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Radio: Occupy, Then and Now

Radio: Occupy, Then and Now
Wed, 3/18/2015 - by The Brian Lehrer Show
This article originally appeared on WNYC / NPR

From his early study of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, Michael Gould Wartofsky, a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University and the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press, 2015), traces the on-the-ground history of the Occupy Wall Street movement, through eviction and what it's morphed into.

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