Roosevelt Reactions: Occupy Wall Street

As Occupy Wall Street brings to a boil long-simmering anger over growing inequality and entrenched corporate power in the U.S., Roosevelt Institute Fellows and staff are weighing in on their personal experiences with the protests as well as their hopes and concerns regarding the future of the movement. Below is a sampling of what they've had to say so far:

New Deal 2.0:

• "The Young Are on the Streets Because They Have the Most to Lose," by Fellow Mike Konczal

• "Occupy Wall Street: Not Anarchy, But Beautiful Sincerity," by Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick

• "Why No One Should Dismiss Occupy Wall Street," by Fellow Dorian Warren

• "What Occupy Wall Street and SlutWalk Have in Common: Raw Emotion," by New Deal 2.0 Editor Bryce Covert

• "Why the 99 Percent is Crying Out," by New Deal 2.0 Editor Bryce Covert

• "We are the 99%: A Progressive Narrative in One Powerful Phrase," by Senior Fellow Richard Kirsch

• "Who are the 1% and What Do They Do for a Living?," by Fellow Mike Konczal

• "The Lesson the Left Can Learn on Inequality from Occupy Wall Street," by Fellow Mike Konczal

• "FDR, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street: Time for Another New Deal?," by Senior Fellow David Woolner

• "Occupy Wall Street Puts a Focus on the Need for Political Empowerment," feat. Fellow Sabeel Rahman

Further reading:

• "Why Did Liberals Embrace ‘Occupy Wall Street’?," by Senior Fellow Mark Schmitt (The New Republic)

• "#OccupyWallStreet is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest," by Fellow Matt Stoller (Naked Capitalism)

• "A Zuccotti Park Education," by Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick (New York Review of Books)

• "Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr," by Fellow Mike Konczal (Rortybomb)

• "Why occupiers vow to 'fight like an Egyptian,'" by Fellow Matt Stoller (Politico)

• "Occupy Wall Street: A Twenty-First Century Populist Movement?," by Fellow Dorian Warren and Joe Lowndes (Dissent)

• "Can the Power of Occupy Wall Street Make Obama a Populist?," by Fellow Matt Stoller (AlterNet)

• "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 99 Percent," by Senior Fellow Mark Schmitt (The New Republic)

• "What NBA stars and Occupy Wall Street protesters have in common," by Fellow Dorian Warren and Paul Frymer (The Washington Post)

Video & Radio:

• "Call and response with a Nobel laureate," feat. Senior Fellows Joseph Stiglitz and Jeff Madrick (YouTube)

• "Occupy Wall Street Protesters: We Are Americans," feat. Fellow Dorian Warren (ABC News)

• "Occupy Wall Street Emerges as 'First Populist Movement' on the Left Since the 1930s," feat. Fellow Dorian Warren (Democracy Now!)

• "Economic Expert Explains the Income Gap," feat. New Deal 2.0 Editor Bryce Covert  (Inside City Hall)

• "Values Added: Occupy Wall Street," feat. Fellow Mike Konczal (Bloggingheads)

• "Thomas Ferguson on Money, Politics, and Occupy Wall Street," feat. Senior Fellow Tom Ferguson (Uprising Radio)

• "What the Occupy Wall Street protesters and NBA players have in common," feat. Fellow Dorian Warren (CNN American Morning)