MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 4 TO ENCOURAGE MORE DISCUSSION.
Everything you need to know here.
ADDENDUM: And Chicago too!
ANOTHER: Roy Blumenfeld, a former philosophy PhD student at CUNY and now a documentary filmmaker in NYC, writes:
Thank you for posting about the Wall Street protests. If you'd like to link to a video, consider the following inside look I've uploaded covering the lead-up to the bridge arrests: http://vimeo.com/29943384 . I couldn't film the arrests because I was one of the first to be arrested, and didn't want to risk dropping my camera while getting cuffed.
Also, I think it's worth mentioning to your readers that journalists were arrested along with protesters (most prominently Natasha Lennard of the NYTimes). In New York, journalists are required to obtain official press passes from the police, not their employers (a phenomenon unique among democracies, as far as I know). As freelancers, neither Ms. Lennard nor I qualified, and were thus kettled along with protesters.Finally, you might want to consider an endeavor like the one pursued by Nicholas Kristof on Sunday, or Richard D. Wolff here which is to offer some education and guidance to the protesters. One way to do this is to solicit specific, intelligent talking points from your readership to submit to the protesters. An even better way is to solicit suggestions for good sources of information protesters could read and share. Despite attracting a lot of attention, this movement still has a serious image problem. In part this is natural -- protesters have a wide variety of concerns, which may or may not coalesce as the movement progresses. But often one gets the feeling that these young men and women just aren't sure what exactly to advocate for, and could use intelligent voices on the left offering policy guidance. Robert Paul Wolff writes "aside from saying 'Amen,' there doesn't seem to be much I can do to support it." This is one thing you could all do.
Per Mr. Blumenfeld's suggestion, I'm opening comments for input and advice from readers.
