Eventually, books will be written about how the occupation began. How much of it was serendipity? How much of it was carefully planned? Who knew it would take off like it has?
The movement didn’t get that big simply because AdBusters, a Canadian magazine, sent out a flashy email promoting it, or because the hacker collective Anonymous flicked out a few tweets. Instead, it took a group of about 200 committed activists 47 days to outline the ground rules that have allowed the protest to flourish.
To read Matt Sledge’s account of how the Occupy Wall Street movement got started, “Reawakening The Radical Imagination: The Origins of Occupy Wall Street,” click here to visit the Huffington Post.
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