Occupy Wall Street was explicitly modeled on Tahrir Square

Evidence

In the United States, the world’s most powerful nation and the place where many people learned the meaning of “protest” back in the era of television, demonstrators took aim at Wall Street. The magazine Adbusters called for a Tahrir Square moment in the US, and soon thousands of people would horizontally encamp outside the center of the global financial system. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 259

Categorization

• XREF: Adbusters’ deliberate transplantation of the Cairo model connects to the chapter’s broader diffusion theme of protest methods traveling as memes. — connects to: Tahrir Square was taken for visibility, not strategic value — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 224; Tahrir crowds were middle-class, TV-informed, and economic-motivated — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 239; Occupy Wall Street’s anarchist aesthetics alienated both the public and its own members. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 220

Broader Connections

• Tahrir crowds were middle-class, TV-informed, and economic-motivated #expands (0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 239
• Occupy Wall Street’s anarchist aesthetics alienated both the public and its own members. #complicates (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 220