I want to pick up on one final aspect of the way Occupy Sandy worked, beyond the practical difference it made in the lives of the people who interacted with it in the course of the storm and its aftermath. The orthodox sociology of social movements defines such movements in terms of the claims they make on power. The moments I’m interested in are those at which the movement stops appealing to those in power, and instead moves to directly supplant that power as it manifests in people’s lives.
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