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Occupy Wall Street: Lessons from the Front Lines

presented by Sherry Wolf

Monday, January 23rd  at 7 p.m., 2250 Kirkhof Center - Grand River Room

Author, activist and native New Yorker, Sherry Wolf will provide an eyewitness account of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement to discuss how we are living through a period of profound social, political and economic transformation. OWS has become a touchstone for a vast array of grievances. As an active participant in the OWS movement with many years’ experience as an organized leftist, Wolf will challenge students to think through their own preconceived notions of how our society operates and can change. Wolf will explore how this movement came about and is evolving to challenge corporate power and inequality in ways not seen for 40 years.

Sherry Wolf—Public Speaker, Writer and Activist—is author of Sexuality and Socialism, associate editor of the International Socialist Review and writes for socialistworker.org. Sherry can be reached at http://sherrytalksback.wordpress.com/ or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sherry.wolf.

Video of Sherry Wolf speaking at Occupy Wall Street:
http://youtu.be/4JTeMg23A_w
 

Connections to the Classroom:

Consensus - Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street - video

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

Principles of Solidarity - Occupy Wall Street

Know Your Rights: Demonstrating in New York City

UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed - video

UC Berkeley Protest - video