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The burden of debt has become the lens through which I see my workplace, and it is rapidly altering my view of my profession. I can no longer fulfill my classroom duties without wondering if the ultimate price, for many of my students, is a form of indenture.

NYU professor Andrew Ross, who last November helped launch the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, in a piece that asks if it’s time you stop repaying your student loans.

Photo: ”I’ve Been Dancing for 5 Hours, September 24, 2011,” by Richard Bram. The International Center of Photography in New York is marking the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement with an exhibition called “Occupy!” on view each weekend through Sept. 30 in a reclaimed barracks on Governor’s Island.

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From ART BEAST:

As we approach the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, on Sept. 17, the International Center of Photography in New York is marking it with a suitably open-armed exhibition called simply “Occupy!” It will be on view each weekend through Sept. 30 in a reclaimed barracks on Governor’s Island. ICP curators have held an open call for submissions, and will be hanging every Occupy image that came in before Aug. 15—a few of which are shown here. “There’s an incredibly wide range of pictures, of surprisingly high quality,” says Brian Wallis, chief curator at ICP. He gives the credit to new digital technologies, which put photography within reach of more people than ever. He also notes that this same technology was crucial to Occupy’s success, and to spreading news of its actions.

—Blake Gopnik

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Zuccotti has been reoccupied. Watch live.

Happening live: Our Google Hangout with the prolific Occupy Wall Street reporter Tim Pool, Meta-Activism Project founder Mary Joyce, tech mentor and Forbes blogger Tara Tiger Brown, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian for a conversation about The Newsweek Daily Beast Digital Power Index. 

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Union Square is PACKED right now. Or shall we say, occupied.

okay so

i live on union square

and while i sympathize with ows i disagree with their methods

upturning cars and wreaking havoc in downtown nyc (where there are a lot of students like myself that just want some peace and quiet so we can study for finals) is not the way to go

OWS didn’t do much overturning cars or wreaking havoc yesterday. The only problems came from the so-called ‘Wildcat’ march, which was unsanctioned, and organized by people set out to cause problems. The majority of OWS marchers yesterday were pretty peaceful. As for the noise, gotta say, if you came to New York City looking for peace and quiet while you’re in school, you picked the wrong city. :)

Our reporter Matthew DeLuca, who stuck with yesterday’s “May Day” protests well into the evening, files on Occupy Wall Street’s resurgence back into the mainstream’s consciousness:

The question of course remains of what Occupy will do with whatever momentum it picked up from Tuesday’s demonstration.

For some protesters, the lack of one or two key demands and a stronger organizational structure made the day less effective than it could have been. “I think they have to state their demands along with their actions,” said Anton Alen, a student at Hunter College, adding that he thinks Occupy Wall Street has been clear on many things it would like to see changed. Alen said that the idea of trying to occupy another space Tuesday night was in the right spirit but needed to be thought out better. “I don’t think it can be so spontaneous and still be effective,” Alen said.

Sofia Gallisa of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, disagreed. “This isn’t about specific demands,” she said. “It’s never been about specific demands.” Occupy Wall Street has changed the kind of discussions Americans are having about inequality, she said, particularly around issues of class.

Did May Day Save Occupy Wall Street?, The Daily Beast

[photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images]