{"id":58727,"date":"2012-08-29T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=58727"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:15:05","slug":"occupy-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/29\/occupy-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Authority on Occupy movement to open Civic Forum Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Todd Gitlin. Photograph by The Associated Press.<\/p><\/div>
\nThe author of a new book about the Occupy movement that swept the nation in 2011 speaks at Bates at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Todd Gitlin, a social historian, activist and professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, offers a talk titled Will There Be An Occupy 2.0?<\/em> The lecture will draw on his recent book, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street<\/em> (HarperCollins).<\/p>\n

Open to the public at no charge, the event is part of the Civic Forum Series at Bates, sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships<\/a>. The series invites audiences to contemplate civic, political and policy issues significant to Maine and beyond.<\/p>\n

For more information, please call 207-786-6202. Gitlin’s appearance is presented in partnership with the Machiah Center<\/a>, a New Gloucester organization that brings writers, activists and citizens together for programs that promote democracy and social justice.<\/p>\n

At Bates, Gitlin will address the strengths and weaknesses of the Occupy movement, the ways it has helped shape the presidential campaign, and how the movement might proceed within a political environment it has helped transform.<\/p>\n

The author of 15 books, Gitlin has also published in mainstream periodicals like The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, The New Republic<\/em>, Harper’s <\/em>and The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>. He frequently speaks and writes about the globalization of popular uprisings; movements and parties in American politics; continuity and changes between the 1960s and the 2010s; the future of journalism, fiction and writing in the digital age; and new media.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, Gitlin was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society and helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstration against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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