{"id":14884,"date":"2011-10-03T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:53:49","slug":"cornel-west-on-occupy-wall-street-it%e2%80%99s-the-makings-of-a-u-s-autumn-responding-to-the-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/10\/cornel-west-on-occupy-wall-street-it%e2%80%99s-the-makings-of-a-u-s-autumn-responding-to-the-arab-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street: It\u2019s the Makings of a U.S. Autumn Responding to the Arab Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s impossible to translate the issue of the greed of Wall Street into one demand, or two demands. We\u2019re talking about a democratic awakening,&#8221; said Dr. Cornel West when he spoke with <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> host Amy Goodman during a visit Tuesday night to the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Some critics have expressed frustration at the protest\u2019s lack of a clear and unified message. But the Princeton University professor emphasized that &#8220;you\u2019re talking about raising political consciousness so it spills over all parts of the country, so people can begin to see what\u2019s going on through a set of different lens, and then you begin to highlight what the more detailed demands would be.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PEoDXN4mRmM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s impossible to translate the issue of the greed of Wall Street into one demand, or two demands. We\u2019re talking about a democratic awakening,&#8221; said Dr. Cornel West when he spoke with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman during a visit Tuesday night to the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Some critics have expressed frustration at the protest\u2019s lack of a clear and unified message. But the Princeton University professor emphasized that &#8220;you\u2019re talking about raising political consciousness so it spills over all parts of the country, so people can begin to see what\u2019s going on through a set of different lens, and then you begin to highlight what the more detailed demands would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}