{"id":6191,"date":"2017-09-17T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:33:40","slug":"september-17-2011-occupy-wall-street-begins-new-york-city-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/september-17-2011-occupy-wall-street-begins-new-york-city-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"September 17, 2011: Occupy Wall Street Begins in New York City [and San Francisco]"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header-content\">\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\">\u201cThe kids are alright! They may have lost faith in the key institutions of America\u2014the elected officials, the media, the banks\u2014that ought to be steering the country out of economic crisis, but they have not lost faith in the people.\u201d<\/h2>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<h2 class=\"author_name\">By\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/richard-kreitner\/\">Richard Kreitner<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"time is_date article_pub_time\">SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 (TheNation.com)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-body abody-186807 email-signup-visited\">\n<div class=\"article-body-inner\">\n<aside class=\"left full-width-mobile image wide indent\"><a class=\"gallery imgHover\" title=\"Protestors on Day 40 of Occupy Wall Street near Liberty Plaza. (Wikimedia Commons)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/occupy_wall_street_cc_img.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/occupy_wall_street_cc_img.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80\" alt=\"occupy_wall_street_cc_img\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><em>Protestors on Day 40 of Occupy Wall Street near Liberty Plaza.\u00a0<span class=\"credits\">(Wikimedia Commons)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"scroll_handler\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div><span class=\"dropcap\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">H<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">istorically speaking, the middle days of September have not been good ones for Wall Street. Two days ago we examined\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Nation<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2019s coverage of the collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, and yesterday we featured\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Nation<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2019s response to the bombing of Wall Street on September 16, 1920. Here\u2019s another one: Four years ago today Occupy Wall Street began in New York City.\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Nation<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, which had long been looking for the next great American protest movement, immediately began cheering on the protesters, while wondering whether such an outpouring of leaderless, democratic spirit could lead to real political and social change. In an issue that went to press just as it became clear, in early October, that the protesters weren\u2019t going anyway,\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Nation<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0editorialized:<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Beginning Is Near!\u201d\u00a0proclaimed one early sign at New York City\u2019s Liberty Plaza, which since September 17 has been held by a coalition of activists under the Occupy Wall Street banner. In the early days of the action, many on the professional left doubted that Occupy Wall Street would be the beginning of anything. \u201cAnother day, another demo\u2026\u201d some shrugged, weary from years of protests that never seem to stop another war, another robbery of the poor by the rich. In Washington, for two frustating years, the debate has been focused on how much austerity to have\u2014the slash-and-burn policies of the Republican Party or the austerity-lite measures of President Obama. More stimulus, we were told, was a nonstarter. Hope seemed a distant, perhaps false, memory. But thankfully, the young protesters at the heart of Occupy Wall Street are not so cynical. The kids are alright! They may have lost faith in the key institutions of America\u2014the elected officials, the media, the banks\u2014that ought to be steering the country out of economic crisis, but they have not lost faith in the people. Yes, they\u2019re angry, but they are also searching and optimistic and, above all, they have taken matters into their own hands\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, there is room for other approaches. And perhaps the outrage embodied by Occupy Wall Street will find an outlet at the ballot box or in legislation one day. For now, though, its energy is where we need it\u2014in the streets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"View September 17, 2011 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/281001071\/September-17-2011\">September 17, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_20830\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/281001071\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-5yi2lWETjVBOJYRdWolq&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"paywall\">\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/richard-kreitner\/\">Richard Kreitner<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Nation<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2019s assistant editor<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">His writings are at\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/richardkreitner.com\/\">www.richardkreitner.com<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe kids are alright! They may have lost faith in the key institutions of America\u2014the elected officials, the media, the banks\u2014that ought to be steering the country out of economic crisis, but they have not lost faith in the people.\u201d By\u00a0Richard Kreitner SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 (TheNation.com) Protestors on Day 40&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/september-17-2011-occupy-wall-street-begins-new-york-city-san-francisco\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}