Subscribe » Issue #48, Nov-Dec 2013 Mag Cover Idealog—in the
ideas business  Occupy everywhere: Global protest discourses  In
the final instalment of her three-piece series, Phoebe
Fletcher from the University of Auckland’s Film, Television and
Media Studies Department explores the progression of the Occupy
movement.  Phoebe FletcherThe global movement of Occupy protests
has shown remarkable reach and resilience in the months since it
began in the New York financial district.   In spite of a wave
of police raids across America in an attempt to evict the
protests, the movement now shows every sign of morphing into
something that may have ramifications for the next few years. 
The last month of the protests has been punctuated by a step up
in police action against the protestors that saw media evicted,
an eighty-four year old woman pepper sprayed in the face, and
students at UC Davis pepper sprayed while at a sit-in. The
latter prompted condemnation from the UN Special Rapporteur
Frank LaRue on the police resp