OCCUPY Weekend Economists! September 14-16, 2012

[Demeter]

1. Protests planned for Occupy Wall Street's 1-year anniversary MONDAY

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/14/technology/occupy-wall-street-anniversary/?source=cnn_bin



It's been one year since Occupy Wall Street began, when hundreds of protesters descended on the nation's financial center and kicked off a nationwide social movement. Organizers plan to mark Monday's anniversary, dubbed "S17," with scores of events and demonstrations.

The main focus is again in New York, where the planned S17 events include a 6 a.m. bike ride in lower Manhattan, a "people's wall" picket line at the New York Stock Exchange, and an anniversary concert featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

The S17 gatherings may reunite members of the Occupy movement, which organizers say has evolved into somewhat disparate "affinity groups" focused on specific ideals: a debtor's revolt, a push to "get the money out of politics," a call for a reformed healthcare system.

"Media love to say that Occupy is dead, but the only thing that's really dead is that original encampment model," says Kalle Lasn, the editor-in-chief of Canadian magazine Adbusters. His activist publication hatched the idea for Occupy Wall Street and put out a call for participants back in July 2011.

"It's changed from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Main Street, in that a whole bunch of little things are happening all around every day," Lasn says.