The occupy movement allied three demographics that rarely marched together

Evidence

The squares’ strength and successes had different roots, depending on their ability to build a coalition between three demographic segments that did not usually march together. First, the “lost generation,” a young and highly educated part of the population, harshly affected by the crisis, was flocking to the squares. In the US, these “connected outsiders” were known as the new grad class, the students buckling under the burden of debt. Their European cousins, the Erasmus generation depicted in the mid-2000s film L’auberge espagnole, had benefited from free movement within the EU, only to find themselves broke after their studies ended. … In Italy, Spain, and Greece, this generational divide had become one of the most sensitive issues, offering a new rallying tool for political parties. Indeed, progressive and conservative actors alike increasingly tended to reframe social antagonism along those lines. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 89

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘lost generation’ / ‘Erasmus generation’ as a key demographic of the squares movement.
• XREF: connects to: Petty-bourgeois factions drove Tea Party and Occupy protests — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 188

Broader Connections

• Petty-bourgeois factions drove Tea Party and Occupy protests #contradicts (0.72) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 188