Jamal Awil

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Celebrity intellectuals failed to grasp Occupy's leaderless demands [fact]

It got stranger. Failing to connect with Cuomo inside, Wolf left the event to spontaneously address Occupy Wall Street demonstrators on the sidewalk outside and, while informing the crowd what their demands were and telling them that they were demanding them wrong because “they had a first amendment right to use a megaphone,” managed to get herself arrested in a burgundy evening gown, a melee documented by a bank of cameras. This is what the women in the bathroom were referring to when they talked about how “Naomi Klein” did not understand their demands.

QUESTION: What exactly did the women in the bathroom mean by Naomi Klein misunderstanding demands? Worth interrogating the gap between elite intellectuals and grassroots activists.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 51