AUDIO: Occupy Wall Street – Phase II

AUDIO: Occupy Wall Street – Phase II

AUDIO: Occupy Wall Street – Phase II

On Monday, November 28, Dissent and Jacobin, with generous support from the Center for American Studies at Columbia University, held a discussion on Phase II for Occupy Wall Street. How do social movements with diverse tactics, needs, and goals grow and gain power?

The conversation featured Frances Fox Piven, an activist and scholar of social movements at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Liza Featherstone, journalist and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers? Rights at Wal-Mart; Nikil Saval, associate editor of n+1 and labor activist; Michael Hirsch, labor journalist and New Politics editorial board member; and Dorian Warren, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Listen to it below.