NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

Published on Tuesday, January 10, 2012  by The Nation "Occupy Wall Street: Why Now? What's Next?" Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street by Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom The following conversation was recorded recently in New York City: Naomi Klein: One of the things that’s most mysterious about this moment is “Why now?” People have been fighting austerity measures and calling out abuses by the banks for a couple of years, with basically the same analysis: “We won’t pay for your crisis.” But it just didn’t seem to take off, at least in the US. There were marches and there were political projects and there were protests like Bloombergville, but they were largely ignored. There really was not anything on a mass scale, nothing that really struck a nerve. And now suddenly, this group of people in a park set off something extraordinary. So how do you account for that, having been involved in Occupy Wall Street since the beginning, but also

For more information on the Occupy Wall Street Protests, Common Dreams has special coverage . I've been meaning to write something about it for a while, but I've got so many writing projects going on, so I haven't been able to. I wanted to include here some articles for those who are interested in learning more about what it going on. Like most protests of a liberal or progressive nature, the media tends to judge them more harshly and fixate on the idea that they don't have a clear message and that the intent of what they are doing is sadly being lost in the confusion of their tactics. You can argue part of the treatment of the Occupy Wall Street protests is that they are actually occupying an area and not just appearing to protest and then going back to their lives. The Tea Party is of course different because they appear, invoke themselves as defenders of everything holy, good and sacred about the US, and then slink away to sleep in their beds made with sheets and