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All-American occupation movements - Law enforcement - Salon.com
Here are eleven protest occupations in US history, in photos or illustrations.
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It turns out we've been making history like this for a long time.
Here are eleven protest occupations in US history, in photos or illustrations.
When squaring off against unaccountable and abusive power, sometimes the only course of action is to plunk down and fix a stake. The history of social protest in the United States is the history of people taking a stand, but in the last century this has increasingly meant taking a seat. In response to injustice, Americans have learned to gather their fellow aggrieved, park somewhere symbolic, and make their lack of movement the message. Dissent transformed into a fixed community quickly becomes an object of orbit instead of a subject. It commands attention instead of pleading for it. As Occupy Wall Street has shown, occupation protests are young planets that shift gravity.
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