{"id":80,"date":"2012-02-16T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-02-16T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T02:49:09","slug":"next-steps-for-the-occupy-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/2012\/02\/16\/next-steps-for-the-occupy-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Steps for the Occupy Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s <em>New York Times\u00a0 <\/em>featured this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/12\/us\/occupy-movement-regroups-laying-plans-for-the-next-phase.html?scp=4&amp;sq=occupy%20wall%20street&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about the different avenues the Occupy Movement is taking &#8212; planning larger protests to draw in more people to their movement, renting office space, organizing general assemblies and work groups.\u00a0 The activists they quote in the article have experience participating in other social movements.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes David Meyer, the author of <em>The Politics of Protest<\/em>. \u201c&#8217;Some of the stuff you do to get attention often puts off your audience,&#8217; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4654\" target=\"_blank\">David S. Meyer<\/a>, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studies social movements. &#8216;It\u2019s a delicate balance, being provocative enough to get attention and still draw sympathy.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In what ways does the article reflect other themes in Meyer&#8217;s book?<\/p>\n<p>Also pay particular attention to the activists quoted by the reporters.\u00a0 How is the <em>New York Times<\/em> portraying the Occupy Movement?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s New York Times\u00a0 featured this article about the different avenues the Occupy Movement is taking &#8212; planning larger protests to draw in more people to their movement, renting office space, organizing general assemblies and work groups.\u00a0 The activists they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/2012\/02\/16\/next-steps-for-the-occupy-movement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8187],"tags":[8197],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meyer-poltics-of-protest","tag-occupy-wall-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}