2 | One Simple Demand
7/13/202640 min
A manifesto calls for thousands to swarm a park and occupy it, day and night until their demands are met. But a question arises: what, exactly, do these occupiers want?
Special thanks to Clare Chambers and to Marisa Holmes for archival footage from her film All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story.
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First 90 secondsDan Taberski· Host0:00
Audible subscribers can binge all episodes of Dan Taberski's Manifesto early and ad-free. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app or by subscribing on Apple Podcasts. Are you an anarchist now? I am not.
Micah Born Free· Guest0:18
I don't know. Not in the sense of like— No, I love this sort of—maybe. I love being maybe an anarchist.
Dan Taberski· Host0:27
That's Micah Born Free, and he's being modest. He's trying to burn it all down. All right, not that far. Born Free is a full-time activist, or rather was.
Micah Born Free· Guest0:38
I probably would have called myself a kind of spiritual anarchist. I would have called myself a revolutionary. That's all I really wanted to do was activism. Like, how young are you before you're, like, raising your fist? Well, the first campaign I did was, you know, refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Dan Taberski· Host0:54
It's when he was in middle school outside D.C. when he developed a taste for the blood that could be drawn from civil disobedience, even if it was just in Mrs. What's-Her-Face's class.
Micah Born Free· Guest1:04
It was one of those things, too, where, like, I didn't stand for the pledge, and then, like, other people in the classroom started also thinking about whether or not they should stand for the pledge, so it kind of, like, spread. So it was like my first, like, you know, experience of like, oh, you can do something and it becomes contagious for other people. They start imitating you. And before it became like a class-wide protest, the teacher just like suspended me from the end of the year field trip.
Dan Taberski· Host1:25
That's how you deal with dissent. But that feeling