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Laura Flanders & Friends
Solving Economic Inequality: An Occupy Movement for 2024?
Season 1
Episode 123
Were you one of the hundreds of thousands of people on the streets during the Occupy movement? For many the movement was a political awakening, as people rallied to end economic inequality and support democracy in response to the 2008 global financial crisis. On this 13th anniversary, how does the spirit of Occupy live on? And what progress — if any — has been made when it comes to the wealth gap?
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