As the momentum surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protest grows, so
too has the urge to frame it in the context of other struggles around
the world. Already, Zuccotti Park, the patch of Lower Manhattan taken
over for weeks now by the protesters, has been hailed as
an American Tahrir Square,
a font for a “U.S. autumn” as that plaza in Cairo was for the Arab
Spring. Days of action and protest have been dubbed “days of rage,” a
gesture to recent, far bloodier episodes of dissent on the streets of
Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere in the Middle East. When some 700
activists were detained while marching across the Brooklyn Bridge over
the weekend, they were, according to some reports,
“kettled”
— a tactic used by London's Metropolitan Police against student
demonstrators frequently over this past year. And a colleague of mine
asked whether the protesters
were the left's answer to the far-right U.S. Tea Party.
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As the momentum surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protest grows, so
too has the urge to frame it in the context of other struggles around
the world. Already, Zuccotti Park, the patch of Lower Manhattan taken
over for weeks now by the protesters, has been hailed as an American Tahrir Square,
a font for a “U.S. autumn” as that plaza in Cairo was for the Arab
Spring. Days of action and protest have been dubbed “days of rage,” a
gesture to recent, far bloodier episodes of dissent on the streets of
Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere in the Middle East. When some 700
activists were detained while marching across the Brooklyn Bridge over
the weekend, they were, according to some reports, “kettled”
— a tactic used by London's Metropolitan Police against student
demonstrators frequently over this past year. And a colleague of mine
asked whether the protesters were the left's answer to the far-right U.S. Tea Party. More
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