Nara Roberta Silva, Author at Public Seminar

The Left in power, the Right in control

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again.” Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his administration: GDP growth exceeded expectations, and the unemployment rate fell ...

Activism

Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street

A moment of madness that began on September 17, 2011, illuminated the world where the “99 percent” lived

September 17, 2021 • by Nara Roberta Silva

Ten years ago, on September 17, 2011, a few hundred people spent the night at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and formally initiated the movement known as Occupy Wall Street. Occupiers had no immediate goals and the occupation lasted two months. But it wasn’t insignificant, and its importance as an inflection ...