Ten Years Since Occupy and the Need Is Higher Than Ever

Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
GEN
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4 min readJan 10, 2022

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“Occupy Global” by Occupy Global is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Occupy Greensboro was packing up. Tents were taken down, cooking pots stacked, banners folded. I loaded a number of large white boards into the back of my hatchback. The white boards felt precious — the scribbly, blue-marker handwriting was archival evidence of a community coming together, brainstorming, planning, asking questions to dig deep, to wonder: What is wrong here?

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Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
GEN
Writer for

Mother. Southerner. Storytelling Bread and Roses. Bottom up stories about race, class, gender, and the American South. *views my own*