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POPSThe 94-Year-Old Frenchman's Pamphlet "Outrage" Behind "Occupy" 
Who on Earth would contend with that, especially when the enemy was not the Third Reich, but benign modern democracies? Moreover, the villain Hessel repeatedly mentioned and attacked was Israel — the country most people in France love to hate already. “Outraged” movements claiming to follow the old Frenchman’s philosophy bloomed in countries hit by recession or bankruptcy, like Spain, Greece, the UK, Chile, and more recently the United States. All “outraged“ movements tended to follow a single pattern. Citizens with no explicit political affiliation “occupied“ major streets, squares, or public spaces for days or weeks, day and night, insisting upon “social justice” or “change.” They erected little booths and tent villages, both in order to sleep there and to make it more difficult to be moved out or blocked by police the following day. Clearly, the so-called Arab Spring was connected to Hessel’s “outraged“ campaign. ... The much more complex Libyan, Yemenite, Bahraini, ...
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