Occupy Wall Street: A Big Think Teach-In

Civic participation, and protest, is vastly different in the twenty-first century from, say, the 1960s. For instance, the Internet, Wikileaks, Anonymous, cell phones, Twitter and Facebook have all been used as powerful tools, both for spreading information and galvanizing popular support in the uprisings known as the Arab Spring. The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest shares many of these characteristics, but also raises many questions about the nature of popular movements in today's world. That makes Occupy Wall Street an important teachable moment. How can citizens most effectively engage each other in today's world? How are ideas about change and reform best articulated? How do you change the system from the outside and from within? Big Think's experts weigh in on these questions and others.

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