Last night, the Occupy Wall Street movement moved to Lincoln Center, where the last performance of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha (roughly translated as “Truth Force”) was held. Satyagraha is an opera about Gandhi, civil disobedience, and nonviolent protest.
Here’s a video of Glass’s OWS speech in front of Lincoln Center. Through the human mic, he supports and praises the movement. Before he spoke, people who just got out of the opera joined us, and the protest continued equally on both sides of the barricade, rendering the barrier useless.
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