Organising 'Occupy Wall Street' - a conversation with its long-term organiser Marisa Holmes

Friday, 21 June 2024 - 10:00am to 10:30am

Jacques has a conversation with Marisa Holmes, one of the organisers of the 2011 Zucotti Park Lower Manhattan 'Occupy Wall Street' protest movement which soon spread to over 1000 other 'Occupy' protests and 'occupations' across the world... She discusses learnings from the organising of these events all questioning and addressing the meanwhile popular inequality-juxtaposition of the '1%-ers' vs the '99%-ers'. Her book and the presentation of her film in Melbourne are detailed below.

Marisa Holmes (2023) Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Springer publishers)

Film (2024) All Day, All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story

Think Again

Friday 10:00am to 10:30am

Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.