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VIDEO: From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond

Across the world, millions are entering the public arena and forming powerful new networks for change. The result is a rising wave of challenges to the political order that are expanding the boundaries of political discourse and forcing new issues into the conversation.

Read this people-centered reflection about the panel by Tom Watson of the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

At this panel, we heard from best-selling authors Ori Brafman (Starfish and the Spider), Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody); Occupy Wall Street organizers Jessica Shearer and Beka Economopolous; Tea Party Patriots Co-founder Mark Meckler; Engage Network Co-founder Marianne Manilov; Zeynep Tufekci of University of North Carolina, and moderators Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry of Personal Democracy Media.

Thanks to event co-sponsors, Personal Democracy Media, Movement Strategy Center, NYU ITP, the McKay Foundation, Greenpeace Digital Mobilisation Lab, and media sponsor the Sidney Hillman Foundation.