Tuesday, after I heard that the occupiers had been ousted from Zuccotti Park (which I prefer to call “Liberty Square”) I discovered a “live feed,” through an email from Citizens for Legitimate Government. The name of this feed was “The Other 99.” I haven’t watched television since 1971, when
For two months, critics of Occupy Wall Street have complained that the group has no recognizable demands, no plan for reforms. But that’s not the point. They don’t want to reform the system. They want a new one.
I arrived at Zuccotti Park for the first time last Friday night as a group of drummers on the east side of the park were performing a collective improvisation—including a guy on a real drum set. It was amusing, but not memorable. I walked into the camp, and soon
