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Ten years later, examining the Occupy movement’s legacy

For Jessa Lingel of the Annenberg School for Communication, a decade after Occupy Wall Street’s beginnings presented an opportunity for reflection, which she led this fall semester in a new course.
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Jessa Lingel, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, holds a class on the 2011 Occupy movement.

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