Inside the rise and fall of Occupy Wall Street, and why even its organizers won't say it worked
I was at a bar in the East Village when I heard the eviction was going down. A group of us, lawyers and legal workers, dropped everything and rushed to our offices and drafted a temporary restraining order. One of us was able to get in touch with a state Supreme Court justice who we met at some very early hour in the morning.
Ydanis Rodriguez, city-council member arrested during the sweep who later won a settlement from the city for $30,000: , with police officers on top of my body. And I can tell you that for a few seconds, I feared for my life.Look, Ray Kelly and the police department did what the police department does. The question is, what's the best way to do this? That was always a challenge. But in the end, it actually was fairly fast. People weren't happy, but the people who weren't happy were just unhappy that the protest wasn't going to be able to continue in that form, in that place.
It could have been much more impactful and effective if it had a political strategy, if it had people who were strategists in the sense of political organizers. That's a different breed entirely, but you can't have a movement unless you combine activists who are getting and receiving attention with activists who, behind the scenes, are working to mobilize and organize people in a very specific political direction.
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