The United States began organizing a local suppression in South Vietnam during the late fifties. It took years before the American antiwar movement caught up with its government’s actions, and there was little domestic opposition after the war kicked off in 1962. These facts have largely been forgotten. The history of that era’s dissent has been revised and restructured, along with the story of the civil rights battle. Tell someone that nearly a decade passed between the time Rosa Parks refused to switch seats and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and they are liable to ask Siri if you are telling the truth.And so it goes with Occupy Wall Street. People, including many who seem sympathetic to the cause, wonder when occupiers will be able to declare a victory. ‘Yes, this is all well and good,’ people say. ‘But really, what has changed? The protests are doing nothing. It’s been a whole three months, and surely a system maintained by the richest, most powerful people in the world should have crumbled by now, right?That analysis is disappointing, but it also ignores reality. Things are changing and OWS bears some level of responsibility. After less than a half a year, its supporters victories are as impressive as any other American social movement’s.Read the rest at Motherboard.
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