17.11.2011, 12:44, Kudashkina Ekaterina, Interview with Diana Rolinger, associate professor at the Department of Sociology at Florida State University, With the recent discussion about this actually on a site called Adbusters in Canada which first proposed this idea. So ideas for movements never come completely out of everywhere, so it circulated for a little while and the idea spread and then it emerged, there is always some coordination that goes on behind the scenes that we don’t see. So there was some coordination initially but the idea spread really quickly across the US. And so you could say that, and where I am in Tallahassee Florida for example, that was fairly spontaneous, people looking, saying ok here’s what we see happening in New York, let’s make the same thing happen here. Now where that will end up is a really great question and it remains to be seen. And this will depend in part upon what the movement decides it wants its goals to be. And I suspect that this will vary across the country. So in some places what will happen is the activists will decide we want our movement to absolutely affect political change, but what we’ve seen in other places are movement activists saying we want to address issues like homelessness in our community, we want to address hunger in our community. In Denver for example they are doing a program, and it’s getting very cold in Colorado now, and it is hard to occupy, they have offered to hold vigils on people’s lawns who are having their houses foreclosed upon. So I suspect where this movement goes is going to be a bit of everywhere.It is interesting because one of the same phenomenon is now developing in various countries across the world because we have seen recent protests in Italy for example. Now there are new protests in Greece and they all seem to be developing along similar lines because there is a similar public which is engaged which is mostly the youth. And it actually comes from the middle class, perhaps lower middle class. Can you define any common features about such kind of political phenomenon like youth protest? Tags: Interview, Commentary, Society, Occupy Wall Street, World, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
