In autumn 2011 the Occupy Wall street movement reached Zurich, where crowds gathered to express their anger over excessive salaries. A year later, Swiss television revisited the scene.
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They discovered that while income inequality was still a hot topic – there were only a handful of protesters left. What do the founders of the protest movement feel they achieved? (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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The rise and rise of political activism
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Occupy Wall Street or flash mobs (gatherings quickly organised online) can be forms of political participation. Citizens try to shape society in this way, according to Swiss political scientist Dorothée de Nève and co-author Tina Olteanu, whose German-language book Political Participation Beyond Convention was recently launched in Berlin. swissinfo.ch: What are the conventional and unconventional…
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