You can also hear analysis on Occupy’s impact from The Dig and more of your favorite podcasts. The producing partners for this project are the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s New York office and The New School’s Milano program. This episode of Belabored is part of a collective of podcasts brought together to explore the legacy of Occupy, in light of its ten-year anniversary. Vincent Hospital, and Starbucks workers unionizing. On this episode and the next one, we’re featuring an extra-long conversation, but we also look at a nurses’ walkout in Alabama, the ongoing strike at St. Now, they consider its tactics, its language, its class makeup, and what lessons it holds for a labor movement still struggling to find its footing in an increasingly crisis-prone world. Both tried to organize around the financial crisis before Occupy and were active during the movement. What effect, though, did it have on the labor movement? This week, we’re exploring Occupy’s legacy with Stephen Lerner, organizer and fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, and Jonathan Westin, director of New York Communities for Change. September 17 will mark ten years since Occupy Wall Street kicked off in Lower Manhattan, changing the way we talk about inequality, politics, and capitalism.
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