The UN’s new focus on LGBT rights should be used to offer support to local activists and governments, not to perpetuate economic and social inequalities.
The insistent need to constrictanalyses of the global Occupy movements within a value-system rooted in efficacy and outcomes has completely missed the point.
By urging all Americans to take emotional ownership over the event, we cast a US-centric and nationalist stance on 9/11 and allows us to emotionally detach from wars taking place abroad.