| www.DemocracyNow.org - As the Occupy movement approaches its two-month anniversary, we're joined by two guests who are studying its strategies and successes. Author Jeff Sharlet helped found the group, Occupy Writers, and is assisting efforts to reestablish the evicted library at Occupy Wall Street. His recent article for Rolling Stone is "Inside Occupy Wall Street: How a bunch of anarchists and radicals with nothing but sleeping bags launched a nationwide movement." Democracy Now! speaks with Sharlet and also speak with Marina Sitrin, who is researching global mass movements from Spain to Egypt, and has just returned from Greece. Sitrin says the Occupy movement's assemblies offer a "radical, if not revolutionary, way of organizing ... When we're in our neighborhoods, and come together and relate in that way, it's more like alternative governance." For the complete interview, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for additional Democracy Now! reports about the Occupy Wall Street movement, visit www.democracynow.org FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: www.youtube.com Daily Email News Digest: www.democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit www.democracynow.org |