Not exact matches
But at the same time, the seemingly endless economic doldrums (the flicker of optimism from this week's jobs numbers notwithstanding), the rise of the
Occupy movement, and the general sense that
young people are being particular battered
by coming of age in a monster recession, suggests that while the»90s and naughts didn't offer much to rebel against, the current decade certainly does.
Years later, Moore and Lloyd would find that the re-imagined Guy Fawkes mask they invented for the character would be worn
by young people across the world in the
Occupy movement.
On November 17, 2011, at a student rally in Union Square organized
by Occupy Wall Street, a
young woman's words echoed through the crowd via the
people's microphone: «Education should be as free as air and water.»
Traveling in from Appalachia, Brazil, London, and ranging from arrested labor justice campaigners to U.N. climate negotiations youth organizers and a Deutsche Bank analyst, 140 students and
young people gathered at the «Transition to a New Economy Conference,» which was an effort to create holistic alternatives to the current economic system — a discourse cracked open
by Occupy Wall Street.