Progressive activist Bernard Hyland on how Occupy Los Angeles can effect political change: "If you're going to get what you want from elected officials, you have to make them need you." Paul Laverack / El Nuevo Sol.
EL NUEVO SOL
Bernard Hyland, a software analyst and progressive activist from the Los Angeles area, attends Occupy LA on November 19, 2011 – eleven days before police forcibly expel protestors from their encampment on the City Hall lawn, arresting 290 people in the process.
Hyland shares his thoughts on how the Occupy movement could leverage its power with elected officials to reform the existing system, even as it seeks to make deeper, more revolutionary changes to the economic and political order.
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