How Occupy Wall St. Gave Us Hope and Solidarity w/ Prof. Michael Gould-Wartofsky (G&R 529)

🎉 Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!✊ Support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast:👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/It's the 15th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. In our latest, we talk with scholar Michael Gould-Wartofsky (@mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social) about the conditions that led to the emergence of Occupy, the two months that occupiers held Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan and the lasting effects of the movement on U.S. politics. Guest Bio// Michael Gould-Wartofsky became involved in Occupy as a doctoral candidate at New York University. He photographed its protests, took notes about meetings and marches and conducted 80 interviews of activists in New York and across the world. He is an award-winning writer, scholar, editor, and educator, who studies the sociology of social movements and the politics of resistance through a critical realist lens. He is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford 2015), and the forthcoming Resistance: Field Notes from the Frontlines, 2016-2025.-------------------------🎵 Outro"Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links🌐 Michael's website:https://mgouldwartofsky.com/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website:https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by: Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by: Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.