Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Occupy’s Ten-Year Anniversary, with Stephen Lerner and Jonathan Westin
Description: [contentblock id=belabored-info-ck]
September 17 will mark ten years since Occupy Wall Street kicked off in Lower Manhattan, changing the way we talk about inequality, politics, and capitalism. What effect, though, did it have on the labor movement? This week, we’re exploring Occupy’s legacy with Stephen Lerner, organizer and fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, and Jonathan Westin, director of New York Communities for Change. Both tried to organize around the financial crisis before Occupy and were active during the movement. Now, they consider its tactics, its langua...