Beck 340: "Occupy Wall Street was a movement against two of the primary symptoms of the growth slowdown that has afflicted the entire world since the 1970s: the increase in wealth inequality, on the one hand, and the steady disappearance of well-paid, stable employment, on the other. Four years later, Black Lives Matter emerged as a protest against a key component of America's response to the economic effects of that slowdown: the use of excessively well-funded and militarized police forces to manage and incarcerate those who had been abandoned by the economic system in which they live"
"Police violence against poor Black Americans at home, military violence against impoverished populations abroad, and the globally widening wealth inequality that is a necessary consequence of America's ongoing program of asset-price Keynesianism are part of the same project, the same larger effort to preserve American supremacy at the expense of the global poor even as America loses the economic capabilities that legitimized its global leadership in the first place. In that sense, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter were successful in large part because they were the first protest movements of the twenty-first century to identify and target the war on terror's true foundations" (Beck, 340)
431: "All of the major protest movements that emerged following the invasion of Iraq have been focused squarely and specifically on [impunity culture]"
Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Women's March, and #MeToo