The dawn of a new American uprising, or a formulaic reaction bound to fizzle out?

The belly of the beast, the finance capital of the world’s richest country, is experiencing some uncomfortable rumble. Wall Street (the equivalent of London’s City) has been directly targeted by protesters as the focus of their anger. On 17th of this month around a thousand protesters marched towards Wall Stre…

Over 200 staff and students at the University of Westminster have protested, stormed the board of governors meeting and are currently in occupation, vice-chancellors office, in regard to recently proposed tutoring and administrative job cuts.

In light of the recent Visteon occupation here in London, it's interesting to get a perspective on how people are doing the same things elsewhere.  Here's a report by Marie Trigona about a recent factory occupation in Argentina: http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3886