{"id":8454,"date":"2011-10-18T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2011-10-18T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:51:25","slug":"intellectual-roots-of-wall-st-protest-lie-in-academe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/10\/intellectual-roots-of-wall-st-protest-lie-in-academe\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle:<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Intellectual-Roots-of-Wall\/129428\/?sid=pm&#038;utm_source=pm&#038;utm_medium=en\"> Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Academics have become frequent visitors to Zuccotti Park, the 33,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza in the heart of New York City&#8217;s financial district that is now the site of a nearly monthlong protest, Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Famous scholars like Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, and Frances Fox Piven have spoken to the crowd, with their remarks dispersed, word-for-word, from one cluster of people to the next through a &#8220;human megaphone.&#8221; Many others, such as Lawrence Lessig, have lent their support from farther away, as the demonstrations have spread to cities and college campuses nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe Academics have become frequent visitors to Zuccotti Park, the 33,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza in the heart of New York City&#8217;s financial district that is now the site of a nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/10\/intellectual-roots-of-wall-st-protest-lie-in-academe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[351897,2163],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-occupywallstreet","tag-anarchism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}