What role did Micah White play in Occupy Wall Street?
Micah White co-conceived the idea. While senior editor at Adbusters, he penned the July 2011 email that proposed a sustained occupation of Wall Street on 17 September, supplied the ballerina-on-bull image and pushed the call through global activist channels. Working mostly from afar, he framed the action as a leader-less, demand-less encampment inspired by Tahrir Square. Once Zuccotti Park filled, he declined formal leadership, but steered media narratives and urged tactical evolution. In short, he helped ignite the meme, then guarded its wild autonomy.
What fresh fault line could an equally audacious meme expose in the system today?