Who Says "Occupy!" Went Away?

Just like "All the Hippies Became Yuppies", which is one of the crazy-making lies that was never challenged, and which led me to start work on my Book Proposal, "The War On The 60s", we have grown used to hearing claims that "Occupy!" was just a flash in the pan, a movement with no program that vanished into thin air at the first crack of a cop's baton.

Well here's where some of those heroes are now -

This just in from the Publicity department of The Nation:

"I wanted to alert you to author and activist Wen Stephenson’s new reported cover story for The Nation, “The Grassroots Battle Against Big Oil,” and to see if you’d be interested in discussing a possible interview: http://tnat.in/pHgww

Traveling north of Houston, Stephenson talks to Tar Sands Blockade, the frontline of activists connecting to fight against the Keystone pipeline in the belly of the beast, Texas. These mostly young, radical climate and social-justice activists (many of them Occupy veterans) have banded with both local environmentalists (such as TEJAS –Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services) and conservative landowners fighting TransCanada’s use (and abuse) of eminent domain.

It’s been a year since they launched, and you’ve got to read what these activists have to say.

About the Author:Contributing writer Wen Stephenson is an independent journalist and climate activist, at work on a book about the climate-justice movement. He helped launch the grassroots network 350 Massachusetts and serves on the board of Better Future Project, a nonprofit in Cambridge, Mass., dedicated to building the climate movement. A former editor at The Atlantic, where he co-created and edited TheAtlantic.com, and at The Boston Globe, where he edited the Sunday "Ideas" section, he was most recently the senior producer of NPR's On Point. He has written about climate, culture and politics for The Boston Phoenix, Grist, Slate, The New York Times, and the Globe. On Twitter: @wenstephenson.