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"That’s why we organized a public debate and panel discussion in Manhattan last Friday about Occupy Wall Street and left politics and strategy. Held at Bluestockings, a radical bookstore on the Lower East Side, the event was packed, the audience overwhelmingly young, and the atmosphere electric: just that morning, thousands had gathered to lock arms and defend the occupiers from Bloomberg’s threat to evict them, and the mayor’s last minute decision to back down had been cause for jubilation."

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"What is interesting about the movement there is that they eschew leaders of any kind. This is a traditional anarchist approach, and it’s being put into practice quite deliberately. There are many facilitators who are helping the group to decide themselves on what to say and do and so far the group has been very clear about non-violence and is even actively discouraging vandalism."

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"It is telling that most of the conventional citizen advocates (labor unions, NAACP, etc.) have failed to change the public conversation about Wall Street's perfidies, economic inequality, corporate crime, and social need. It took a ragtag group of protesters without institutional affiliations, money or even a clear message or known leaders to bring this message home. It's a relief to learn that citizen leadership can still break through the cultural clutter and make an impact, even if it takes two weeks of patient witness and the courage of one's convictions."

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"For some observers, the Arab Spring was an inevitable surprise. The rapid diffusion of digital media has been shown to have mostly positive consequences in many parts of the world, though often for different reasons. Both Egypt and Tunisia have more tech-savvy citizens then one would expect given their level of income. The other countries with an educated population and a small but tech-savvy community of student and civil society groups include many of the countries are still “in play”."

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