The Occupy Movement in the US – Towards a Long-term Critical Refusal?
The Occupy Movement – Towards a Long-term Critical Refusal? Faizul Khan Tanim interviews several activists of the ongoing Occupy Movement in the West Coast of the United States to understand its crucial factors, its achievements and the legacy it may leave behind What will the Occupy Movement ignite? Will it refine democracy and challenge the given social and political order? Fight the struggle to find economic alternatives in the face of the failure of market fundamentalism? Or bring an end to the dominance of the global elite who maintain their hierarchical power-structure at any cost? Today, people and especially the youth around the world are re-evaluating and re-assessing the kind of world they want to live in, the kind of visions they want to dream. Are Occupy Movements the real elements which can bring such ‘changes’? Will they be able to bring down, what they believe as the dysfunctional and exploitative global economic order? Thousands of que...