of the middle class who always received smiley faces on tests and “participation” trophies for playing finally got a taste of reality.
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barber2
Sep. 18, 2012 at 9:23amConsidering that the OWS was a Canadian anti-capitist group, guess they really were a FOREIGN Occupation ! The Tea Party was a native American group. Big difference. Hey, Astro -Turf Nancy, did you notice ??
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marybethelizabeth
Sep. 17, 2012 at 10:13pmBoth James Sexton and Mr Opelka have mentioned the economic protests that began last year. But they didn’t actually do any reporting. They just repeated their preconceived notions and found data to fit their hypotheses.
If Mr. Wilcow is going to spend most of his program talking to other theblaze employees it’s time to cut the show to once a week.
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WindyDualism
Sep. 18, 2012 at 12:25pmWow. It amazes me that you aren’t a 7 figure a year producer director. They should give you a direct line in and trash their bidness models.
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