What’s To Be Learned from Occupy Wall Street?

December 7, 2011

What are the common aspects of the nationwide occupy movement and will the movement gain more traction overtime?

An interdisciplinary group of CU professors offer their perspectives during an Occupy Wall Street Teach-In, this Friday December 9th from 3-9pm in the UMC ballroom on the CU campus. 

The presentations will expore various aspects of the occupy movements across the country. Presenters  include:

Lectures and Topics include:
Dr. Barry Clark (economist): What caused the Great Recession?
Dr. Arturo Aldama (ethnic studies): Porn, the SEC, pepper spray and batons – double standards?
Dr. Elizabeth Dunn (geography): Solidarity Can Change The World: What Occupy Can Learn From the Movement That Brought Down Communism
Dr. Carol Conzelman (anthropology): This is What Democracy Looks Like: Meanings and Practices of an Ancient Idea
Dr. Michael Huemer (philosophy): Do Special Interests Control America?
Dr. David Paradis (history): Capitalism in the Service of Democracy
Dr. Joe Bryan (geography): The importance of occupying public space as a tactic for social change
Colleen Hackett (sociology): State Repression and the Radicalization of Protest: The case of Occupy Denver